LOOPER REVIEW!!! ****/****..!!!

Dir: Rian Johnson; stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Looper is a brash choice for a curtain-raiser – supposedly the first science fiction movie to open the Toronto film festival in 37 years, and I'm guessing the first Bruce Willis flick, too. The director is Rian Johnson, stepping up the budget and the decibels after his ingenious calling-card Brick (2005) and snazzily-coutured caper The Brothers Bloom (2008).

The high-concept premise is a grabber, too. We're in Kansas in 2044, where time-travel has yet to be invented. 30 years later, if you want to off someone, you send them back in time and have a paid assassin do your dirty work. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, one of these so-called "Loopers", whose stockpiling of blood money comes at a cost: when the corporation who pays them decides enough's enough, their own future self will be sent back for death by blunderbuss.

Gordon-Levitt's face is the first really odd thing about the film. He's like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, only uglier. A prosthetically bulked-up nose and reshaped eyebrows tip us the wink. In time, the character will be Willis – there's even a funny little moment with him checking his hairline. He doesn't look like a young Bruce Willis, though, so much as a gene-splicing experiment gone a bit screwy. It's a creepier effect than probably intended.

Once Willis has arrived, briskly dodged his own execution, and both young and old Joes go on the run from weary boss Abe (Jeff Daniels) and his shotgun-wielding goons, the film starts to devolve into a fairly disjointed futuristic time-travel chase thriller with the trappings of plenty you'll have seen. There's a bit of Twelve Monkeys, more than a dash of Terminator 2. Johnson has novel conceits stuffed right up to his elbows, but they don't always feel organic to the story, and there's a growing whiff of illogical balderdash to his whole plot: it's as if the script was started by Christopher Nolan and completed in hair-pulling fits and starts by M. Night Shyamalan. Why – given that the time-travel end of it can be banished to any future point – isn't the story set now? I suspect the answer is that we don't have cool enough hoverbikes yet.

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Every decade, the British film monthly Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."

• Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted number one in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002. A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the top in 1992 and 2002. Citizen Kane was also selected as number one in a Village Voice and in a Time Out critics' poll. It was listed as the greatest American film by theAmerican Film Institute in both the first (1998) and second (2007) versions of its 100 Years... 100 Movies list.

• Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll, in 1952. It also came number seven in 1962 and number six in 2002. It also came number ten in the 2012 directors' poll.

• Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane. Tokyo Story also appeared in the Sight & Sound critics' poll at third place in 1992, fifth in 2002, and third in 2012. Tokyo Story also topped a 1998 critics' poll conducted by Asian film magazine Cinemaya, where it was followed by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) tied at second place.

• Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.It also came number 7 in 1982, number 4 in 1992, and number two in 2002. In the directors' poll, it came number 6 in 1992 and 2002, and number 7 in 2012.

• La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) by director Jean Renoir was named the greatest film by the French film magazine Positifin 1991. It also holds the second slot in the Village Voice poll, and is the only movie to have appeared in every one of the Sight & Sound polls.

• The Searchers (1956) is the film most often mentioned in a poll of the favorite films of directors by German language Steadycam magazine in 1995.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Great Gatsby film delayed to 2013

Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of The Great Gatsby will not be released until next summer, Warner Bros has announced.

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The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, had been due for release on Christmas Day in the US and the day after in the UK.

However Warner Bros said it was pushing the film back to ensure it "reaches the largest audience possible".

The release date puts the film, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, out of contention for next year's Oscars.

A Christmas release would have pitted the film against other highly anticipated movies including Les Miserables, Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher and the first instalment of The Hobbit trilogy.

It will now battle against summer blockbusters like Iron Man 3, Star Trek 2, Monsters University and new Superman film Man of Steel.

A summer release also makes Luhrmann's film a much less-favoured contender for the 2014 awards season. Film studios generally line up Oscar contenders for December and January, which is when Academy voters receive their ballot papers.

Warner Bros gave no explanation for the delay of The Great Gatsby, simply saying it wanted to make sure "this unique film reaches the largest audience possible".

However, two unnamed sources close to the production told the LA Times that the extra time would allow Luhrmann "more time to finish its extensive 3D effects and a planned all-star soundtrack".

"Based on what we've seen, Baz Luhrmann's incredible work is all we anticipated and so much more," Dan Fellman, Warner Bros's president of domestic distribution, said in a statement.

"It truly brings Fitzgerald's American classic to life in a completely immersive, visually stunning and exciting way.

"We think moviegoers of all ages are going to embrace it."

International distribution president Veronika Kwan Vandenberg added: "The responses we've had to some of the early sneak peeks have been phenomenal, and we think The Great Gatsby will be the perfect summer movie around the world."

Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher also star in Luhrmann's adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel.

Django Unchained..."D" Silent...

