TOP 10 COMEDIES OF 2010

When the Mayans predicted that 2012 would be the end of the world they also predicted that 2010 would be the funniest year.

So let’s see if that’s correct. Here are the best comedy movies of 2010:


10.DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS

Synopsis: When he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests, a rising executive questions it when he's invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.



9.LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

Synopsis: Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.




8.GOING THE DISTANCE

Synopsis: A romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another.




7.HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

Synopsis: Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.




6.THE BOUNTY HUNTER

Synopsis: A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure.



5. DATE NIGHT

Synopsis: In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.




4.COP OUT

Synopsis: A comedy about a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.




3. THE OTHER GUYS

Synopsis: Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize -- only things don't quite go as planned.




2.GET HIM TO THE GREEK

Synopsis: A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater.




1.DUE DATE

Synopsis: High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES 2010

So it’s that time of the year again, when no exciting or fun news hits the wire as we wind down the year and every movie site devolves into making top 10 lists for all of the movies they’ve seen since last January. All joking aside, out of all the articles I write over the course of the year, this is the one I assume is an absolute gimmie every single year because I don’t have to think of any new topics.

The fact of the matter is that it’s extremely difficult to not only track down all of these movies but also to rank and file them in a coherent piece that exists not to stroke my own ego, but to hopefully spread the word of some really magnificent genre films that I truly believe deserve more respect than they get. So in an attempt to do just that I give you Djibril’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2010. (All synopsis’ are from IMDB.com)


10.PREDATORS
Synopsis: A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.




9.MY SOUL TO TAKE
Synopsis: A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.




8.A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Synopsis: A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.




7.PIRANHA 3D
Synopsis: After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.




6.PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2
Synopsis: After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.




5.SAW 3D
Synopsis: As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.




4.AFTER LIFE
Synopsis: A young woman caught between life and death... and a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive.




3.SHUTTER ISLAND
Synopsis: Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.




2.THE CRAZIES
Synopsis: About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.




1.DEVIL
Synopsis: A group of people trapped in an elevator realize that the devil is among them.

HALLOWEEN WEEK.........GET YOUR SPOOK ON!!!

After being quiet for months,I'm now back (although not with a BANG...lol...).As we all know,it's the last week of October and that can only mean one thing....Halloween is here!!In the past few years we have been treated with great horror movies opening on the Halloween weekend.And this year is no different....

Horror movie fans are going to get one amazing October if all the Hollywood magic goes down as planned with two major features being released which will likely rock the box office in a heavy way. Both Saw VII 3D, the continuation of one of the biggest grossing and longest running modern horror series facing off against last year’s major slayer of demonic possession, Paranormal Activity. Film critics will likely be quick to dash both films since they do not tend to be kind to the darlings of the horror genre, but that likely will not dissuade fans who love a good sequel from their favorite scary franchises. This seventh installment of the highly popular Saw franchise is almost guaranteed to bring in big money for the companies and has become a very bankable cinematic endeavor.



SAW literally assaults moviegoers’ senses with its over-the-top, gruesome scenes, and probably spawned the term for the genre, “torture porn.” Lions Gate continues to attack us with these offerings, one a year since 2004. Why? Because they’re cheap to make and people turn out in droves to see them.



If you are not a 'torture porn' fan then check out last weekend’s fright fest “Paranormal Activity 2,” which hooked audiences and critics alike, scoring a cool $41.5 million at the box office, $6.3 million of that just from Thursday midnight showings. That’s a record for a three-day horror film opening, just in case you were wondering.

It also garnered solid reviews from critics, many of whom said that while it wasn’t as novel or as terrifying as its predecessor, it had its moments… and plenty of them.





Paranormal Activity 2 is directed by a new director to the horror genre, Tod “Kip” Williams who is known for his previous work on The Adventures of Sebastian Cole and The Door in the Floor. The original Paranormal Activity was shot on a very low budget and was something of a massive hit for audiences after the online campaign to bring it out in theaters proved to be successful. It was shot for $15,000 but it grossed nearly $200 million across the globe. This will be a very tough act to follow, but the coffers should be filled with enough money to give it a good shot at taking down Saw VII 3D this year during the prime horror season.

And while “Saw”’s baddie Jigsaw and a disembodied malevolent spirit might catch some viewers’ fancy, I’m also hooked on punk badass Lisbeth Salander, the protagonist of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy that includes “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and, now, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.”



