Couples Retreat

Thanks to the lovely fellows at Movies.ie, we went along to see Couples Retreat last night, Vince Vaughn’s new movie. I don’t know what it is about Vince Vaughn that makes me like him – I’m not a fan of his films and I certaily don’t think much of his acting prowess, but he just comes across so well in interviews and such that I feel like he’d be someone I’d like to go have a beer with. So, I went into the film expecting little. I didn’t expect the performaces to be mindblowing. I didn’t expect to laugh my arse off. I didn’t expect to be set alight by an incredibly well-crafted script and plot. However, I did expect a light, easy comedy with a few decent laughs, leaving me feeling happy enough at the end. And, my expectations were met. Couples Retreat is not amazing, but it’s fairly … There’s more

Movie News 15/04/09

How to bleed a franchise dry…the X-Men franchise has seen three movies go on release to accumulate somewhere in the region of $1,050,000,000 and this will only increase with next month’s Wolverine. The origin story of Magneto is also in the works and now it seems studio execs are trying to light a fire underneath X-Men:The First Class, the story of Charles Xavier’s first set of mutant students. I’m sure this will spark its own franchise spin. Overkill much? Richard Jenkins (the father from Six Feet Under) and Julia Roberts will star in Eat, Pray, Love, centering on a married woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after realizing that she’s not living the life she wants. The lovely Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Heroes and the voice of Gossip Girl) has been cast in Disney’s You Again, as a girl who is shocked to find out her brother … There’s more