Film Review: SKYSCRAPER (USA 2018)

July 13, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized Dwayne Johnson, film reviews, gilbert seah, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Rawson Marshall Thurber, SKYSCRAPER (USA 2018)

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A father goes to great lengths to save his family from a burning skyscraper.

Silliness is the order of the day! Universal Studios has given a $125 million budget to writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber who has been responsible for small films like DODGEBALL, WE’RE THE MILLERS and CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, the latter also starring “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson. The Rock has had two recent hits JUMANGI and RAMPAGE. Is The Rock impervious to failure? The ultra-silly SKYSCRAPER will put The Rock who plays a one-legged hero, jumper of buildings to the test.

The film begins with FBI agent Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) attempting to save a a man who is willing to kill himself and his son, but ends up with him losing his leg.

Will is now a former FBI agent and amputee. Will lives in the tallest and “safest” skyscraper in Hong Kong with his family. The skyscraper itself, known as “The Pearl,” houses several floors that function as their own society, and despite the risks highlighted by Sawyer, who is the building’s head of security, his bosses insist that it is impenetrable. True to Sawyer’s belief, the building comes under attack by terrorists, forcing Sawyer to take action. Matters are complicated further when he finds himself framed for the attack, and his family trapped above the resulting fire line.

Among the silliness:

Will hangs from buildings using duct tape.

Will uses his metal leg many times to save the day

Will is able to climb umpteen floors with that leg of his.

Thurber’s written dialogue is just as silly. At the end when all is over, Will’s wife Sarah tells him “You need a shower.” “I do” is his reply”. What a great family,” Inspector Wu retorts. As the film involves Will also saving his two kids, “Daddy, daddy,” are two words that can be heard repeatedly during the film.

The film is noticeable short of one-liners as Will is more often that not hanging for his life from the skyscraper.

SKYSCRAPER steals shamefully from many other films like TOWERING INFERNO, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and most notably, the James Bond film with the mirrors climax, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN. The film expectedly contains lots of CGI and pyrotechnics,

The cast includes lots of Asians, obviously to cater to the Chinese market. Will Trump slap a tariff on SKYSCRAPER? Singaporean Chin Han plays the skyscraper’s builder, Taiwanese Hannah Quinlivan plays a sexy Chinese fighter (what is it with her hair?) and Hong Kong’s Byron Mann plays Inspector Wu. The main villain is played by Dane Roland Møller, a terrorist. Noah Taylor first seen as a child actor in THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE makes a cameo as a baddie.

Will’s wife, Sarah (Neve Campbell) is not the usual dame in distress, screaming housewife. Here, she not only speaks Chinese but can fight her way through any number of villains. The children are the useless screaming ones that need saving.

The script calls for Will to fight both the fire and the terrorist resulting in a divided film which cannot decide which direction to go. The fire is then as easily put out as the villain dispatched (not revealed how in the review).

SKYSCRAPER is still watchable for the less demanding moviegoer as there is always something happening (silly or not) in very scene. At the time of writing, of 91% google users liked the film. As long as one is comfortable at the one legged jumper, able to leap buildings!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9QePUT-Yt8

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Film Review: MARY SHELLEY (Luxembourg/Ireland/UK 2017)

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized Douglas Booth, Elle Fanning, film reviews, gilbert seah, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Maisie Williams, MARY SHELLEY (Luxembourg/Ireland/UK 2017)

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The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

Director:

Haifaa Al-Mansour

Writers:

Emma Jensen, Haifaa Al-Mansour (additional writing by)

Stars:

Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Douglas Booth

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand,” so says Mary Shelley at the beginning of the film. We take it that the filmmakers plan to shed some light on the topic of Mary Shelley’s troubled soul, which inevitably resulted in one of the most famous horror novels of all time – “Frankenstein”.

MARY SHELLY is a biographical drama of the famous author who wrote the book “Frankenstein” by the age of 18. At the film’s start, the audience sees the younger Mary (Elle Fanning) reading and scribbling. She has trouble at home, particularly in the relationship with her step-mother and sent to live with relatives in Scotland where she meets her suitor Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Booth).

However, 15 minutes into film after Mary meets Percy, director Haifaa al-Mansour decides to concentrate her film on Mary Shelley’s first love and her romantic relationship with him (full name Percy Bysshe Shelley). The story turns out to be less a biography of the author than a period love story. Worse still, al-Mansour’s decision to have her film punctuated with Percy’s poetry distracts the fact that the film is about Mary and not about him or his writings.