Talk about a scary character! Lisbeth, played in the Swedish movies by actress Noomi Rapace , might just be able to hold her own against “Lamb”’s Hannibal Lecter. Just reading the scene in “Dragon Tattoo” in which Lisbeth exacts revenge on a man who tortures and rapes her gave me the chills and I’d love to see it on the big screen.

But, of course, it’s a good news-bad news situation. The third installment of these Swedish imports is coming to American theaters in limited release.

That's all I got for you folks......Have a great/spooky Halloween Week ......hahahaha(evil laugh).....!!!!

The Last Exorcism......Hopefully the LAST one ever!!!

How do you take a creepy story and a filmmaking style that adds creepy realism and turn it into an hour and a half of boring? That's easy, bad writing, bad acting and bad music.

As with most horror films the build up seems to take to long. The film starts talking to a preacher (Cotton) and his family about how he used to be an exorcist and thinks it's all fake and is going to make a documentary to show that it's a scam. In the style of Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch Project, The Last Exorcist is a fake documentary and therefore had a realistic and creepy feel to it, or at least it should have. Not sure why they went with a camera that takes 2 minutes to get into focus.

The acting and writing right away ruins the movie. As the story continues and we follow Cotton into deep Louisiana to find his client, I already started to not care what happens. As I watched it I couldn't help but think, "Who talks like this?" it wasn't normal bad horror movie conversation, it was below average. It was two of the worst things that can happen together (bad acting and bad writing) because if it was a good actor saying bad lines sometimes they can pull it off, or if its good dialog and bad actors sometimes you can not notice. However, when you team these up it gets painful.

My third problem with the film is the music. If you decide to make a movie as a documentary, try to make it realistic, KEEP THE MUSIC OUT OF IT! The lack of music is usually way more creepy than overdone "spooky" music that has been used by every ghost TV show and every horror movie ever. When you finally get to the "scary" parts that the trailers show you get excited, "alright the movie has been bad, but maybe it will be scary and save itself." Nope. Doesn't happen. Though they had scenes that should have been awesome and made you wide eyed and ready to freak, that music comes in to ruin it. What you're left with is a one cheap jump and no nightmares.

I will say with all the bad stuff aside, the film did have some things I liked, though few. They did a good job making some creepy scenes, though they were ruined. When we first see her sitting in the motel room, when we see her bending weird, that quick smile as the door closes and her sitting on top of the furniture in her room. All of these scenes were well crafted and would have stayed in my thoughts, but ruined due to acting, writing, and music.

I cant help but notice the trailers resemblance to Exorcism of Emily Rose. Both showed the "scary" scenes and made you think the movie was about a possessed girl, (like the exorcist) however both times the trailers showed all the time the girl was acting weird. They leave out the other hour and twenty minutes that had nothing. Well, good for them, they tricked me and got my money

Now, to that ending:

I've heard that many people are upset with the abrupt ending, but that's the least of the ending problems. Honestly, at this point I can't wait for the ending. First off, as I'm sure many people noticed, the Rosemary's Baby's ending. I don't really have a problem if during a movie you reference or pay homage to classic horror films, but you don't take that movies twist ending and use it for your ending, especially not twice. Taking the Rosemary's Baby's ending and strapping it to The Blair Witch Project's ending made that abrupt ending a godsend. I felt like yelling at the film to stop when I saw the baby being born and all the townsfolk being a cult. Then what do I see? The camera man running through the woods. I kept waiting for him to stop and look into the camera and say, "I'm so scared." (also, If your getting attacked by a cult would you really run away with the camera? Especially with the camera on your shoulder? I don't think so.) Then the brother shows up, cuts the cameraman's head off, the end. (Fart noise)

I really wish this story would have gotten into somebody else's hands, because it had potential

Wouldn't recommend this film to anyone. Obviously some people like it but don't take that chance. Because most likely you will leave disappointed.I'm a big horror fan,meaning that I watch almost every horror movie (from Uwe Boll's low budgets to Michael Bay's remakes/blockbusters),but this was too much for me to handle.

