July 30, 2007 by jameslucas.

Movie Review: Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix
Read the movie review of Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix from a teenager’s point of view.

Movie Review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Read a movie review of the newest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. As a Harry Potter fan, I approach every new movie warily. This one, though, was nearly perfect in its treatment of a book far too large to be adequately addressed in a two-hour movie.

Rupert Grint Harry Potter Interview
The star of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gets candid with ReelzChannel. Daniel Radcliffe, Eamma Watson, and Rupert Grint star in this 5th installment of the Harry Potter franchise.

Harry Potter Effects
Check out the special effects behind the Harry Potter series. Daniel Radcliffe, Eamma Watson, and Rupert Grint star in this 5th chapter to the Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Movie Reviews: SiCKO (2007)
This film is frightening and at times extremely funny. Michael Moore manages to expertly push the audience in shock and makes everyone feel like something needs to be done. I guess I feel this is a good idea, almost everyone knows of a health insurance nightmare and in many peoples opinions medical care is just too expensive but personally I had severe problems with certain aspects of Michael Moore’s techniques.

Michael Moore’s Sicko Review: A Documentary of the Sickening Health Care System in America!
A review of a simple yet powerful film, Michael Moore’s Sicko documents the American health care system and criticizes the practices and policies of various American health insurance companies.

Movie Review: Sicko
What’s wrong with the medical system in the US? Michael Moore thinks the answer is easy and he puts it on display in his latest film, Sicko.

SiCKO: Flint Couple Says Moore Saved Home
Clayton and Susan Redfield were in danger of losing their home after receiving a $66,000 bill from their insurance company. After many unheard complaints, Clayton uploaded their story to the SiCKO YouTube group page and got results. Watch their story now!

SiCKO: June 20th Lobbyist Screening in DC
Tuesday, June 20, 2007 Michael Moore held a screening in Washington, DC for SiCKO in which he invited 900 healthcare lobbyists. Watch the following to clip to see the outcome.

Movie Trailer: Hairspray
Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny (Amanda Bynes)run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin (Zac Efron), much to Tracy’s mother Edna’s (John Travolta) dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins (Jason Marsden) holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed (Elijah Kelly), Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) and her mother Velma (Michelle Pfieffer). Tracy then decides that it’s not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah), her father (Christopher Walken) and Edna, she’s going to integrate the show…..without denting her ‘do!

Hairspray Cast at MTV Movie Awards
ASL talks to Amanda Bynes, Nikki Blonsky and Elijah Kelley of the new movie Hairspray on the red carpet of the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. See more interviews from the red carpet at SocialiteLife.TV and SocialiteLife.com

Sidewalks TV: Hairspray (2007)
Host Rafael Siegel interviews Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky, who plays Tracy Turnblad, and director Adam Shankman about the film.

Hairspray (2007)
Tracy Turnbland is an overweight high school student that is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. She lives in Baltimore and everyday, she and her best friend Penny Pingleton run home to watch the show. One day a star on the Corny Collins Show abruptly leaves the show opening up a spot for hopeful dancers to audition for.

John Travolta on the Early Show
Actor John Travolta revisits his dancing and singing roots in the movie Hairspray. He tells The Early Show contributor Jess Cagle the hardest part was wearing heels.

John Waters Hairspray: Promotional Featurette
A very rare featurette on the cult 1988 film. Includes short snippets of interviews with key cast members including Divine, Ricki Lake and Debbie Harry.

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July 17, 2007 by jameslucas.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
As Harry begins his 5th year at Hogwarts School Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ministry of magic puts out lies surrounding Harry’s future confrontation with Voldermort. Hogwarts decides to bring in the strict and ruthless Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge to calm the chaos around the school.

The Houses at Hogwarts
If one character has defined literature of the last decade or so, then it has to be J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. And with a major portion of Harry’s life and adventures being unraveled at his school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it is quite obvious that there has been an increasing interest among the readers to learn and remember more about the institute and the ways in which it functions. An integral part to the school is the various houses that the students are camped into. Following is a brief write-up highlighting the major features of the houses in the Harry Potter series.

Harry’s Fifth Return In The Order Of the Phoenix
Read a synopsis and some movie facts of the newest sequel of Harry Potter’s movie.

Harry Potter Bares All!
Daniel Radcliffe bares all in Peter Shaffer’s Equus. Will this hurt the Harry Potter franchise? Dailies investigates.

Harry Potter Exclusive Cast Interview
As another year begins for Harry, at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry’s account on Voldemort’s return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. As she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they’ll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening with the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means.

