A review of the newest movie releases from your favorite entertainment and celebrity website! This is episode 27 of Movie Night and this week, Rudie Obias & Perri Nemiroff review the newest film from Cameron Crowe, “We Bought A Zoo,” featuring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning and John Michael Higgins. Also they review the latest film from director Steven Spielberg, “War Horse,” featuring Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Download and listen now! Read Harvey Karten’s review of “We Bought A Zoo” and Perri Nemiroff’s review of “War Horse.” We hope you…

Title: War Horse Directed By: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, Niels Arestrup, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Celine Buckens, Toby Kebbell, David Kross, Matt Milne, Robert Emms, Eddie Marsan There’s a reason why Steven Spielberg is so successful; he knows how to make a movie for everyone. Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, Catch Me If You Can and more. Sure, not all of them can be considered pristine filmmaking, but still, generally all of his films are incredibly enjoyable and not only does War Horse follow suit in terms of entertainment and emotional value, but quality-wise, it’s certainly on the top tier. After his pride gets…

She’s played opposite a wide and diverse range of leading men, from Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Day-Lewis to Geoffrey Rush and Adam Sandler, and is equally at home in wrenching dramas or comedies of manners. It’s perhaps a testament to her talents, though, that Emily Watson remains just to the left of indistinctive for most mainstream audiences — not unexceptional or anonymous, but unable to be immediately placed. In her latest film, Watson again gives voice to a remarkable yet “ordinary” woman, starring in “Oranges and Sunshine” as Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker who uncovers a decades-long program of forced deportation/immigration which sent tens of thousands of children from…

Title: Oranges and Sunshine Director: Jim Loach Starring: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham “Oranges and Sunshine” is re-affirming evidence that not every remarkable true story a remarkable film makes. Based on the book “Empty Cradles” by British social worker Margaret Humphreys, the movie tells the story of its crusading subject, who worked to uncover one of the most shocking government-sanctioned scandals of modern times — the forced deportation of many thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Both overall and scene-to-scene, though, ”Oranges and Sunshine” exudes a just-fine feeling of dutiful emotional string-pulling, and nothing more. It commits no great and cringe-worthy offenses, but neither does it ever really get…

For his narrative feature film debut, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale of warped governmental policy, spanning three decades and involving the forced deportation of British kids to Australia. Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white-hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24-hour cable news channels. ShockYa had the chance recently to speak to Loach one-on-one, about…

Having the defining events of your life adapted into a major motion picture while you’re still alive (and working on those same issues) is weird, discombobulating stuff. Such is the case, though, for Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, whose work in uncovering the forced deportation of thousands of British children is the basis for the new film “Oranges and Sunshine,” starring Emily Watson and directed by Jim Loach. Almost single-handedly, Humphreys brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary (and extraordinarily recent) miscarriage of justice, in which disadvantaged children as young as four years old were told that their parents were dead, and then sent to children’s…

The new trailer for “Oranges and Sunshine” has premiered on Thompson on Hollywood. The film features two-time Academy Award nominee Emily Watson and produced by Emile Sherman (“The King’s Speech”). The drama will show in New York and Los Angeles theaters October 21. Here’s the synopsis of “Oranges and Sunshine”: “‘Oranges and Sunshine’ tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account…

Check out the first official movie poster featuring Paul Giamatti from the upcoming comedy “Cold Souls” by director Sophie Barthes (Happiness) and starring Paul Giamatti (The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, John Adams) and Emily Watson (The Water Horse, Equilibrium). Synopsis: In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes Cold Souls, a metaphysical comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, and between reality and fantasy, the film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Uncle Vanya. Paralyzed with anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company…