Long-term couple Simon and Jason, along with daddy-ish Cooper and his boy du jour, meet annually for a three-day weekend away from their hectic city lives. Looking to spice up this long-standing tradition, they add a peculiar twist to this year s retreat – each of them must bid one attractive single friend to their mountain getaway. Arriving are a frisky former college roommate, a constantly naked yoga instructor, Jason s uptight co-worker and a high-priced rent boy who do indeed stir up the weekend. But this combination of new and old friends creates more tension than anyone anticipated. After 72 hours and multiple se

Were the World Mine (2008) is a musical film directed by Tom Gustafson, and scripted by Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson. Were the World Mine is a charming history of empowerment that culminates in a touching love story, inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Were the World Mine stars Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Broadway star Judy McLane, soap opera legend Jill Larson, Nathaniel David Becker, and Zelda Williams.

Six years pass for the both of them until Stryker shows up and asks Logan to fall second and be a section of a new Weapon X project. Logan refuses but Creed shows up and murders Logan’s girlfriend leaving him wanting revenge against his brother. Logan accepts Strykers offer to be infused with Adamantium so that he can be indestructable and go after his revenge but is double crossed by Stryker and hears him have the range to rub his memories. Escaping before this can happen, he goes searching for Creed killing anyone who gets in his way.

The 100 minute movie is strongest during its first half. The part of the story is more or less open territory for accomplished director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, Rendition) to do what he does best – focus on characterisation, crafting an almost mythological take on the Wolverine/Sabretooth relationship, linking their childhood together and bonding them through shared tragedy. The cast of their fathers is exceptional – worth pointing out on its own.

The opening sequence also leads into arguably the film’s sharpest sequence, tracing the pair’s lives through four wars as Victor Creed/Sabretooth begins to lose control. Through clever use of frame and tight editing, transitions between decades flows smoothly, while the horrors of the battlefield actually offset what is a surprisingly brilliant way to show the key differences between the wind characters. Only a smattering of other moments in the film reach this stage of counsel and polish.Did I love this movie? Yes, I did love it. It was close to the X-Men, although as some critics have pointed out, other X-Men who appeared were poorly developed and frequently just seemed to be there as props. I didn’t feel this too bad as the report was the inception of Wolverine and the film was to establish how he became the way he is as good as provide some great action scenes. The storyline was good, especially through the wars and his on-going battle with Victor (Sabretooth) and Stryker was good. Hugh Jackman, of form is a full heart-throb, and his bare and almost nude scenes were safe for my heart. His recent refusal/denial that he is gay is a total joke, a beat-up by some weird people; but to see him with his shirt stripped off would cause any gay guy wish for him to be on our position of the bed!

Did I see any portion of the movie bad?No, I really couldn’t say that I found any section of the movie objectional in any way. And I conceive the 200 people (mainly young guys) who saw it with me in Penrith totally enjoyed the film also.

I differ with Margaret and David from the ABC’s At The Movies low star ranking; it was a big picture for its genre.

Would I see it again? Yes, I would see it again, preferably on the big screen. I mean a DVD of the picture on a home TV would not do the movie justice.

I was surprised to see Max Cullen and Peter O’Brien (two of my favourite Australian actors) in supporting roles in this movie. Well done, guys!

Some time later, Letty is base to have been shot dead in her wrecked car. Dom returns to the view of her murder just outside of L.A. There, he discovers traces of nitromethane, which allows him to take a personal investigation up to a certain David Park, who had purchased the nitromethane for the driver who killed Letty. Park is coerced into helping Dom get a place in a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, where he will supposedly find Letty’s killer.

Meanwhile, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), now an FBI agent, is assigned to cut down a notorious drug lord named Arturo Braga. Brian’s investigation also leads him to David Park. He arrives at Park’s apartment while Dom is still interrogating him (by keeping him by his ankles outside a window). At the FBI office, Park also tells Brian that the aforementioned street race grants the winner a point on the squad that traffics heroin across the United States-Mexico border for Braga. He visits Dom’s sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), warning her to stop away from Dom, as he will finally get caught.

Did I love this movie? Hell, yes. And it wasn’t just because I saw the film with my wonderful boyfriend (although I must confess, it is ever the better time when I am with him). This sequence is close to the pilot and fits perfectly within the sequence. The report is believable, although such street racing through the streets, lanes and motorways of Los Angeles is amazing without police interference.

