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the Mail Says: Open it and Solve the mystery
THERE'S nothing like a good mystery. At one time or other, we've all been intrigued by mystery novels.
If Not for Michael Bay, No One Would Recognize the Name Nicolas Cage
At this point, asking whether Michael Bay is a raging egomaniac is akin to going on Wikipedia to determine if a bear does, in fact, shit in the woods: It's like, why even bother? You already know what the answer is going to be! Still, just in case you have some lingering doubts, we'd like to present some additional facts for you.
Not quite satirical, not quite in earnest, National Treasure:Book of Secrets falls right in between: It's both an Indiana Jones-style action-adventure blockbuster and a witty send-up of all Indiana Jones-style action-adventure blockbusters, rolled into one.
The age of Cage proved a distraction in comic-book adaptation
Nicolas Cage has been a lot of things over the past 30 years during his career as a thespian, including an Oscar winner.
Here's a little Transformers inspired time waster for you this morning. Despite the title Megatron Face-Off isn't a game where Megatron and Optimus Prime switch faces and pretend to be each other Nicolas Cage-style. Sigh.
Very mild comedy-drama about a former First Lady and current Prima Donna -- capricious, temperamental, a handful -- and the by-the-book Secret Serviceman assigned to bodyguard her.
Stars cash in with Far East ads
IN the time it took for you to read this sentence Catherine Zeta-Jones will have earned herself 11,100. That's roughly 4k per second, the Swansea starlet having become Britain's best-paid actress last week after signing a lucrative deal to star in a seven-minute shampoo ad in the Far East for a whopping fee of 1.55m - plus expenses, mind.
John Woo; Tony Leung; Takeshi Kaneshiro; ; Rating: * * * The party line on John Woo, which I dispute, is that he made films in Hong Kong and was brilliant, came to Hollywood and was rubbish, and has now gone back to China to be brilliant again.
By Susan King, Los Angeles Times staff writer The 1991 drama "Bugsy" explored how mobster Bugsy Siegel created Las Vegas.
Movie Review: The Taking of Pelham 123
"The Taking of Pelham 123" "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" Opens Friday Grade: C Someone's let John Travolta off his leash again.
Best films on the box: June 9-15
BAD NEWS: Angelina Jolie stars in Beowulf on Sky Movies on Monday night. Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, June 9 to Monday, June 15.
The guilty pleasure comedy hit of the summer has arrived. Director Todd Phillips in a clever and original screenplay from screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore renders a "can-you-top-this" account of a bachelor party gone terribly awry.
Very Bad Things: Movies that put the "sin" in Sin City
In today's National Post , we review the new buddy comedy The Hangover. The Hangover presents the dark side of Vegas, those occasions when you regret a night on the town the next morning.
Parolee Cameron Poe's trip home on a prison transport plane is interrupted by fellow passengers bent on going free without benefit of parole.
Revel in the Raunch: Cliche-filled 'Hangover' takes down-and-dirty approach to crazed male bonding CAROL CLING MORE COLUMNS REVIEW "The Hangover" 99 minutes R; pervasive profanity, sexual content, nudity, drug material Grade: C at multiple locations Carol Clin's Movie Minute Deja View What happens in Vegas never stays in Vegas -- not with these ...
Jason Moore to Direct Valley Girl Redo
Jason Moore will make his directorial debut with MGM's re-imagining of Valley Girl as a musical feature.
'Valley Girl' redux in the works
"Valley Girl," the 1983 cult comedy, is being reimagined as a musical feature, and Broadway director Jason Moore has signed to helm the movie.
The Hangover: What Happens in Vegas Always Happens in Vegas
If you're making a movie set in Las Vegas, there are pretty much three storylines you can choose from.
Action, Crime Nicolas Cage, Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.
Is Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant remake a comedy?
The first trailer for a new take on Abel Ferrara's disturbing tale of a dysfunctional cop, featuring Nicolas Cage in the Harvey Keitel role, has hit the web.