Saturday, July 30, 2011

PBS: 'Pearl Jam Twenty' (Live Blog)

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Championship Round! The Film Genre versus. Movie Genre Tournament

Following a week probably the most intense genre-on-genre fighting the web has seen, we now have showed up in the finish. The Championship Round. And such a game it's. Two genuine heavyweights, Robots and Superheroes, will face off within this, the ultimate contest within our first-ever Movie Genre versus. Movie Genre tournament. Within the semifinals, the Superheroes genre done affordably work of Mobsters, proclaiming itself the real juggernaut (heh) of the competition. Its three victories so far happen to be by 84 percentage points over Nicholas Sparks Book Adaptations within the first round, 74 points over Slashers in Round 2, and today 50 points over Mobsters -- a typical victory of nearly 70 points. Astounding. Robots, however, designed (heh) a remarkably easy triumph within the semifinals over Pirates, a genre which in fact had appeared easy in the quality wins over Apes and nineteen forties Film Noir Private Detectives. We even were built with a badass Dread Sailing Roberts photo all all set with this round, but Robots might have none from it, stomping their method to a 24-point victory. Let us take particular notice at our championship fight ... ROBOTS versus. SUPERHEROES Robocop versus. Spider-Guy. Optimus Prime versus. Superman. The T-1000 versus. Iron Guy. HAL versus. Batman. Erectile dysfunction-209 versus. Wolverine. We're able to do that all day long, the answer to consider here's that we are speaking about entire genres, not always who (or what) would win a 1-on-one fight (despite the fact that that might be pretty sweet). Superheroes, as evidenced by their dominant performance within this tournament, are most likely towards the top of the Hollywood food chain right now. Just these past couple of several weeks, we have seen four major comic-book movies hit theaters, and when anything, that's only a preparation for next summer time when both 'The Avengers' and 'The Dark Dark night Rises' arrive. Robots, however, happen to be enchanting moviegoers a minimum of since 1927's 'Metropolis.' Think about the classic movies which include robots: 'Star Wars,' '2001,' 'Blade Runner,' 'The Terminator,' 'Robocop,' 'Aliens,' 'Total Recall,' 'The Matrix,' 'The Day our planet Was Still,' etc. That's one spectacular resume. It's most likely as a game once we might have wished for, so proceed and election for what you believe is the greatest movie genre, Robots or Superheroes. We are likely to leave the voting open all weekend, check in on Monday for that results and also to see us crown the Champion from the Movie Genres. Better movie genre: Robots or Superheroes?RobotsSuperheroesVote Photos thanks to Vital, Everett Collection and Warner Bros.

Friday, July 29, 2011

'Tower Heist' Trailer: Ben Stiller And Eddie Murphy Seek Revenge

Lock up your vaults: a "Tower Heist" is upon us! Maybe it's the return of Casey Affleck's deadpan humor that I'm feeling, or maybe it's the excitement about Eddie Murphy returning to the buddy-crime genre, but there's something about the new trailer that Yahoo! premiered that I can totally get behind. The cast, which includes Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Gabourey Sidibe, certainly helps. The premise of "Tower Heist" is both familiar and original: a bunch of working stiffs at a hotel find out that the owner of the building lost all their money in a Ponzi scheme, and now they're out to take revenge. But if "Tower Heist" delivers on the funny that is teased in the trailer, it could end up being much more than that. There's something about the chemistry between longtime comedians Stiller, Broderick and Murphy that gets us really excited, and, as long as that chemistry is evident in the film as well as the trailer, then "Tower Heist" could have something very special. It's what made "Ocean's Eleven" a success where other crime comedies have failed, and hopefully director Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour") and eight writers hired for the movie will have created something legitimately funny. It's also nice to see someone out there getting revenge for a Ponzi scheme, especially against as worthy a villain as one played by Alan Alda. We're sure Stiller and the rest of his gang will take Alda's Arthur Shaw down in the end, but as of now we're just excited about the ride that will get us there. What did you think of the "Tower Heist" trailer? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Friday, July 15, 2011

Aaja Nachle

Diya (Madhuri Dixit) is a divorced mother living in New York and must go back to India after she receives news that her dance guru is on his deathbed. When she arrives in Shamli, a small city in western Uttar Pradesh, she finds that he has died and left her the responsibility of saving and reviving the Ajanta Theater where she used to dance. The Ajanta Theater has not been danced in or cleaned in the longest time. She enlists the help of the village doctor who informed her about her guru's illness. (In reality, there is an Ajanta Theatre in Shamli which inspired the writer of the film.).

The problem is that a political leader (Akshaye Khanna) wants it torn down and turned into a shopping mall. The storyline follows Diya and her challenge to stand up for what she believes in and fight for the cause to the end, while trying to win back the love and support of the people of the town whom she walked out on ten years ago. At first she tries to dance like she would when she was at home, but no one was impressed. She was shocked by how much has changed, but didn't give up. How she does it starts with her idea of creating a musical like she did when she lived in India. Tryouts begin and so do stories.