The trouble with all this is that director al-Mansour is unable to sway the audience unto Mary’s side. There is hint of the need for female independence in these times, which is emphasized at the end when she has trouble getting her novel published. When told by her father (Stephen Dillan) that if she goes with Percy, she would lose the love of her father forever,” one is immediately not on her side, for Mary seems young, impetuous and impertinent. When Percy finally flirts with the younger Claire (Bel Powley) , things become clear that Percy is not the man Mary had thought him to be. It is too late as Mary is pregnant with his child.

Elle Fanning is convincing as the independent young lady who falls into hard times, due to her own fault. Douglas Booth is terribly annoying as the handsome rogue, Percy – but I suppose the character of Percy is supposed to be annoying. Tom Sturridge goes over the top in his portrayal of the even more detestable Lord Byron.

The scene of Mary comforting Claire in the woods under rain and thunder shows the director at her worst, going for cheap theatrics.

Al-Mansour’s film is beautifully created and shot in terms of period atmosphere both in the interiors to the dimly lit cobblestone street and vast green Scottish landscape exteriors. MARY SHELLEY is Saudi Arabian director Haifaa al-Mansour’s second feature after she became film society’s darling with her debut feature WADJDA. WADJA was the first film made by a female director from Saudi Arabia and the first film from Saudi Arabia o be screened at Cannes.

` But MARY SHELLEY ends up a story without a strong direction with inspiration behind Mary for her books only hinted at. One assumes it is due to her hardships – such as the haunting of her mother’s death, her distressful love affair and loss of her in infant child. In the end, the audience is still left in the dark as to the understanding of what was really at work in the soul of Mary Shelly.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-WGaZaojFc

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Film Review: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (USA 2018) ***

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized Boots Riley, film review, gilbert seah, Jermaine Fowler, Lakeith Stanfield, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU film, Tessa Thompson

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In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.

Director:

Boots Riley

Writer:

Boots Riley

Stars:

Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU are the words one often hears on the telephone when called by an annoying telemarketer. Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfiled) has just landed the job as one after an interview where he is discovered for bringing in fake trophies and prizes. He is told that one only needs to read and come to work with a smiling face to get a job. But one has to stick to the script (STTS), the most important motto and one that is pinned everywhere in notices around the office cubicles.

The film is set in an alternate present-day version of Oakland, where Cassius is having a rough life—living in his uncle’s garage with his girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson) and struggling to find a job. Strapped for cash and desperate, he lands a position as a telemarketer, but has difficulty getting people to listen to him—until he discovers a magical key (introduced to him by a fellow telemarketer played by Danny Glover) to customers’ attention: using his “white voice”. David Cross does Cassius’ white voice. Cash quickly rises to the top of the telemarketing hierarchy, but risks losing sight of his morals as he achieves greater and greater success.

Things get crazier when Squeeze (Steven Yeun) organizes a strike. But Cassius is singled out to become a power seller. He gets to meet the big guy, Steve Lift (Armie Hammer) and begins working in a stranger environment when the film becomes weirder and weirder as a satire. Nods are given to the George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” where Boxer the horse is a hard, tireless worker but eventually turned into glue when unable to work any longer.

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is a complex satire that obviously had a lot of work put into it. When Cassius gets to work in his cubicle reading his script to a customer in a home, Cassius literally drops into the homes and catches them in odd positions including making love.

The film contains no real insightful message of things that people do not already know. Besides having really impressive sets and art direction, and really hard effort put, the film is a mixed mess. One has to complement the superb coordination of work by the set and art director and writer/director Boots Riley. Riley follows the company’s motto of sticking to his script though diverting into surrealism as much as opportunities arise. One thing to be learnt from this effort is that there need be some order in the creation of a satire on disorder.

For all that has been described this overlong feeling film running at 105 minutes feels really boring for the first 30 minutes or so, as Riley sets up the stage for his satire. His film then kicks into action and pretty crazy action at that.

