list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Nim's Island on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Nim_s_Island/331787/default.aspx Title: Nim's Island
Year: 2008
Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Plot: A young girl living on a tropical island with her scientist father is left to fend for herself after dad's boat leaves him stranded far away and careless tour companies wreck havoc on the secluded paradise in directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett's adaptation of the popular children's book by author Wendy Orr. Realizing that she will need adult assistance if she truly hopes to save her home, the resourceful youngster soon begins exchanging e-mails with the author of a book she has been reading. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:51:30 GMTNim's Island2008Jennifer Flackett, Mark LevinA young girl living on a tropical island with her scientist father is left to fend for herself after dad's boat leaves him stranded far away and careless tour companies wreck havoc on the secluded paradise in directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett's adaptation of the popular children's book by author Wendy Orr. Realizing that she will need adult assistance if she truly hopes to save her home, the resourceful youngster soon begins exchanging e-mails with the author of a book she has been reading. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide5Slightly Tagged (1-5)532http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s331787.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Nim_s_Island/331787/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2008/5/16/29304.aspx Post By: dibot
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Body: Okay, round two for today.The Awful Truth wasn't terrible, nor was it good. Irene Dunne ("It Grows on Trees") and Cary Grant ("Walk Don't Run") have good chemistry and Grant is gorgeous as always, but I just didn't feel the repartee. The two star as a married couple who have suspicions about each other and so decide to get a divorce. Then they interfere into each other's new romantic attempts. It's a screwball comedy. And I've shown before that I don't always "get" this genre. And since it's 89% fresh here on RT, it probably is just me.Insatiable is an After Dark film and it represents on of the worst of the bunch. A really lame guy witnesses a hot vampire chick killing a homeless man. He becomes obsessed with her and attempts to capture her and teach her to feel. Boring. Poorly acted. Ludicrous plot. Please avoid.The Raven is a strange Roger Corman ("Searchers 2.0") film about warring wizards, starring Vincent Price ("Edward Scissorhands"). It's a B-movie in all its glory. There's overacting by Price and costars Peter Lorre ("The Patsy") and Boris Karloff ("The Fear Chamber"). The plot is silly. The dialogue too. The colors are over the top, and a very young Jack Nicholson ("The Bucket List") wanders around too. I quite enjoyed it. Plus, it has Price reading "The Raven" in that awesome voice.Five Easy Pieces stars Jack Nicholson ("The Bucket List") as an classical pianist who abandons his upper class life and starts working on an oil-rig. When he receives word that his father is ill, he goes to visit the life he left behind. Bringing along his somewhat trashy girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black, "One Long Night"), he confronts his old life. This is definitely a character study, and a good one. Nicholson is very revealing as he wars between his desire to rebel and his talent. I need to see this again, but enjoyed this first viewing.I took my four-year-old nephew to see Nim's Island and he mostly enjoyed it. Though he got bored a few times, I think those were the times I was most interested. Jodie Foster ("The Brave One") plays an adventure writer afraid to leave her house. She receives a S.O.S. email from a young girl, Abigail Breslin ("Definitely, Maybe"), who thinks Foster is the hero from her books. Breslin is wounded and alone on a secluded island trying to survive storms and invading tourists. Foster tries to brave the world and save her. It was amusing, especially Foster's bits. And Breslin's interactions with the island animals were really sweet. Take the youngsters.
