Film Diary 2006 August

 

Friday 4th August

 

Miami Vice

Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx push up their pastel jacket sleeves for Michael Mann's big-screen take on his 80s TV series.

 

 

Ant Bully

Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts lend their voices to an animation about a destructive boy who's shrunk to the size of an ant after he floods an ant colony.

 

 

Super Ex-Girlfriend

Uma Thurman is a superhero who makes the life of her boyfriend (Luke Wilson) a living hell when he unwisely dumps her.

 

 

Neil Young: Heart Of Gold

Jonathan Demme directs the singer songwriter in concert. Emmylou Harris and friends lend support.

 

Friday 11th August

 

 

Nacho Libre

Jack Black plays a priest who must moonlight as a Mexican wrestler - or luchador - to save an orphanage from closure in the new comedy from Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite.

 

 

Harsh Times

Christian Bale stars as a man slipping back into a world of petty crime in a gritty LA drama from Training Day scribe David Ayr.

 

 

Monster House

Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Napoleon Dynamite himself, Jon Heder, are some of the fantastic cast putting themselves up for The Polar Express-style stop-motion capture in a ho-hum tale about a haunted house.

 

 

Little Miss Sunshine

Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear headline a darkly delicious comedy about the Hoover family and their efforts to ensure their daughter wins a surreal beauty pageant.

 

 

Friday 18th August

 

 

Sin City 2

Robert Rodriguez returns with yet more hard-boiled noir ripped straight from the pages of Frank Miller's graphic novels.

 

A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater gets out his high-tech drawing pencils from Waking Life for an animated take on Philp K Dick's sci-fi tale. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr star.

 

 

Snakes On A Plane

The superbly titled B-Movie starring Samuel L, a 767 and erm, lots of snakes touches down on these shores, with more than a little help from its gazillions of online fans.

 

 

Lady In The Water

M Night Shyamalan does Splash, as a mermaid (Bryce Dallas Howard) is discovered by an apartment block caretaker (Paul Giamatti).

 

 

Garfield's A Tale Of Two Kitties

Bill Murray signs on - in return for a big fat cheque, we hope - for a sequel to 2004's dismal big-screen debut of the lazy cat. Billy Connolly and The Office's Lucy Davis lend a British presence.

 

 

Hoodwinked

Glenn Close and Anne Hathaway voice an animated tale that picks off where the story of Little Red Riding Hodd ended.

 

 

Friday 25th August

 

 

Wilderness

Teenage criminals are dispatched to a prison island that comes complete with a homicidal psychopath in a gory survival pic from Deathwatch director Michael J Bassett.

 

The Break Up

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are a divorced couple who are forced to keep living together.

 

 

Severance

Brit helmer Christopher Smith (Creep) returns with a comedy horror about a sales team for a weapons company fighting a vengeful enemy - and each other - on a wild team building weekend.

 

Volver

A dead mother returns to fix family problems in Pedro Almodóvar's latest. Old friends Carmen Maura and Penélope Cruz are on hand to star.

 

How To Eat Fried Worms

A schoolkid accepts a bet of eating 15 worms in 15 days for $50 in Bob Dolman's (The Bangers Sisters) adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's popular children's book.

 

 

dont you feel its a relief that the filming for sin city 2 is running late.

Aug film diary