Though Riley’s SORRY TO BOTHER YOU might be a textbook example of maximum effort and minimum results, one cannot help but give the man (who is supposed to be an activist, musician and artist) credit for trying. It is this trying and effort that gives his film the most pleasure.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_5cO6RU3nw

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Full Review: THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS (USA 2018) ***

July 9, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized Eddy Galland, film reviews, gilbert seah, Ron Guttman, Silvi Alzetta-Reali, THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS, Tim Wardle

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New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds’ joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, …See full summary »

Director:

Tim Wardle

Stars:

Silvi Alzetta-Reali, Eddy Galland, Ron Guttman

The doc, THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS opens in the year 1980 when 19-year-olds Robert Shafran and Edward Galland found each other at the same community college and realized they were twins separated at birth. (Two coincidences here.) To each other’s surprise, they discover a third. Triplets at birth finding each other is news. The surprise triplets became fast friends and overnight media sensations. When they first found each other, they were wrestling on the floor like puppies. There are clips of the triplets on television shows and in even a movie, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN. Media highlight their similarities like their taste in women, sports, likes and habits. The differences are obviously not mentioned as these are not news-worthy items. It is a well known fact that if something is constantly brought up, people believe it to be the truth. They open a restaurant called ‘Triplets’. They make a lot of funny, enjoy each other’s company and are very happy. Can the happiness last forever? Every story eventually has a dark side. This story certainly has. This side takes over the film with it becomingly very sinister during its last half.

The dark side involves the discovery at the adoption agency that the triplets (as are other twins) were part of an experiment conducted on human behaviour.

I previewed this doc with my partner as I wanted his input on the subject of twins as he has three good friends who happen to be one of twins. To my surprise, (there seems to be surprises just jumping out with this doc), he informed me that he did not wish to see the second half of the doc as he has already seen it. Apparently, according to him, (I could not find any documentation), the second part of the do with the experiment of separation of twins at birth were already screened on TV as part of a CBC documentary series. This explains the reason the film appearing clearly divided into two parts, each very different with director Wardle never tempting to bridge the two segments or the transition in mood of the two sections at all. The result is a rather disjointed two sections of film, with the audience feeling elated initially and then disgusted at the goings-on.

The film’s best part is the insight given by a few of the interviewees. One, a lady who worked at the adoption research centre gives her opinion that it was not considered inappropriate in those days to do experiments of this kind. Psychology was new and in, and it was a cool subject then, not like today.

Wardle appears to wish to please the audience and the manipulation is clear from the film’s start. The initial meeting of Robert and Edward when Robert when to college is enacted with all the fake surprise looks of the actors. Wardle has gone so far as the film a vintage Volvo cruising down the street, the same make of vehicle Robert drove years ago.

As they say, a documentary is often as good as its subject. A far as Wardle’s documentary goes, what other film could have topped this with a more intriguing subject. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS will eventually be praised as a film despite its glaring flaws.

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS is intriguing fodder but one wishes that more conclusion would have been presented regarding the experiments.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OF0OaK3o0

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Film Review: THE DEATH (AND LIFE) OF CARL NAARDLINGER (Canada 2016) ***1/2

July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized film review, gilbert seah, grace lynn kung, Katherine Schlemmer, Mark Forward, Matt Baram, THE DEATH (AND LIFE) OF CARL NAARDLINGER

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When a mild-mannered IT specialist discovers that a man with the same name as his is missing, he goes looking for him in the Toronto ravines. But instead of finding him, he finds the missing man’s identical twin brother.

Director:

Katherine Schlemmer

Writer:

Katherine Schlemmer

Stars:

Matt Baram, Grace Lynn Kung, Mark Forward

THE DEATH (AND LIFE) OF CARL NARRDLINGER is one of those quirky little films about quirky little characters that succeeds in a quirky sort of way. Consistent, meticulous and occasionally insightful, this was the kind of Canadian film that shot directors like Atom Egoyan and Ingrid Veninger to fame.

Carl Naardlinger (Matt Baram) has spent most of his life answering questions – on the telephone. When your computer does not work – he is the IT consultant you call. Patient, intelligent and kind he is a voice in the interconnected ether – touching the lives of thousands of people he will never see, or meet. The film opens with Carl Naardlinger in action, doing what he does best on the telephone, though the caller goes on and on (comically) about her life rather tan seeking the solution from him.

The next scene is set in the Naardlinger home where Carl celebrates his birthday with his wife, Pam (Grace Lynn Kung). Pam is a real estate agent, over meticulous over her work and also in maintaining the perfect relationship with her husband. They eat healthy, speed walk daily and tell each other everything that happens daily. Well, almost. After Carl blows out the candle on his cake, they are interrupted by a knock on the door by missing persons person, Detective Renton (Anand Rajaram). A man with the same name as his has gone missing and is presumed dead. Carl instinctively feels related to the stranger that bears his own name. Pam, his wife, is unnerved by a shocking coincidence of her own, when their annoying neighbour dies after she wishes it. It seems the Universe is playing a cruel joke on them both. Things get stranger when instead of finding the missing Carl Naardlinger, Carl finds his identical twin brother Don (Mark Forward) who happens to be in town for a conference.

