Fanboys

This has to be one of my favourite films, never get tired of watching it, it always make me laugh.

The film is set in 1998 just before the release of the Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and Eric Bottler (Sam Huntington) reunites with his high school friends at a Halloween party, Hutch (Dan Fogler), Windows (Jay Baruchel), Zoe (Kristen Bell) and Linus (Chris Marquette). Eric who now works in his fathers car dealership has had to give up his dreams from high school where as his friends haven't changed at all, and when he finds out that his best friend Linus is dying of cancer, Eric brings up the idea of breaking into Skywalker ranch (a plan they drew up in high school) so that Linus can watch The Phantom Menace before he dies, and so their road trip begins when Window's says that he has met someone online that can help them break into the Lucas ranch so they start their Journey off to Texas.

On their journey to Texas the guys stop at the future birth place of Captain James T Kirk and terrorize some Trekkies, their van breaks down and end up in a biker bar stripping and getting high of guacamole laced with peyote. When Windows finally meets his online friend Rogue Leader, lets just say that he gets quite a shock but its hilarious, but the guys are sent on their way to meet another person who can help them in Las Vegas. Along the way up to Las Vegas the guys get arrested, after some light speed action and have to be bailed out  by Zoe (Kristen Bell) who wants to come along with the guys.

When they get to Vegas Linus and Eric go off to meet their contact who turns out to be William Shatner (as himself) gives them the plans for the Skywalker ranch so that they can break in and they also bump into the Trekkies that they terrorized after realizing that the hotel they are in are having a Star Trek convention. Mean while Hutch and Windows have hit it off with two women and end up ditching Zoe (who is in love with Windows but he doesn't realize).

Eventually the gang end up at the Skywalker ranch and i am not going to say what happens next or whether Linus gets to see the film. But what i will say is that this is a film you need to watch! It is hilarious! Some of my favourite bits happen when they get into the Skywalker ranch. Kristen Bell is brilliant as Zoe, she stands out amongst the group of guys and holds her ground, especially when she threatens to burn an Ewok (love the Ewoks) . The appearance of Seth Rogan is so funny especially when he shows off his tattoos and his defense of Star Wars against the Trekkies. Even though the film has the sad story line of Linus's illness, you kind of forget about it during the film, even though they are on a quest for him to fulfill a wish before he dies. Along side the Linus's story line, Eric is trying to find his place in the world as he is unhappy at his fathers car dealership as he gave up his dream of being a comic book artist, and we see Eric struggling with the decision as to whether he should abandon the gangs quest and go home or to give up his opportunity to take over his fathers dealership and do what makes him happy.

The film was originally released on the 6th February 2009 and was directed by Kyle Newman with the story written by Dan Pulick and Ernest Cline. It also has some great cameos related to Star Wars and cult-hit/Sci-Fi films, not going to tell you who because why that would be spoiling the surprise, lets see how many you can spot.

This film is brilliant i really suggest watching it, even if you don't like Star Wars its still a really good film.

You can buy it for £5 from Amazon and it is definitely worth it.

Charlie Bartlett

Certificate: R Directer: Jon Poll Cast: Anton Yelchin, Kat Dennings, Hope Davis and
Robert Downey Jr Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  Running Time: 97 mins

Charlie (Anton Yelchin) is the typical high school student who just wants to be accepted by the kids at school, when we first meet him he has just been expelled from school for making and selling fake Id's in his room, we find out that he comes from a very rich family after his mum (Hope Davis) tries to buy his way back into the school and when she asks him why he was making the Id's his reply was that he wanted to be accepted, that he wanted to be happy and popular and that was the point of high school, to be accepted. The suggestion that Charlie should move home and attend public school is brought forward. We see Charlie and his mum sat at the piano and he is reminding her that she needs to take her meds and that normal kids don't show up to school with a chauffeur and that he should take the bus.

We cut to Robert Downey Jr entering his house and we meet his Daughter Susan (Kat Dennings) who calls her dad the Principle and he has a difficult relationship with his ex wife when he is sat at his desk drinking whiskey and he cuts off the voice message from her and then we see him driving a toy boat around his pool drinking whiskey.

When Charlie starts school he gets on the bus and gets some strange looks because he is dressed in a suit and has a brief case, he gets mistaken for a teacher by Susan because of the way he is dressed and when he goes into the bathroom he interrupts the school "bad boy" Murphy (Tyler Hilton) and gets his head stuffed down the toilet, so school doesn't start very well for Charlie he is an outcast because he is new and dresses weird compared to the other students. Charlie auditions for the school play which is quite funny so i don't want to give any spoilers for that, and when he gets beaten up by the school bullies his mums response is the call in the shrink. The shrink solution is to put him on some meds.

