Rebecca's Hollywood Movies Blog October 2007 Archive

In the animated comedy Bee Movie, Barry B Benson (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld) discovers on a trip outside his hive that humans are stealing honey and selling it in jars. ... Read More

Richard Gere finds himself at that interesting point in his career when he’s not only afforded the opportunity to take on a batch of compelling projects, but he’s also picking ... Read More

During the press junket for the dramatic thriller Sleuth, Michael Caine provided an update on one of the most anticipated movies of 2008, The Dark Knight. Caine’s excited about being ... Read More

What would a Saw film be without Jigsaw? Fans of the franchise don’t need to answer that question – yet – because actor Tobin Bell returns to play the creepy ... Read More

In the Disney comedy Dan in Real Life, Academy Award-winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) is wooed by brothers played by Dane Cook – the one she’s dating – and ... Read More

Ryan Gosling misses Lars. In fact, at the Los Angeles press junket for the film, the Academy Award-nominated actor said he still feels attached to his character from Lars and ... Read More

Music Within traces the true story of Richard Pimentel, a crusader for human rights who was instrumental in getting the Americans with Disabilities Act passed into law. When he didn’t ... Read More

Steve Carell (The Office) stars as family advice columnist Dan Burns, a widowed father who's dedicated to taking care of his kids, in the romantic comedy/drama Dan in Real Life. ... Read More

There’s a notable absence of leather coats and sexy teasing of victims in 30 Days of Night, a gleefully gory vampire pic with real bite directed by David Slade (Hard ... Read More

First-time feature film director Ben Affleck knew his brother Casey was absolutely the right choice to star in the dramatic film Gone Baby Gone, but thought he would have a ... Read More

Academy Award-nominee Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) is following up his starring roles in Fracture and Lars and the Real Girl with the role of Jack Salmon, father of 14-year-old murder ... Read More

Ben Affleck adapted Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone Baby Gone for the big screen and makes his directorial debut with the film. The story follows private investigators Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) ... Read More

The term 'extraordinary rendition' refers to the U S government's policy of secretly abducting foreign nationals who are viewed as national security threats and placing them in overseas prisons in ... Read More

In the 1972 big screen version of Sleuth, Sir Michael Caine played Milo, the handsome young man who’s invited to his lover’s husband’s home to talk about the affair. Sir ... Read More

Tony Gilroy, the screenwriter responsible for the Bourne movies, makes his feature film directorial debut with the intense and riveting drama, Michael Clayton. Gilroy does a fantastic job of creatively ... Read More

The dramatic thriller We Own the Night marks the second teaming of actors Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix with director James Gray. The trio worked on the 2000 crime drama ... Read More

Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine) returns as Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I's closest confidant, in the dramatic film Elizabeth: The Golden Age. In this sequel to 1998's critically acclaimed ... Read More

Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line, Gladiator) stars as the black sheep of a family of police officers in the dramatic thriller, We Own the Night. Written and directed ... Read More

Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) was the newbie of The Darjeeling Limited group and he didn’t mind it one bit. Brody had never worked with writer/director Wes Anderson before ... Read More

Abbie Cornish has become one of the most sought after young actresses in Hollywood. With her starring turn as Queen Elizabeth I's favorite lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Cornish ... Read More

Malin Akerman's no stranger to comedy but The Heartbreak Kid marks her first Farrelly Bros movie. Akerman stars as a woman Ben Stiller marries shortly after they begin dating. Just ... Read More

Michelle Monaghan plays the other woman in Bobby and Peter Farrelly's latest goofball comedy, The Heartbreak Kid, starring Ben Stiller. Monaghan's not known for comedies, but the actress was more ... Read More

Cate Blanchett, who earned an Academy Award nod for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 period piece Elizabeth, reprises her role as the strong-willed leader of England ... Read More