Film Screening 9th November, 2007

Poster for The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum 

8:00 PM, 9th November, 2007
No Guests

  • M
  • 115 mins
  • 2007
  • Paul Greengrass
  • Matt Damon, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Edgar Ramirez

At the time of writing, The Bourne Ultimatum hasnt been released, so I can't say what I think of it. I can say this though. It is the third in the Bourne series, which are based on the bestseller novels written by Robert Ludlum about a US super agent who loses his identity after a black op goes wrong. In The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne, played brilliantly by Matt Damon, decides to track down who started Treadstone, the government operation that trained him to become a super assassin, capable of doing funky stuff like building a space shuttle out of toothpicks. Like all the Bourne movies it starts with someone deciding to kill Jason Bourne. Crazy them. As if that was ever going to work! So Bourne decides to track down who is behind Treadstone and to put an end to it once and for all. Whilst The Bourne Ultimatum isn't as intellectual as Breach (July 28), it is an unashamed spy action movie with some great car chases, gunfights, cool gadgets and images of people really scared of Jason Bourne. Not to mention it is the third in the trilogy and builds nicely upon the previous two. If you're a huge Robert Ludlum fan, a huge action fan and a huge spy movie fan then, like me, you'll want to make a date for this one. '

Andrew Hughes

Poster for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 

10:10 PM, 9th November, 2007

  • 110 mins
  • 2007
  • Dennis Dugan
  • Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Steve Buscemi

Chuck Ford (Sandler) and Larry Valentine (James) are firemen and best friends in New York. Chuck loves being single, while Larry is a widower with children, to whom he devotes most of his time. Due to legal issues, Larry cant name his children as life insurance beneficiaries, but a small loophole will allow him to if he has a domestic partner. He asks Chuck to pretend to be his partner. As it's only a bit of paperwork and nobody will ever know, Chuck goes along with the deal. Naturally, Chuck and Larry's arrangement is found out by a city worker, Clinton Fitzer (Buscemi) and the pair are led on a charade of domestic bliss while their relationship becomes front page news.

If this all sounds a bit familiar, that might be because you saw the Australian movie Strange Bedfellows with Paul Hogan and Michael Caton a few years ago. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry hasn't been released as I write this, so you'll have to come along to see how well the Hollywood adaptation of the Australian film has worked.'

Andrew Wellington