RED (2010)

Director: Robert Schwentke

Cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Karl Urban,
John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirran, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss

Date: October 2010

Plot: Former CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is forced out of retirement and must get his old team back together to find out who is trying to kill him and why.


RED - Trailer

Review: Based on the popular D.C. graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, RED has a relitively simple plot, Frank Moses is forced out of retirement after he is attacked in his house, he picks up his Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) en route to finding who attacked him and why. This proves more difficult than he first thought and must reunite with his former team one by one in an attempt to help him uncover the truth.

Packing a film like this with as many superstars as you can find can either go very right or very very wrong, thankfully RED manages to pull it off nicely. Everyone seems to put in a steller performance and with a good story backing it up RED is going be, in my opinion, a sleeper success!

Without exagerating too much I think Bruce Willis is getting better as he gets older! Willis manages to keep the same comedic timing from Cop Out to make his James Bond/Jason Bourne type character very likable in RED.
As for John Malkovich, all I can say is he is unbelievable! Funny, crazy, sinister, action hero... he does it all! I was even impressed with Helen Mirran, I'm not sure if it was the type of movie or the rest of the cast but I saw her in a new light and really enjoyed her performance.

I didn't have too many expectations going in to see this but I was hopeful that it would be an entertaining 2 hours and it was. A good aul fashioned comedy/action flick.

A must see!

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Despicable Me (2010)

Director: Pierre Coffin

Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher, Julie Andrews

Date: October 2010

Plot: Super villain Gru has hatched his most diabolical plan ever, to steal the moon! But first he needs the help of 3 orphan girls to to get a shrink-ray from his new nemeses Vector.


Despicable Me - Trailer

Review: The tragic flaw with animation films over the last 15 years is that they are constantly being compared to Toy Story and Shrek.
While both of these are true classics, I feel it very unfair and quite boring to compare every film in the genre to these two! Could you imagine doing this in other Genre's? No!

So I believe that Despicable Me deserves to be judged on its own merits. In saying that, I thought that this was a fantastic film for both kids and the young at heart.
The movie really does have a bit of everything, there are laughs for everyone, from the fan of the slapstick to the subtle play on words, there is warmth and good intentions for those looking for a moral to the story and you would have to be made of ice not to fall in love with the cutest little girl, since Boo from Monsters Inc.

The storyline does follow the formula which makes it a bit predicable but there is enough in the movie to keep it fresh and new. The voice acting from all is done very well, at times it is sometimes a bit hard to understand Gru's (Steve Carell) accent but I don't believe it is enough to mark him down on it.

As a whole I thoroughly enjoyed the film. The jokes, story and animation worked well, I was even impressed by the 3D.
I believe that everyone left the cinema with a smile on their faces!

Definitely recommended to all.

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Fridge Door News

Welcome to another Marvel-ous edition of the Fridge Door News!!

On this weeks news we get to to don our tights, cape and mask as we look into this past weeks News, Rumours and Story's from the courageous and amazing world of Superheros!



The past 2 weeks have been rife with story's of the big budget action fests that are coming our way next year including Batman 3, Spiderman 4/ revisited Spiderman 1 and Superman: Man of Steel.

Read on my fellow Heroes and Heroines...

We kick things of with some big news on the new Spiderman reboot coming Summer of 2011. We broke the news, via Twitter, that Rhys Ifrans has signed on to play the villain in this much needed reboot. The rumour-mill lit up with suggestions of who he is going to play and it looks like it is going to be Doc Connors AKA The Lizard. Although this has yet to be confirmed it has not been denied either by Ifrans or the studio! Here's hoping!!


We move to Gotham City were the big news on the set of one of the most secretive movie, the untitled Batman 3, is the recent addition of Tom Hardy.
It is yet unknown who Hardy will play, Good guy or Villain but the storeys and theories have spread like wild fire... The best guesses are Killer Croc, Black Mask or The Riddler! Guess we will have to wait and see.


Debunked rumours: The two big rumours that have been laid to rest this week are that General Zod will NOT be in the new Superman movie, Zack Snyder himself put laid this one out to all the fanboys. The second is that Bradley Cooper will not be playing The Flash in the 2012 feature film. Cooper is quoted as saying "I've never heard anything about it ever in my life". This one particularly interests me as Ryan Reynolds was another fore runner to play the super fast hero... could he possibly play 3 super hero roles at once... Deadpool, Green Lantern and The Flash!!!

