Review: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Cast:
          Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Samuli Edelmann, Ivan Shvedoff, Anil Kapoor, Lea Seydoux, Josh Holloway, Pavel Kriz, Miraj Grbic, Ilia Volok, Tom Wilkinson, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Mike Dopud, Ivo Novak, Brian Caspe, April Stewart and Nicola Anderson.

Director:
                  Brad Bird.

Quick Takes: The Housemaid - Le Havre - Tomboy

The Housemaid (2010)

Cast:
         Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo, Yoon Yeo-jeong, Ahn Seo-hyeon and Park Ji-young.

Director:
                  Im Sang-soo.

Review:
                The Housemaid is a South Korean melodramatic thriller that i watched earlier this year. I wasn't actually planning to watch this movie so it was a last minute thing for me. I had no idea of director Im Sang-soo nor the original movie it is based on so i really did not expect anything. The Housemaid is a movie about a maid Eun-yi, played by Jeon Do-yeon and how slowly she falls into the destructive relation with the upper-class family she is working for. Hoon played by Lee Jung-jae who is the Owner of the house gets in a physical relation with the maid while his wife Hae Ra played by Seo Woo is pregnant. They already have a daughter too. This movie starts with a scene which is not connected with the actual plot of the movie, we see a girl killing herself by jumping off the roof. This movie acts like a seductive, melodramatic soap opera thriller with some satire on the upper class life of Korea. That's not to say that it happens all the time but this is just one of the stories, fictional or taken from an incident, it happens.

Review: Weekend (2011)

Cast:
          Tom Cullen and Chris New.

Director:
                  Andrew Haigh.

Review: What's Your Number? (2011)

Cast:
          Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Joel McHale, Zachary Quinto, Martin Freeman, Andy Samberg, Anthony Mackie, Blythe Danner, Ed Begley, Jr., Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Thomas Lennon, Mike Vogel, Chris Pratt, Dave Annable, Ari Graynor, Aziz Ansari, Eliza Coupe, Heather Burns, Kate Simses, Tika Sumpter and Denise Vasi.

Director:
                  Mark Mylod.

Review: The Artist (2011)

Starring:
                  Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Uggie, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Missi Pyle, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell, Bitsie Tulloch, Beth Grant, Ed Lauter, Jen Lilley, Nina Siemaszko, Basil Hoffman, Ben Kurland and Ken Davitian.

Directed By:
                         Michel Hazanavicius.

Review: The Descendants (2011)

Starring:
                   George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Beau Bridges, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster, Patricia Hastie, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel, Milt Kogan, Laird Hamilton, Michael Ontkean and Matt Corboy.

Directed By:
                         Alexander Payne

Review: War Horse (2011)

Starring:
                  Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, Tom Hiddleston, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell, Eddie Marsan, Geoff Bell, Patrick Kennedy, Niels Arestrup, Celine Buckens, David Kross, Rainer Bock, Nicolas Bro, Leonard Carow, Robert Emms, Matt Milne, Liam Cunningham and David Dencik.

Directed By:
                         Steven Spielberg.

Review: Midnight in Paris (2011)

Starring:
                  Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Carla Bruni, Yves Heck, Alison Pill, Corey Stoll, Tom Hiddleston, Sonia Rolland, Daniel Lundh, Kathy Bates, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Emmanuelle Uzan, Adrien Brody, Tom Cordier, Adrien de Van, Gad Elmaleh, David Lowe, Yves-Antoine Spoto, Laurent Claret, Vincent Menjou Cortes, Olivier Rabourdin and François Rostain.

Directed By:
                         Woody Allen.

Review: Arthur Christmas (2011)

Starring:
                  James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Will Sasso, Ramona Marquez, Marc Wootton, Iain McKee, Joan Cusack, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Palin, Dominic West, Andy Serkis, Miggie Donahue, Laura Linney and Eva Longoria.

Directed By:
                         Sarah Smith.

Review: Puss in Boots (2011)

Starring:
                  Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris, Zeus Mendoza, Constance Marie, Guillermo del Toro, Bob Joles, Robert Persichetti, Jr. and Mike Mitchell.

Directed By:
                         Chris Miller.

Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Starring:
                  Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, Rocky Duer and Ashley Gerasimovich.

Directed By:
                         Lynne Ramsay.

Review: Certified Copy (2011)

Starring:
                  Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angelo Barbagallo, Andrea Laurenzi, Filippo Troiano and Manuela Balsimelli.

Directed By:
                         Abbas Kiarostami.

Review: Meek's Cutoff (2011)

Starring:
                  Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Neal Huff, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Tommy Nelson, Will Patton and Rod Rondeaux.

Directed By:
                         Kelly Reichardt.

Review: Another Earth (2011)

Starring:
                  Brit Marling, William Mapother, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Flint Beverage, Kumar Pallana and Richard Berendzen.

Directed By:
                         Mike Cahill.

Review: The Future (2011)

Starring:
                  Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik, Angela Trimbur, Mary Passeri, Kathleen Gati, Erinn K. Williams and Oona Mekas.

Directed By:
                         Miranda July.

Review: The Ides of March (2011)

Starring:
                  Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella, Jennifer Ehle, Gregory Itzin and Michael Mantell.

Directed By:
                         George Clooney.

Review: Dolphin Tale (2011)

Starring:
                  Harry Connick Jr, Nathan Gamble, Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Winter, Ray McKinnon, Austin Stowell, Jim Fitzpatrick, Austin Highsmith, Ashley White, Kurt Yaeger, Marc Macaulay, Rus Blackwell, Michael Roark, Juliana Harkavy and Richard Libertini.

Directed By:
                         Charles Martin Smith.

Review: Margin Call (2011)

Starring:
                  Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Aasif Mandvi, Mary McDonnell, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Ashley Williams and Al Sapienza.

Directed By:
                         J.C. Chandor.

Review: The Debt (2011)

Starring:
                  Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen and Romi Aboulafia.

Directed By:
                         John Madden.

Review: Warrior (2011)

Starring:
                  Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Kurt Angle, Jake McLaughlin, Noah Emmerich, Kevin Dunn, Denzel Whitaker, Maximiliano Hernández, Erik Apple, Vanessa Martinez, Nate Marquardt, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, Josh Rosenthal, Bryan Callen, Sam Sheridan, Justin Berg and Rashad Evans.

Directed By:
                         Gavin O'Connor.