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Directed by: Marcos Siega
Written by: Daniel Taplitz
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer, Stuart Townsend, Sarah Chalke, Mike Erwin

Chaos Theory is a story about Frank Allen (Ryan Reynolds), a man obsessed with order and efficiency, there's not a single thing in his life that he hasn't set a priority. He respects his schedule, well planned events are leading into other well planned events but when a short delay appears his world collapses. From now on, he invites chaos in his life, trying to live in a completly different way. The movie will make you laugh, it has some really nice comic situations. Anyway, it's not pure comedy, there's also the drama that Frank and Susan Allen (Emily Mortimer) live, it's a story about true friendship and forgiveness.

21 is a movie based on a true story, the story of a team of MIT students which manage to obtain a large amount of money at blackjack game in Las Vegas casinos using the card counting scheme. Anyway, the movie is not so accurate. Here's the plot: Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey), MIT professor, gathers a team of mathematical geniuses which he trains in blackjack card counting in order to ripp off Vegas casinos. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) joins the team because he needs $300000 to attend Harvard Medical School. Being seduced by the glamour of Vegas, he doesn't stop when he reaches his aim and this leads him to problems. This film is "light" but it's still enjoyable due to Kevin Spacey performance. The original story is getting too hollywoodized, characters are acting in childish manners making the movie less credible.

Trailer for 21


The movie is out on DVD, you can find it here

Do you want to go to the cinema this weekend ? Here are some of this week openings along with trailers, let's hope you'll enjoy at least one of them.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan




Mongol (already blogged about it here)





Kung Fu Panda




The Promotion




When Did You Last See Your Father?

The winners are:

Best Comedic Performance
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End



Best Female Performance
Ellen Page - Juno




Best Fight
Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet - Never Back Down



Best Kiss
Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman - Step Up 2 the Streets



Best Male Performance
Will Smith - I Am Legend



Best Movie
Transformers



Best Summer Movie So Far
Iron Man



Best Villain
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd



Breakthrough Performance
Zac Efron - Hairspray

Short movies are good for a movie addict: whenever you don't have enough time to watch a lenghty and possibly boring movie you should go for a quick one to drop your addiction. Here are some interesting short movies I've recently watched:

"Lucky" - directed by Nash Edgerton



"Shame" - directed by Tom Geenes



"She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" - directed by Jamie Rafn



Which one do you like ?

Few days ago I was watching a bunch of movie trailers and I've come across an interesting title: "Mongol". This is an epic film which tells the story of Genghis Khan, the great ruler who conquered half the world, including Rusia. "Mongol" is planned as a trilogy and the first part who is about to be released in UK (6 June 2008) will follow Genghis through his early years. This movie is directed by russian director, Sergei Bodrov. Channing Tatum ("Coach Carter") will star in "Part One" as the young Genghis, while Tadanobu Asano (best known for his role in "Zatoichi") will play his brother, Temudjin.

Today I will recommend you one of my anime favorites: it's called "Paprika". The plot is very interesting, Paprika is a dream character, kind of an alter ego of Chiba, a therapist, who has the ability to enter someone's dreams and solve the inner problems using a machine called DC-Mini which was created as a revolutionary psychotherapy treatment. When the DC-Mini machine is stolen, the chaos begins, the entire world could be manipulated with hijacked dreams. Paprika has to find the one who's playing with people's minds, but first, Chiba must survive.

The great winner of Palm D'or is Laurent Cantet movie, "The Class". The award for the best actor was achived by Benicio Del Toro for his performance in Steve  Soderbergh's "Che". The turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan got the best director prize for his movie "3 Monkeys". The rest of awards are:

SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
Catherine Deneuve and Clint Eastwood

GRAND PRIZE
"Gomorra," directed by Matteo Garrone

BEST SCREENPLAY
Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne, "Lorna's Silence"

BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Corveloni, in "Linha de Passe"

CAMERA D'OR
Hunger by Steve McQueen

CAMERA D'OR SPECIAL MENTION
Everybody Dies But Me by Valeria Gaï Guermanika

BEST SHORT FILM
Megatron by Marian Crisan from Romania

SHORT FILM SPECIAL MENTION
Jerrycan by Julius Avery

This is the top ten box office movies for may 16-18 weekend:

1. “Prince Caspian” $56.5 million [$56.5M total]
   
2. “Iron Man” $31.2 million [$222.5M total]
   
3. “What Happens In Vegas” $13.8 million [$40.3M total]
   
4. “Speed Racer” $7.6 million [$24.3M total]
   
5. “Baby Mama” $4.5 million [$47.2M total]
   
6. “Made of Honor” $4.5 million [$33.7M total]
   
7. “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” $2.5 million [$55.0M total]
   
8. “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” $1.8 million [$33.9M total]
   
9. “Forbidden Kingdom” $1.0 million [$50.2M total]
   
10. “The Visitor” $0.6 million [$3.4M total]
    

This was among the first movies I saw directed by David Lynch (in fact the second, the first one is the Twin Peaks series). I was simply astonished by this movie. It's not just enigmatic, it is beautifully crafted. The picture is wonderfull, the music is brilliant (fantastic cover song by Rebecca Del Rio after the Roy Orbison's Crying) and the action is puzzling. Mulholland Drive is one of its kind: after each time you saw it, you have a better (or maybe a completly different) understanding of what's going on. The action is a mixture of fantasy and reality which are really hard to differentiate. The time frame is scrambled, there are strange characters like mobsters, film makers and beautiful women, mysterious objects, places and situations, all of these contributing to a tense and exciting atmosphere. The key characters are two beautiful women played by Naomi Watts and Laura Harring which are doing a great performance in this movie, the chemistry between them is perfect.

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