Director :Justin Chadwick Producers :Anant Singh , Jeff Skoll ,Mohamed Khalaf, Al-Mazrouei Writer :William Nicholson (screenplay)
Studio : Imagenation Abu Dhabi ,Participant Media
Story by : Nelson Mandela
Stars :Idris Elba ,Naomie Harris
Music :Alex Heffes
Country :South Africa
Language : English
Release Date : 29 november 2013 (in Theaters)
Running Time : 146 minutes
Plot
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" is based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society. Idris Elba ("Prometheus") stars as Nelson Mandela with Justin Chadwick ("The Other Boleyn Girl") directing.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) Official Trailer (HD) Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
Director :Alexander Payne Producers :Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger
Studio : FilmNation Entertainment
Writer : Bob Nelson
Stars :Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb
Music :Mark Orton
Country :United States
Language : English
Release Date : 15 november 2013 (USA)
Running Time : 115 minutes
Plot
"NEBRASKA" is a father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to get through to a father he doesn't understand.
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It may or may not be a coincidence that Alexander Payne’s new film, “Nebraska,” shares its name with Bruce Springsteen’s austere album from 1982. Nebraska is a roomy state, and Mr. Payne, born and raised in Omaha, has set three of his previous features at least partly in it (“Citizen Ruth,” “Election” and “About Schmidt”). But to my ear, at least, a specific Springsteenian echo announces itself early and deepens as this movie winds from Billings, Mont., across the Badlands and toward Lincoln, stopping for a while in the tiny and fictitious hamlet of Hawthorne. Beyond the folky intonations of the fiddle-and-guitar waltz (by Mark Orton) that accompanies the opening images (shot by Phedon Papamichael) and beyond the bleak beauty of the images themselves, there is something in the movie that brings to mind the haunting last line of the album’s title track: “Sir I guess there’s just a meanness in this world.” In the song, that cruelty is offered, from death row, as a shrugging excuse for murder. The only consequential violence in Mr. Payne’s “Nebraska,” based on a script by Rob Nelson, is a punch in the face that has been well earned by the recipient. (Lately Mr. Payne seems to allow himself one or two such righteous blows per movie: Think of George Clooney clocking Matthew Lillard in “The Descendants” and Sandra Oh busting Thomas Haden Church’s nose with a motorcycle helmet in “Sideways.”) This is a comedy, with plenty of acutely funny lines, a handful of sharp sight gags and a few minutes of pure, perfect madcap. But a grim, unmistakable shadow falls across its wintry landscape. The world it depicts, a small-town America that is fading, aging and on the verge of giving up, is blighted by envy, suspicion and a general failure of good will. Hard times are part of the picture, and so are hard people. One of those might be the man behind the camera. The easy (and almost by definition hypocritical) knock against Mr. Payne is that he is just another coastal snob poking fun at the good folks in the heartland, but the emotions that drive “Nebraska” are much more complicated than condescension. There is palpable nostalgia here, and real affection for the plain speech and democratic manners of the rural Midwest. There is also a strong current of anger, directed through the characters and at them, though it almost never rises to the surface. If it did, the Great Plains, which once sat at the bottom of a prehistoric ocean, might be flooded with tears of melodramatic rage. So much betrayal, so much disappointment, so much wasted potential and thwarted love. Almost none of which is directly expressed on screen. If Woody Grant (Bruce Dern), an elderly Hawthorne native long exiled to Billings, feels any resentment or homesickness, he isn’t about to say so. A taciturn grouch with a lifelong commitment to drinking and an often-stated desire to be left alone, Woody is first seen walking along a snow-fringed Montana highway, stooped and scowling in the wind. He wants to go to Lincoln, not to get in touch with his Cornhusker roots but because a company based there has sent him one of those sucker-bait sweepstakes letters implying that he may have won a million dollars. “I didn’t know they still did that,” says Woody’s younger son, David (Will Forte), and neither he; his brother, Ross (Bob Odenkirk); nor their mother, Kate (June Squibb), knows quite what to make of Woody’s conviction that a fortune awaits him a few states away. And the audience might wonder, too. Is he really that deluded? Suffering from dementia? Just not very bright? Kate, as forthright as her husband is vague, might endorse the latter view: The first words we hear her say to Woody are: “You dumb cluck!” (The last, uttered with more tenderness, are “You big idiot.”) She and Ross, a replacement anchor on local television, with an unseen family and a tidy comb-over, think it’s time to put Woody in a nursing home. David, whose life seems a bit stalled, decides to indulge his dad. He calls in sick to his job selling stereo equipment and sets off in his Subaru, the deputy fool on a fool’s errand, a weary Sancho to the old man’s Quixote.