It is an action movie, and at no point did the action check and long winded explanations take over. The court was clear without unnecessary scenes of heterosexual naked passion (thank goodness). The impulsive and the cars were, of course, the foreground with great scenes of havoc and end on isolated country roads, freeways, urban streets and lanes, open desert country, and better of all, through a winding series of old, timber reinforced, narrow tunnels.

There was little violence, although people did die in horrendous deaths; the better of all was the end of the evil leader in a splendid full-on man-vs-car THUMP!

What was amiss with this movie? I view the acting by some of the FBI agents, particularly the squad leader sucked; it was over-acting at its worst, although this may have been designed to help portray the incompetency of the FBI agents. I love it is rather a long way from Los Angeles to the Mexican border but it seemed that they were in Los Angeles just before midnight and so suddenly at the frame just after midnight with their cars. Apart from that, I actually can’t criticise the picture as it fulfilled its aim: an exciting, fast paced, action film with some really great cars (except the Honda Integra!).

Would I see it again? Yes, but this time I would see it in its logical sequence with the three others in the series. I think there is already a fifth in output and I look ahead to that.

The film tells the history of three friends graduating from college and transitioning into life as adults. Each person has a dissimilar view of living and beloved in particular.

Akash (Aamir Khan) does not think in love, so he does not keep girlfriends for more than two weeks.

Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) is a genial, well-meaning, desperately romantic but confused guy who is prone to romantic infatuations and believes to get found true love whenever he gets attracted to a girl.

Siddharth (Akshaye Khanna), or Sid, an artist by profession and the most age of the three, is not concerned in trivial romances and is consecrated to his work.

Akash, who is not merely a cad in his personal life (breaking hearts, proposing to a daughter named Shalini (Preity Zinta) in jest) but likewise a mischief-maker in his friends’ lives, craftily engineers a separation between Sameer and his girlfriend. He then plans a vacation trip to the beaches of Goa.
Sameer predictably “falls in bed” in Goa with a pretty Swiss girl, a level that ends in disaster. He returns home to witness that his parents have ordered a meeting with a possible marriage prospect. He resists at first as he does not require an arranged marriage, but the second he sees the girl, Pooja (Sonali Kulkarni), he realises that she is ‘the one’. Unfortunately, she is already in a kinship with somebody else and Sameer has to be contented with but being her friend.
Sid, in the meantime, befriends and finally falls in bed with Tara (Dimple Kapadia), an older divorcee and alcoholic, who had moved into a nearby house and shares his beloved for art. He decides to continue it from her, suppressing all hopes of a relationship as he knows that she, like about other mass in society, would think this scandalous. When his house and friends start finding out, everything goes wrong. Sid’s mother is horrified and wrongly accuses Tara of having led Sid on. Akash makes fun of Sid’s true intentions and his offensive remarks create a break in their friendship. Tara hears that Sid has quarrelled with friends and family because of her and feel that she has finished his life, refuses to see him.
Akash, on the other hand, is also experiencing romantic upheaval. His parents send him to Sydney, Australia to play for the home business. On the flight, he meets Shalini again. He apologises for his earlier prank and asks her to read him about the new city. Even though Shalini is busy to marry someone else, she finds herself agreeing and they both, eventually, start to find a certain “something”. She tries to get out how he feels, but he holds back. She then leaves for India to marry Rohit, her fiancé. Akash lets her go, then realizes that he can’t survive without her and returns to India to win her back. He proposes to her a day before her marriage and she accepts with the boon of Rohit’s parents.

This picture is another loaded to me by my wonderful boyfriend. I knew as shortly as he handed me the DVD that I would love it because he has wonderful taste (he chose me, didn’t he?). The three guys in this picture are all drop-dead handsome, each with different talents and beauty. Their acting and growing as a case is brilliant and they show three of the ways men in seeking love behave. The cad, the romantic and the afraid-to-love.

The picture is set in Bombay and Goa as good as in Sydney. Although, I would hate to get paid the taxi fare and diminished the sentence it would have interpreted to get from classic-Sydney shot to classic-Sydney shot. And I wish to bring in Sameer’s office with the Harbour Bridge, Luna Park and Opera House all framed in his window.