Nanny Mcphee Returns.....Straight from the Land of Poo!!

errrrr...... well....... Don't bother watching this unless it’s a frustrating Tuesday afternoon, it’s raining, it’s half term and that little voice in your head kids are screaming "I’m bored". They will enjoy it, but the potential for the adults to enjoy it goes out of the window after you have seen all the actors enter. It just doesn't have any real depth, plot or point to it. One of the biggest gripes with this, is the cast is excellent, so it annoys me to see Rhys Ifans, Ewan McGregor, Bill Bailey, Maggie Smith, Katy Brand and obviously Emma Thompson all just looking like they have turned up for some pocket money, or something to do for a couple of weeks. I mean that cast is superb and better than some of the huge block-busters that are out. But when the story is just plain dull, the saying comes to mind that you can’t make a "xxxx" beautiful. LOL

Personally I actually didn't mind the first film (As I'm more of a thriller/horror kind of guy) because it had a point to it. I just thought the movie was very drab and boring .The storyline was very predictable as well. Basically it's just the first movie with a different set of characters. It seemed to be very short as well, but I don't know if that was because of the fact that I was texting through most of it.

The first Nanny Mcphee had a single father looking after 7 children who are running wild and scaring off every nanny that he hires. So McPhee enters and saves the day. But this latest one didn't have a point. It just had a family affected by the war, where the father is away all the time, so the children have to, and seemed keen enough to, help out around the farm. I mean looking into it they seemed happy enough, and did more work and appreciated family values than most kids in the world today. The mother leaves them at home every day to go work at a local shop, so they completely run the whole farm by themselves. So just because some city children turn up and they have a bit of a fight with them, that means that they need good ol’ Nanny McPhee to sort them out. UH?? A good slap and early bed I say. DONE!! No need for the film. (P.S I don't condone violence to children).

Overall I thought the SFX was weak and the second half of the film lacked much of Nanny Mcphee's character, yeah she was there but didn't say or do much.
I am actually really surprised that the IMDb rating for this is so high. I thought this movie was a waste of time and pretty much awful.

The nauseatingly corny and clichéd excuse for a climax is the icing on the cake of Susanna White's horribly naive direction, which unfortunately – together with Thompson's rather sloppy script – represses her and the rest of the remarkably adept cast, tragically capping their potential.

The only good thing this film offers, is the swimming pigs. But that’s about as much magic and fun there is in this film. I feel that kids’ films should appeal, or at least create some entertainment for the adults (who pay for the tickets in the first place). I think most kids will enjoy this film but it’s no epic. If Nanny McPhee was a TV series, then this would be the rubbish one where she fixes a family who don't really need fixing. Oh and also there isn't a BIG BANG!!!!!

Eat Pray.....Puke!!

If you've kept up with my reviews (let’s pretend you have), you are going to find that the genre I touch most seldom is romance. They are by nature a contagious quagmire of failed puns, roads repaved with familiar plots, and their stars have signed with the devil. Enter Julia Roberts, queen of the romcom. No doubt a talented actress, if not the most famous of her generation, Julia has played a big role in cashing in on the average woman's dream.

In her latest effort Julia plays Liz Gilbert in the autobiographical book turned movie Eat Pray Love. Liz is a writer visiting Bali in search of a wise/toothless medicine man. He reads the palm of her hand and she takes everything to gospel. Leaving behind husband Stephen (Billy Crudup), Liz seeks out new adventure in the form of exotic cuisine, Eastern religion, and male suitors.

Eat Pray Love is directed by Ryan Murphy. Murphy is best known as the creator of Glee, last year's breakout TV show about misfits who triumph through songs. With his name in the mix people are going to be disappointed that Julia and friends don't break out into songs and dance. Even if you consider that Murphy could have interests outside of musicals, you'd expect some sassy dialog exchanges like those seen on the show between the characters Will Schuester and Sue Sylvester. Hate to disappoint you but that's not going to happen either.

This is a story about a self indulged woman who has a great life; loving husband, great job that allows her to travel, is interested in going back to school and she decides it's not enough.

Completely out of the blue she divorces her husband (for no good reason) and she decides she needs to find herself and bitch about a terrible life that 90% of people can only aspire too. Julia Roberts comes off as a daddy's girl who has always gotten what she has wanted and now that daddy's out of the picture she decides she needs to be doted on like a princess, but she comes off as a spoiled bitch whose antics infuriates her friends and doesn't deserve anything she gets.

This was made into a movie because of Oprah who decided to put this book in her book club, which means every house wife in America read this pile of trash and all of them seem to think that it is some great find, it's not. This movie reminds me of a good travel guide documentary that explores the beauty of the world only instead of a smart host who knows when to step aside and just let you enjoy the background and immerse them in the beauty of everything that surrounds them, we get a woman that needs to be center of attention and enough is never enough.

That being said some of the shots are truly beautiful and the food they show in Italy is stunning and makes me want to eat pasta for weeks, but I can get that from the discovery channel so why do I fork out money for something I can get for free at seven in the evening? Julia Roberts does try and save her character with her trademark charm but by that point it's too late and nothing can save this powerfully bad movie.