Their journey stalls in Hawthorne, where “Nebraska” blossoms into a study of provincial American absurdity worthy of Preston Sturges. David is the exasperated conscience of the story, a guy clinging to his own decency — and trying to defend his father’s dignity — in the face of threats from within and without. Mr. Forte, a former “Saturday Night Live” cast member, is exactly nice enough to earn our sympathy without entirely winning our admiration. David either complains too much or not quite enough.
Woody is another matter altogether, and Mr. Dern turns this inarticulate, alcoholic lump of humanity — too passive to be a monster, too distracted to be charming — into a great screen character. He is far from heroic, or even noble, but Woody’s stubbornness, and the waves of unacknowledged feeling that emanate from his grizzled, shapeless face and unsteady, bulky frame, make him worth caring about. Not that it’s easy for anyone.
David and Woody land at the home of Woody’s brother and-sister-in law and their two cretinous sons. Woody renews his acquaintance with other family members and some old friends, many of them played by Nebraskans who aren’t normally professional actors. He also runs into Ed Pegram (Stacy Keach), his former partner in an auto-repair shop and the kind of pal who makes enemies redundant. When word gets out that the returned Montana prodigal is a newly minted millionaire, the smiles in Hawthorne grow wider and more predatory. A few people seem genuinely happy for Woody — he gets a round of applause at the steakhouse, thanks to good old two-faced Ed — but it is hard to tell, given the studied blandness that governs every interaction.
Once Kate arrives, things become a little clearer, and also more confrontational. Ms. Squibb, killed off early in “About Schmidt,” brings a jolt of tart comic energy — a dash of vinegar in the mashed potatoes. Kate’s blunt honesty is in many ways the key to “Nebraska,” balancing both Woody’s sad illusions and the smiling duplicity of almost everybody else.
You can say that Woody and Kate are lucky to have each other, and lucky to have left Hawthorne and raised two devoted, reasonably well-adjusted sons. But part of the honesty of “Nebraska” is its skepticism about the very idea of luck, and about the dream of happiness we are all, as Americans, encouraged to pursue. Woody’s sweepstakes letter is an empty promise, something he alone refuses to acknowledge, even if you sometimes suspect he knows better. But it is not as if any of the other promises Woody might have counted on have given him much. He approaches the end of his life in a state far deeper than regret. His default answers to any question about his life are “Don’t know” and “Doesn’t matter.”
The chilling implication of this film is not that the old values of hard work, family and community have fallen away, but that they were never really there to begin with. Yet somehow the feeling that lingers after the last shot is the opposite of despair. If you listen to “Nebraska” all the way through, you will come away with this thought: At the end of every hard-earned day, people find some reason to believe.
Nebraska Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Alexander Payne Movie HD
Walking with Dinosaurs is an upcoming dinosaur film produced by BBC Earth and named after BBC's 1999 television documentary miniseries. The film features computer-animated dinosaurs in live-action settings, and the main characters are voiced by actors.
Directors :Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale
Studio : BBC Earth , Evergreen films
Writer : John Collee
Stars :John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar
Country :United States , United Kingdom
Language : English
Release Date : 19 December 2013 (UK)
Running Time : --- minutes
Plot
For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. "Walking with Dinosaurs" is the ultimate immersive experience, utilizing state of the art 3D to put audiences in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world, where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for the ages.
