Movie News Bits


I haven't made my movie critiques since last New Year. Many movies have passed and ... yeah done with the introduction. Let's start with "Meet The Fockers". The old gang is back and is funnier then ever with the meeting of Ben Stiller's parents: Dustin Hoffman, who is a retired lawyer and prefers staying at home, cooking and practicing Capoeira and Barbra Streisand, a reputed Sex Therapist. Well, saying this movie is hilarious will be an understatement, since you'll puke your guts out laughing at De Niro's stiff demeanor trying to fight off Hoffman's and Streisand's antics... and not to mention the maniacal dog that humps on everything and the De Niro's baby grandson who learned his very first word which is ***hole.


Jennifer Garner as Elektra

Next movie, "Elektra", starring (I don't know what to say... drumroll), Jennifer Garner. We can find here that after Elektra was killed in "Daredevil", she was revived by a sensei and awakened to be trained as an assassin. She was off to kill a widower and his teenage daughter but what's hindering her from killing them are her traumas in the past. Filled with cool visuals, yeah the Tatooed Man and the Miss Poison, (whatever their names are), "Elektra" is an eye-candy but it is not really your total action film (like Blade Trinity, which I haven't watched yet) but for the deep and insightful, Elektra is noteworthy of your attention.

Next, the creepy and hair-raising "White Noise" starring Michael Keaton. In the movie after Keaton's wife dies, some guy recorded his wife's message from the spirit world through his device known as Electronic Voice Recorder. This process is called EVP or Electronic Voice Phenomenon and is practiced by psychics who believed that sometimes souls communicate to their loved ones while embedding their energies on our TV's white noises. Filled with illogical explanations why things happen like this or like that, still "White Noise" is for the ones penchants for some chair-raising actions.

Hurray for the Jean Pierre Jeunet's entry for Oscar for Best Foreign Film but unfortunately did not make it, "A Very Long Engagement" starring Amelie's star of the same director, Audrey Tautou. Audrey plays Mathilde whose fiancé, Manech goes off to war. After the war, unaware of Manech's whereabouts or status, Mathilde starts off a long ang complex journey of finding the truth with her hope in believeing that Manech is still alive as her reason to live. A highly touching movie, not really dramatic or romantic (unlike our own Pinoy love stories), "A Very Long Engagement" is worth to watch and cherish. Adding up to the challenge is Mathilde's condition. She is stricken with polio and could hardly walk let alone run. It's wonderful how hope could help us find the truth instead of giving up on things which seem to go against our way.

Next movies to watch are "Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events" and "Phantom of the Opera".