10 OF APRIL'S BEST MOVIES: THE CONCLUDING 5

The first5 are over at <------ that link, just in case you missed it
 

L!FE HAPPENS

Baby mama

Release date: April 13, 2012

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Running time: 100mins

Director: Kat Coiro

Studio: PMK*BNC Studios

Producer: Justin L. Levine

Screenplay: Kat Coiro, Kristen Ritter

Cast: Kate Bosworth, Jason Biggs, Rachel Bilson, Krysten Ritter, Justin Kirk, Geoff Stults, Collin Egglesfield, Lauren Conrad

Sex happens… unprotected. So do babies. There’s a whole lot more to worry about unprotected sex than babies, but hey, whatever works for anybody mehn. This movie attempts to answer (and answer hilariously I must add) that question – when you are a single, knocked-up young chick (this was very hard to come up with, shoulda listened more to the English teacher in high school), how easy is it to get into a relationship with a dude who finds out you’ve pooped a baby already? Life Happens is a comedy about 3 young girls living under the pretty much the same roof in LA, with one becoming unexpectedly pregnant because… wait for it… condoms ran out and two of the girls needed them (sounds like your life, yes, you!). Kim - the pregnant party - with the help of her friends must cope with single motherhood. By herself, she must also cope with the

10 OF THE BEST APRIL MOVIES: PART 1

Looking for movie download advice? Or do you just wanna plan your cinema-going time ahead? Well, look no further. I wish I could give you download links too, but um... Just but um. Anyhoo, all 10 movies featured here slated for release in this awesome month of fools. Apologies to all my April-born friends, but seriously, the first day of your month is Fools' Day, what else could possibly go dumb? You were born on April 1st? Na, your mum just played an April Fools gag on your dad and you!  

TITANIC 3D

Will your heart go on?

Release date: April 6, 2012

Genre: Drama

Running time: 194mins

Director: James Cameron

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Producer(s): James Cameron, Jon Landau

Screenplay: James Cameron

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, Gloria Stuart, Frances Fisher, Victor Garber

“The women will cry; the men will get boners when they see boobs in 3D.” And before you retort, yes the naked “eyes” working in tandem and working together with the brain create an illusion of 3D. Now, imagine that the two eyes are working together to create 3D, when the picture is already in eye-popping 3D. 4D?

Enough of my dodgy physics.

The visionary genius that is James Cameron would have wanted this movie to be originally shot in 3D, and finally, he gets the chance to showcase it to the world that way. It’s been a long wait. The man had to delay the shooting of Avatar for more than a decade (also written in 1997, like Titanic) because of the unavailability of the necessary technology, according to him. Titanic evoked emotions in us all – young, old, small, big – and it has come to haunt us again! If you are ever gonna see this 3D release, please, please and please and please, your laptop’s screen will never do justice to whatever “thiefed” version you get off the internet. If it’s

10 CONCLUSIONS: GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

• Production year: 2011
• Countries: Rest of the world, USA
• Cert (UK): 18
• Runtime: 152 mins
• Directors: David Fincher, Niels Arden Oplev
• Cast: Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, Joely Richardson, Lena Endre, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter Haber, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Sven-Bertil Taube, Yorick van Wageningen

I finally found the patience to watch this very highly rated movie, and below are some of what I noticed. It's my opinion exclusively, so feel free to disagree. But then again, it's my blog... Kidding


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 Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara really brought to life Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander respectively. Amazing performance by the duo, and the rest of the cast too

FUNNY PEOPLE

I don’t know what you’d call this, maybe a movie pun or something. But Funny People goes The Whole Nine Yards. Adam Sandler was in them both, aint it “maite”? So, I’m sure I need someone to figure out what figure of speech to call that sentence, but not until you hear what I have to say.

I was a bit late on the Funny People train. I did my private screening in July 2010. The movie came out I think sometimes in 2009, and I remember doing a ‘review’ on it. Now, doing a review in Nigeria most times (and a little bit for me) means that I glean information from the www and try to mold it to my taste. Your summary and imagination skills have to be up Everest to embark on that, or you’d just foul up the whole thing. I will try

GOD BLESS AFRICA

Now, I’m not one easily given to emotion. I have sat down at times, and upon deep reflection, I have come to a conclusion that I merely hide it better than most, which is a good thing because I’m all for mastering our situations and circumstances.

Be that as it may, the South African story, or more on-point, the Nelson Mandela-South Africa story has never ceased to inspire me, or move me to tears as the occasion may warrant. Granted, 27 years is a long time to be put out of circulation, but the way in which the man went about rebuilding his country’s confidence in

LIKE STARS ON EARTH

I did not watch “My Name is Khan”. I just didn’t. I’m not sure I had a rational excuse. If I used the typical “hype” excuse, I wouldn’t have been deceiving anyone but myself. I wish I had watched. I can now see what people must have seen in the movie. I can now picture clearly in my mind, why dozens  of students were moved – deeply so – by watching Aamir Khan depict an autistic man and his struggles with the world. There’s only so much I can say about My Name Is Khan without sounding like a fraud,  because, as I stated above, I did not watch it.