"Bull Durham" is a 1988 sports romantic comedy film directed by Ron Shelton. The story revolves around the world of minor league baseball and follows the lives of three main characters: Crash Davis, a veteran catcher; "Nuke" LaLoosh, a talented but inexperienced pitcher; and Annie Savoy, a passionate baseball groupie who chooses one player each season to mentor.
As the baseball season progresses, Crash takes Nuke under his wing, teaching him not just about the game but also about life and love. Meanwhile, Annie finds herself caught in a love triangle between Crash and Nuke, leading to amusing and heartfelt moments of romance and rivalry.
The film explores themes of love, loyalty, and the pursuit of dreams. It has been praised for its witty dialogue, authentic portrayal of the baseball world, and the chemistry between the lead actors. "Bull Durham" is often considered one of the best sports films ever made and has become a cult classic. It stars Kevin Costner as Crash Davis, Tim Robbins as "Nuke" LaLoosh, and Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy.
I'll be back, he promised in a 1984 sci-fi action movie The Terminator , and we see how California ex-governor keeps his promise: "The Last Stand" features exactly that kind of Arnold Schwarzenegger as we have remembered since the times of The Terminator and Commando. His character Ray Owens is a sheriff in small peaceful town on the USA-Mexican border, reluctantly involved into the last stand of local policemen against the most wanted drug kingpin who just spectacularly escaped from FBI and now heading to the Mexican border in order to slide abroad as soon as possible speeding above 200 Mph on his Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in a tow. But Ray Owens is not just a sheriff, he is the former FBI anti-drug department officer recently retired after some bungled operation (and, what is more important, he is also ex-Terminator as we know). Of course, he could not stand aside, and this is where bloody massacre begins. We'll see Arnold Schwarzenegger with shotgun blowing out enemies brains; we'll see him with monstrous machine gun doing the same, etc. Furthermore, aside of these "special features" we will se definitely brilliant cast of actors: Rodrigo Santoro, Zach Gilford, Genesis Rodriguez, Forest Whitaker, Jaimie Alexander, Eduardo Noriega, Luis Guzmán, Johnny Knoxville – an exciting list, isn't it? However the most serious thing you need to know that this movie is the first American action film directed by Kim Ji-woon, a talented Korean cinematographer, worldwide known for his masterpieces: "The Good, the Bad, the Weird", "A Bittersweet Life" and "I Saw the Devil."
Bullet to the Head is the next Sylvester Stallone's attempt to revive nostalgic feelings of steroid-action movies of 80'. Based on Alexis Nolent's graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete (which could be translated from French exactly like "Bullet to the Head" or "Lead In The Head" as per Google Translator's version) movie's script was rewritten for several times (Sylvester Stallone's is one of the co-authors of storyline) until it was accepted by Warner Brothers. The film's cast is well-thought-out too; while Sylvester Stallone plays Jimmy Bobo a New Orleans hitman witnessed murdering of his partners, Sung Kang plays a cop Taylor Kwon, whose partners were killed too. Teamed up with each other in a kind of unnatural but tough alliance they seek vengeance for these deaths and finally discover a powerful MOB group well accreted in corrupted authority bodies of United States of America. If you've ever thought that 66 is the age closer to cemetery than to Hollywood, you have to take a look on Sylvester Stallone's body – he looks even more "in mood" than at the dawn of his fame. As for Sung Kang, you are probably familiar with most of his filmography which includes such well known films like Fast Five and Fast & Furious 4.
