Saturday, January 12, 2008

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

The Game Plan - Movie review

There’s nothing surprising about The Game Plan, in which a quarterback named Joe Kingman, played by Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, learns to love the young daughter, Peyton (Madison Pettis), he never knew he had. But the movie is so likable that it glides over its many plot holes (including the fishy explanation of why Joe never knew about Peyton, and an 11th-hour revelation by the girl that’s even less persuasive).

The film’s direction, by Andy Fickman, is raucous but never crass, and the affable Mr. Johnson is committed to every moment. The screenplay, by Nichole Millard and Kathryn Price, establishes Joe as a man-boy who talks about himself in the third person and has a separate room for his trophies. Peyton puts a tutu on his bulldog, switches his television to a horse program during the final seconds of an N.B.A. game and insists on being enrolled in a ballet class. The class yields a hint of romance for Joe (with Peyton’s elegant, tough teacher, played by Roselyn Sanchez).

And it lets Mr. Fickman stage some lively sequences, including an endearing montage that cuts between ballet and football practice, and a dance recital in which Joe, who’s been pressed into service as a tree, plays his role with such sincerity that he brings his burly teammates in the audience to tears.

The 11th hour - Movie review

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the environment, blah, blah, blah, melting ice caps. To judge from all the gas-guzzlers still fouling the air and the plastic bottles clogging the dumps, it appears that the news that we are killing ourselves and the world with our greed and garbage hasn’t sunk in. That’s one reason The 11th Hour, an unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity, is such essential viewing. It may not change your life, but it may inspire you to recycle that old slogan-button your folks pinned on their dashikis back in the day: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. The problem looks overwhelming, literally, as demonstrated by the images of overflowing landfills and sickeningly polluted bodies of water that flicker through the movie like damning evidence.

No matter how well intentioned, political documentaries that present problems without real-life, real-time, real-people solutions — an 800 number, an address, something — just add to the noise (pollution), becoming another title on some filmmaker’s résumé as well as a temporary salve for the audience’s guilt.

Written and directed by the sisters Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners, and narrated on- and off-camera by Leonardo DiCaprio, who served as one of the producers, The 11th Hour attempts to stave off helplessness, and the nihilism that often follows it, mostly by appealing to our reason. In one interview snippet after another, dozens of scientists, activists, gurus, policy types and even a magical-mushroom guy go through the arguments, present the data and criticise the anti-green faction, putting words to the images that are liberally interspersed between these talking heads like mortar. Every so often, Mr. DiCaprio pops up on screen to interrupt this show and tell, squinting into the camera and pushing the narrative to the next topic. If your head isn’t lodged in the sand, much of what’s said in the movie will be agonising and familiar. Gasping children, disappearing animals, gushing oil, billowing smoke, dying lakes, emptying forests, warming weather — the list of ills is numbingly familiar.

In the movie’s eye-catching opener, the directors riffle through a veritable catalogue of timely snapshots, some obvious (a smoggy skyline), others less so (a human fetus).
The images in The 11th Hour are pointedly horrifying, not reassuring, pacific or aestheticised. That can make it tough to watch, which the directors clearly know. They whip through the pictures and the interviews fast — at times a little too fast — and keep the information flowing as quickly as the visuals.

This swift, steady pace means that you receive a lot of bad news from a lot of different sources. From there the topic nimbly jumps to climate change, national security (courtesy the former director of the C.I.A., R. James Woolsey), Katrina, asthma and the stunning news from the oceanographer and author Sylvia Earle that “we’ve lost 90 percent of most of the big fish in the sea.”

Yes, it’s bad, but it’s not over yet. Many of those same sober talking heads also argue with equal passion that we can save ourselves, along with the sky above us and the earth below. It is our astonishing capacity for hope that distinguishes The 11th Hour and that speaks so powerfully, in part because it is this all-too-human quality that may finally force us to fight the good fight against the damage we have done and continue to do. As the saying goes, keep hope alive — and if you’re holding this review in your hands, don’t forget to recycle the paper.


Berrabah living in mobile home with Fuller’s mom

Sugababes star Amelle Berrabah is living in a mobile home with her hospitalised boyfriend’s mother. The singer, whose lover Freddie Fuller was almost killed during a terrifying machete attack on Christmas Eve, has left her plush home and moved into the sparse prefab in Aldershot, Hampshire, so she can keep a vigil by Freddie’s bedside.
One neighbour said, “You don’t expect to see a rich pop star living in a mobile home. I have said hello to her a few times and she seems quite nice.” Amelle and Freddie were on a festive pub crawl when he was attacked at around 11.30 pm outside the Queen Victoria pub in Aldershot, Hampshire. Freddie almost lost his left arm and leg in the horrific incident.
The 23-year-old About You Now singer said, “It’s awful to see him lying there so still with his face so pale and his limbs all bound up.

After arrest, Barton turns to God for help

Mischa Barton has turned to God following her arrest. The St Trinian’s star, who was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) recently, visited Beverly Hills’ Good Shepherd Catholic Church to seek forgiveness for her sins recently. An onlooker told gossip website TMZ.com, “Mischa came out of the church looking very pious, wearing a white, virginal dress. She was carrying a church brochure.”

The 21-year-old former O.C. star was stopped by police for straddling two lanes of traffic while driving through West Hollywood last week. She was charged with DUI, possession of marijuana and driving without a valid licence and could face jail. The Good Shepherd Catholic Church is the same church Prison Break star Lane Garrison visited in December 2006 after he was involved in a fatal car crash. He is now in prison for vehicular manslaughter.

Natalie to spilt from Johns

Natalie Imbruglia has split from her rock star husband Daniel Johns. The Torn singer announced the pair have decided to end their four-year marriage after “growing apart” due to the pressures of work. In a joint statement they said, “While we are very sad that our marriage has ended, we want to make it clear that our parting is amicable and we remain friends. This mutual decision has not been taken lightly or quickly. However, our career demands and our lives in different parts of the world have brought us to the point where unfortunately this difficult decision was necessary for both of us. We have simply grown apart through not being able to spend enough time together. We have issued this statement to set the record straight and to eliminate any need for speculation.”

Imbruglia, 32, is based in the UK, while 28-year-old Silverchair frontman Johns has been living in their home country of Australia. The pair met in 1999 and married on New Year’s Eve in 2003 in a beachside ceremony in Queensland, Australia.

Lindsay filmed drinking liquor

Lindsay Lohan was filmed drinking champagne from the bottle on New Year’s Eve. The Mean Girls star, who has been in rehab three times following two arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of cocaine in May and July 2007, was filmed glugging the expensive drink straight from the bottle at an event in Italy where she received an award at the 12th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival. Lindsay’s lawyer Blair Berk said, “After being handed a champagne bottle while on a dance floor in Italy on New Year’s Eve and drinking from it, the good news is that Lindsay immediately stopped, called her sponsor, and got herself back on track. There is no magic cure here. Unfortunately, Lindsay has to share her ‘one day at a time’ with the entire world.”

Meanwhile, Lindsay, who was recently voted the worst actress of 2007 in an online poll, may face problems with her new movie Dare To Love Me as it is suffering from financial difficulties. Executive Producer Gary Hamilton said, “There’s no problem with Lindsay from our perspective. It’s just trying to finance this film, which is a separate issue.”