Movies
These are video movie reviews, movie trailers, and websites of the latest movies. The C1N Movie section includes Dan Culberson’s Hotshots Movie Reviews with a new review every week. We also show our C1N trailer pick of the week by Aaron Smith which is about 40 years younger than Dans taste. Show times and ticket avails are up. Look for film festivals, movie news, events, and news about the pictures here too.
Religulous – Movie Trailer
Sep 6th
Borat director Larry Charles follows host Bill Maher as he travels the continents interviewing various subjects about God and religion.
“Tropic Thunder” Movie Disguised as Another Movie
Sep 4th
Movie Disguised as Another Movie
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
TROPIC THUNDER is an R-rated comedy that is a spoof of war movies, of Hollywood actors, and of Hollywood itself, but the best thing in it is a famous actor spoofing himself that you might not even recognize.
And, no, I am not talking about Robert Downey, Jr.
Nor am I talking about Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Nick Nolte, or Matthew McConaughey, who also appear in the movie.
The story is about the modern-day making of a Vietnam war movie, and it is one of those disastrous efforts in which everything that can go wrong does go wrong, and then even more goes wrong on top of that. In fact, after just five days of shooting in Southeast Asia, the project is already one month behind schedule.
The studio wants to shut down the production, but the director comes up with a novel plan to save time and money. He sets the five main actors down in the middle of the jungle, tells them that they have to reach a certain destination on a map, explosions will go off around them, hidden cameras will record the action, and the scene won’t be over until they reach their final destination.
Unfortunately, something goes horribly wrong right at the start and the production shuts down, but the actors don’t know that and keep following the plan.
One of them is Kirk Lazarus, an Australian five-time Oscar winner who is the epitome of method acting. He is playing a Black sergeant, has undergone a skin treatment that actually turned his skin dark, and he stays in character, he says, until he does the DVD commentary for the movie.
In fact, he says, “I’m the dude playing the dude, disguised as another dude.”
So, the movie becomes a one-joke movie: lost in the jungle without a clue.
But the actors fight among themselves, one gets separated from the rest, and it becomes a two-joke movie.
Then they encounter a drug gang whom they mistake for actors playing enemy soldiers, and it becomes a three-joke movie.
Finally, back in Hollywood the foul-mouthed head of the studio is ranting and raving, the lead actor’s agent is trying to negotiate perks for his client, and it becomes a four-joke movie.
TROPIC THUNDER is best described as a movie playing the movie, disguised as another movie.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Rachel Getting Married – Movie Trailer
Sep 3rd
Lingering tensions clash with new hopes in director Jonathan Demme’s ensemble drama set during an idyllic wedding that threatens to descend into chaos with the appearance of the bride’s estranged sister — a volatile and unpredictable girl whose turbulent history of personal crisis and family conflict quickly threatens to take precedence over the happy ceremony. Rachel Buchman (Rosemarie DeWitt) is about to be married to the love of her life, but while the weather outside may be perfect, there’s a storm blowing in. That storm goes by the name Kym (Anne Hathaway). Kym is the family black sheep, and wherever she goes disaster is sure to follow. Now, as friends and family gather together for a memorable day of dining, dancing, and celebration, everyone braces themselves knowing that, at any given moment, old skeletons may be dragged out and dusted off for display by the bombshell who seems to have an acerbic one-liner for every situation, and a flare for drama that could set their family home ablaze. Bill Irwin and Debra Winger co-star.
