Thor the Movie Updates

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The much-awaited movie among Marvel Comics superheroes, Thor is coming out in May 6, 2011!

In the synopsis of the movie via Marvel.com:

At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth. 

Director Kenneth Branagh leads a cast that includes Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman in the Thor's big-budget, silver screen debut, in movie theaters on May 6, 2011! 

Click here for the official movie trailer!

Captain America The Movie updates!

Just read from Parallel Universe over at MSN.com that Stanley Tucci will join the cast of Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Abraham Erskine, the scientist who turned Steve Rogers into a super soldier.

Chris Evans (who played The Human Torch in the Fantastic Four) will star as Cap while Sebastian Stan will play Cap's sidekick Bucky Barnes. The cast is composed of other critically-acclaimed actors such as Tommy Lee Jones as Gen. Chester Phillips, Hugo Weaving as the villainous Red Skull and Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury while Dominic Cooper (Mama Mia) will appear as the young Howard Stark.

Paramount pictures will release Captain America: The First Avenger in U.S. theaters on July 22, 2011.




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Sex and the City 2 Review by Roger Ebert...Spoiler Alert!

  
Trending today at Twitter is the scathing review of Roger Ebert on Sex and the City 2. Boy, rip the movie to pieces he does:


Sex and the City 2

Sex, about the same. City, Abu Dhabi.
Release Date: 2010
Ebert Rating: *  
By Roger Ebert May 25, 2010


Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Their defining quality is consuming things. They gobble food, fashion, houses, husbands, children, vitamins and freebies. They must plan their wardrobes on the phone, so often do they appear in different basic colors, like the plugs you pound into a Playskool workbench.
As we return to the trivialities of their lives for a sequel, marriage is the issue. The institution is affirmed in an opening sequence at a gay wedding in Connecticut that looks like a Fred Astaire production number gone horribly over budget. There's a 16-man chorus in white formal wear, a pond with swans, and Liza Minnelli to perform the ceremony. Her religious or legal qualifications are unexplained; perhaps she is present merely as the patron saint of gay men. After the ceremony, she changes to a Vegas lounge outfit and is joined by two lookalike backups for a song and dance routine possibly frowned upon in some denominations.

Then it's back to the humdrum married life of our gal Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and the loathsome Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Carrie, honey, how can you endure life with this purring, narcissistic, soft-velvet idiot? He speaks loudly enough to be heard mostly by himself, his most appreciative audience. And he never wants to leave the house at night, preferring to watch classic black-and-white movies on TV. This leads to a marital crisis. Carrie thinks they should talk more. But sweetheart, Mr. Big has nothing to say. At least he's provided you with a Manhattan apartment that looks like an Architectural Digest wet dream.

Brief updates. Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) is a high-powered lawyer who is dissed by her male chauvinist pig boss. Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) is still a sexaholic slut. Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) has the two little girls she thought she wanted, but now discovers that they actually expect to be raised. Mothers, if you are reading, run this through your head. One little girl dips her hands in strawberry topping and plants two big handprints on your butt. You are on the cell to a girlfriend. How do you report this? You moan and wail out: "My vintage Valentino!" Any mother who wears her vintage Valentino while making muffin topping with her kids should be hauled up before the Department of Children and Family Services.

All of this is pretty thin gruel. The movie shows enterprise, and flies the entire cast away to the emirate of Abu Dhabi, where the girls are given a $22,000-a-night suite and matching Maybachs and butlers, courtesy of a sheik who wants to have a meeting with Samantha and talk about publicity for his hotel.

This sequence is an exercise in obscenely conspicuous consumption, in which the girls appear in so many different outfits they must have been followed to the Middle East by a luggage plane. I don't know a whole lot about fashion, but I know something about taste, and these women spend much of the movie dressed in tacky, vulgar clothing. Carrie and Samantha also display the maximum possible boobage, oblivious to Arab ideas about women's modesty. There's more cleavage in this film than at a pro wrestler's wedding.

