Coming out this Week – November 17
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Alright, so let’s talk about this week’s releases. We have a few big movies, and then some smaller limited release movies that look really good. The reason why this is getting posted on Friday instead of Thursday night is because I was at a sneak peek of Casino Royale last night and loved it. I mean, really this is the Bond we have been waiting on. This film is a great action movie. It is what I wanted from Mission Impossible III. I am excited to see Happy Feet as well. It looks like a cute movie. Let’s Go To Prison looks like it could be really good, but it could also be really bad, so I will reserve judgment on that one. Then we have a couple of limited release flicks that look cool. Fast Food Nation is based off of the best selling novel about the fast food industry. And For Your Consideration is a comedy about the academy and their system of nominations. Fun stuff, right? My pick of the week is Casino Royale obviously. Go check it out if you want to see a good action flick.
Casino Royale – Daniel Craig stars as “007” James Bond, the smoothest, sexiest, most lethal agent on Her Majesty’s Secret Service in “Casino Royale.” Based on the first Bond book written by Ian Fleming, the story, which has never been told on film until now, recounts the making of the world’s greatest secret agent.
James Bond’s first “007” mission leads him to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world’s terrorists. In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. Bond is initially annoyed when a beautiful British Treasury official, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government’s money. But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops leading them both into further danger and events that will shape Bond’s life forever.
Happy Feet – In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you’re nobody unless you can sing—which is unfortunate for Mumble (Elijah Wood), who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune… tap dancing.
Though Mumble’s mom, Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman), thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis (Hugh Jackman), says it “just ain’t penguin.” Besides, they both know that, without a Heartsong, Mumble may never find true love.
As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria (Brittany Murphy), happens to be the best singer around. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch, but she struggles with his strange “hippity- hoppity” ways.
Mumble is just too different—especially for Noah the Elder (Hugo Weaving), the stern leader of Emperor Land, who ultimately casts him out of the community.
Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins—the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon (Robin Williams), the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble’s cool dance moves and invite him to party with them.
In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru (also voiced by Robin Williams), a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life’s questions for the price of a pebble.
Together with Lovelace and the Amigos, Mumble sets out across vast landscapes and, after some epic encounters, proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world.
Let’s Go to Prison – Felon John Lyshitski (Shepard) has figured out the best way to get revenge on the now-dead judge who sent him to jail: watch the official’s obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV (Arnett), survive the clink.
John strikes gold when Nelson is wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to the pen he used to call home. He gleefully gets sent back to become Nelson’s cellmate and to ensure that his new buddy gets the “full treatment.” Let the games begin.
Lesson #1: the joint’s a scary place, so you better make friends fast. Right away, Nelson offends the wrong cons and is sold–by John–to Barry (McBride) for prison snuggling. But just as revenge starts tasting sweet, Nelson becomes Big Man in the Big House and turns the tables on John…changing the rules of his insane game.
It’s time to shower with thugs, sip toilet wine and sharpen a shiv as the locked-up are set up in “Let’s Go To Prison,” an uncompromising, no-holds-barred comedy directed by Bob Odenkirk (“Mr. Show”) and produced by Carsey-Werner Films and Strike Entertainment.
Fast Food Nation (limited release) – Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear)-a marketing executive at Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of “The Big One”-has a problem. Contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company’s best-selling burger. To find out why, he’ll have to take a journey to the dark side of the All-American meal.Leaving the cushy confines of the company’s Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, teeming feedlots and cookie cutter strip malls of Middle America, what Don discovers is a “Fast Food Nation” of consumers who haven’t realized it is they who are being consumed by an industry with a seemingly endless appetite for fresh meat.
When it was published in 2001, “Fast Food Nation” quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of “the dark side of the All-American meal.” The big screen version “Fast Food Nation” is a dramatic feature penned by “Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser and Oscar® nominee Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: “The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. I’m more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling.”
For Your Consideration (limited release) – Christopher Guest turns the camera on Hollywood for his next film, “For Your Consideration.” The film focuses on the making of an independent movie and its cast who become victims of the dreaded awards buzz. Like Guest’s previous films, “Waiting For Guffman,” “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind,” this latest project will feature performances from his regular ensemble, including co-writer Eugene Levy.