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Ocean Heaven Mandarin Movie 2010
Drama Movie
Cast and Crew
Cast: Jet Li, Wen Zhang, Kwai Lun Mei, Zhu Yuanyuan
Director-screenwriter: Xue Xiaolu
Producers: Hao Lee, Ma Hefeng, Bill Kong
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer: Yee Chung Man
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Costume: Zhang Ke
Editors: Chang Suk Ping, Yang Hongyu
Sales: Edko Films
No rating, 102 minutes

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SHANGHAI -- Action hero Jet Li gives a respectable turn as a terminally ill father grooming his autistic son to survive on his own in "Ocean Heaven" -- a decent, if orthodox job by Xue Xiaolu. Xue off-sets some of the wholesome soppiness of this genre by keeping the tone light, the story simple and steering clear of grueling ordeals. Compared with "Together," another father-son story that she co-scripted and Chen Kaige directed, it is less melodramatic and artificial. Set mostly in a marine park in Qingtao province, its interpretation of autism owes less to "Rain Man" than to "The Big Blue," awash with holistic, quasi-fantastical overtones, enhanced by Christopher Doyle's ravishing aquatic cinematography.

While the Chinese government, schools or NGOs may approve of this topic, "Ocean" goes against the grain of current market realities. A Jet Li who doesn't fight or perform stunts is a tough sell overseas. Back home, it might be overlooked by an audience infatuated with period war epics and stir-crazy comedy-farce. Hopefully, a summer release following its premiere as the opening film of the Shanghai International Film Festival can draw moderate family viewers in Chinese-speaking territories.


Since his wife's death 14 years ago, Wang Xingchang (Li) has been the sole guardian of his 21-year-old autistic son Dafu (Wen Zhang). When Wang is diagnosed with liver cancer, he tries to end both their lives in the sea, but Dafu is too good a swimmer to drown. Since then, Wang throws himself into the twin missions of finding an institutional home for Dafu, and training him to manage on his own.

The visits to different institutions, apart from giving a survey of special needs welfare in China, add naught to the dramatic flow or emotional interest; whereas the scenes of Dafu learning to perform the most basic tasks like boiling an egg, putting on his clothes or riding a bus can come across as hideously patronizing. The way Wang ooh-ahs at Dafu's every move is a ploy to emphasize his fatherly instinct and stoicism that appears to confuse autism with mental disability. However, the meaning of these initially insipidly repetitive scenes finally emerges in the coda to quite moving effect.

The finest moments are found in the marine park, where Wang works as a technician and Dafu is in his element frolicking with the turtles and the dolphins. The fluid shots of him gracefully gliding underwater reinforce the autistic man's affinity with a different world or reality. The lucent blue palette of the underwater shots and the aquarium's melancholic, cavernous interiors contrast atmospherically with humble street locations that are lit and shot in the gloomy hues of overcast weather.

Billed as the lead actress, Kwai Lun Mei is under-used as an itinerant circus performer who strikes up a friendship with Dafu. Given no back story and smothered in clown face makeup half the time, her interactions with Dafu are too sappy and superficial.

Gao Yuanyuan, who appears in a flashback as Wang's wife, leaves even less of an impression. It is the daily life episodes with kindly neighbor Aunt Chai (Zhu Yuanyuan) that are most plausible and warm. The tact with which Wang handles her love which he cannot requite is subtle and touching.

Li is largely credible as an ordinary working-class father, even if some might think he is trying to consolidate his public image as a philanthropist. Still, his role's gambit to come back to Dafu in a different guise after his death is almost gag-worthy. Cynics will also find Dafu's character too angelic, and the society presented squeaky clean, with all characters doing the right thing without a trace of intolerance.

Production values are tip-top -- besides Doyle, such big names as Joe Hisaishi and Yee Chung Man provide quality music and production design respectively without overwhelming this small drama with excessive stylization.

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Salt English Movie 2010
Thriller Movie
Cast And Crew
Cast:Angelina Jolie,Liev Schreiber,
Chiwetel Ejiofor,Gaius Charles,
Yara Shahidi,Victor Slezak,
Cassidy Hinkle,James Schram,
Peter Conboy,
Director:Phillip Noyce
Producers:Lorenzo Di Bonaventura,
Sunil Perkash
Music Director:James Newton Howard
Release Date: 23 Jul 2010
Genre: Action - Thriller
Language: English





Salt Synopsis:
Salt film narrates the story about Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) who is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot.
Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world's most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.

Salt  Hollywood Movie Review:

Who is Salt? Is she an operative CIA agent or a KGB spy sent by the Russians?

This question probably doesn’t matter after you walked out of the cinema hall as you are likely unable to recall much of anything else besides the fact that Salt is just another relentless action flick that stars one of the hottest movie star in Hollywood right now, Angelina Jolie Voight or add a Pitt to it if you wish.

Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer who is being accused of being an undercover Russian spy by a defector. So what is Salt going to do to prove her innocence? She runs. You hear that right, she runs away from cops and her fellow colleagues including Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) and William Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in addition to the boggling fact that she is being 'activated' to assassinate the President of Russia. But her priority on hand is to look for her missing arachnologist husband. Thus begin the continuous action pieces that will make any respectable action star proud and for this reason alone, you might chose to forgive Kurt Wimmer’s implausible writing.

Eerily similar to "The Bourne Identity" franchise, "Salt" relies heavily on its high-octane action sets although discarding any good narrative treatment seen in the former. Its Bourne + that Bond from MGM meets The Fugitive meet the combination of Tomb Raider and Mission Impossible. But this is what you get if you hire Kurt Wimmer for the gig, the latter who came up with "Ultraviolet" and last year, "Law Abiding Citizen" is not renowned for any subtly or hefty Tom Clancy’s sort of conspiracies. Instead what you get is an undercover brainwashed operation initiate by the Russia to send their agents to penetrate the soil of the United States so as to await orders to strike at the right time.



As a customised star vehicle for Jolie (for the record "Salt" was initially offered but turned down by Tom Cruise who found it too much akin to his Mission Impossible series and subsequently the role was rewritten to fit Jolie) and a product for the summer blockbuster slate, "Salt" definitely fits the bill. Director Phillip Noyce who returns to the studio arena after a number of years helming independent flicks proved he is still an adept hand in crafting a big-budgeted Hollywood summer flick. The old-school Australian helmer who is renowned for his political-charged action thrillers, "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger" delivers the goods at ease and with the help of stunt choreographer Simon Crane and veteran editor Stuart Baird, the collision and explosion gets bigger with each setup not forgetting the dizzy, frenetic editing. Smoke bomb, a DIY bazooka and even a pair of undies is utilized by Salt to make her exit. The props department should deserve some credit at the next Academy Awards for the latter.

The main star herself, Angelina Jolie was listed on IMDB for performing most of her own stunts. Watching her leaping from the roofs of moving vehicles, jumping from train, riding furiously on a stolen bike and dangling in an elevator shaft, at least you know the lady is worth every damn nickel on her million dollars paycheck. This is a star movie that practically sells on Jolie’s charisma and face alone (just look at the poster for proof) and it works big time. Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor both respectively good actors are left on the sideline with the occasional bickering scenes that doesn’t actually require an ounce of acting muscle from the duo.

Despite a half-baked espionage plot that involves the what, Cold War? What’s that for the younger generation? And a story that twists and turns without much of a satisfactory conclusion, the movie succeeds with its flawless chase sequences, marathon stuntwork and a gutsy leading lady. DC comics, you know who you should call for a Wonder Woman.

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 Cast and Crew
Cast : Ian McShane ,
Matthew Macfadyen ,
Eddie Redmayne,Hayley Atwell,
David Oakes,Natalia Wörner ,
Sam Claflin,Anatole Taubman,Götz Otto
Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Release Date:3 July 2010 (USA
Genre:Drama | History | Romance | Thriller



The Pillars of the Earth Movie Plot Summary:
“You might enjoy this show a lot, if you’re a fan of this kind of thing, as long as you don’t need it to be, in any grand sense of the word, actually good.” a term invented that conveys the message.
The term “guilty pleasure” doesn’t quite apply to a project like Starz’s The Pillars of the Earth, debuting tonight. The miniseries, based on a Ken Follett novel about power struggles and cathedral building in 12th-century England, doesn’t seem guilty about anything at all, nor does it seem to intend guilt on the audience’s part. It’s positively virtuous, in a way: a big, old-fashioned historical epic of sweep and passion and melodrama, hearkening back to the days of the old you-could-learn-something-from-it network miniseries like Shogun. But despite its epic scale and impressive cast, the miniseries seems out of place and time.

The story is set in 12th century England, which right away presents a sartorial obstacle for Starz. HBO did just great with "Rome" because people back then apparently wore little, if anything at all. And Showtime scored with "The Tudors" because, say what you will about the court of Henry VIII, the Renaissance fashion police were on duty 24/7.

