HWD Hospital Radio: Moviewatch Online: February 2008
Quotation Quiz:
"I'm not as dumb as you look."
It may be a well known phrase but what film was it used in? The answer
is at the bottom of the page.
Our feature presentation: 21
"Iron Man" , released on May 2, is an action film based on a Marvel comic super-hero. It stars Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, who develops a hi-tech suit and uses it in his fight against crime.
Out a week later, Sigourney Weaver and Greg Kinnear are among the cast of "Baby Mama". A comedy about a single career woman who hires a working class woman to be a surrogate mother.
Also out on May 9, there is "What Happens In Vegas". It’s a romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz playing two strangers who get hitched in Vegas after a drunken night on the tiles.
Forthcoming attractions:
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is released on May 22 and Dr. Jones returns to whip up some action 19 years after finding the Holy Grail. Steven Spielberg directs Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, John Hurt and Ray Winstone.
And at the end of the month, ‘Sex And The City’ gets a big screen outing with Carrie Bradshaw and her gal pals back for another helping of Manhattan-based mini adventures.
Moviewatch grapevine
Even Tobey Maguire has been bitten by the comic book bug. He'll produce "Afterburn", which is a post-apocalyptic adventure based on the ‘Red 5’ series. The story begins one year after a massive solar flare toasts half the planet and treasure hunters begin raiding the scorched wasteland to retrieve valuable artefacts.
The writer of "Superman Returns", Michael Dougherty will write and direct "Calling All Robots". Robert Zemeckis is producing this animated sci-fi adventure which will use the same type of performance capture technology recently seen in "Beowulf".
Hugh Jackman will take the wheel in "Drive", but it's Neil Marshall who'll be directing this adaptation of the John Sallis novel. The story follows the exploits of a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for the criminal fraternity.
Catherine Zeta-Jones will star in a romantic comedy for writer-director Bart Freundlich. The film, which is as yet untitled, unfolds in New York and centres on a 25-year-old man and his growing fondness for a new neighbour - an attractive older woman with a child.
Gary Oldman is joining the cast of "Rain Fall". It's a thriller set in Japan, adapted from the best-selling novel by US author Barry Eisler. The hero of the piece is a contract killer forced to protect the daughter of one of his victims against assassination by the CIA. Oldman will be a supporting actor opposite main players Shiina Kippei and Akiho Hasegawa.
British actress Lena Headey, previously seen in "St Trinians" and "300", will feature opposite Josh Lucas in "Tell-Tale". It's an updated version of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart" being produced by Ridley Scott and directed by up-and-comer Michael Cuesta. Lucas takes centre stage as a single father who undergoes a heart transplant operation and is then drawn into a perilous mission to find the man who killed his donor.
And crime writer Richard Price has been hired to adapt his own novel "Lush Life" for the big screen. He recently won an Edgar Allan Poe Award as part of the writing ensemble behind HBO series "The Wire" which, like this project, delves deep into police procedure. Set on the Lower East Side of New York, it starts when a restaurant manager and his bartender decide to take a drunken friend home. On the way, one of the men is shot dead in a mugging gone wrong.
Quotation quiz answer:
The quote came from Stan Laurel in "Their First Mistake"