It seems absolutely clear that the gap left by ending of Harry Potter and Twilight Saga in 2012 could not be empty for a long time. And, here it is – Warner Bros attempts to bring brand new hit to young adult audience with film adaptation of Kami Garcia's and Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures, a young adult novel which has gotten some very rave reviews in 2009 when it was published by Little, Brown, and Company. So, WB hopes to put a beginning of new money making movie series, by not only taking the very promising book as a storyline but gathering most talented actors to star in the new film. The main protagonist Ethan Wate is portrayed by Alden Ehrenreich, who was "discovered" by Stiven Spielberg and starred in Melanie Shaw's Running Wild and Chan-wook Park's Stoker at the time of Beautiful Creatures release. His character Ethan tries to escape a boring reality of a teenager living in the dead end of the small town. At one day Ethan awakes after a recurring dream about unknown girl. He listens a creepy-hypnotic song called Sixteen Moons on his iPad then smelsl a quite surprising aroma of rosemary and lemon coming from nowhere and goes to school to know that there is a new girl in his class. Meanwhile, returning home he almost runs over this new girl standing in the middle of the road. He hears the familiar Sixteen Moons playing in her car and smells and notes of rosemary and lemon from her hair. Soon, he learns that this new girl is a kind of sorceress, a Caster, and his dream somehow connected with the destiny of this girl. Her name is Lena (Alice Englert) and she is about her sixteen birthday when she has to decide which part of magic force she belongs: Light or Dark.
If you've ever visited or participated Mardi Gras at New Orleans, you'll definitely agree that it is extremely impossibly to find the victim of the kidnapping locked in the soundproof trunk of the cab located in the midst of the bustling, rowdy and roaring crowd. However, it takes one Nicolas Cage teamed up with beautiful and sexy Malin Akerman to prove otherwise. That's a briefly represented storyline of Simon West's action thriller Stolen filmed and realized in 2012. The movie centers on Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage), an unlucky thief, who is sentenced in jail for 10 years being caught on robbery, went awry. His criminal partners are very interested in ten millions of dollars which they believe Will concealed after the last job. To make Will convinced that he owes this money to his friend, they've kidnapped his daughter upon Will's release from prison. In order to secure their goals, gangsters have locked the girl (Sami Gayle) in cab's soundproof trunk somewhere in the midst of Mardi Gras making her impossible to find. .. for anyone, but not for Nicolas Cage. The problem is that Will doesn't have ten millions USD. Furthermore FBI Investigator (Kyle Russell Clements) and FBI Surveillance Agent (Mustafa Harris) are scouring the trails of key characters of this affair.
Successfully debuted at The Dallas International Film Festival, Liberal Arts is an American romantic-drama film directed by talented Josh Radnor, who not only written a screenplay for the movie by performed the leading role of the Jesse, a lonesome mid-aged university admissions officer who visits his old college in order to honor his ex-mentor. At this pivotal moment of his live he meets a girl, a 19 years old Zibby (the role performed by lovely Elizabeth Olsen, whose sole presence in the film makes it worthy to watch). Zibby and Jesse relationships develop in the way typical for 36-years old mature man and romantic 19-tears old girl, who know nothing about what this world is like. The only thing that makes their relations seemingly not icky is the Jesse serious take of this moral dilemma, which sometimes crossing the border between serious and funny. Especially in the scene when he calculated the deeps of his lapse from virtue: "When I was 19, she was 3; when I was 16 she was 0….hmmm…when I'll be 86, she will be 70" the last equation makes him sort of more easy looking on this hefty age difference (but he, and everyone in the move; and even we understand the point well).
Years ago, Becky was mocked by her friends in high-school as Piggy Face. Now she is a bride and her bitchy friends are invited at the wedding party as bridesmaids. Why she invites them are left behind the scenes but you should see her best (but still unmarried) friend's face when she meets Becky's groom, a handsome and lovely big guy, Dale. By the way Dale is portrayed by Hayes MacArthur who played "Big Handsome Guy" in The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend (2005). Becky's best friend (and most bitchy one) Regan is played by Kirsten Dunst. Regan is used to be the best in everything, her perfectionism always balances on the edge of boredom and amusingness. The rest of Becky's friends are pretty much dysfunctional too: Gena, a drug addicted girl with head in the clouds, played by Lizzy Caplan; Katie (Isla Fisher) who drinks too much of Cosmo cocktails and sniffs lots of cocaine which make her go out of the rails and throws to embraces of her former classmate Joe (Kyle Bornheimer) who used to sell her a weed in high-school. As the action unfolds the wedding party spirals out of control immersing all the key characters in the night of chaos and debauchery.
