Cast:
Adrien Brody Royce
Alice Braga Isabelle
Directed by Nimrod Antal
Running time: 106 minutes

A soldier in battle fatigues, armed to the teeth, complete with a gun the size of a bazooka parachutes in the middle of a strange tropical jungle. He is a mercenary and his name is Royce (Adrien Brody). He scouts around and seems to be the only person around until another parachutist makes his descent. And then there is another one followed by three more drops. It turns out that Royce, Isabelle (Alice Braga), a crack Israeli sniper a Russian Special forces fighter, a soldier from Sierra Leone, a Yakuza, a Mexican drug enforcer, and an American killer from death row have all been mysteriously abducted and dropped in alien territory. After the first sightings of strange and monstrous forms of life and some close encounters, Royce sums it all up and says “We are dumped in a hunting reserve and we are the game”

This film follows the same premise of John McTiernan’s 1987 original Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The original story was set in Central America where aliens landed to enjoy the pleasures of human hunting. This fourth spin off that follows Predator 2 in 1990 and two Alien vs Predator also has a group of humans fighting for their survival against their hunters, a rapacious breed of alien monsters.

Full use of computer generated imagery give a stronger impact to the brutal contacts between the hunters and hunted. It has also a very good cast, highlighted by a cameo by Lawrence Fishbourne, with a mixture of good actors representing different cultures and different temperaments of humans facing a common danger. This cast is led by an excellent Adrien Brodie who had no qualms to play a rambo-esque character. A true perfectionist, Mr Brodie, already on the thin side, lost 30 lbs, learned to play Chopin on the piano and became a semi-recluse to prepare himself for the leading role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. This preparation resulted in an amazing performance that earned him a Best Leading Actor Academy Award in 2003. Adrien Brodie went for the same intense preparation for Predators. He gained 26 lbs, did some serious gym work and cut himself from the rest of the cast and crew in a patch of Hawaiian rain forest where the film was shot to read about war and military tactics. It is very unlikely that this film will earn him another Oscar, but it will surely be considered as another plus in the career of this eclectic actor who never disappoints.

Cast:
Kirsten Bell Beth
Josh Duahamel Nick
Anjelica Huston Celeste
Danny DeVito Al

Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
Running time: 91 minutes
Paris and Rome are by far the two European cities whose names and popular tourist sights were most chosen for Hollywood productions. Amongst the scores of films set and shot in Rome, four had the same title When in Rome. None of them is related and their genres vary from comedy, romance to a police thriller with Maltese actor Joseph Calleia in the leading role.
In this romantic comedy Kirsten Bell is Beth, a young New York museum curator who flies on a quick break to Rome for her sister’s wedding. Her love life is in the dumps and she is in a desperate look-out for a soul mate. A ray of hope shines when she meets and becomes attracted to Nick (Josh Duhamel) at the wedding. With one drink too many Beth strays to a fictional Roman fountain from which she fishes out five different coins. Later, her sister tells her that the fountain had a magic spell. If Beth threw the coins back in the fountain, their five previous owners will be men who shall fall in love with her. The choice was all hers.
An urgent call from her tyrannical boss Celeste (Anjelica Huston) takes her back to New York and true to the magic fountain myth she finds herself chased and courted by an artist, a street magician, a male model and an obnoxious millionaire called Al (Danny DeVito) who made money selling sausages. Still longing for Nick, Beth hopes and prays that the fifth coin belongs to him.
Although this very predictable romantic comedy enjoys the performance of good leading and secondary actors and exploits the popular Roman tourist sights with some slick photography, a weak script takes it nowhere near good ‘Roman’ films in the same genre such as Roman Holiday and Three Coins in a Fountain.


Cast:
Jonah Hill Aaron Green
Russell Brand Aldous Snow
Rose Burn Jackie Q
Sean Combs Sergio Roma
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
Running time: 109 minutes

The adventures and misadventures of Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) pick up where they left off in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, also directed by Nicholas Stoller. Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) who works as a junior talent scout in a Los Angeles record company owned by Sergio Roma (Sean Combs) describes London based Aldous as “One of the last remaining rock stars”. But the rock star’s career is taking a nosedive and, after his partner Jackie Q (Rose Byrne) left him, his life is in a total mess. Always preying on idols in distress, the gossip media is having a field day with stories about Aldous Snow giving him a fair degree of notoriety.

Driven by his ambition to make it in the record business, Aaron comes up with the idea of rehabilitating Aldous and get him to perform at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Sergio Roma agrees and sends Aaron to London to fetch the rock star. This practically impossible mission has its effect on his relationship with his live in girlfriend who feels neglected and decides to leave LA.

In a raucous journey littered with major and minor disasters, sex and drugs, Aaron gets to know all about the devils inside Aldous, and help him while he accomplishes his mission and fulfils all his dreams.

1. THE TWILIGHT SAGA - ECLIPSE
2. SHREK FOREVER AFTER - THE FINAL CHAPTER
3. KILLERS
4. PRINCE OF PERSIA - THE SANDS OF TIME
5. ROBIN HOOD
6. SEX AND THE CITY 2
7. BROOKLYN'S FINEST
8. THE LAST SONG
9. THE SPY NEXT DOOR
10. SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE

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