Rebecca's Hollywood Movies Blog April 2008 Archive

Patrick Dempsey (aka ‘McDreamy’ of Grey’s Anatomy) stars as a real ladies man who avoids commitments like the plague and Michelle Monaghan play his gorgeous best friend in the romantic ... Read More

Director Jon Favreau turns into a total fanboy whenever he talks about directing the summer's first big release - Iron Man. In addition to making sure the film satisfied ... Read More

The summer of 2007 was loaded with sequels, but this year's batch of action and comedy movies - with just a few exceptions - aren't following in the paths of ... Read More

Comedy movies with strong female characters in the lead have been on the endangered species for years, and there’s a lot riding on the box office take of Baby Mama. ... Read More

The pot-smoking, burger-craving duo from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle return for more adventures in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Although it took four years for ... Read More

Neil Patrick Harris Harris once again plays a distorted version of himself in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, the second film of the franchise, an experience Harris labels ... Read More

"Amy Poehler’s Having Tina Fey’s Child" reads like a headline of a story the two funny ladies would have dished on during their old Weekend Update segments on Saturday Night ... Read More

Kristen Bell joins the Judd Apatow gang with the comedy movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Bell plays a TV actress who breaks up with her boyfriend only to run into him ... Read More

I bet if I put the energy into it, which I’m not about to do as that would require way more effort than seems to have gone into making the ... Read More

Universal Pictures’ eye-catching campaign for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the latest raunchy comedy from the Judd Apatow pack, features a series of plain white posters sporting bold declarative statements such as ... Read More

Jason Segel shows off everything - and I do mean everything - in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the latest comedy from the folks behind Knocked Up. Segel wrote the movie and ... Read More

Martial arts masters Jackie Chan and Jet Li had been actively seeking out a project to do together when they were presented with the opportunity to star in The Forbidden ... Read More

Let's face it. Robert Downey Jr probably isn't the first actor who sprang to mind when you initially heard an Iron Man movie was being cast. But if the ... Read More

Chris Evans was a novice at handling guns before taking on the role of Robbery Homicide Detective Paul Diskant in Street Kings, a dramatic movie set in Los Angeles and ... Read More

If you’re not hip to what’s going to happen in Street Kings’ final minutes by, let’s say, 15 minutes into the movie, then either you’ve missed out on every other ... Read More

26-year-old Australian actor Luke Ford takes on the role of Alex, the son of adventurers Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn O'Connell (Maria Bello) in the third film of The Mummy ... Read More

Saturday Night Live cast member Bill Hader plays Jason Segel's brother in the Universal Pictures comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Since it was filmed on the beautiful North Shore of Oahu, ... Read More

United Artist's World War II drama is playing hopscotch with its release date. Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise as a German officer who plots to kill Hitler, originally was set ... Read More

Brittany Snow (Hairspray) stars as a high school senior looking forward to the year’s biggest dance in the new version of Prom Night directed by Nelson McCormick. In reality, Snow ... Read More

Keanu Reeves stars as an LA cop who’ll go to just about any lengths to take down a criminal in the gritty drama Street Kings. Directed by David Ayer (Harsh ... Read More

Actor/director/producer/humanitarian/Oscar-winner/all-around Hollywood good-guy George Clooney brings the bygone days of screwball comedies back to life on the big screen with Leatherheads, co-starring Renee Zellweger and Jim from The Office (aka ... Read More

Actor/producer/director George Clooney, Oscar-winner Renee Zellweger, and John Krasinski (The Office) joined the rest of the cast of Leatherheads at the film's star-studded premiere in Hollywood. Surrounded by the ... Read More

Gerard Butler (300) plays dual roles in the family film Nim's Island co-starring Jodie Foster. Butler plays the main character in a series of adventure books as well as dad ... Read More

Two-time Oscar-winner Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused) isn’t the first actress that comes to mind when producers are looking to cast a family-friendly adventure comedy. Foster’s ... Read More