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The Best Man Holiday is a 2013 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed and written by Malcolm D. Lee, a sequel to the 1999 film, The Best Man.The film, released on November 15, 2013 by Universal Pictures, African-American stars Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Morris Chestnut, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, and Regina Hall, reprising their roles from the 1999 film along with the supporting cast.
Director :Malcolm D. Lee Producer :Malcolm D. Lee , Sean Daniel
Studio : Blackmaled Productions, Sean Daniel Company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Relativity Media
Writer : Malcolm D. Lee
Stars : Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Nia long, Monica Calhoun, Morris Chestnut, Melissa De Sousa
Music :Stanley Clarke
Country :United States
Language : English
Release Date : 15 november 2013 (USA)
Running Time : 123 minutes
Plot
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they will discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be ignited.
Movie review
"The Best Man Holiday" is a reunion story, a reconciliation story, a get-down-on-your-knees-and-pray story, a circle-of-life story. But above all it is filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee's dissertation on the current state of the black experience as upscale, evolving, faith-based and agitated.
Lee's unruly follow-up to 1999's "The Best Man," his sprawling ensemble comedy about a tight circle of African American college friends and a falling-out during a wedding, picks up 15 years later after countless grown-up issues have had time to settle in.
Be ready to reach for a tissue, say "amen" and sigh more than a few times, for the film has all the chaos and clutter of a big holiday gathering.
The original's racy comedy, cast and caricatures return. But there are serious, sober issues propelling the stories. It takes a bit of doing, but here's how Lee sets the table: Lance (Morris Chestnut) and Mia (Monica Calhoun), the handsome football superstar and his saintly wife, whose premarital dalliance caused the original friction, are hosting the reunion. He's on the verge of a record-breaking run in the Christmas Day game — and a surprise retirement. She's determined to patch up the past in the face of pressing health concerns.
Harper (Taye Diggs) is a bestselling author, Lance's best man and Mia's dalliance. He and Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), his smart significant other, are finally expecting after years of costly and heartbreaking fertility treatments. Julian (Harold Perrineau) and Candace (Regina Hall), the social activist and the stripper, are now happily married with kids. But a YouTube video of "Candy's" earlier indiscretions has gone viral and funding for the school Julian runs has taken a hit.
Driven career girl Jordan (Nia Long) has gotten more successful and a little closer to a commitment with a new boyfriend named Brian (Eddie Cibrian), who is, gulp, white — prepare yourself for a lot of corny vanilla and latte jokes. The loose cannons of the group are looser and more lethal. Shelby (Melissa De Sousa) is a reality-TV superstar with an entitled ego to match, and the smoky, sultry Quentin (Terrence Howard) is still drifting and still making trouble. As he was in the first film, Quentin is responsible for fueling much of the conflict, and Howard is smooth as silk in navigating that minefield.
The strength in Lee's films is never in the bombast or its blaxploitation indulgences but in quiet conversations. When the hyper-sexualized showboating and the explosive temper tantrums fade back, reality in the form of real human relationships slip in. The writer-director creates complex interconnections among each of the friends, but the central one remains the Lance-Harper dynamic.
Beyond the specifics, which involve Harper's hope of resurrecting his struggling career with a biography on Lance, the core theme is how men show their vulnerability. When that raw need is exposed by any of the characters, the film is at its finest.
Running parallel are the women's issues. Lathan's long-suffering pregnant wife and Long's career sophisticate are particularly well-drawn female characters. It is refreshing to see women allowed to step beyond the stereotypes, with the actresses bringing an intelligent authenticity to the roles. Shelby, on the other hand, is all stereotype, all the time, with a capital "B."
Even with excesses, the performances are solid. If anything, the intervening years have given Lee a far more seasoned cast, and they do much to keep the film from completely unraveling, a constant threat.