If all these events sound implausible, director Schleemer resolves the puzzle neatly at the end. But her film is not to be enjoyed for the puzzle but by the odd behaviour of each character in her story. Two other characters, a couple Paula (Beatriz Yuste) and Larry (Ryan F. Hughes) a non so perfect couple, acquaintances of the missing Carl come into the picture. The one common trait among all of Schleemer’s characters is neediness.

Of all the actors creating all these oddballs, Grace Lynn Kung is terrific as the perfectionist Pam. Kung won the Best Actress ACTRA Award for her role in this film.

The film is shot around Toronto in the city area and in the ravines where there still are lots of green. The script make good use of Toronto and its surroundings with familiar names (to Torontonians) of areas and streets mentioned in the film.

Given the unknown names in the cast, the odd plot and the small budget, the film might no attract big enough a crowd to give this film the credit it deserves.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWZPADPm3I&feature=youtu.be

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Film Review: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION (USA 2018) ***

July 9, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized Adam Sandler, film reviews, Genndy Tartakovsky, gilbert seah, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION, MEL BROOKS, Selena Gomez

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While on a vacation with his family, Count Dracula makes a romantic connection.

Director:

Genndy Tartakovsky

Writers:

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Stars:

Mel Brooks, Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez

According to Cineplex Magazine, writer/director Genndy Tartakovsky finally agreed to do the second sequel when his in-laws invited him and his family on a cruise ship to celebrate New Year’s Eve. This was when Tartakovsky realized that being confined to one location with ones family’s is fertile ground for the drama and disaster needed for this third outing.

The first two H.T. films were only so-so, so one wonders the reason Tartakovsky was so reluctant to do a third film. To his credit, this one is the funniest of the lot, likely because Tartakovsky has gained more experience as an animated comedic director. There are not that many jokes that involve the monsters in the confined space of a cruise ship, likely because the ship is large enough for the monsters to get lost.

Unlike most animated films (DESPICABLE ME, ZOOTOPIA) in which the plot involves something really substantial like saving the world, the lazy story involves the monsters escaping extinction as they are pursued throughout the ages by the Van Helsing family who believe that all monsters are bad and must be eradicated from the face of the earth. This is introduced at the film’s start, which is actually the film’s most hilarious bit, where the monsters are in disguise trying to pass on as humans on a train when Van Helsing suddenly appears. A chase on the top of the running train ensues with the monster all getting away with Van Helsing as the only casualty.

Dracula (Adam Sandler) agrees to go on a cruise ship with his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and his troupe of monsters that includes Frankenstein (Kevin James), the werewolf (Steve Buschemi) and the invisible man (David Spade). He goes on a date and falls in love with the ship’s captain, Erika (Kathryn Hahn) who not only happens to be a woman but Van Helsing’s daughter and has it in her blood to destroy Dracula and his pals.

With Adam Sandler leading the voice cast, one can expect the jokes to be silly. And the jokes come as silly as they get, which fortunately are quite hilarious. One complaint is that they happen a bit too fast, so that a lot will be missed if one is not paying full attention. The lazy plot allows for a lot of improvised jokes with the monsters reacting largely to each other. The voice cast is impressive, and includes the likes of Kathryn Hahn, David Spade, Wanda Sykes and even Mel Brooks. It is hard to know who is voicing which character even with Sandler voicing Dracula, as Sandler does his characterization with an East European accent.

Even a child will know that Dracula will survive once again from the clutches of Van Helsing or his daughter. Director Tartakovsky manages to sneak in a nice message or two within the proceedings.

The idea of an animated feature containing all the known movie monsters is a good one, thus spurning three in the franchise and with more, more likely to come.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5exSS74Lh0

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Film Review: FIREWORKS (Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?) (Japan 2017)

July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 festreviews 2018 movies, movie, Movie Review, Uncategorized Akiyuki Shimbô, film reviews, FIREWORKS, gilbert seah, Mamoru Miyano, Masaki Suda, Nobuyuki Takeuchi, Suzu Hirose

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Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or The Bottom? Poster

Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yûsuke and Jun’ichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to… See full summary »

Directors:

Akiyuki Shimbô (as Akiyuki Shinbô), Nobuyuki Takeuchi (co-director)

Writers:

Shunji Iwai, Hitoshi Ône (screenplay)

Stars:

Suzu Hirose, Masaki Suda, Mamoru Miyano

FIREWORKS is the hit Japanese animation feature featuring teen boys doing what they do best during their free time – chasing girls and making pranks. Despite this theme, FIREWORKS turns out to be an extremely boring exercise from the very start. Be it the unfamiliar Japanese culture but that should not be a sufficient reason.

