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Archive for January, 2008
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January 17, 2008Movie Review: “National Treasure: Book of Secrets”
January 10, 2008
“National Treasure: Book of Secrets” sends our archaeologist hero, Ben Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) on a globetrotting quest to find another secret treasure, all the while restoring his family’s good name.
The returning cast includes Ben’s archaeologist father, Patrick Gates (Jon Voight); Ben’s personal tech support and sidekick, Riley Poole (Justin Bartha); and Ben’s now ex-girlfriend, Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), whose brief romance with the press secretary (Ty Burrell) of the president of the United States affords the gang the opportunity to search for clues in the Oval Office.
The new faces in the adventure are Ben’s mother, who also happens to be Patrick’s estranged ex-wife, Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren), a scholar of ancient languages; and a rival archaeologist and Confederate sympathizer named Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris), who boldly accuses a Gates ancestor, Thomas Gates (Joel Gretsch), of collaborating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln with John Wilkes Booth.
Booth shot Lincoln on the same night that he and a co-conspirator forced Thomas Gates into translating a diary page the disclosed Cibola, the lost city of gold. In order to clear the Gates family name, Ben and the gang must prove the existence of Cibola by finding the long-dispersed fragments of a map. One of the pieces happens to be hidden in a secret book that is handed down from president to president.
Producer/director Jon Turteltaub deserves kudos for laying hold of the…keep reading
Movie Review: “The Bucket List”
January 9, 2008
Rob Reiner’s “The Bucket List” features Jack Nicholson as a cantankerous billionaire and Morgan Freeman as the winking, twinkling teller of truths. Neither role is a stretch for these actors; we have all seen this shtick before.
The movie kicks off with one of Morgan Freeman’s trademark “This is God speaking” wisdom-induced voiceovers. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), the rich SOB, and Carter Chambers, (Morgan Freeman) the car mechanic who once had aspirations of being a history professor, end up in the same room in the cancer ward of a hospital that Edward owns. Each of the men is given a dim prognosis, forecasting that each will be dead in under a year. Being forced to face their own mortality, the two end up writing a bucket list together-a list of things that they want to accomplish before they kick the proverbial bucket.
Some of the entries on their bucket list include: (read the rest of the review here)