Apparently this book suffered from "right place, right time" syndrome which lead to it being picked up by Oprah, the movie on the other hand suffers from "endorsed by Oprah, guaranteed audience" syndrome.

I gotta say that the description of this movie didn't appeal to me, and I only saw it because I got a free ticket to a preview.

I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 because a few of the supporting characters sometimes call out Liz (Julia Roberts) on her self-absorbed superficial antics. I liked them (the characters, not the antics).

The movie is too long, but Italy, India, and Bali are showcased nicely (if superficially). I bet Julia Roberts signed on because filming this must have basically been a paid vacation.

The script is pretty bad. Liz complains that one character always seems to talk in bumper stickers, but she should look at her own speech patterns.

The movie is also too long.It felt like watching those John Wayne movie marathons on AMC.

I imagine that this movie will be enjoyed by real life casualties of love who believe that they are owed love and fulfillment as an inalienable right. It is a movie that teaches us nothing, provides a warped view of what love and relationships really are and leaves no lasting impressions, save the sweet sounds of fingernails on a blackboard that will leave most movie goers yearning for relief. Read the book and skip the movie.

Final Statement:Eat Pray and Run, as fast as you can away from this movie.

Charlie St...........Blow Me!!

Charlie St. Cloud Review: A young teenager's younger brother is killed in a car accident and when running away from his funeral, he finds his brother’s ghost and they play catch. But of course, Charlie (Efron) meets a girl and now he has to choose between the girl and the stupid kid. Amazingly terrible story that makes no logical sense what so ever. Put a lot of effort into making us think and feel that his younger brother was a ghost. Not. It was just awful acting to and it was really over-done and over-rated. I don't know what this film was trying to achieve but it’s just going to go down from here. Charlie St. Cloud is terrible! Do not see, you will have wasted your money!

It's entirely possible that Zac Efron can really act. We may never know. He always plays the same character: a good-looking, sensitive, semi-credibly athletic, Boy Scouty high-school kid with Clairol-model floppy hair. He could do it in his sleep. He could do it on speed. He could do it on Ritalin. He may be able to do it after he's dead, and they just prop him up and let his corpse go through the motions!

Efron will never have a career as great as Brad Pitt’s and although he already has been booked for several movies, his career is already in danger. Very bad actors, as Bruce Willis is, have had a great career only because they are very good at choosing what to do. Orlando Bloom destroyed his career acting in "Elisabethville" with Kirsten Dunst. Dunst and Bloom are actors without personality and started their careers just being in Blockbuster Movies (Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean (Bloom) & Spiderman (Dunst). Now they have been already burned while acting in Elisabethville, whose destiny was an obvious flop from the beginning. Jennifer Aniston is a star because she has been in Friends and married and lost Brad Pitt, becoming a constant presence in gossip magazine, but her movies don't cash, why? Because they are ugly and she is not able to choose the good ones.

Now on the movie itself; first, Efron's character talks to dead people. I was like "What the heck? He needs to go to a psychiatric institute!" It is not believable. And the punch of the story is just ridiculous. At the end, I was still thinking that Efron's character needed to go to an institute. And for good. And the whole story is based on a relationship that we do not even know well. The brotherhood between Charlie and his brother did not seem that strong... Nothing works in this movie. The whole story sucks. That was the problem. I don't even want to read the book, life is too short. I was very disappointed and after seeing this movie, I was like "I should have seen Inception for a second time. At least this film is more realistic." It gives you an idea.

Ray Liotta (one of my favorite actors of all time) has a tiny, tiny part which should have been developed much more fully. Kim Basinger is totally forgettable. Efron's love interest, Amanda Crew, is very hard to like. The film hardly explores her character and I found myself responding to her supposedly dramatic scenes very negatively. The young actor who plays Sam does an okay job. He tries to be the awe-struck younger brother but Efron doesn't give him enough to work with.

There are a few additional wrinkles that you can pick up by actually sitting through the whole movie. One is that this game of catch has been going on for an hour a day for over 1800 days now, and even after all that time neither kid can throw a baseball worth a damn. Another tidbit is that Charlie is able to talk to other dead people besides Sam. Also, he's artistic. And really, really sensitive. (Did I mention that already?)

The only good thing in this film? The song "Airplanes" in the trailer. That's all.

So that leaves us with the only real dilemma posed by this low-wattage would-be tear- jerker: mawkish or maudlin, mawkish or maudlin?