Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 11/26/08 Australia (PG-13)Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack ThompsonDirector: Baz LuhrmannLuhman’s editor Jill Billcock saved his “Moulin Rouge” by a drastic recutting and acquired associate producer status for her editing work on his “Romeo and Juliet,” but she is not included in the credits for this film “too bad, her firmly controlled scissors might be just what this sprawling, ill-focused epic about Darwin’s … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 11/21/08 Bolt (PG)Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Malcolm McDowell, Mark WaltonDirector: Chris WilliamsIn this entertaining movie with something for all ages to enjoy, Bolt, the canine star of a TV show about a super hero dog thinks he really is as powerful as a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, and able to leap tall buildings. But when Bolt gets thrust into the “real … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 11/14/08 Quantum of Solace (PG-13)Starring: Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko, Judi DenchDirector: Marc ForsterThis is a tidying up of storylines from the first of the Daniel Craig-as-Bond films. He truly loved Vesper, and he misses her in a malevolent manner, and in a way we do too, because the new Bond has traded being cool, for being cold and seems like a Bourne … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 11/07/08 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG)Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett SmithDirector: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrathThe animated creatures that escaped from New York’s zoo and hightailed it to an island off the coast of Africa star in a new film, and along the way, they have grown fur which ruffles in the breeze (thanks to improved CG techniques). Other than that, … Read More »