tMF | The Movie-Fanatic

A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official’s (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.

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Updates: We last reported about this new movie back in 2007. In March this year, it will finally be in theatres! I would expect both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum to do awesome, since both have been doing great. Levitt is of course, a big big tMF favorite and Tatum, who was so terrific in A Guide to Recognizing your Saints was listed in our top 50 hottest young actors. Hopefully Ryan Philippe can also deliver. Not that we doubt him, he was quite good in last year's Breach.

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Kimberly Peirce, the innovative director who made headlines with Boys Don't Cry, is generally credited with making Hillary Swank one of the most sought-after actors today. Peirce also propelled Chloë Sevigny into the A-list of young actresses ready to take on challenging and exciting roles from indie filmmakers.

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The dynamic duo of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp is simply...awesome! In their latest project, they succeeded in bringing to the screen the magic and the horror of The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

One film reviewer even went to the extreme and declared:

"Perhaps the greatest director and actor duo in film history, Burton and Depp again show us what can be achieved on the big screen."

Even Time has this to say: "Burton and Depp infuse the brilliant cold steel of Stephen Sondheim's score with a burning passion. Helena Bonham Carter and a superb supporting cast bring focused fury to this musical nightmare. It's bloody great."

Says the Hollywood Reporter: "The blood juxtaposed to the music is highly unsettling. It runs contrary to expectations. Burton pushes this gore into his audiences' faces so as to feel the madness and the destructive fury of Sweeney's obsession. Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages."

...but let us say the last word:

"Sweeney Todd is rare cinema that creates a world consisting of greed, love, vengeance, rivalries, obsession, evil, delicious pies and did I say it’s all wrapped up in a musical? I didn’t want this movie to end. "

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What happens when two amazing and talented actors are put together in one film? Fireworks and lots of great movie scenes, of course! We just can't wait to see the new Edward Norton-Colin Farrel film, Pride and Glory. The film is described as "a generational drama about a family of police officers in New York torn apart by a corruption scandal. "

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This movie was supposed to star Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany and Eva Green, but eventually the two male leads were given to 'younger, fresher' but not necessarily better, actors. However, there might be a reason behind the preference for the younger, 'more exciting' actors the producers demanded. Eva Green was retained, and now actors Sam Riley (Control) and Ryan Philippe are  playing the lead roles.

Sam Riley, fresh from the acclaim he received from Anton Corbijn's Control is "a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love," while Philippe is "a masked vigilante detective, searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City, a monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor..." Eva Green plays an art student.

Expect the best films to come out this December! If there is one film that truly brings in the excitement, it's none other than the latest teaming up between actor Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd! This is the sixth collaboration between the two and also stars Helena Bonham-Carter (another Burton favorite) and Alan Rickman.

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What's the movie about?: Based on the Stephen Sondheim musical of the same name, Tim Burton's film adaptation stars Johnny Depp as "the demon barber of Fleet Street," Sweeney Todd.

After being wrongfully accused and sent away to Australia for fifteen years, Sweeney Todd (aka Benjamin Barker) returns to London. He find that his wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly) and daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener) have suffered severely at the hands of the very man who imprisoned him, Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). With the assistance of his former landlady, Mrs. Nellie Lovett (Helena Bonham-Carter) of Lovett's Pies - the worst meat pies in London - Sweeney devises a plan to revenge his unjust imprisonment and the sad fate of his family.

" Within the lyrics of the world's most famous songs, lives a story that has never been told..." says the teaser for the film Across the Universe.

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Considered as one of the most highly-anticipated films this year, Across the Universe is the story of Jude (Jim Sturgess), Lucy ( Evan Rachel Wood) and Max (Joe Anderson) as they struggle and survive America in the turbulent 1960s. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Julie Taymor, the film is an original musical love story based on the Beatles' songs from a screenplay by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement.

Updates! Read our film review of Across the Universe!

[ Official website ] [ IMDb page ] [ Julie Taymor profile ]

Anakin Skywalker meets Billy Elliot! Based on Steven Gould's novel, Jumper stars Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson and Jamie Bell. Directed by Doug Liman, the same one who took the helm and delivered the highly sucessful Bourne series.

The science-fiction adventure film take us into the world of teleportation and the battle between the Jumpers (individuals who have the power to teleport) and the Paladins, a dedicated group of warrior-like individuals who search and kill jumpers around the world.

This will be the first time for Christensen and Bell to perform together. Both have been hailed by critics and moviegoers alike as two of today's most talented young actors.

"Let them come with the armies of hell! They will not pass!" exclaimed the Queen. In one of the year's most anticipated films, Cate Blanchett once again plays the role of Queen Elizabeth in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

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Directed by Shekhar Kapur's 'The Golden Age', stars Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Clive Owen. Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush reprise the roles they originated in the Academy-award nominated 'Elizabeth'. Joining them is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh as well as Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish, Jordi Molla and Rhys Ifans.