The Company Men Trailer
The trailer for The Company Men is now online. Written and directed by John Wells, the movie follows three men (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper) who fall victim to corporate downsizing. Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Craig T. Nelson and Rosemarie DeWitt also star. Check out the video below.
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Movie Review: Extract
In Extract, Jason Bateman plays Joel Reynold, the successful owner of an extract factory, who seems to have a whole lot going for him. He’s got a great business, a nice car, a hot wife (well, semi-hot) and a big house. What more does he need? On the outside his life seems fine and dandy. But behind the scenes, there are problems.
His wife (played by Kristen Wiig) never wants to have sex – her track pants are the barricade to nirvana. His factory is in danger of closing because of an impending lawsuit as a result of a horrible accident that left a guy named “Step” (Clifton Collins Jr.) rather stepless. He’s got one of the most annoying neighbours in the history of neighbours (played perfectly by David Koechner). And his staff is as competent as Harry and Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber.
Joel confides his problems to his bartender friend Dean (Ben Affleck) who proceeds to hatch a plan to pay a male gigolo to sleep with Joel’s wife so he won’t feel guilty when he tries to do the horizontal hokey-pokey with the new hot girl working in his plant (Mila Kunis). Not a bad plan if you ask me.
Of course, with a movie written and directed by Mike Judge, you can expect that things are not going to go smoothly for Joel Reynold, the extract plant, Dean’s master plan and the one-balled lawsuit. Read more
Internet-Only Extract Trailer
FirstShowing.net has the final internet-only trailer for Mike Judge’s Extract. Jason Bateman stars as Joel Reynold, the owner of an Extract plant, who has a myriad of personal and professional problems in his life that he must handle. Along for the ride in the movie are Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins Jr. and Gene Simmons.
Extract will be in theatres on September 4th. Check out the trailer below.
Mila Kunis in Clip from Extract
Yahoo! Movies has the first clip from the upcoming Mike Judge comedy Extract. The movie stars Jason Bateman as the owner of a food extract company who is trying to keep things together long enough to complete the sale of the business. Meanwhile, things aren’t going well at home so, along with his friend Dean (Ben Affleck), he conspires to make his wife cheat on him — leaving the door open for him to be able to cheat on her with a new employee named Cindy (Mila Kunis). Little does he know that Cindy is actually a con artist/sociopath who is just one step away from having her parole revoked.
The Yahoo! clip features Mila Kunis at a store looking to buy a guitar for her father and recieving some exceptionally good customer service from the guys who work there. The clip also showcases her con artist/sociopathic tendencies. Check it out below.
Extract opens September 4th.
Jon Hamm/Rebecca Hall Join Affleck’s Town
Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall will star opposite Ben Affleck in The Town, an adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel “Prince of Thieves”. Affleck also directs.
The romantic crime thriller follows the relationship between a bank manager (Hall), the career criminal (Affleck) who stole her heart, and the dedicated FBI (Hamm) agent trying to bust the crook and his gang. The bank manager is the reason the criminal wants to clean up his act, but also the agent’s golden ticket to catching him. Filming starts in September.
Hamm is best known for his role on “Mad Men”. Hall previously appeared in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Movie Review: Jersey Girl
As you have probably heard by now, Jersey Girl is not your typical Kevin Smith movie. It is not a movie that is littered with dick and fart jokes, excessive swearing, marijuana and a feature appearance by Jay and Silent Bob. This time around, Kevin Smith has tackled a much more serious issue. Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is a smoking hot music publicist in New York City. He is young, he is successful and he has the world at his fingertips when his life suddenly comes crashing down around him. His wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) has tragically passed away, he has lost his job and Ollie now faces the task of raising their daughter Gertie (Raquel Castro). Ollie moves back to his hometown of New Jersey and enlists the help of his father Bart (George Carlin) to help him with this seemingly monumental task. The movie also features Jason Biggs as Ollie’s protege Arthur Brinkman, Liv Tyler as Ollie’s love interest Maya and cameo appearances by Smith regulars Matt Damon and Jason Lee.
Although Jersey Girl may be a disappointment to the legions of Kevin Smith fans that adore the vulgarity and humour of his previous works, I still found myself enjoying Smith’s latest movie. I will admit it is not a movie for everyone. It is probably the closest thing we will ever get to a chick-flick from Kevin Smith. It has some teary-eyed moments and a couple of those cute little moments that would make even the most stoned of Kevin Smith fans smile. Raquel Castro, who plays the little 7-year old girl, is absolutely adorable in almost every scene in which she appears. This girl was absolutely gold and stole the movie from Affleck, Carlin, Liv Tyler and everyone else who appeared on the screen. Not to say that anyone else was bad in the movie. In fact, Carlin, Affleck and the bunch were all quite decent. It’s just that this girl was that much better. She definitely holds her own with a few Hollywood heavyweights.
