Transformers: Dark of the Moon Release Date Moved Up

Paramount Pictures has moved up the release date for Transformers: Dark of the Moon a couple of days from July 1, to June 29.

This movie was always guaranteed to be a huge blockbuster, before even a script was written or a title given, and now, we're going to get to see the next chapter of the story a little earlier than expected.

Paramount also released a new clip from the movie, which you can see above, featuring Josh Duhamel explaining to some of his troops the risks of getting some payback.

Very noticeably, none of the trailers include one shot of any Transformers in action, but since this is the first Transformers to be in 3D, to me, it sounds just like Michael Bay to make our first experience of our favourite robot friends be in the theatre, 3D glasses firmly in place. At this point, I think I'll actually be disappointed if they release a trailer with any Autobots or Decepticons in it. This is one movie I'm pretty stoked to see in 3D.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Johhny Depp gave another great performance as his iconic character Captain Jack Sparrow.

The movie opens with Johnny executing a complicated, and quite clever plot to save his faithful first mate, Gibbs from the gallows. When the plan backfires in the last moment, the real adventure begins.

Sparrow ends up being conscripted by none other than Captain Barbossa who has become a Privateer in the King's Navy, but all is not as it seems. Sparrow also hears, from several sources that he's been putting together a crew in London, problem is, that's the first he's heard about it.

Eventually, Jack crosses paths with an old lover, Angelica,  played by Penelope Cruz, who is also the daughter of the legendary and terrible Blackbeard, wonderfully played by Ian McShane. Or is she?

In order to access the powers of the Fountain of Youth, there is a special ritual which must be performed, involving two chalices belonging to Ponce deLeon, the original explorer that went in search of the Fountain of Youth, and a tear from a Mermaid.

Along with all this, there are not two, but three different parties racing to get all the components for the ritual and get to the fountain first.

For me, the absence of Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom mattered not at all.The story line was just as strong, the adventures of trying to get everything they needed for the fountain caused more than enough mayhem, and Johnny Depp was great, yet again.

Look out for cameos from Judi Dench and Keith Richards. Also, for those of you who were at the theatre last night and left before the end of credits......................well, this is The Spoiler Free Movie Review, so I can't tell you what happens, but you're gonna want to find out!

Oh, and one last thing, as far as seeing this movie in 3D, I'm gonna say take it or leave it. I don't think it was worth my extra cash. It seems like only a few scenes were filmed in 3D, and I felt like the scenes for the productions companies had more interesting 3D animation than most of the 3D scenes in the movie.

Melancholia Release Date

Its finally official. I use imdb.com for a good chunk of my blog research, and I've been waiting for them to confirm for me the release date of Melancholia and after checking today, I've found that the US release date for this movie will in fact be November 4, 2011.

This movie is getting a lot of buzz, and my posts for it are among the most visited this week, so it feels like November is going to be a long wait for a lot of us, but I'm sure we'll be able to bear it tolerably well.

Something Borrowed - Its a thin line between love and friendship.

So I just got in from finally seeing Something Borrowed, and let me just say, thank goodness John Krasinski was cast in this movie.

Something Borrowed is very much your typical romantic comedy. There's a selfish friend, Darcy (Kate Hudson) who takes advantage of her very selfless friend, Rachel. (Gennifer Goodwin) The selfish friend is engaged to this hot, but also intelligent, sensitive guy, Dex (Colin Egglesfield) who Rachel is actually in love with, you know how it goes.

But imagine for a moment your typical romantic comedy without one single moment of comedy. I know, scary right? Well, if it wasn't for John Krasinski, that's exactly what this movie would have been. Krasinski plays Ethan, a childhood friend of both Darcy and Rachel, who hasn't been sucked into all that is Darcy, and still cares for the feelings and well being of Rachel. I've always loved John Krasinski, and in Something Borrowed he gave another of his terribly subtle, but all the more funny for the finesse performances. Every single laugh out loud moment in this movie was either because of something his character was doing, or was precipitated by something he was doing.

Gennifer Goodwin is always charming, but I would like to see her play the lead in less of an ensemble cast setting. I mean, sure, technically this movie was about her character, but her character spent a lot of the movie living in the background of her own life. Okay, so she got it together in the end, but I'd love to see her play someone who starts out the story with it together, and deals with other things along the way.

As for Kate Hudson, as far as I can see, she played the exact same character that she played in Bride Wars with Anne Hathaway, the only difference being that her character in this movie was simply completely selfish, without any of the redeeming qualities of the character she played in Bride Wars.

It turns out I've seen Colin Egglesfield in quite a few things, whether movies or TV shows, but I really don't remember him from any of them, being that the things I've seen that he was in, were obviously bit parts for him. I thought he did a good job, even managing to get teary-eyed in the appropriate places.

Lets face it, we don't go to romantic comedies to have some kind of epiphany on life, or even expecting to be taken on some kind of emotional roller coaster, and Something Borrowed didn't disappoint. I went in with very specific expectations, and I got exactly what I expected.

The Art of Getting By - Coming June 17

Director - Gavin Wiesen

Main Characters
George Zinavoy - Freddie Highmore
Sally Howe - Emma Roberts

It looks to me like The Art of Getting By is a movie that is going to speak to a lot of people. So many children and young adults are looked at as lazy or slackers when in reality, their passion cannot be satisfied by the rigid classroom systems that are employed in North America. Although I have the type of personality that thrives on routine and procedure, and I never had those problems, I certainly remember people that I went to school with that fell right into this category.

Freddie Highmore plays George Zinavoy, a high school student who's passion is obviously art. So much so that none of his other school assignments seem to matter much to him. Yet, somehow, he's made it all the way to his senior year.

He is befriended by Sally Howe (Emma Roberts) who is popular, but complicated. Sally sees George for who he really is, rather than what he appears to be at first glance.

I first saw Freddie Highmore in Finding Neverland and a year later in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But it was in 2007s August Rush that i really fell in love with the young actor. Now, four years later, he looks exactly the same, just taller, and I'm very excited to see him in action again.


Emma Roberts, best known to me from Nancy Drew  and  Valentines Day is a promising young actress in her own right. I have no doubt that based on the work she's done so far, she will have a great career based on her own abilities, not just getting by because of having shared a name with her famous aunt.

Other names of note in this movie are Alicia Silverstone who plays a teacher and Blair Underwood, who plays the Principal

I like that this coming of age romance/drama is going to be based around the kid who so often in school is the outcast. It seems to me like these movies often center around the athletes and cheerleaders, prom kings and queens. But we don't all fall in to those categories, and the rest of us need stories that we can relate to as well.