| Show i Briefs I Ii ovie rie s Sun stars death and Jane I Stacie Peart Editor I t obI I i S Sunshine ns R Rr r Danny Boyles Boyle's latest flick showcases the directors director's style with out of focus camera shots and extreme dark and light settings In Inthe the film Cillian Gillian Murph Murphys Murphy's s 's sI I character narrates the journey of Icarus 2 a spaceship destined to reach and the sun The rhe small group ventures into the unknown to save humanity from a frosty existence on Earth since the planets Ice like Age-like reality Boyles Boyle's other projects 28 Days Later and The Beach have i taken on similar familiar familiarI I stories yet the director pulls 4 pulls the recognizable into something creepy realistic vf- vf well as realistic as possible and entertaining II Stardust PG 13 I This ingenious take on J pirates kings witches and anda a fallen star is witty clever cleverand cleverand cleverand and endearing Tristan Ch Charlie Cox wishes that he could travel across the wall near his village He also wishes that the town beauty his love interest Victoria Sienna Miller would return his feelings In an attempt to woo her Tristan sets up a romantic candlelight picnic where the two see a falling star Desperate to have Victoria return his love and not accept the proposal of the dashing and pompous Humphrey Tristan goes to the other side of wall walland walland walland and into a magical realm he does not yet know to fetch the fallen star When he reaches the crater where the star fell he finds Claire Danes a beautiful and precocious young woman who reveals that she is the fallen star Lovers of swashbuckling action mixed mixed- with mixed with th a modem modern sense of humor will enjoy this entertaining story as Tristan and battle witches pirates and princes Stardust brings to the screen acting greats like Michelle Robert DeNiro and Peter Becoming Jane PG Chronicling the beginning of a classic novel writer Becoming Jane unravels some of the secrets in the life of Jane Austin Anne Hathaway Known for her books Pride Prejudice Sense Sensibility and Mansfield Park Austin created an outline used in various other novels and films featuring romance and drama As the daughter of a poor fanner Austin holds her own when being pushed by her mother Julie Walters Valters Harry Hany Potter and the Order of the Phoenix into the of one eligible Englishman after another Even with the prospect of marrying a rich richman richman richman man Austin yield in favor of love over money to the dismay of her mother When Austin meets Tom Lefroy James McAvoy The Last King of Scotland she believes that she will wait not as 1 they have havea a great tragedy romance that prompts some of the characters characters' and plot twists of her most famous stories Death at a Funeral R With a like a comedy that puts the FU back into funeral the film has a lot to live up to but Death at a Funeral exceeds expectations in As a hilarious comedy about the day in the life of a funeral director Frank Oz yes he was the same guy who played Yoda in Star Wars expertly cast this off-beat off British laughter fest with actors known for their knack for dark comedy As Daniel Matthew MacFadyen Pride Prejudice tries to organize the chaos of mourners a yand famous younger brother Rupert Graves V for Vendetta and the possibility that his deceased father was gay other funeral attendees try to resolve an incident where acid is mistaken for valium and then the drub induced drug induced Simon Alan Serenity attempts to jump off the roof in the nude in front of the entire group of mourners The film features enough witty line delivery and physical comedy to please audiences with a little shock mixed inv inv- r. r r I I |