The story of the movie is fairly basic, with not a whole lot of surprises and very little originality. It might have been better had the death of J-Lo in the movie been kept a secret but her small part in the movie has been so heavily publicized that even tribesmen living deep in the jungles of Africa with no TV, radio, newspapers or internet probably know that she dies in the movie. It is an obvious attempt to distance this movie from the monumental Affleck-J-Lo disaster that we have come to know as Gigli. Nevertheless, I have to give Kevin Smith credit for one thing – he actually managed to make the death of Jennifer Lopez a heartbreaking moment. I have to admit, I got a little teary-eyed watching the whole thing play out and for that, I must take my hat off to Mr. Smith. Who would have ever thought – the death of a Jennifer Lopez character in a movie a sad moment?
In the end, I will say I did enjoy Jersey Girl. Sure it is not filled with your typical Kevin Smith themes and sure people will probably not be going around quoting this movie or sitting around smoking a doob and talking about how funny that Raquel Castro was in the movie. But the movie does have its moments of humour, it is cute, it is sad and it is something different from one of the most adored men in college campuses all across North America. It is quite clear that Mr. Smith’s own journey into fatherhood had an impact on his decision to make Jersey Girl. The only thing that really holds this movie back are its predictability and its real lack of imagination. Nevertheless, I did like Jersey Girl and would recommend it to anyone just looking to see a tender, light-hearted romantic comedy with a whole lot of Affleck, only a few minutes of J-Lo and even less Bennifer. (7 out of 10)
Movie Review: Gigli
Gigli is pronounced like “really”. That is the one thing I learned from the movie. It starts out calling the main character Gigli, pronounced like it is spelled, but B-Lo soon clears all this up. He says, “It sounds like really”.
Gigli is the story of Larry Gigli (B-Lo), a Californian gangster who is assigned to kidnap the retarded brother of a federal prosecutor. His boss Louis, sends another mobster to make sure Larry doesn’t screw things up because apparently Larry always screws things up. The second mobster is a sexy beast named Ricki (J-Lo), who also happens to be a lesbian.
Gigli might be the least anticipated movie of the year. It has got the worst buzz of any movie in recent memory. Rumors persist that director Martin Brest and one of the film’s producers got in a fistfight following a poor test-screening. That, in itself, is rather humorous. Many critics have already labeled it as one of the worst movies of all-time.
Well, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Gigli is not the best movie I have ever seen but I have seen worse. I have seen worse in the last few months, in fact. Is that a ringing endorsement or what? There is some bad dialogue in the movie and there are some head-scratching scenes but it is not all bad. I laughed at a lot of the sexual banter and otherwise between B-Lo and J-Lo. And although I have never really found J-Lo to be all that attractive (that ass does nothing for me), she did look good in the movie. There is one scene in Gigli involving J-Lo, yoga, and a pair of spandex shorts, that gives a whole new meaning to the term camel toe. I was surprised that J-Lo even filmed such a revealing scene. The guy sitting next to me in the theatre was moaning so much I had to look over to make sure he didn’t have his hands down his pants. By the end of the movie I was so far to the right in my seat trying to be as far away from the perv as I possibly could be, that I was practically watching the movie from the aisle.
I do have to say that there is one scene in the movie where one of the characters takes a knife and slits their wrists. It was absolutely disgusting and totally unnecessary. I usually have a strong stomach for this stuff but this scene was absolute bullshit. It made me sick to my stomach. I would bet money that the fistfight involving Martin Brest and the producer had something to do with this shit. I mean did they really have to be so graphic, especially with a character that barely had anything to do with the entire movie. And why have a scene like that and then never mention it for the rest of the damn movie. I had a hard time concentrating on the movie for about ten minutes after that waste of film scene. This scene alone will probably ruin the movie for a whole lot of people. I just did not get it. Please, someone explain it to me.
Besides the suicide attempt, there is a brief appearance by Christopher Walken, where he plays a really weird FBI agent and another cameo by Al Pacino that I thought was pretty good, probably the best moments of the entire film. Although I did begin to wonder, can Pacino actually talk in a normal voice, or does he yell every single last word he ever speaks at the top of his lungs?
Well, I guess that’s all I have to say about Gigli. After re-reading this I really don’t know what the hell I have said. I guess I am a bit hesitant to admit this because I know it is en vogue right now to only wish the worst for B-Lo and J-Lo, but I did not hate Gigli. I found it to be mildly entertaining. I laughed. I almost puked. I liked the ending – not the whole B-Lo and J-Lo stuff but the stuff involving the retarded brother. I thought that stuff was cute. Although there was some really bad stuff that happened in Gigli, I thought it was okay. I didn’t feel like kicking the shit out of anyone after I saw the movie (well, the moaning bastard could have used a quick shot in the head), and after what I have read and heard about the movie so far, that might just be a good thing. (6 out of 10)
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