]]>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:30:39 GMTdibotdibot Blog5/16/2008 4:30:39 PMOkay, round two for today.The Awful Truth wasn't terrible, nor was it good. Irene Dunne ("It Grows on Trees") and Cary Grant ("Walk Don't Run") have good chemistry and Grant is gorgeous as always, but I just didn't feel the repartee. The two star as a married couple who have suspicions about each other and so decide to get a divorce. Then they interfere into each other's new romantic attempts. It's a screwball comedy. And I've shown before that I don't always "get" this genre. And since it's 89% fresh here on RT, it probably is just me.Insatiable is an After Dark film and it represents on of the worst of the bunch. A really lame guy witnesses a hot vampire chick killing a homeless man. He becomes obsessed with her and attempts to capture her and teach her to feel. Boring. Poorly acted. Ludicrous plot. Please avoid.The Raven is a strange Roger Corman ("Searchers 2.0") film about warring wizards, starring Vincent Price ("Edward Scissorhands"). It's a B-movie in all its glory. There's overacting by Price and costars Peter Lorre ("The Patsy") and Boris Karloff ("The Fear Chamber"). The plot is silly. The dialogue too. The colors are over the top, and a very young Jack Nicholson ("The Bucket List") wanders around too. I quite enjoyed it. Plus, it has Price reading "The Raven" in that awesome voice.Five Easy Pieces stars Jack Nicholson ("The Bucket List") as an classical pianist who abandons his upper class life and starts working on an oil-rig. When he receives word that his father is ill, he goes to visit the life he left behind. Bringing along his somewhat trashy girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black, "One Long Night"), he confronts his old life. This is definitely a character study, and a good one. Nicholson is very revealing as he wars between his desire to rebel and his talent. I need to see this again, but enjoyed this first viewing.I took my four-year-old nephew to see Nim's Island and he mostly enjoyed it. Though he got bored a few times, I think those were the times I was most interested. Jodie Foster ("The Brave One") plays an adventure writer afraid to leave her house. She receives a S.O.S. email from a young girl, Abigail Breslin ("Definitely, Maybe"), who thinks Foster is the hero from her books. Breslin is wounded and alone on a secluded island trying to survive storms and invading tourists. Foster tries to brave the world and save her. It was amusing, especially Foster's bits. And Breslin's interactions with the island animals were really sweet. Take the youngsters. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/4/24/27768.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 4/24/2008 4:00:49 PM
Body: It happens eventually to every filmmaker and actor associated with R-rated movies*, and now Eli Roth, the “torture porn auteur” who gave us Hostel and Hostel II, is making the transition to family-friendly fare — in order to make the kids happy, of course. No, it has nothing to do with the money, which comes more easily with younger-targeted, lower-rated releases (especially when your last movie disappoints). It has to do with the realization that kids don’t have enough movies made for them, and they’d apparently like to see what Eli Roth’s talent is like. Only, up until now, they haven’t been allowed. As Roth defends the move: “Everyone I know has been saying ‘When are you gonna do a movie my kids can see?’ And finally, I’m gonna make a movie that 13-year-old kids can see.” The movie, which Roth is still scripting, is described as being inspired by Cloverfield and Transformers, with all the “mass-destruction” and “chaos and pandemonium” that would entail. But it won’t be too scary, as it’s being planned strictly to receive a PG-13 rating. Roth says he feels “like he pushed the violence in R rated movies about as far as [he] can push it,” and that he’s “bled out.” However, he isn’t completely done with the gore and promises that the unrated DVD version of this planned PG-13 movie will feature some gratuitously violent scenes shot specifically to be left on the cutting room floor. Hey, as long as the hypocritical studios allow it, that’s a brilliant idea. * Here’s a sampling of others who did it for the kids: Mark Wahlberg on making Invincible: “It’s a movie my kids can see - my nieces and nephews. I haven’t had that. None of my nieces and nephews have seen Boogie Nights, thank God! I haven’t made too many PG movies.” (via IMDb/WENN) Jodie Foster on making Nim’s Island: “I was dying to do something lighter and I was excited about a movie my kids could see.” (via Just Jared) Gary Sinise on making Mission to Mars: “I can take my kids to it and that’s a nice thing to be able to do. They’ve been asking me when I’m going to do something that they can see.” (via The Cranky Critic) The Rock on making The Game Plan (by way of reporter Marshall Fine): “Meanwhile, he’s just happy he’s finally made a movie that his 6-year-old daughter can see (”She sat all the way through it,” he notes). Like Joe in “The Game Plan,” Johnson found that parenthood required adjustments to his life that he never imagined himself making.” (via NY Daily News) Gary Oldman on making Lost in Space: “I wanted to do a movie my son could see.” (via Entertainment Weekly) Vin Diesel on making The Pacifier: “I needed to do a film that my niece and nephew could see. I needed to do a film that my godchildren could see. I needed to do a film that would dispel the fact that the only movie I’ve ever done was “Iron Giant” for these toddlers.” (via MTV) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:00:49 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com4/24/2008 4:00:49 PMIt happens eventually to every filmmaker and actor associated with R-rated movies*, and now Eli Roth, the “torture porn auteur” who gave us Hostel and Hostel II, is making the transition to family-friendly fare — in order to make the kids happy, of course. No, it has nothing to do with the money, which comes more easily with younger-targeted, lower-rated releases (especially when your last movie disappoints). It has to do with the realization that kids don’t have enough movies made for them, and they’d apparently like to see what Eli Roth’s talent is like. Only, up until now, they haven’t been allowed. As Roth defends the move: “Everyone I know has been saying ‘When are you gonna do a movie my kids can see?’ And finally, I’m gonna make a movie that 13-year-old kids can see.” The movie, which Roth is still scripting, is described as being inspired by Cloverfield and Transformers, with all the “mass-destruction” and “chaos and pandemonium” that would entail. But it won’t be too scary, as it’s being planned strictly to receive a PG-13 rating. Roth says he feels “like he pushed the violence in R rated movies about as far as [he] can push it,” and that he’s “bled out.” However, he isn’t completely done with the gore and promises that the unrated DVD version of this planned PG-13 movie will feature some gratuitously violent scenes shot specifically to be left on the cutting room floor. Hey, as long as the hypocritical studios allow it, that’s a brilliant idea. * Here’s a sampling of others who did it for the kids: Mark Wahlberg on making Invincible: “It’s a movie my kids can see - my nieces and nephews. I haven’t had that. None of my nieces and nephews have seen Boogie Nights, thank God! I haven’t made too many PG movies.” (via IMDb/WENN) Jodie Foster on making Nim’s Island: “I was dying to do something lighter and I was excited about a movie my kids could see.” (via Just Jared) Gary Sinise on making Mission to Mars: “I can take my kids to it and that’s a nice thing to be able to do. They’ve been asking me when I’m going to do something that they can see.” (via The Cranky Critic) The Rock on making The Game Plan (by way of reporter Marshall Fine): “Meanwhile, he’s just happy he’s finally made a movie that his 6-year-old daughter can see (”She sat all the way through it,” he notes). Like Joe in “The Game Plan,” Johnson found that parenthood required adjustments to his life that he never imagined himself making.” (via NY Daily News) Gary Oldman on making Lost in Space: “I wanted to do a movie my son could see.” (via Entertainment Weekly) Vin Diesel on making The Pacifier: “I needed to do a film that my niece and nephew could see. I needed to do a film that my godchildren could see. I needed to do a film that would dispel the fact that the only movie I’ve ever done was “Iron Giant” for these toddlers.” (via MTV) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/12/20/22977.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 12/20/2007 1:01:06 PM
Body: For the last twenty years, Jodie Foster has had a lot in common with Tom Hanks. They both were nominated for Oscars in 1989, and again in 1995 (she won the first time; he won the second time), a year in which they each were recognized for playing kind of retarded. Each now has two Academy Awards and each is considered a dark, dark horse for this year’s Oscar race (neither will be nominated). Both actors continue to remain at the top of America’s favorites, even when or after they star in critically scorned blockbusters. And now, Foster is apparently trying to add one more thing she has in common with Hanks: she’s gone and made her own Joe vs. the Volcano. In the trailer for Nim’s Island, we see that Foster’s character, like Hanks’ “Joe”, is a closeted, unwell human being who ends up on a mission to a little island, of which she has been deemed the savior. And like Joe, Foster meets an annoying little blond — though this time it’s child actress Abigail Breslin instead of childish actress Meg Ryan. There are, however, a lot of differences, too. And ultimately, Nim’s Island look a hundred times worse than Joe versus the Volcano — which is saying a lot (Joe has its charms, but it is truly an awful movie). (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:01:06 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com12/20/2007 1:01:06 PM For the last twenty years, Jodie Foster has had a lot in common with Tom Hanks. They both were nominated for Oscars in 1989, and again in 1995 (she won the first time; he won the second time), a year in which they each were recognized for playing kind of retarded. Each now has two Academy Awards and each is considered a dark, dark horse for this year’s Oscar race (neither will be nominated). Both actors continue to remain at the top of America’s favorites, even when or after they star in critically scorned blockbusters. And now, Foster is apparently trying to add one more thing she has in common with Hanks: she’s gone and made her own Joe vs. the Volcano. In the trailer for Nim’s Island, we see that Foster’s character, like Hanks’ “Joe”, is a closeted, unwell human being who ends up on a mission to a little island, of which she has been deemed the savior. And like Joe, Foster meets an annoying little blond — though this time it’s child actress Abigail Breslin instead of childish actress Meg Ryan. There are, however, a lot of differences, too. And ultimately, Nim’s Island look a hundred times worse than Joe versus the Volcano — which is saying a lot (Joe has its charms, but it is truly an awful movie). (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/writer/MemberTagFilms.aspxwriter
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