Archive for January, 2010

The Spy Next Door

Lions Gate Films found Jackie Chan the right act for The Spy Next Door as he sensibly fits the role of Bob Ho (Jackie Chan), an undercover CIA super spy who chooses to settle down with his next-door girlfriend Gillian (Amber Valletta). He spies no more as he focuses himself to win the hearts of his girlfriend’s three children from a previous relationship — a requirement set by the latter before she agrees to marry him.When Gillian is scheduled to leave town, Bob seizes the opportunity to babysit her cleverly smart kids. One of these little mischiefs mistakenly downloads a top-secret formula off his computer files. Unfortunately, Bob’s arch-enemy, a Russian terrorist, discovers this and readies for attack.With that, Bob has no choice but to switch on the action button, without setting aside his more challenging role as a babysitter. Chan’s knack for comedy since the legendary “Drunken Master” has proved he is one of the more bankable stars in the world today. He is one of the very few Asian acts who can do well in Hollywood.
This movie was again a great movie of Jackie Chan which usually have scenes that will make you laugh.

Zombieland

It was over eighty minutes of terror interspersed with laughter and amazingly, it had time to let you ponder on life’s meaning and purpose. Woody Harrelson was definitely the star of the show even with the supporting role he had. While the storyline was so simple, we were amazed on how interesting it was as it grabbed our attention from the start.
“Zombieland” is cast on post-apocalypse America where mad cow disease had mutated to mad human disease which eventually turned almost everyone to zombies. We meet Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a college student who at best is a geek. Amazingly, Columbus has been surviving on his own with his own personal rules that he uses against the undead horde. Columbus craves to interact with another human being – so desperate in fact that he decides to go to his hometown in Columbus, Ohio in the hopes that he might see his parents alive and well. Along the way, Columbus meets Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) who roams around the country looking for fried Twinkies. Both eventually decide to travel together for the meantime. When they stop at a grocery store, they also met Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who both want to go to Pacific Playland in Los Angeles. Although the two groups had a rocky start and the question now is can they all get what they want and still survive the growing populace of the undead?

Love Happens

Dr. Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) is a successful self-help author who gives advice on how to deal with the loss of a loved one. While holding a seminar, he meets Eloise Chandler (Jennifer Aniston) and they soon become attracted to each other. Burke, ironically, has not moved on from the death of his wife and Eloise has sworn off men. As each struggles with the hurt of past loves and losses, they realize that they need to let go of these pasts to have a future together.

Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston were really the filmmakers’ first choice. Eckhart liked the screenplay for Love Happens and signed on to the project. Don’t miss to watch this movie. I hope you will find the romance to be fun and energetic, sweet and charming.