An amusingly ridiculous black comedy "Seven Psychopaths" is a McDonagh's next masterpiece created in a black comedy genre. It tells the story about an author, Marty who is out of inspiration to finish his novel "Seven Psychopaths". Marty is played by an Irish actor, Collin Farrell who may be known to you by his roles in Minority Report (2002), In Bruges (2008) and Total Recall (2012). His friend Billy tries his best to help Marty to finish writing the book "inspiring" him by getting into the troubles, constantly. Billy is portrayed by Sam Rockwell, who is known to you as Sam Bell from Moon (2009) and Kenneth Waters from Conviction (both are serious roles in the serious films with lots of awards and nominations). Billy is a pure criminal with sadistic attitudes, but he is lovely one. Besides his kind heart, he has a crime-partner Hans. This next psychopath is played by Christopher Walken. This great American actor needs no introduction – you know his awesome roles in Kill the Irishman (2012), Hairspray (2007) and Man of the Year (2006). The next psychopath is Charlie (portrayed by Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson: No Country for Old Men, The Messenger, Defendor, Zombieland). His beloved dog, a rare Shih Tzu was kidnapped by Billy and Hans, and all the movie's action unfolds in this pivotal point. There we meet Angela, played by the "Bond Girl" Olga Kurylenko, Kaya (Abbie Cornish) and Zachariah (Tom Waits) – the last two of the "Seven Psychopaths".
Battle of the Year: The Dream Team is American movie inspired by real life break-dance championship, a tournament like Olympic games for dancers is held every year in France. And most interesting fact is that Americans, who were standing at the origins of the break-dance haven't won Battle of the Year for fifteen years (what a shame!). This situation is to be changed by former b-boy Dante (Laz Alonso - Charlie DuChamp from Breakout Kings) who hires a basketball coach, Derrek, to make a team from a gang of unorganized teen-dancers. Derrek (played by Josh Holloway: Five, Stay Cool, Whisper) initially refuses the deal claiming that he is just former basketball coach, but finally accepts Dante proposition. As we see, Dante was right, a good coaching gives more than specialization. As it turns out B-boys were in need of discipline and raising the morale. The main competitors, Koreans have won lots of Battles of the Year before - their dancing potential and, what is more important, both the spirit and the will to win seem to be unbeatable. However, Derek's tactic to train boys like real men is paying off. His b-boys turn into a powerful dancing forces crew, a serious menace for the rest of the teams on Battle of the Year dance-ground.
Zero Dark Thirty is a propagandistic American movie filmed in 2012. The movie was directed and produced by Kathryn Bigelow and follows the last ten days of life the world most known terrorist Osama bin Laden, former leader of Al-Qaeda organization. The film centers on Navy SEAL Team 6 that captured and killed Osama inside his den in Pakistani Abbottabad. The Lahore and Abbottabad scenes of the movie were filmed at Chandigarh, India. This fact has raised lots of indignations from Right-wing Hindu authorities. Another wave of criticism was raised from anti-Obama communities. They accused Barak Obama for favoritism concerning of unlawful granting the access to classified data for Kathryn Bigelow's research crew. The political opponents of Obama charged him for attempt of influence on changing the date of movie release to pre-election times to increase his popularity. Nevertheless, the release date was set to December, this fact indicates that producers have some serious plans for Academy Award winning.
Gerard Butler plays George in Playing for Keeps, movie filmed in 2012, about a retired soccer player returning back home. He tries to rebuild his relationships with his son. In his efforts to rebuild the family, George agrees to coach son's soccer team. As the coacher he faces lots of troubles with his wards, but finds out that there are lots of more challenging things in his new live: the gorgeous "soccer's moms" that take a little too much to shine to new athletic bachelor appeared in their neighborhood. This challenge is uneasy one: Stacie, Patti and Denise together put the eye on George. And if you are confident to manage this "challenge", just think twice, because Stacie is Jessica Biel, Patti is Uma Thurman and Denise is Catherine Zeta-Jones. Such a stellar cast was gathered by Playing for Keeps director, Gabriele Muccino, for your pleasure.