Harry Potter Exclusive Sneak Peak
After a lonely summer on Privet Drive, Harry returns to a Hogwarts full of ill-fortune. Few of students and parents believe him or Dumbledore that Voldemort is really back. The ministry had decided to step in by appointing a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that proves to be the nastiest person Harry has ever encountered. Harry also can’t help stealing glances with the beautiful Cho Chang. To top it off are dreams that Harry can’t explain, and a mystery behind something Voldemort is searching for. With these many things Harry begins one of his toughest years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The Real Harry Potter Fans
Take a closer look at the #1 Harry Potter website.

Harry Potter Hollywood Premiere
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint all joined together in Hollywood to celebrate their 5th chapter in the Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix: Movie Review by Scene-Stealers
Eric and J.D., two unorthodox film critics at Scene-Stealers.com (and contestants on VH1’s World Series of Pop Culture as Westerburg High), are sharply divided on the new Harry Potter movie. Check out the uncensored review here!

Movie Review: Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
This is my review of the movie Harry Potter the order of the phoenix. See the trailer of the movie and listen to my review of the movie Harry Potter the order of the phoenix. Hope this review is helpful. Enjoy the movie Harry Potter: The Order Of The Phoenix.

Emma Watson: Harry Potter Interview
The star of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gets candid with ReelzChannel. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint star in this 5th installment of the Harry Potter franchise.

Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter Interview
The star of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gets candid with ReelzChannel. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint star in this 5th installment of the Harry Potter franchise.

Harry Potter Exclusive
Craig sits down with one of the stars of the Harry Potter franchise on Inside the British Actors Studio.

Kevin Smith Comments on Joel Siegel’s Death
The director of Clerks 2 opens up to The Film Freak about his fight with the late Joel Siegel.

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July 16, 2007 by jameslucas.

The Transformers Movie
If there is one movie that’s destined for today’s technological and special effects advances, it comes out in July of 2007: the Transformers.

4 GM Vehicles, Stars of Transformers
General Motors has recently hosted its sixth annual ten pre-Oscar fashion event at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood with four new movie star guests namely Bumblebee, Autobot Jazz, Autobot Ratchet and Ironhide —creations of DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in partnership with Hasbro’s forthcoming July 4th action-adventure release–Transformers.

Transformers Action Figures
The Transformers are back! It seems everyone is looking for Transformers action figures. The Fourth of July is highly anticipated and will not be long forgotten by Transformers fans old and new. The film, and all the hype surrounding it, is sure not to disappoint as well as the Transformers action figures and toys that have fans in frenzy!

Transformers: Movie Trailer
A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of the Pentagon, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens.

Transformers: Movie Review
Colossal robots from outer space battle it out on earth, good vs evil. A high school student and his girlfriend get caught up with the good robots to save the planet, along with the US Military. Tremendous battles with air and fire power along with awesome visual effects make this fast action movie a must see!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye!
Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel break out their renditions of the Transformers theme song! Plus, the cast tries to sell the film in 20 seconds.

Transformers: Say What?
E-asylum’s Cyndee headed out to the streets of Hollywood and asked Transformers’ fans who they thought kicked more ass, Optimus Prime or Megatron, who do you think?

Transformers: Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox
E-asylum spotlights Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel and Anthony Anderson on the film Transformers. Let’s see what they had to share with E-asylum!

Transformers: Michael Bay
E-asylum spotlights Jon Voight, John Turturro, Director Michael Bay and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg on the film Transformers. Let’s see what they had to share with E-asylum!

Michael Bay Talks Transformers
The director of Transformers talks to ReelzChannel about working with Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf.

Transformers: World Premiere
Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox launched their new movie in Westwood, CA.

Transformers: Movie Review
John Campea of The Movie Blog (www.themovieblog.com) gives his quick review of Transformers.

Transformers Effects
Take a behind the scenes look at this epic action movie.

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July 2, 2007 by jameslucas.

Why Live Free or Die Hard Must be a Box Office Hit
Bruce Willis’ career is major jeopardy unless his latest action flick surpasses the 100 million mark by August of 2007. Too much competition from newer action stars will jeopardize his long career.

Movie Review: Die Hard Series (1, 2, 3)
What differentiates these three action classics is not the way Willis plays McClane but the types of VILLAINS he faces.

Screenplay Seminar: Die Hard (1988) Deconstructed
The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon.

Bruce Willis Lives Free
Bruce Willis talks with Harry Smith about his latest flick, Live Free or Die Hard, and how the latest installment of the popular Die Hard franchise was updated for 21st century audiences.

Bruce Willis Talks to Sky News on the Red Carpet
Sky News caught up with Bruce Willis on the red carpet of his new movie Die Hard 4 in London’s Leicester Square.

Movie Review: Live Free or Die Hard
This is my review for the movie Live Free or Die Hard. When a criminal plot is in place to take down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States (and the world), it’s up to a decidedly old school hero, police detective John McClane, to take down the conspiracy, aided by a young hacker.

