Movies!Movies!Movies!

This fall season brought about many new television shows, but I want to cover the surface of the movies of this fall and winter. There are many different genres ranging from comedies to drama opening up this fall and one director who's the talk of the town is the all-mighty Quentin Tarantino. This winter, the bloody good Quentin Tarantino returns to the silver screen with his powerful action-drama Django Unchained. In the movie, Jaime Foxx portrays the slave Django who is offered a bounty hunting job in return for his freedom. He also tracks down the unlawful man (played deviously well by motion picture royalty Leonardo DiCaprio) who bought his wife (played by Scandal star Kerry Washington). This has already received beautiful reviews and shows that Quentin Tarantino is the king of blood and mischief. He will also continue the Kill Bill saga with the third volume of the box-office smash super assassin "The Bride". Leonardo DiCaprio will also play the iconic character Jay Gatsby in the upcoming remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. In the movie, a man named Nick Carraway (former Spider-man Tobey Macguire) recalls his encounters with his rich neighbor, Gatsby, who fights for his former love Daisy. This movie comes out the day after Tarantino's Django and is receiving some Oscar buzz. In other news, Denzel Washington is going to be in another movie this year which is coming out in November. Flight is the story of a pilot with a drinking problem (played by two-time Oscar winner Washington) who saves everyone on board his plane when one of the engines gives out. This is one of the key movies of this fall-winter season and I hope that Denzel is nominated for an Academy Award. This Friday, Won't Back Down opens in theaters and I hope this movie does well at the box-office. In the movie, a teacher/mother (played by two-time Academy Award nominee Viola Davis) agrees to take over a public school (legally) with a disgruntled mother (Maggie Gylenhall) so that the kids can have a better education. Last year Viola Davis shockingly lost her second Academy Award to Meryl Streep. That was definitely the most shocking loss in Academy Award history. I mean, her performance in The Help as Aibileen was so powerful that it could rival anything Meryl Streep ever did. Hopefully, the Academy will make up their mistake by nominating Viola again. For all you "Lord of the Rings" fanatics, this should be a treat. The prequel of the lord-of-the-rings trilogy The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey opens this winter. This Peter Jackson adaption follows the travels of Frodo Baggins older relative Bilbo Baggins and explores how he came into contact with the Ring, and Smeegle. Personally, I didn't think that a prequel would be necessary for Lord of the Rings but I will still be there to see it. And lastly, Tom Hanks and Halle Berry return to the big screen in the Wachowski Bro. adaption of the book Cloud Atlas. The Wachowski brothers (The Matrix trilogy) are at it again with a movie that brings together big stars throughout six different time periods. In Cloud Atlas, the idea is stressed that no matter which time period or person, everything is related in some way and everyone has a story. Cloud Atlas has pushed the boundaries of movies by having a huge ensemble cast, over 172 hours of entertainment, and one of the biggest budgets ever of movies which haven't been co-produced by a major company ( such as Lionsgate or Universal). That pretty much concludes all of the big movies coming out at the end of this year. But before you go, I have an assignment for you. For all you buzzers out there, every other week I will give you a movie to watch and they will all be from different time periods and genres. This week, your movie is.....................Kill Bill Vol. 1. I think many of you will find this a bucket load of action and.......REVENGE.  Keep reading to see if any of your favorite entertainment news will be featured on my next blog. And as always, please send me your feedback on what I have or haven't said and I will try and change it. This is me signing out.