After some interesting side affects to taking the new meds ( if you have ever watched The Big Bang Theory its similar to when Sheldon drinks coffee and dresses like the Flash) he realizes that he can sell the Ritalin with the help of Murphy at the school dance and make a load of money and  lets just say there are some funny side affects. A kid at school comes up to Charlie to get some drugs because of Charlies connections when Charlie can't help him he finds a way by trying to find the right drug to give him and goes to the Shrink relaying the information and symptoms that Kit told Charlie to get the drugs to help him and gets the drugs. Charlie becomes the new school shrink with kids coming up to him in his "office" for advice and drugs with the help of Murphy. Along with Charlies drug/psychiatric business doing well his relationship with Susan is also developing much to her dads disapproval (he also has a drinking problem).

One of the kids that Charlie tried to help Kit, tries to kill himself by taking a load of sedatives, which leads to a confrontation between Charlie and Nathan about him selling drugs. Charlie tries to make it up to Kit by helping him with the play that he wrote onto the stage and he tries to get Murphy to go on a date with a girl he really likes. A protest breaks out over cameras being installed in the school and the principle is placing the blame on Charlie even though he isn't a part of the protest because he doesn't want to be expelled again. Things come head to head with the principle over Susan after Nathan jumps to the wrong conclusions, Charlie gets arrested, students riot in protest and another confrontation between Nathan and charlie occurs this time with a gun, that is where i am going to leave it, you will have to watch it to see what happens at the end.

The films is great, it shows the life of a high school student that will do anything to fit on, even if it is illegal and how he deals with social pressures a lot of the time films like this are done from more of a female perspective so its nice to see something different. Anton Yelchin is brilliant in the role of Charlie and there are some great moments especially between Charlie and his mum, who Charlie is clearly the adult in the family as he looks after his mother because his father isn't around. I love Robert Downey Jr and he doesn't disappoint in the film he is just brilliant especially in the scenes he shares with Yelchin and Kat Dennings (who is great in the film) . This is defiantly a film to watch.

Rating: 8/10

Hit and Run trailer

Hit and Run is about a former get away driver who is in witness protection called Charlie (Dax Shepard), he messes up his identity in order to get his girl friend (Kristen Bell) to LA so she can get her dream job whilst Charlies former gang (led by Bradley Cooper) and the feds chase them down.

I just watched the trailer for Hit and Run and it had me laughing so much that hopefully the movie will hold up to the same standards. The film looks really good and i hope that the cast can deliver and what i have seen from the trailer it looks like it is going to be a good film.

Along with Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell and Bradley Cooper, the film also stars Kristin Chenoweth, Beau Bridges, Micheal Rosenbaum, Joy Bryant and Tom Arnold.

You should really watch the trailer!!

The film was written and co-directed by Dax Shepard and is set for release on the 24th August

Magic Mike Trailer

3 words . . . . .  Channing Tatum STRIPPING!!!!!!!!

Channing Tatum plays Magic Mike a Stripper/Entrepreneur who takes on a novice stripper The Kid (Alex Pettyfer) and teaches him everything he knows about stripping (partying, picking up women and making easy money) whilst trying to seek a way out of the lifestyle to live out his dream. They both work at the club Xquisite which is owned by former stripper Dallas (Matthew McConaughey).

The film is directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderberg and also stars Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer and Cody Horn.

After watching the trailer i really want to see this film, it looks like it will be a good laugh plus Channing Tatum and Alex Pattyfer stripping whats not to like.

This is definitely going to be a film for the ladies so don't forget to check it out when its released on the 29th June in the US and the 13th July in the UK

Don't forget to check out Channing Tatum in G.I Joe: Retaliation out this summer and 21 Jump Street out now in cinemas.

So Excited!!!!!!!!!!!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Movie

I absolutely love the TV show, i have all 7 seasons on DVD plus Angel, but i never got around to seeing the film until this weekend when it popped up on Film 4 and i had really high hopes for it after loving the series.

Kristy Swanson takes on the role of Buffy Summers a seemingly ordinary high school teenager, well if you were to look at it from today's point of view she belongs to the "popular" group, she's a cheerleader, her boyfriend is on the basketball team and she is one of the rich girls along with a young Hillary Swank (who i just want to shut up from the minute she comes on the screen). Donald Sutherland takes on the role of the Watcher Merrick is kind of creepy as he just turns up at random places but he has been training the Slayer for hundreds of years but he is no where near as good as Giles. The online character i liked was Pike played by Luke Perry who had some great comedy moments. The story line was kind of what i expected, Buffy finding out she was the slayer, she ignores it whilst people get killed, finally realizes she needs to start doing something about it and then she defeats the bad guy with a lot of teen drama added in, plus some really bad acting.
The actual vampires were terrible, especially with the special effects having seen Lost Boys which was made 5 years earlier with better special effects and much scarier vampires, and a lot better acting (well for the 80;s anyway) and the fighting scenes are terrible Swanson was awful i much prefer Sarah Michelle Gellar. I understand that it was a low budget but i have seen some great films that have been made on a low budget.
I think if i had seen the film before the TV series then i don't think that i would have been disappointment because the standard wouldn't have been there.
I love the concept behind the film because the TV show turned out to be a success and Joss Whedon is brilliant i have loved everything he has done in particular i loved Firefly/Serenity, i just think that the film could have been better.

