"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 Love You, Phillip Morris movie takes a cop out of the closet and directly to jail—a love story…Jim Carey plays Steven Russell, happily married and safely closeted local law enforcement officer devoted to clean Christian living and keeping up appearances in the neighborhood. As "I Love You, Phillip Morris" opens, officer Russell culminates his spare-time search for the mother who gave him up at birth; mom kept his older and younger siblings. Mom wants nothing to do with him, and adding injury to the insult, Russell suffers a terrible car crash. The one-two punches inspire him to abandon his former life, and Russell embraces the gay lifestyle with zest and gusto. Discovering gay extravagance comes with big price tags, Russell discovers his proficiency as a con man…until he ends up in jail, where he meets Phillip Morris. Ewan McGregor brilliantly plays Phillip Morris, the love of Russell's life. And, then, the drama begins. Dealing unabashedly with homosexuality, "I Love You, Phillip Morris" might have inspired boycotts, protests, and a great deal of unpleasantness. Thanks to Carey's and McGregor's sensitive, poignant portrayal of the characters and the script's ample good humor, "I Love You, Phillip Morris" is just a really good movie about a couple of men in love.
A light-hearted romantic comedy produced for Christmas-season audiences, "How Do You Know?" movie has all the right stuff for gentle laughter and wistful sighs. Reese Witherspoon stars as Lisa Jorgensen, twenty-seven year old former athlete, who feels past her prime and out of synch with the timeline for love, family, and happily ever after. Tougher and edgier than the usual Reese Witherspoon heroine, Lisa is both a perfect complement and an ideal foil for her radically contrasting would-be boyfriends. Legions of twenty-something professional women readily will identify with Lisa" Thinking about her friends getting married and having babies, Lisa worries, "I don't know if I have what it takes for everybody's regular plan.""Of course, the plot in "How Do You Know?" develops from the standard love triangle—Lisa stands at the apex, perpetual romantic cutie Paul Rudd playing troubled corporate guy at one vertex, and perpetual gotta-love-him dude Owen Wilson playing baseball guy at the other vertex. Under the skillful direction of Academy Award winner James L. Brooks of "As Good As It Gets" fame, "How Do You Know?" becomes a delicious holiday confection with a generous soupcon of Jack Nicholson thrown-in for flavor and spice."
The filming studio of Scream 4 says, "Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer." Until the Scream 4 hits theaters on April 15, 2011, no one reveals anything more than that one cryptic sentence. The trailer does make it clear, however, Wes Craven has no intention of reinventing the formula for fun family fear. Scream movie-series sage Wes Craven says of his genre, "There is something about the Disneyesque [American] dream of the beautifully trimmed front lawn, the white picket fence, mom and dad and their happy children, God-fearing and doing good whenever they can. [Look at] and the flip side of it, the kind of anger and the sense of outrage that comes from discovering that's not the truth of the matter--that gives American horror films kind of an additional rage." The Ghostface Killer always has "crawled like a viper through the suburban streets," and the fourth in the series shows lots more of the same; why mess with success? Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette prove you're never two old to feel terrified, but a whole new generation of horrified hotties has learned to scream and scream until goodness prevails. Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere lead "a new generation of terror."
James Cameron returns to the sea, showing in three dimensions how a deep-sea cave-diving team descends into a previously unexplored cave system—the largest, most beautiful, most complex, and least accessible on Earth. There, explorers suddenly face the challenge to become survivors. Adapted from the real-life adventure of the screenplay's co-writer, Andrew Wight, Sanctum movie pays homage to the ocean's sublimity before it tears the mask off its monumental power. Richard Roxburgh, suitably daring and dashing, plays expedition leader Frank McGuire, who skillfully leads the team through months of exploration until a tropical storm cuts-off their exit, forcing them deeper into the caves in search of an escape. Struggling against raging water, short supplies, and inchoate terror, McGuire, his son Josh, and prominent financier Carl Hurley must make their way through a magnificent and menacing maze hoping against hope they will survive. Cameron had to work his magic on a relatively modest $30million budget, but director Alister Grierson and cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin bring out the best in the fine ensemble cast and make the most of Mother Nature's dramatic setting.