Justin Long talks Die Hard 4
The star of Live Free or Die Hard talks to ReelzChannel about working with Bruce Willis. Justin Long has also been in many Apple commercials as well as a number of movies.

Movie Review: Ratatouille
This is my review for the movie Ratatouille. Remy is a rat, constantly risking life in an expensive French restaurant because of his love of good food, as well as a desire to become a chef. Yet, obviously, this is a rather tough dream for a rat. But opportunity knocks when a young boy, who desperately needs to keep his job at the restaurant, despite his lack of cooking abilities, discovers and partners the young Remy. Its up to the two of them to avoid the insane head chef, bring the rest of Remy’s family up to his standards, win his partner a girl, and of course, produce the finest Ratatouille in all of France.

What is Ratatouille?
Disney’s new movie Ratatouille, to come out June 29th (Hey Disney! Free advertising!), had me wondering: what exactly is ratatouille? Sure, I’d heard of it, but I wanted to know more about the likes of a French classic that cooked up its own Disney movie recipe. So, I took to the research, and now I’m here to answer any similar questions you may have. Ask away!

Ratatouille Trailer
Academy Award-winning director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and the amazing storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios (Cars, Finding Nemo) take you into an entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of a rat and a 5-star gourmet restaurant come together for the ultimate fish-out-of-water tale. In the hilarious new animated-adventure, RATATOUILLE, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the city of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen at one of Paris’ most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage boy, who inadvertently discovers Remy’s amazing talents. They strike a deal, ultimately setting into motion a hilarious and exciting chain of extraordinary events that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. Remy finds himself torn between following his dreams or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef.

Brad Bird: The Big Cheese
In Brad Bird — The Big Cheese meet the director and creative genius behind the hit films IRON GIANT and THE INCREDIBLES and learn about his latest venture — RATATOUILLE! Watch as Brad Bird and voice actor Patton Oswalt (Remy) discuss the huge obstacles that Remy needs to overcome to live his impossible dream of working in a French restaurant!

Ratatouille: The Technical Ingredients
In The Technical Ingredients, watch as Michael Fong, the film’s Supervising Technical Director, discusses some of the new technical challenges faced by the Pixar animation team, including making water look real, clothes look wet, and fur look soft and fuzzy. Go behind the scenes and learn how they addressed these complex problems to make the world of RATATOUILLE come alive!

9-Minute Preview of Pixar’s RATATOUILLE!
Audiences eager to see Disney Pixar’s upcoming summer comedy RATATOUILLE get an early summer treat! Check out this exclusive 9-minute sequence now! RATATOUILLE — written and directed by Brad Bird (THE INCREDIBLES) — opens in theaters June 29th!

Ratatouille: Patton on Remy
Stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt (voice of Remy) talks about his character, how Brad Bird has allowed him to become part of animation history and how the self-proclaimed foodie has embodied Remy.

Ratatouille: Linguini a La Carte
The animators at Pixar take physical comedy to a whole new level with Linguini - Remy’s unlikely partner in culinary crime!

Ratatouille: Parlez Vous Francais
The filmmakers invite you to join them on their sightseeing, food eating, location scouting trip to Paris.

Ratatouille: Cooking Up CG Food
In the clip, watch as the creative minds behind Pixar’s hilarious animated-adventure talk about the challenges in bringing CG food to the big screen.

Ratatouille: Getting Into Character
Getting into Character features behind-the-scenes interviews with the Pixar crew who developed the characters, as well as test-animation sequences and discussions on how real rats were studied to create the lifelike movement in the film. Opening June 29, Ratatouille is voiced by Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn, Peter O’Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, Julius Callahan, James Remar, John Ratzenberger, Teddy Newton, Tony Fucile, Jake Steinfeld, Brad Bird and Laurent Spelvogel.

Ratatouille: The Comedians of Ratatouille!
Whet your appetite for laughter with the comedic talent behind RATATOUILLE. Brad Bird takes you into the recording sessions with Patton Oswalt (voice of Remy), Brad Garrett (voice of Gusteau), and Janeane Garofalo (voice of Colette). Disney Pixar’s RATATOUILLE opens in theatres nationwide June 29th!

Ratatouille: Pixar’s Hidden Talent
Disney-Pixar found the prefect ingredients for this summer’s freshest comedy, RATATOUILLE. RATATOUILLE opens in theatres June 29th!

Ratatouille: Scoring Ratatouille
In the new animated-adventure, RATATOUILLE, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. RATATOUILLE opens in theatres June 29, 2007!

The Must See Upcoming Blockbusters of 2007
2007 is a big year for the popcorn blockbuster. Which films should you be looking forward to for the next few months and through the summer?

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