25 Film Turkeys

In honor of the season I list 10 of the 25 film turkeys offered by AOL and Moviefone:

Sahara (2005) starring Matthew McConaughey.

Alexander (2004) starring Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie.

Poisidon (2006) (the remakeof The Posidon Adventure) starring Kurt Russell.

Speed II: Cruise Control (1997) starring Sandra Bullock. ANY MOVIE STARRING SANDRA BULLOCK IS A TURKEY.

Shanghai Surprise (1986) starring Sean Penn and Madonna. As far as acting is concerned Sean Penn has come a long way; Madonna hasn’t.

Basic Instinct 2 (1992) starring Sharon Stone.

Hudson Hawk (1991) starring Bruce Willis. Oooooo, I hate to list this one –Bruce Willis is one of my favorites, in films like Die Hard etc.

Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) starring Tom Hanks.

Battlefield Earth (2000) starring John Travolta.

The Postman (1997) starring Kevin Costner.

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Wordless Wednesday

Credits

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Gandhi – 25th Anniversary DVD

Columbia Pictures has released a special 25^th–anniversary-edition DVD of Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi. It was released in December 1982 and ran 191(188) minutes and won 8 oscars, including Best Actor and Best Picture. Music by Ravi Shankar won Best Music, original score. It starred Ben Kingsley, Candace Bergen, Martin Sheen, John Gielgud. It was filmed on location.

Read the reluctantly positive article about the movie by Reihan Salam in Slate Magazine.

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Jesus’s tomb

Members of the media at a news conference in New York photograph two ossuaries (a chest, building, well or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains) said to have been found in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Talpiot Jerusalem in 1980 that may have held the bones of Jesus and Mary Magdalene February 26, 2007. Filmmaker James Cameron unveiled the artifacts in New York Monday to promote a documentary film which claims scientists may have found the lost tomb of Jesus Christ and that Jesus and Mary Magdalene may have had a son named Judah.

26 Feb 2007 REUTERS/Mike Segar

Notes on a Scandal (film)

The film is based on Zoe Heller’s book What Was She Thinking?It’s not surprising they dropped the original title, it is kinda dumb. I wonder who thought of the title…the author, the publisher, and who agreed to it?

But I digress. The movie was astonishing. Judy Dench, Cate Blanchett – marvelous. It was directed by Richard Eyre.

A comment at IMDB says: State of the art acting by Dench, Blanchett and (Bill) Nighy. The User rating is 7.7/10.

Dench looked the part perfectly: old, wizened, chunky, plain, very unattractive, old spinster.

Blanchett was sexy, diaphanous, with porcelain skin, lovely and hippyish.

Summary of the film: A pottery teacher (Blanchett) enters into an affair with one of her students, causing upheaval in her personal and professional lives.

View trailers here.

ReadingGroup Guide in case you want to read the book.

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