Liam Neeson stars in Unknown movie, an action thriller focused on a tale of mistaken identity and sinister intrigue. Horror film parvenu Jaume Collet-Sera directed Unknown movie, this time working to develop suspense rather than terror. Neeson plays Dr. Martin Harris, who comes back into consciousness after a Berlin traffic accident, discovering his wife no longer recognizes him, and a mystery man apparently has purloined his identity. Among the unknowns in the movie's pre-release buzz: what it is about Dr. Harris that makes his identity so valuable. Whatever his exceptional value, assassins stalk the genuine Dr. Harris while authorities refuse to believe or assist him. Naturally, Dr. Harris grows more desperate as he discovers just how completely alone and bereft of resources or plans he really us. "Aided by an unlikely ally," as the studio says, Dr. Harris intrepidly digs into the mystery, sometimes questioning his sanity, and frequently testing the limits of his endurance and conscience. January Jones of "MadMen" fame plays his wife; Diane Kruger plays "the taxi driver."
The posters and trailer challenge you, "Could you look into the eyes of the devil?" The main characters in The Rite movie must answer the question…and the one that comes next: When you do look into the devil's eyes, what do you plan to do? Pre-release buzz cautions would-be viewers the answers are more than a little scary. Based on Matt Baglio's torn-from-real-life novel The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, the movie tracks a skeptical young seminarian as he travels from his little parish in San Jose, California, to the Vatican, where he studies and practices the rites of exorcism. Colin O'Donoghue plays Michael Kovack, neophyte; and who better to play Father Lucas, the apprentice's master, than Anthony Hopkins, the king of creepy? Father Lucas initiates Kovack into the darker side of his Catholic faith, showing him how the devil's power seduces and corrupts even in the planet's holiest places.
Irish author Jonathan Swift first published Gulliver's Travels in 1726, and it became an immediate sensation. Since then, Gulliver's Travels never has gone out-of-print, and its twenty-first century sales remain nearly as robust as they were in the sixteenth. Universally acknowledged as a classic of British literature, Swift's wonderwork scathingly satirizes human nature and parodies "travellers' tales." Not surprising, then, Hollywood has attempted to bring Gulliver's story to life on film in every decade since the medium was invented. Typically, the special effects have failed to keep pace with Swift's imagination. In the story's latest reprise, a slightly modernized version, the special effects are up to the challenge, but the question emerges, "Is Jack Black up to it?" Black has disappointed fans with his last couple of ventures, but critics say he looks "at ease" as he goes for "big" laughs in the land of the Lilliputians. The producers and director have built-in a few features to give Black a healthy bounce: Updating the story, they show Gulliver as a contemporary mailroom guy who finally catches a break, winning a travel-writing assignment in the Bermuda Triangle. 3D has gotta help the contrast between big Gulliver and little Lilliputians, and an all-star supporting cast is expected to bring out the best of Black's comic gifts.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a horror movie that is sure to be a nail bitter. After a socially awkward young girl named Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison) moves into the sprawling estate with her father, Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), she starts to do some exploring. However over time she starts to go deeper into the house she finds a secret doorway. Eventually she manages to gain access to what turns out to be a secret floor. This floor of the house has been undisturbed for nearly a century when the original owner disappeared with evidence of it left behind. As Sally starts to explore this secret floor, she releases monsters that have been trapped since they destroyed the original owner. Now Sally must convince the adults in her world to believe what she discovered to stop the monsters from destroying her and her family. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark will definitely keep you up at night.
The Green Hornet is another superhero movie featuring the Green Hornet and his crime fighting team. During the day Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is rich publisher and famous media mogul, but by night he is the fearless superhero known as the Green Hornet. Together with his faithful companion Kato, a martial arts expert; they do whatever it takes to keep the streets safe for civilians. After a close friend and colleague is murdered, the Green Hornet and Kato face the mob head on to bring them down and make them pay for everything they have done. Meanwhile they must protect the identity of Britt and keep his world safe from harm and only a superhero like the Green Hornet is capable of this. The Green Hornet is action packed with a good story line that will be entertaining for all ages.
Somewhere is a movie that chronicles the life of actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), who was well known for his long stay in Hollywood's famous Chateau Marmont hotel and the endless stream of sexy women and drugs that stayed there with him. As he coasts through life while driving his Ferrari and partying hard he receives an unexpected surprise. His 11 year old daughter Chloe ends up at his hotel room door to get to know her dad. After spending some time with Chloe, Johnny is motivated to change the path his life is taking and clean up his act. Can Johnny finally do the right thing and be a good father to Chloe or does he do what he is best known for? Somewhere is a dramatic story about how a daughter can inspire a father to do the right thing.