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HWD Hospital Radio: Moviewatch Online: February 2008

Quotation Quiz:

"Sir, I've inspected this boat, and I think you ought to know that I can't swim."

From which film does that piece of information for the boss come? The answer is at the bottom of the page.

Our feature presentation: 21

"The Incredible Hulk" is released on Friday 13th June. Edward Norton takes on the role of Dr Bruce Banner, who becomes the mean green Incredible Hulk whenever he gets stressed. As he battles to control the monster inside, he's pursued by Tim Roth as The Abomination.

Released a week later there’s "The Boy In Striped Pyjamas". David Thewlis and Sheila Hancock star in this family drama about a young boy who moves to the countryside and befriends the only other boy who appears to be around.

The second Narnia film comes out on 26th June. "Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian" sees Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia and embark on another adventure with Aslan trying to return the rightful heir, Prince Caspian, to the throne.

Forthcoming attractions:

The animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda" is due to be released on 4th July. This is about a lazy panda who has chosen to defend The Valley of Peace and has to be trained to fight. An all-star cast lend their voices, including Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, and Angelina Jolie.

While the following week, 11th July, we see the release of "Mamma Mia". Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Amanda Seyfried bring Abba songs to the big screen, as a bride-to-be tries to find her real father.

And Eddie Murphy plays Dave in ‘Meet Dave‘, whose body is in fact a spaceship operated by tiny aliens. While trying to save their planet, Dave throws their mission off-course by falling in love with an earth woman, played by Elizabeth Banks.

Moviewatch grapevine

Rick Yune, previously seen in Die Another Day, has been cast as the villain in "Ninja Assassin". Naomie Harris has also joined this martial arts flick being produced by the Wachowski brothers and directed by James McTeigue. Korean star Rain is taking centre stage as a man raised on a ‘ninja farm’ who rubs Yune the wrong way when he turns his back on tradition.

America Ferrera, star of "Ugly Betty", has landed a starring role in ‘An Invisible Sign Of My Own‘. A coming-of-age drama, the film will see Ferrera building on the persona she established in Ugly Betty, playing a lonesome maths teacher.

It’s reported that Karl Urban will lead the cast of a 3D thriller. He will star in ‘Relentless‘, the story of four extreme sports pros who crash land in the Amazon jungle only to find themselves stalked by murderous natives. Director Demian Lichtenstein has been learning about 3D filmmkaing on the set of James Cameron's gargantuan sci-fi epic "Avatar".

Sony Pictures have bought the rights to "Elegy" starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. Spanish director Isabel Coixet has already finished filming this drama based on Philip Roth's short novel "The Dying Animal". Kingsley plays a literature professor who has an affair with Cruz playing a beautiful young student. The professor struggles to make a commitment and, years later, is faced with the consequences of his indecisiveness. Other stars in the film include Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry of Blondie fame.

And finally "Clock Tower" is the latest videogame to get the big screen treatment. Martin Weisz has been hired to direct this spooky thriller following a woman who is committed to an asylum and, "is haunted by a horror she does not understand".

Quotation quiz answer:

The quote came from David Niven in 1961’s "Guns of Navarone"

 

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