Django Unchained is an upcoming Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kerry Washington, and is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2012 in the United States and Canada. Principal photography started in California in November 2011, Wyoming in February 2012, and at the a National Historic Landmark Evergreen Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, outside of New Orleans in March 2012.Django Unchained is set in the Deep South, and follows Django (Foxx), a freed slave who treks across America with Dr. King Schultz (Waltz), a German dentist turned bounty hunter. The title and setting of the film appear to be inspired by the 1960s spaghetti western Django and its many unofficial sequels, with original Django star Franco Nero having a cameo.

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Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave living in the Deep South after having been separated from his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). When Django is held for a slave auction, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a bounty hunter, frees Django from his vicious masters, the Speck brothers (James Remar and James Russo) and gives him the option of hunting down and killing the Brittle Brothers, a ruthless gang of killers whom only Django has seen. In return, Schultz will free Django from slavery completely and help rescue Broomhilda from the plantation of the charming but ruthless Francophile owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Looper Upcoming Sci-Fi Action Flick

Looper is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Rian Johnson with a time travel plot. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. Filming began in Louisiana on January 24, 2011.The film combines strong corporate influences for dealing with criminal organizations, technology for the time-travel machine itself, as well as film noir, due to the film's dark, gritty, and bloody plot. It has been selected to be the opening film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

n a futuristic gangland in the year 2047, a 25-year-old killer named Joseph Simmons (Gordon-Levitt) works for a mafia company in Kansas City as a "Looper." Loopers kill and dispose of agents sent by their employers from corporate headquarters in Shanghai from the year 2077. Loopers are foot soldiers, paid on the terms that all targets must never escape. When Simmons recognizes his target as a future version of himself (Willis), his older self escapes after incapacitating him. The resulting failure of his job causes his employers to come after him, forcing him to fight for his life as he hunts his older self.

The Bourne Legacy

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'Disappointing': Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz in The Bourne Legacy. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Reeking of a desperate attempt to keep a valuable franchise afloat, this disappointing fourth Bourne film is written and directed by the screenwriter of the preceding trilogy, a specialist in conspiracy thrillers. The idea is that the military-industrial complex, against which Eisenhower warned in his 1961 farewell address as president, has been running numerous experiments to produce super agents like Bourne to fight in the cold war and the "war on terror". Having been exposed in The Bourne Ultimatum (partly by a Guardian journalist), the chilly super patriots running these projects must close down shop and terminate with extreme prejudice its staff and their creations. Prominent on the list is agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a leading product of the clandestine programme Outcome, along with the now guilt-ridden research scientist (Rachel Weisz), who knows him only by a number.

To obtain the special drugs that keep Cross alive, they journey to the Philippines, where a big pharma company manufactures this elixir, and where the film pushes the envelope in Manila with the most drawn-out chase in all the Bourne pictures. It lasts 15 minutes, crossing rooftops on foot and speeding through traffic jams in cars and on bikes, but it's not a patch on the infinitely cheaper, far more ingenious seven-minute handheld chase around Hong Kong in Wayne Wang's low-budget 1989 thriller Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper is Expensive. Finally Renner and Weisz sail into the sunset, presumably heading towards Bourne on the Fourth of July, Bourne Free and the ultimate prequel, Bourne Yesterday.

Review of Expandable 2

It's rare that a sequel trumps the original, but The Expendables 2 manages to do just that, with a steady stream of one-liners and welcome, weathered faces, as well as a few new ingredients. E2 seems even more self-aware of its own silliness, especially with Jean-Claude Van Damme as the villain (named Vilain, of course), and Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger popping up in smaller roles alongside previous Expendables Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews, and Randy Couture.

Then again, The Expendables wasn't any sort of action classic; it was like writer/director/star Stallone threw a whole bunch of ideas at the wall to see which would stick, then added massive amounts of weapons and the occasional hand-to-hand combat. It was popular, but it definitely not the kind of awesome actioner that the stars were able to make 10 or 20 years ago. There's the rub, actually; like women actors who have written or directed their own projects because nothing else was available or satisfactory, Stallone created The Expendables because Hollywood didn't seem to know what to do with him and his fellow action stars as they got older. It's easy to criticize Stallone et al for not doing the same amount of stunt work or hand-to-hand fighting that, for example, Statham is capable of, but the whole thrust of the movie is that they're expendable -- to themselves, to the world, and, until Stallone kickstarted these movies, to Hollywood.

E2 is still clumsy, but it's a little more adventurous and a little more introspective. Two new additions to the crew seem to throw everyone for a loop in one way or another. Liam Hemsworth shows up as Bill the Kid, a sniper who left the military after a raid in Afghanistan went horribly wrong; his age and hopefulness, not to mention physical prowess, is a foil the Sylvester Stallone's Barney Ross, and one that Barney is well aware of. Nan Yu joins the team as Maggie, who is apparently the only person who can disarm the safe that holds whatever secret thing Church (Willis) has sent them to retrieve. And if the Expendables don't get her back alive, Church will make them pay, because even though Maggie is some sort of multilingual computer genius with a vicious roundhouse, she's a lady. On one hand, perhaps we're supposed to gather that this group of old dogs is learning new tricks by having to deal with a smart, capable woman in their midst; the attempts Gunner (Lundgren) makes to flirt with her are clunky and goofy, and she's obviously way too smart for fall for that claptrap. On the other, when she whips out some instruments of torture, Barney cracks, "What are you going to do, give them a pedicure?" And, of course, her role also devolves into an incredibly stilted and unbelievable romantic interest for Barney. One point for trying, but two points deducted for falling into the romantic interest trap.

