I’m very sorry it’s been a little while since my last review but this is only the second film that has grabbed my attention so far this year but the horizon is looking better with Juno and Step Up 2 The Streets looks amazing. Anyway, on with the review.

Over Her Dead Body tells the story of Henry who lost his fiancee, Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) in a tragic accident at their wedding 1 year ago. He reluctantly agrees with his sister, Chloe (Lindsay Sloane) to visit a psychic named Ashley (lake Bell). Despite his initial skeptisim he starts falling in with love with her and she with him. All seems well but as ever their has to be a problem, Henry’s fiancee ghost is haunting Ashley, believing that it is her heavenly mission to break the pair up (but is it?).

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As from today (1st February 2008) UK cinema goers could see trailers for the new 4th series of Doctor Who before the movie.

The deal between BBC Vision and Carlton Screen Advertising will place the 90 second trailer in front of films such as Cloverfield and Rambo at cinemas such as Empire, Odeon and Cineworld.

Naomi Gibney, Head of Marketing, BBC Vision, said:

This is a great opportunity for the BBC to reach new audiences with an exciting preview of the new series of Doctor Who.

The fourth series will begin screening on the BBC in the Spring.

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First things first, sorry for not posting here in a couple of days (for those who do visit reguarly) but i’ve been designing and implementing this new theme - normal service will be resumed shortly

Now I have the theme installed i’ve found a few problems (mainly in spacing), which I will attempt to resolve over the next few days, yes I know headers are overlapping and videos aren’t correctly lined up - so please bear with me. A final error that you may notice is that some links aren’t setup yet - this will be corrected as a write the pages and link them in.

Before signing off, I would just like to let you know about a new feature i’ve added, well I say it’s new - it’s not - i’m just highlighting it more now - you can now signup to the Screentimes Movies RSS feed which will mean you will know as soon as I post a new post, alternatively you can sign up to the feedburner powered email updates which will email you all the stories posted in the last day. Any way I hope you do chose to subscribe

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Julia Roberts has signed on to produce and star in Hothouse Flowers, based on a yet to be published novel by Margot Berwin.

Roberts will play a divorced woman who leaves her job at a manhatten based advertising agency and decides to go on an adventure, this adventure will take her to places she never ever expected to see.

As it stands no script currently exists and no-one can start on one until the writers stike over in America is resolved so until then we’ll just have to wait.

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This movie looks so funny, the concept is simple on the day of her wedding Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) gets killed by an ice angel. This I think would make anyone almightily pissed off (and she is). Her to be husband, Henry (Paul Rudd) has moved on and his new girlfriend can talk to ghosts. Therefore she can talk to and see Kate and Kate doesn’t want to let go - making for many awkward moments as Kate just hangs around.

Over Her Dead Body is released her in the UK on the 1st February 2008

Enjoy the trailer courtesy of MySpace:

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Penelope is the romantic story of an inspiring young girl who is born under a curse of having a nose that looks like a pigs. The curse can only be broken when she finds true love with “one who will love her faithfully”.

This looks like my kind of movie and has been added to my ones to watch list, enjoy the extended trailer presented to you courtesy of MySpace

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It’s been a little while now since the Lord of the Rings trilogy was completed and as we revealed a couple of weeks ago, The Hobbit has now been greenlit.

With Peter Jackson on board as Executive Producer already, Guillermo del Toro is now in talks over directing The Hobbit movies.

The Hobbit movies are to be based around Tolkien’s book of the same name but are to be split into two movies, the first will be an adaption of the popular childrens story and the second will bridge the 80-year gap between the end of The Hobbit and the start of The Lord of the Rings.

Filming is scheduled to begin next year with possible release dates set for 2010 and 2011.

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Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry claims that good female roles don’t come around very often, she claims that she had to fight for her new role in Things We Lost In The Fire because it was a rare example of a “deep” female role.

She told the Press Association:

I think most actors have to fight for the good parts. They’re so few and far between, especially for women.

I very rarely read scripts with roles for women that are this good and this needy and this deep, and when I read this script, I connected with the material.

Things We Lost In The Fire is released here in the UK on the 1st February 2008.

So are good female roles really that hard to come by? I have to say that I haven’t really noticed, what do you think?

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It looks like the wheels are already in motion for Disney-Pixars 2009 release, Pixar Planet has some concept art for the new film.

So what’s Up all about, well Director Pete Docter described to Time the movie as “a coming of age story”, a story about a seventy something guy who makes friends with a clueless young Wilderness Ranger and gets caught up in lots of altercations.

According to Pixar:

Our hero travels the globe, fights beasts and villains and eats dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon

Sounds like fun!

As I said it’s only concept art as oppse to an actual picture, but lets face facts - Pixar are currently working on the publicity for WALL-E, this years Pixar movie (which looks very good) so go check it out here.

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I think this one has been a while coming, following his outstanding performance as Peter Petrilli in Heroes. Introduction over, Milo Ventimiglia will be joining the cast of action movie Armoured.

Armoured tells the story of an employee of an armoured truck company who is ‘pursuaded’ (can’t think of a different word) by his work colleagues into stealing a truck containing $10 million.

The movie will be directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Dan Farah. Filming will be in Los Angeles and has been scheduled for release in 2010 - I say it’ll be one to look out for!

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