Did I love this movie? Yes, I did. I know a serious romance and this picture has three important romances. I didn’t cry, although the sad bit was really moving. Given that all the characters were from rich, upper-middle class families, I shouldn’t have had a lot in common with them, but in fact I did. I have met guys like all 3 of these men. If I were to pigeon-hole myself I would bear to say I am more like Sid but like I was more like Sameer. I am nothing like Akash, as my boy friend would attest.
The picture moved along at a respectable pace even though it was a 3 hour film, the scene was beautiful (I love India as often as I love Sydney), and the camera work was excellent.

What did I not enjoy about the picture? At 180 minutes it was very long, but so it did be the romances of three guys, and each guy had adequate time billing. The girls were very beautiful but their characters were not very developed, apart from Tara, and the others seemed but too slow to hang in and out of love. But I reckon the picture is near the guys and not really about the girls.

Would I see this movie again? Yes, and likely more than once. It did not accept the affect that Rang de Basanti had on me and I remember no other film ever will (besides Dil Chahta Hai is a butterfly and Rang de Basanti is a powerful movie about friendship, courage and sacrifice). Both movies are about love, very much. I am a man broad of love, love that has been recently awoken just over six months ago. So these movies both get so often to say to me.

Mulligans debuted on DVD last Tuesday so you can clean up a copy over at Amazon or place it through netflix. 

In Just Beautiful Men’s word. “Oh and yes, this film came quite dangerously near to being a, um. let’s say feature-length [insert opposite of MILF] fantasy come to life. Quite alone in such regards to say the least …”

You will get to place it for yourself.

Thanks and apologies to Just Beautiful Men for my rip-off of his blog. Please check out his pages, they are worth a visit.

Rang De Basanti (Hindi: रंग दे बसंती, IAST: Raṅg De Basantī; IPA: [rəŋg d̪e bəsənt̪i], translation: Paint It Yellow) is a 2006 Indian drama film written and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. It features an ensemble cast comprising Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and British actress Alice Patten in the leading roles. Made on a budget of Rs. 250 million (US$5.5 million), the filming was accomplished in and some New Delhi.
The chronicle is approximately a British documentary filmmaker who is set to have a take on Indian freedom fighters based on diary entries by her grandfather, a former officeholder of the British Army in India. Upon arriving in India, she asks a grouping of five young men to act in her film. They agree, but afterward they start filming a champion of theirs is killed in a fighter aircraft crash, with government corruption appearing to be the root cause of the incident. This event radicalizes them from being carefree to passion-driven individuals who are driven to revenge his death.
The film’s release faced strong resistance from the Indian Defence Ministry and the Animal Welfare Board due to parts of the picture that portrayed the use of MiG-21 fighter aircraft and a banned Indian horse race respectively. The film, which released globally on January 26, 2006, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 BAFTA Awards. The picture was also India’s official entry for the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category, though it was not nominated for either ceremony. A. R. Rahman’s soundtrack, which earned mixed reviews, had two of its tracks considered for the Academy Award nomination. The movie was not entirely well-received by critics and audiences for its production values, but also had a detectable influence on Indian society. In India, besides several technical awards, the movie won the Best Film award at the annual Filmfare Awards among other Bollywood award ceremonies. Along with a gross receipts of Rs. 1.36 billion (approximately US$30 million) at the box office making it one of the highest grossing films in the Bollywood since the year 2000,[3] it had the highest-selling DVD title sales at the sentence of its release.Source: Wikipedia.com

What did I care about this movie? Where do I get? The big male stars (Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, and Atul Kulkarni), the beautiful female stars (especially the actress who played Sonia, Soha Ali Khan), the magnificent Indian background of cities, forts, rural scenes and festivals and The Golden Temple. The commission and product is wonderful but the picture is carried along better by its report and the growth of the characters. The soundtrack, too, is fantastic.

What didn’t I care about the movie? Hardly the movie’s fault, but I would have preferred to have watched the film with my handsome boyfriend. I am certain that with his great intellect to assist me with the finer points of the film, my enjoyment would have been greater.

Would I see the picture again? Yes, again and again.

I can see parallels between RANG de BASANTI and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, with their flashbacks and modern consumerist society, but the principal link is in how a case can overcome resistance to reach a moral victory. Both movies are in my inclination of the top ten.