Wednesday, May 30, 2012

A Heart Full of Love- Les Miserables Teaser Trailer Released


After much ballyhooed casting choices, little screen stills here and there, and those paparazzi photos of a newly shorn Annie Hathaway, we're all going to finally get some kind of idea of what we're getting this Christmas in the much-anticipated screen adaptation of "Les Miserables" in the form of a teaser trailer.
Obviously it's full of stark and beautifully shabby period art direction and costumes, the faces of the cast (Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne etc) as well as stern-faced Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe, but we also get some singing.
Unlike the past few movie musicals first trailers, they don't seem to be hiding that it's a musical. We get to see the gaunt and dejected Fantine (Anne Hathaway) singing one of the show's greatest songs "I Dreamed A Dream."

Teaser after the jump

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Film Grades and Reviews: 2011

Can't Miss
A/A-

The Tree of Life
Melancholia
Moneyball
Weekend
Drive
We Were Here
Beginners

Great with reservations
A-/B+
Buck
50/50
Young Adult
Warrior
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
Shame
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
War Horse
The Artist

Good, but...
B+/B
Bridesmaids
Jane Eyre
Take Shelter
Rampart
Bill Cunningham New York
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
A Dangerous Method
Crazy Stupid Love.
Pariah
Super 8
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rango
Fast Five

Why not?
B/B-

The Skin I Live In
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
The Muppets
The Ides of March
The Descendants
Midnight in Paris
The Adventures of Tintin
Hanna
Higher Ground
Anonymous
Bad Teacher

Take Me or Leave Me
B-/C+

Gnomeo & Juliet
George Harrison: Living in the World
Page One
Being Elmo
Martha Marcy May Marlene
X-Men: First Class
The Adjustment Bureau
Source Code
Extremely Loud, and Incredibly Close
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Real Steel
Captain America: The First Avenger


Feh
C+/C

Like Crazy
My Week With Marilyn
Limitless
The Beaver
Friends with Benefits
Conan O'Brien: Can't Stop
Our Idiot Brother
Carnage
Horrible Bosses
Thor
No Strings Attached
Winnie the Pooh
The Mechanic

Not Recommended
C/C-

Immortals
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Larry Crowne
The Whistleblower
Albert Nobbs
Take Me Home Tonight
One Day

Cinematic Ebola Virus
D+ thru F

Rio
Happy Feet 2
Cars 2
Water for Elephants
Just Go With It
The Change-Up
Green Lantern
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Sucker Punch
Beastly
Going Down in La-La Land