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Buried (2010)

Director: Rodrigo Cortes

Cast: Ryan Reynolds

Date: October 2010

Plot: An American truck driver in Iraq is captured and buried alive in an old wooden coffin, armed with only his lighter and a cellphone he must find a way out.



Buried - Trailer

Review: Upon seeing the trailer for this movie a few months ago I had great hopes and expectations, it was daring, suspenseful and above all beautifully original! I did have one or two notable concerns though; Can Ryan Reynolds act by himself for 90 minutes? Can he movie the story along and essentially carry the whole movie alone? Would a story of basically Ryan Reynolds in a box work? I believe I got the answers to all these questions last week...

We open in pitch blackness as Paul Conroy (Reynolds) awakens in the old wooden coffin, we are introduced to our main character from the light of a Zippo lighter and never leave his cramped claustrophobic side for the rest of the movie.

The film is daringly shot from inside the coffin at all times, we never cut to another scene or pan away for a moment. This along with the minimal lighting brings the audience into film and allows us to experience the similar fears and isolation that Paul feels.

Although a bit sceptical at first, this did really work! I am not sure if it was the fantastic performance from Ryan Reynolds or the master cinematography but I found myself engulfed in the film and sometimes even checking to make sure I had enough space to move my arms and legs! Bravo!!

I thoroughly enjoyed the film but there were a few unhappy patrons at the cinema, I'm not sure what they were expecting from a film about one man trapped in a buried coffin with the story told from his perspective... maybe some vampires or a transformer or two!!

Anyway, I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a good thriller of a movie.
And yes I will be buying this one when it comes out on DVD/Blu Ray next year!

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Competition

Hello Fan,

There is a good reason why I have not posted this weeks review and it is not because I haven't seen anything worth blogging about!! (Stay tuned for a great Buried and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps review coming really soon)!!!

I have been contemplating the state of "Hollywood" and the movie scene at the moment, with a lot of the movies from 2010 and 2011 being sequels, prequels and remakes, are there any fresh and new idea's left? Profound, I know!

So I would like to call upon you, the movie going public to help me gather a list of movies with the most original story ideas of the last 2 years.
Once collected and sorted I'll post the list here for the world to see. I am also going to reward the person with the most (valid) submissions with a mystery DVD :)

Here are the rules:

• I will accept submissions from today until December 1st 2010.
• Anyone can enter, there are no age/location restrictions.
• No Duplicate submissions allowed.
• Submissions can be made by emailing me directly at TheMovieFridge@gmail.com
• Please include your name in the submission.
• I will contact the winner shortly after December 1st.
• Mystery DVD will be chosen at random but will be age appropriate.
• Movie list and winners name will be posted on the Blog.
• In the unlikely event of a tie, the winner will be chosen at random.
• Only the Movie title is needed for submission.
• I will check the movie to make sure it is an original movie idea
• Strictly NO remakes/sequels/prequels allowed
• Judges decision is final
• Remember its all just a bit of fun!
  

If there are any questions let me know :)

Happy submitting!

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Fridge Door News

News this week focuses on the upcoming Sherlock Holmes 2 with two big cast revelations.
We ask what is going on with George Lucas these days and we also tragically say goodbye to a true screen legend.

Read on friends...



This past week received word that Stephen Fry will be appearing in the new Sherlock Holmes movie as non other than Mycroft Holmes, Sherlocks older and more clever brother.

We also learned that Professor Moriarty will be played by Jared Harris, son of the great Richard Harris. This may come as a suprise to many as the rumour mill was heavily pushing Brad Pitt to play the arch nemisis of the English detective.

Just when you thought George Lucas couldn't get any crazier... it has been announced that lucasfilm will be converting the Star Wars saga into 3D!
That's right from 2012 onwards the re-re-re-release of all 6 Star Wars films will be in 3D.

It seems that George Lucas has nothing else to do with his time these days and insists "For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience."
I for one am looking forward to owning ANOTHER copy of the Star Wars movies....


On a sad note now, we say goodbye to the screen legend that is Tony Curtis.

Tony passed away at age 85 earlier this week of a heart attack.
Curtis dominated the 1950's and 1960's with outstanding performances in Spartacus and Some Like it Hot and earned an Oscar nomination for The Defiant Ones.




The Results are also in for the first Fridge Poll.
You voted in your 10's and decided that Inception was the best movie of the year so far. Thanks for your votes and watch out for the next poll coming soon.

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