Howard, meanwhile, is a menace to this society in all the right ways. The actor has built a thick portfolio of fine roles, including his 2006 Oscar nomination for the hip-hop bad boy in "Hustle & Flow." He is deliciously sleazy and keenly observant as Quentin. His eyes, heavy-lidded, and his smile, always ironic, never fail to improve the moment or explain what is really going on.
Director of photography Greg Gardiner, production designer Keith Brian Burns, costume designer Danielle Hollowell, with Stanley Clarke in charge of the music — always a major chord in Lee's movies — have helped polish the production to a high sheen.
"The Best Man Holiday" is Lee's most ambitious film. There is so much the writer-director wants to say about God, faith, fame, family and affluent African American life. The result is a joyous, raucous, righteous film but also a frustrating and disappointing one. Not quite the gift of the season some had hoped for.
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Writers : Joshua Zetumer (screenplay), Edward Neumeier
Stars : Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson
Music : Pedro Bormfman
Country :United States
Language : English
Release Date : 12 February 2014 (USA)
Running Time : 112 minutes
Plot
In the year 2028 multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years - and it's meant billions for OmniCorp's bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy a loving husband, and a loving father and a good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit City - is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece "The Hobbit", by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin
Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and
thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an
epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.
Director :Peter Jackson Producer : Peter Jackson
Studio:
New Line Cinema (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Writers : Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien
Stars :Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage Sequel : The Hobbit: There and Back Again Prequel : The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Music : Howard Shore
Country : New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Language : English
Release Date : 12 December 2013 (In Theaters)
Running Time : 170 minutes
Plot
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.
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Journey to the South Pacific will take moviegoers on a breathtaking IMAX® 3D adventure to the lush tropical islands of remote West Papua, where life flourishes above and below the sea. Join Jawi, a young island boy, as he takes us on a journey of discovery to this magical place where we encounter whale sharks, sea turtles, manta rays, and other iconic creatures of the sea. Home to more than 2,000 species of sea life, this exotic locale features the most diverse marine ecosystem on earth. An uplifting story of hope and celebration, Journey to the South Pacific highlights the importance of living in balance with the ocean planet we all call home.
Directors :Stephen Judson, Greg MacGillivray
Producers : Shaun MacGillivray , Mark Krenzien
Stars : Cate Blanchett Studio :MacGillivray Freeman Films, IMAX
Language : English
Release Date : 27 November 2013 (USA)
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Plot
An underwater voyage to Indonesia to learn about its inhabitants such as
giant rays and whale sharks as well as efforts being made in the region
for ocean conservation.
Maleficent is an upcoming 2014 dark fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, from a screenplay written by Paul Dini and Linda Woolverton.Starring Angelina Jolie as the titular Disney Villain character, the film is a prequel and remake of Walt Disney's 1959 animated adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, and portrays the story from the perspective of the antagonist, Maleficent. It began filming on June 18, 2012, and is scheduled for release on May 30, 2014.
Director : Robert Stromberg
Producers : Joe Roth , Richard D. Zanuck, D
Writers : Paul DiniLinda Wolverton
Stars : Angelina Jolie , Elle Fanning, Jude Law, Shartlo Copley Music : James Newton Howard Country : United States Language : English
Release Date : 30 May 2014
Running Time : 135 minutes
Plot
Maleficent is a sorceress and the main antagonist in Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. She takes offense at not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora, and attempts revenge on King Stefan and the Queen by cursing Aurora. Like Chernabog,
Maleficent is an incarnation of pure evil, responsible for all
misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom. She appears to be particularly
unfond of the three good fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather,
her polar opposites, who do all in their power to keep Maleficent's
overwhelming evil magic at bay. Maleficent is also famous for her role
as one of the primary antagonists of the Kingdom Hearts series.
With her Gothic, elegant design, dramatic and flamboyant animation and
unlimited arsenal of magic powers, Maleficent is currently one of the
most recognizable and most popular Disney Villains in addition to being one of the franchise's official members.