At times it's hard to tell whether or not we're laughing with the crew or at them. Plus, because of how jam-packed the cast is, some actors get the short end of the stick. Statham is the most charismatic of the bunch, and he also has the most impressive hand-to-hand fight scenes, but the emphasis in E2 is sheer firepower, so he doesn't get nearly enough screen time. Couture is fairly forgettable while Lundgren plays the lunkiest of lunkheads; the running joke is that he has a chemical engineering degree from MIT and was a Fulbright Scholar, which is supposed to be funny... except it's also true. (We're to assume he's mended his evil ways between the first Expendables and the second.) Is Lundgren agreeably poking fun at himself the same way Schwarzenegger hams it up at every turn? Or does E2 have shades of JCVD, which stars Van Damme was a washed-up action star? Are the emotional moments supposed to fall so hilariously flat on purpose? For some reason, it seems important to tease out which parts of these movies are earnest and which are tongue-in-cheek.

There's a weird melancholy about watching this group of aging action stars that has the same tang as watching someone you love grow older, especially as they try so very hard to fight the ravages of time. If you dig a little deeper, maybe deeper than E2 warrants, you could find a well of sadness below the back-slapping antics. The world has changed, and even though Stallone and his crew have muscles so hard and juicy they could pop out of their skin like grapes, they can't compete with Bill the Kid and Maggie and others like them. They know it, and we know it, and while it's good fun to see old friends or onscreen enemies kill scores of bad guys (led by JCVD sporting a truly horrible fake Baphomet-style neck tattoo), there are better, smarter, more exciting and more interesting action films on the horizon.

Top 100 movies Hollywood

1.	Citizen Kane (1941)
2.	The Godfather (1972)
3.	Casablanca (1942)
4.	Raging Bull (1980)
5.	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6.	Gone with the Wind (1939)
7.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8.	Schindler's List (1993)
9.	Vertigo (1958)
10.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
11.	City Lights (1931)
12.	The Searchers (1956)
13.	Star Wars (1977)
14.	Psycho (1960)
15.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16.	Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17.	The Graduate (1967)
18.	The General (1927)
19.	On the Waterfront (1954)
20.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
21.	Chinatown (1974)
22.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
23.	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24.	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
25.	To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
26.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27.	High Noon (1952)
28.	All About Eve (1950)
29.	Double Indemnity (1944)
30.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
31.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32.	The Godfather Part II (1974)
33.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
34.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
35.	Annie Hall (1977)
36.	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37.	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40.	The Sound of Music (1965)
41.	King Kong (1933)
42.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45.	Shane (1953)
46.	It Happened One Night (1934)
47.	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48.	Rear Window (1954)
49.	Intolerance (1916)
50.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
51.	West Side Story (1961)
52.	Taxi Driver (1976)
53.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
54.	M*a*s*h (1970)
55.	North By Northwest (1959)
56.	Jaws (1977)
57.	Rocky (1976)
58.	The Gold Rush (1925)
59.	Nashville (1975)
60.	Duck Soup (1933)
61.	Sullivan's Travels (1958)
62.	American Graffiti (1973)
63.	Cabaret (1972)
64.	Network (1976)
65.	The African Queen (1951)
66.	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67.	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68.	Unforgiven (1992)
69.	Tootsie (1982)
70.	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
73.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
75.	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
76.	Forrest Gump (1994)
77.	All the President's Men (1976)
78.	Modern Times (1936)
79.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
80.	The Apartment (1960)
81.	Spartacus (1960)
82.	Sunrise (1927)
83.	Titanic (1997)
84.	Easy Rider (1969)
85.	A Night at the Opera (1935)
86.	Platoon (1986)
87.	12 Angry Men (1957)
88.	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89.	The Sixth Sense (1999)
90.	Swing Time (1936)
91.	Sophie's Choice (1982)
92.	Goodfellas (1990)
93.	The French Connection (1971)
94.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
95.	The Last Picture Show (1971)
96.	Do the Right Thing (1989)
97.	Blade Runner (1982)
98.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99.	Toy Story (1995)
100.	Ben-Hur (1959)

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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles.Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema. Even though much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as West Los Angeles and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
As a district within the Los Angeles city limits, Hollywood does not have its own municipal government. There was an official, appointed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who served as an honorary "Mayor of Hollywood" for ceremonial purposes only. Johnny Grant held this position from 1980 until his death on January 9, 2008.[3] No replacement for Grant has been named.