It is based on the 1993 Japanese live-action television play of the same name, also released in cinemas in 1995, by Shunji Iwai.

The lengthy title can roughly be translated to ‘Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?’ as teen wonder as they travel to an island for the purpose of watching fireworks.

To directors Akiyuki Shinbo and Nobuyuki Takeuchi’s credit, FIREWORKS has a solid look that can pass for a Hayao Miyazaki movie. The typical Miyazaki movie regularly contains a plot that includes the element of teen true love, and part of this theme is present.

The story is set in the town of Moshimo. The vents take place from the point of view of teen Norimichi Shimada. Norimichi and his friends, Yusuke, Miura, and Junichi live while harassing their teacher and the former half galvanising over the beauty of their classmate Nazuna Oikawa, who is poised to move to a new town with her family. Nazuna, on the day she is supposed to leave, picks up a small strange-looking glass marble she finds by the sea. After school, she encounters Norimichi and Yusuke who happen to be on pool-cleaning duty. Challenging them to a swimming race, she proposes the winner has to follow whatever she says. Yusuke wins and she asks him to go together to the festival to see the fireworks.

Both Norimichi and Yusuke have the hots for Nazuna but it is the former that prevails. He uses the marble to alter time in order to eve Nazuna. And so the story goes.

The story/film can be described as a teen coming of age drama with magic though it leans more towards the whimsical than the dramatics.

The film is to be commended for its lively coloured animation with haunting music by Satoru Kōsaki

The supernatural slant is provided in the shape of the glass marble that when thrown turns back time. Unfortunately, the audience is forced one again to view a few of the boring scenes. The glass marble is thrown a couple of times. It is all about the glass marble. Nothing is mentioned of where it came from or how in got its powers.

Why would, this film, many may wonder earn a commercial release? For one, Bell Lightbox gives foreign films a chance – a good thing and also the fact that though the film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, many have praised the film for its music and animation. The film has so far grossed $26 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing anime film of 2017 and the highest-grossing Shaft (the film company that made FIREWORKS) film.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG770hOuT2k

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Happy Birthday: Toby Kebbell

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Happy Birthday actor Toby Kebbell

Born: July 9, 1982 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, UK

To play the role in the film RocknRolla (2008), written and directed by Guy Ritchie, Toby learned to play the piano and operate a semiautomatic. To get into the skin of a crack-addicted rocker, he abstained from food for three days and ate just a single meal a day for the next three weeks.

Alexander
2004
dir. Oliver Stone
Cast
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Angelina Jolie

WAR HORSE
dir. Steven Spielberg
Stars:
Jeremy Irvine
Emily Watson

RocknRolla
2008
dir. Ritchie
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
dir. Jon Turteltaub
Stars
Nicolas Cage
Jay Baruchel

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dir. Mike Newell
Stars
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Gemma Arterton

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2005
dir. Woody Allen
Cast
Jonathan Reyes Meyers
Scarlett Johansson

WRATH OF THE TITANS
dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Stars:
Sam Worthington
Liam Neeson

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Happy Birthday: Kelly McGillis

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kellymcgillis Happy Birthday actor Kelly McGillis

Born: July 9, 1957 in Newport Beach, California, USA

Married to: Fred Tillman (1 January 1989 – 2002) (divorced) (2 children)
Boyd Black (14 April 1979 – 1981) (divorced)

Kelly McGillis actually had to return to employment waiting tables after having been a prominent character in an Oscar nominated film (her first movie, Reuben Reuben).

THE INNKEEPERS
dir. Ti West
Stars:
Sara Paxton
Pat Healy

Top Gun
1986
dir. Tony Scott
Also Starring
Kelly McGillis
Val Kilmer

Witness
1985
dir. Weir
Starring
Harrison Ford
Kelly McGillis

THE BABE
1992
dir. Arthur HIller
Stars:
John Goodman
Kelly McGillis

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Happy Birthday: Tom Hanks

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Happy Birthday actor Tom Hanks

Born: July 9, 1956 in Concord, California, USA

Married to: Rita Wilson (30 April 1988 – present) (2 children)
Samantha Lewes (24 January 1978 – 19 March 1987) (divorced) (2 children)

Second actor to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, for his work in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). The first was Spencer Tracy, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).

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