Pity the poor "Pillars" designers, though: When it comes to 12th century England, there's only so much you can do with sackcloth.
But what "Pillars," launching Part 1 on Friday, lacks in visual appeal it more than makes up for with over-the-top performances from an all-star cast. That's a good thing, because if you try to figure out what's actually going on, and who's out to get whom and for what reason, you'll give yourself a headache.
At heart, this is a heroic melodrama, elevated a bit by a rather intriguing focus on how architecture helped move England toward a more economically robust future. The story turns on the rivalry for the English throne between King Stephen (Tony Curran) and Queen Maud (Alison Pill).
As power shifts back and forth - not without conflict, of course - our primary attention is focused on the people caught in the middle, chiefly for a while on the enlightened Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell), who is hired to build a cathedral for Prior Philip (Matthew Macfadyen) in Kingsbridge. Others on the "good guys" side of ye olde ledger include Aliena (Hayley Atwell), daughter of the martyred Earl of Shiring (Donald Sutherland), and her brother Richard (Sam Claflin), a milquetoast who becomes a powerful warrior.
Building a church sounds simple, but it doesn't fit in with the nefarious schemes of Bishop Waleran (Ian McShane), who's more than willing to throw anyone under the hay wagon to become the next archbishop of Canterbury. Then there are the ruthless Regan Hamleigh (Sarah Parish) and her sociopath offspring, William (David Oakes), who will do anything to get ahead, or to chop off a few if need be - heads, that is.
Although the first part of the story is carried by Tom Builder, the focus of most of "Pillars" is on Jack Jackson (Eddie Redmayne), the young son of the convicted "witch," Ellen (Natalia Wörner), who is a gifted sculptor and soon takes over the campaign to build the cathedral. He's learned all the architectural tricks of flying buttresses and the like while in France in exile, because his beloved Aliena has married Tom's dorky son.
The script has a good amount of borrowed mythology woven through the plot of "Pillars," including the biblical story of the prodigal son, and some repurposed Shakespeare as well.
But screenwriter John Pielmeier has done a creditable job of condensing Follett's building block of a novel. Yes, he strips things down to the sex and violence bits, but without entirely decimating characterization and nuance.
Did I say nuance? Well, it may be there in the script, but when it comes to actually performing the parts, it's all Katie bar the door as far as the likes of McShane, Sewell, Parish and Oakes are concerned. There's so much scenery being devoured by several of the major players that when the new cathedral is destroyed midway through the series, you'll suspect the actors ate the darn thing.
McShane, wearing a demonic hairstyle that seems to have been colored with Grecian Formula 666, savors each verbal morsel of dialogue, as he slithers from mock innocence whenever he's caught on the wrong side of the succession battle to cold-eyed wickedness as he dispatches those in his way.
Director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan has wisely balanced the overblown performances with more grounded work by Macfadyen, Atwell and Redmayne.
Although Macfadyen is the most visible constant through the entire miniseries, Redmayne, who just won a Tony for "Red" on Broadway, dominates whenever he is onscreen, even during his early scenes when he doesn't seem to be able to speak.
Or maybe it's just that he's the only really memorable good guy in the melodrama, because, in truth, it's the bountiful hamminess of McShane and the other evildoers that makes "Pillars" great fun, even if it's never going to be a candidate for "Masterpiece Theatre."

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Udaan Hindi movie 2010
Romantic Movie
Cast And Crew
Cast:Rajat Barmecha,Ronit Roy,Aayan Boradia,Ram Kapoor,Manjot Singh,
Anand Tiwari,Raja Hudda,Varun Khettry,Shaunak Sengupta,
Akshay Sachdev,
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Producers: Anurag Kashyap,
Ronnie Screwvala, Sanjay Singh
Music Director:Amit Trivedi
Lyricst: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Release Date: 16 Jul 2010
Genre: Family
Language: Hindi


Udaan Synopsis:
Udaan movie revolves around around teenager Rohan. After being in a boarding school for eight years, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur (in Jharkhand) and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a half brother who he didn't know existed.
Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strikes to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.

Udaan Movie Reviews:
Who is Vikramaditya Motwane? Everyone seems to be asking this question.
Someone, who has scored big time at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, his debut film Udaan, produced by Anuraag Kashyap - director of the cult hit Dev D, along with UTV productions, is selected to be screened in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the festival. Udaan is not only the sole Hindi film to be featured in this category; it is also the only Indian film to make it to the prominent list in the last 7 years. The last movie that made its presence felt in the category was

Murali Nair’s Arimpara way back in 2003.
Udaan marks a prestigious moment in the history of Indian cinema and is surely a dream debut for Motwane as Bollywood movies showcased at Cannes have been few and far between.
According to the official synopsis released by UTV motion pictures, Udaan speaks about Rohan (played by Rajat Barmecha), belonging to a small industrial town of Jamshedpur, who is abandoned for eight years in boarding school. Rohan finds his life being closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn’t even know existed.
Rohan is forced to work against his dream of being a writer and is instead made to study engineering and work in his father’s steel factory. The movie showcases how Rohan tackles the innate struggle of handling family responsibilities or chasing one’s own passion. Would he give in to a future decided by his father? Or would he forge his own life out of given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer?
The cast also includes Ronit Roy, Aayan Boradia and Ram Kapoor. The film’s music is composed by Amit Trivedi (from the Dev D fame) and lyricist is Amitabh Bhattachharya.
Motwane has earlier assisted Sanjay Leela Bhansali in his earlier projects such as Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002). He also has been the screenwriter for Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007) and Dev D (2009). Motwane has heavy experiential knowledge rolled up his sleeve. Undoubtedly his directorial debut film is already being spoken in high regard by the film critics and is enjoying rave reviews in its hometown.

With an official screening at the international front, the team of Udaan can surely expect a grand homecoming. Most importantly, no one would now dare ask “Who is Vikramaditya Motwane?”