Rebecca's Hollywood Movies Blog September 2007 Archive

What you’ve heard is true. The last 30 minutes of The Kingdom are incredibly intense. Bullets fly at a frantic pace and director Peter Berg’s in your face style and ... Read More

The Kingdom addresses a serious subject - terrorism - however director Peter Berg lightened things up a bit by casting Jason Bateman as one of the film's main characters. Bateman's ... Read More

Action veteran Jennifer Garner's back in fighting shape and it showed as she joined her The Kingdom co-stars Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Ali Suliman and Ashraf Barhom on the ... Read More

Wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson hits the gridiron as a super popular studly quarterback in the Disney comedy The Game Plan. Johnson plays a professional quarterback living the ultimate bachelor ... Read More

Jamie Foxx leads a group of FBI investigators (played by Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman) on a dangerous mission to discover who is behind the deadly attack on ... Read More

The cast of Across the Universe - Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, TV Carpio, Martin Luther McCoy, and Dana Fuchs - joined filmmaker Julie Taymor for a special ... Read More

Comedian/actor Dane Cook stars as Charlie Logan, a successful dentist who is the best thing that can happen to single women in the comedy movie Good Luck Chuck. Any woman ... Read More

Emile Hirsch doesn’t want to go into specifics when it comes to how he lost weight for the role of Christopher McCandless, a college grad who left his suburban world ... Read More

The title pretty much says it all. Resident Evil: Extinction is almost positively going to be the last film of the Resident Evil franchise. And if the third movie ... Read More

Amanda Bynes (Hairspray) stars as a fish out of water college freshman who gets booted out of a snotty sorority only to find true friendship with a group of seven ... Read More

Jessica Alba says she didn't have any preconceived notions about what it would be like to tackle physical comedy going into her starring role in Good Luck Chuck. "I ... Read More

Daniel Radcliffe sheds his Hogwarts attire to play an orphan without magical powers in December Boys, an independent drama directed by Rod Hardy and based on a novel by Michael ... Read More

Jodie Foster’s demonstrated with her recent selection of roles that beneath her slender pixie-ish build there’s a hellcat ready to pounce. Foster keeps plugging away at parts that not only ... Read More

Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon star as Hank and Joan Deerfield, the parents of a soldier who goes AWOL after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, in ... Read More

The comedy movie Mr Woodcock pits Seann William Scott as self-help author John Farley against Billy Bob Thornton as John’s worst nightmare from his high school days: Mr Woodcock, the ... Read More

At the Los Angeles press conference for his dramatic film In the Valley of Elah, writer/director Paul Haggis said that his movie is based on two actual incidents, however he ... Read More

I'll probably get more angry emails over this review than any review I've written this year. I can read them now... "How can you give an A- to such ... Read More

One of the best movies of the year and a Western on par with Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Oscar-winning Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma demonstrates the once popular genre still has a ... Read More

Director James Mangold's last film, the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, earned five Academy Award nominations and helped make Mangold into one of Hollywood's most sought after directors. Following ... Read More

Clive Owen says he never had any desire to play James Bond and that all of those rumors that circulated before it was announced Daniel Craig had landed the role ... Read More

Christian Bale and Russell Crowe may have an adversarial relationship in the Western drama 3:10 to Yuma, but the two intense actors had no problem representing the film as a ... Read More