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Reign of Fire (July 12): In the not too distant future dragons emerge from London and begin to set fire to the world, establishing their dominance over humans. Mankind’s only hope is a group of dragon slayers led by Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. This sounds like a tired old formula that has been done a thousand times and that’s probably what this film will be. On the upside, if the apocalypse does strike, London is a fitting place for it to begin...
This kind of long personal change--along with 30 years of legal changes that mean marriage doesn't take away a woman's civil rights anymore--made it possible for me to marry David Bale last year, when I was 66. Neither of us thought we wanted to get married, but because we both already had strong paths, we could discover how similar they were. David is the first person who has been with me in all the disparate parts of my life--one minute on a student bus political campaigning, the next at an elegant fund raiser...
This being a major-studio production--director John Madden's first since his Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love--the main Greeks are played by an Englishman (John Hurt), a Welshman (Christian Bale) and a Spaniard (Cruz, pre-Tom Cruise). Corelli is a coffee-table movie: one leafs through the gorgeous vistas and nods through the narrative. That leaves plenty of time to ponder Cage's dilemma. Does he keep paddling in the mainstream or return to the edge of weirdness...
...Maybe this doesn't matter. Nobody goes to hear an action movie. Everybody wants to see Li in action. So watch him defeat bad guys with the tools of domesticity: a mop, a bale of laundry and (ouch) an iron. Gasp as he kicks a billiard ball out of an end pocket, then swats it, cricket-bat-style, into a villain's cranium. See him use a desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door...
Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz and Christian Bale star in this wartime romance about a young Greek girl (Cruz) who falls in love with an mandolin-playing Italian commander (Cage) while her fiancée is away...