And crotches, have we got crotches for you. Big close-ups of the girls themselves, and some of the bulgers they meet. And they meet some. They meet the Australian world cup team, for example, which seems to have left its cups at home. And then there's the intriguing stranger Samantha meets at the hotel, whose zipper-straining arousal evokes the fury of an offended Arab guest and his wife. This prodigy's name is Rikard Spirt. Think about it.

Samantha is arrested for kissing on the beach, and there's an uncomfortable scene in which the girls are menaced by outraged men in a public market, where all they've done is dress in a way more appropriate for a sales reception at Victoria's Secret. They're rescued by Arab women so well covered only their eyes are visible, and in private these women reveal that underneath the burkas they're wearing Dior gowns and so forth. Must get hot.

I wondered briefly whether Abu Dhabi had underwritten all this product placement, but I learn the "SATC2" was filmed in Morocco, which must be Morocco's little joke. That nation supplies magnificent desert scenes, achieved with CGI, I assume, during which two of the girls fall off a camel. I haven't seen such hilarity since "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion."

The movie's visual style is arthritic. Director Michael Patrick King covers the sitcom dialogue by dutifully cutting back and forth to whoever is speaking. A sample of Carrie's realistic dialogue in a marital argument: "You knew when I married you I was more Coco Chanel than coq au vin." Carrie also narrates the film, providing useful guidelines for those challenged by its intricacies. Sample: "Later that day, Big and I arrived home."

Truth in reviewing: I am obliged to report that this film will no doubt be deliriously enjoyed by its fans, for the reasons described above. Male couch potatoes dragged to the film against their will may find some consolation. Reader, I must confess that while attending the sneak preview with its overwhelmingly female audience, I was gob-smacked by the delightful cleavage on display. Do women wear their lowest-cut frocks for each other?

News - Megan Fox Dropped From Transformers 3 - Movies, TV

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News - Megan Fox Dropped From Transformers 3 - Movies, TV & Music - UsMagazine.com

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After comparing Michael Bay to Hitler and continuing to badmouth him, Megan Fox is being replaced in the 3rd sequel of Transformers. According to MSN, Gemma Atterton (of Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia fame) is one of the leading candidates for the coveted role.

Here's an excerpt from the Us Magazine article:

"Maybe Megan Fox should have kept her mouth shut.

After months of loudly bashing director Michael Bay, the actress has been dropped from Transformers 3, Paramount Pictures confirms to UsMagazine.com.

Fox, 24, slammed the franchise as "not about acting" in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in which she also accused Bay of making her model 18 skimpy outfits and wash his car while filming the first movie. In another interview, she called Bay "Hitler" and said he was a "nightmare to work for."

Bay snapped back that Fox "needs to grow up" and she owes him her career."

Kristin Davis: Weight Was Never An Issue in Sex and the City

Contrary to the absurd claims of tabloids, Kristin Davis has stated in an interview with UK Magazine that Sex and the City producers never asked her to lose weight...ever.

"No one at 'Sex and The City' has ever asked any of us four girls to lose weight. Thank God," she said, naming outsiders as the source of most of the negative body talk she receives. "You get a lot of criticism out in the world or on the Internet about how you look. Fat here, fat there. Hippy this, hippy that. That has been my entire career."

Only in Hollywood where gorgeous people like Kristin gets to be called as "fat"...seesh

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Exclusive Iron Man 2 IMAX Poster! - Superhero Hype!

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Been following Jon Favreau on Twitter and he posted today about the latest posters of Iron Man 2. Check them out!
"Jon_Favreau 

  

2 New posters. Whiplash here:http://tinyurl.com/24ljrtq and the IMAX poster here:http://tinyurl.com/2euoges"


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Funny Single Mom Movie: The Back-up Plan

"Fall in Love, Get Married, Have a Baby...not necessarily in that order."

Heard about how funny this movie is! It stars Jennifer Lopez who is a 30-something New Yorker who is tired of dating and decides to have a go at motherhood through in vitro fertilization, only to meet Mr. Right on the same day!


Opening soon across the Philippines , “The Back-Up Plan” is distributed by Columbia
Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.