There have been lots of rumours about a reboot of the series but i hope they don't because it probably will ruin what has gone before especially if they are considering replacing Joss Whedon because he is a brilliant creator. All in all the film wasn't brilliant but it could have been worse,

If your a Joss Whedon fan then you should check out The Avengers and Cabin in the Woods which are playing at the cinema now.

Rock of Ages soundtrack list released

The track list for Rock of Ages has finally been announced and there are some good tracks in here. I am not really a big fan of Tom Cruise, kind of thing i like in small doses but i have to say that i am really looking forward to seeing Rock of Ages, mainly cause i love a good musical and 80's music is just a guilty pleasure.

'Paradise City' (Tom Cruise)
'Sister Christian' /'Just Like Paradise' / 'Nothin' But A Good Time' (Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin)
'Juke Box Hero' / 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' (Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough)
'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
'Waiting For A Girl Like You' (Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough)
'More Than Words' / 'Heaven' (Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta)
'Wanted Dead Or Alive' (Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough)
'I Want To Know What Love Is' (Tom Cruise, Malin Akerman)
'I Wanna Rock' (Diego Boneta)
'Pour Some Sugar On Me' (Tom Cruise)
'Harden My Heart' (Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige)
'Shadows of the Night' / 'Harden My Heart' (Mary J. Blige, Julianne Hough)
'Here I Go Again' (Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise)
'Can't Fight This Feeling' (Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin)
'Any Way You Want It' (Mary J. Blige, Constantine Maroulis, Julianne Hough)
'Undercover Love' (Diego Boneta)
'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' (Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige)
'Rock You Like A Hurricane' (Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise)
'We Built This City' / 'We're Not Gonna Take It' (Russell Brand / Catherine Zeta-Jones)
'Don't Stop Believin' (Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Mary J. Blige)

The cast for this film is varied from the very experienced Cruise and Catherine Zeta Jones and the relatively new Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta who will be playing the main characters that are trying to make it big, so they head to the big city where they meet and fall in love at first sight (kind of typical, not really that original) and the film follows them on their journey. I loved Hough in the Footloose remake so looking forward to see if she can stand out amongst the bigger stars in the film and she has some great songs that hopefully she will be able to pull off and i have seen Boneta in a few things he was in Mean Girls 2 and he played Javier in 90210 but i am looking forward to seeing him take on a more of a lead role away from the teen scene.

The songs speak for themselves this is going to be all the best rock'n'roll from the 80's, i really hope Cruise doesn't ruin Paradise City for me because i love that song and it wouldn't be the 80's without some Journey. Rounding off the ensemble are Alec Baldwin, Mary J Blidge and Russell Brand (love him) and i can't wait to see them all together. I have high expectations of this film, even though i don't like Tom Cruise i will make the effort to watch it because it looks awesome!!!

Don't forget to check back for a review of the film

Mirror Mirror

Certificate: PG Director: Tarsem Singh. Cast: Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer and Nathan Lane. Distributor: Relativity Media. Running Time: 106min 

One of the Snow White adaptations due out this summer with the second being a much darker Snow White and the Huntsmen. Mirror Mirror taking a much lighter comical approach to the legendary tale. You still have the basics of the tale single father (who just happens to be the King) marries a seemingly innocent women to become the mother of his only daughter (Snow White), the dad mysteriously disappears and Snow is left with her step-mum who turns out to be evil.

There is some brilliant comedy moments which mainly come from the "Seven Dwarfs" who have become outcasts from the village by order of the Queen (Julia Roberts) who is quite shallow and is extremely jealous of Snow White even if she doesn't quite own up to it, she is all about staying young and has kept Snow White locked away for 18 years. Snow White (Lily Collins) has been trapped in the castle for 18 years has no idea what state her kingdom is in and has no idea what has happened to her farther only that it happened in the woods and that there is something bad that lives in the woods. not just the bandits that live there. The tale wouldn't be complete with out a Prince Charming (Armie Hammer) who provides some brilliant comical moments with each of the character through out the film and were some of my favourite scenes. Whilst i was watching the film there was one character i was trying to place throughout the whole film it was one of those moments where i was like "i know you! who are you?" and it turned out to be Nathan Lane (I will leave it to you to work out which character he plays) but he puts in a good performance as he always does.

 The film all in all had the basic structure that Snow White has but has not taken it to literally, by doing this they have given themselves to make there own stamp on the legend of Snow White. The costumes in the film are fabulous and at some points scary (referring the the ball scene) Snow White being my favourite. You see some of the classic scenes you would associate with Snow White the mirror on the wall and the apple but in a way you don't expect them to come.

If you are looking for a light hearted comedy then i suggest this film for you! :D

Rating: 8/10