You want to gift your best friend a special gift that will be a memorable one then go for movie posters. You must be knowing your friend’s choice for movies, so look for the movie posters of his/her choice and gift it on any day you like to make it a really special and memorable day. You can even write a small message for your beloved friend and express your feelings for him/her.

The backside of the poster can be used to sign and write messages that express your feelings in the best way. Look for exclusive posters that will make your friend go gaga over it. Poster galleries and online poster sites can be the best place to look for the movie posters. One can come across original and reasonable records of movies at the galleries and online poster collections.

Movie posters of any era you want, you will surely find them if you do a thorough research work. If your friend is really fond of a movie that is yet to be released then you can surely present a poster of that movie. One can find movie posters of the movies that are yet to be released along with the vintage movie posters at some of the most popular galleries and online poster companies.

Presents are always special in our life specially when someone close to us gifts them. Some expressions often remain unsaid that can be best depicted through gifts and movie posters can one such gift that can express your emotions in the best way. Try expressing your feelings through these posters by gifting them to your dear ones on any occasion.

Look for the most exotic yet affordable movies posters that will bring a million dollar smile on the faces of the loved ones.

Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley

Nanny McPhee – 4 Stars (Excellent

Bless yourself by renting “Nanny McPhee” and sharing it with your children at home, not in the movie theater. Do this because this film is all about home and your children might relate better in the comfort of their own home. Nanny McPhee is an excellent film with a wonderful message for all children to recognize and understand.

In an entertainment world full of trashy and violent video games with movies to match that dwell on murder, rape, sex, drugs, alcohol, filthy language, broken relationships and crummy morals, Nanny McPhee is everything good about movies for children. You and your children can watch this film without fear of unpleasant and unwanted garbage rooted in sensationalism for ratings and greed.

When finished watching, you can thank the uncompromising excellence of British actress Emma Thompson and British director Kirk Jones for the incredible excellence of Nanny McPhee. I watched this film and went to bed wondering if it was as good as I thought it was. I watched it again the next night and did not wonder again.

Thompson-who has won 2 Academy Awards for Best Actress (Howards End in 1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Sense and Sensibility in 1995), and 2 BAFTAs for Best Actress (Howards End and Sense and Sensibility)-wrote the screenplay for Nanny McPhee. BAFTA is the equivalent of the American Oscars, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Kirk Jones (not to be confused with the American rapper and actor Kirk Jones) is a gifted writer and director with great work that has not been properly recognized. Combine Emma Thompson with Kirk Jones and you have the formula for a winning production.

In 1998 Jones wrote and directed his first feature film “Waking Ned Devine” with a budget of $3 million that grossed $90 million worldwide. I believe Jones should have two Oscars and probably would if it were not for the fact that Hollywood’s voters are too busy pawing each other and posing for pictures to correct their near-sightedness.

Until a comedy is made that is better than Waking Ned Devine it shall remain my favorite comedy of all time.

If it sounds like I am gushing over Nanny McPhee, I am. There are so many good lines in this script I would not dare to recount them here. Watch the movie and enjoy the experience of listening carefully.

Nanny McPhee the movie is named for a governess (Emma Thompson) who uses magic to rein in the behavior of 7 out-of-control children of recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth).

Mr. Brown must answer to his Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) who has been financing his family’s livelihood and now commands him to marry within the month or she will cut off his sustenance. His bratty children have a genuine fear of losing their father should he marry the widowed Mrs. Quickly (Celia Imrie).

The children, who collectively have driven away 17 consecutive nannies, are led by their older brother Simon (Thomas Sangster). All 6 of the younger children-Tora (Eliza Bennett), Lily (Jennifer Rae Daykin), Eric (Raphael Coleman), Sebastian (Samuel Honywood), Christianna (Holly Gibbs) and Baby Agatha (Hebe Barnes and Zinnia Barnes)-face the same fate as Simon.

Enter Nanny McPhee with her magic and old-fashioned discipline that makes the children aware of their behavior, and soon the children become models of what to do and when to do it.

Beyond the obvious endearments, what makes this film excellent is two huge but subtle elements.

One is the guts of the writer and actress Emma Thompson who creates a character for herself that is repugnant upon first sight. She has two huge warts on her face and an enormous tooth cascading down over her lower lip. Nanny McPhee will repel you upon first look. Thompson’s acting skills allow her to be perfectly relaxed and confident despite her appearance. Her make-up was done by designer Peter King.

The other element is the discovery by the children that when they learn a major lesson, one of the warts disappears, and eventually through model behavior by the children, Nanny McPhee becomes better and better looking.

In many such films as this-the “Sound of Music” with Julie Andrews comes to mind-the nanny only influences the children. In Nanny McPhee, the children also become powerful agents for positive change, empowering them in the process. Never underestimate the insight and brilliance of Emma Thompson, the writer or actress.

A tip of the hat to Angela Lansbury in her role as well. Lansbury is a living legend who never goes out of character as Aunt Adelaide. From Broadway to Hollywood to television and back, Angela Lansbury is a British national treasure.

Nanny McPhee is based on the “Nurse Matilda” books by Christianna Brand. Emma Thompson said it took her 9 years to write the screenplay; it took her 5 years to write her Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility.

Trust me when I say that Nanny McPhee was worth the wait and then some. Watch Nanny McPhee and learn with your children some important lessons in human nature.

It is an involved process, from the development of a story idea to commissioning the writing of a cutting-edge script, and further to filming, editing and delivering a finished product. For achieving this, a movie production company in India must adopt and master a myriad technologies and techniques. Moreover, it must have its creative fundamentals firmly in place to ensure that the product features differentiated content and is suitable for the designated audience.

Thanks to the country’s increasingly globalized business platform, there is immense scope for a creative and market-attuned movie production company in India today. The Indian film industry – both in the advertising and entertainment sectors – now rivals in scope and scale anything that the West has to offer. Bollywood has reached a level of glamour and international interest that only Hollywood could previously boast of. Indian television is a major revenue-spinner that drives a number of retail and entertainment markets.

If it has the correct staff and technological soundness, the field of opportunity is limitless for a movie production company in India today. However, the challenge is daunting – uncompromising expertise in motion picture production, mastery over the latest television software and advanced marketing capabilities for effective film distribution, promotion and IPR Marketing are de rigueur. The company must have complete mastery in ad film production and be able to create corporate films that meet the highest international standards. Further, no movie production company in India is complete without the capacity to handle live events and special projects as value-added services.

Movie production is a refined science with exacting protocols to ensure the right product is delivered within specified time-frames. The entire process is basically five-fold. At the development stage, the company develops or commissions a script and adapts it into a suitable basis for a film. Then comes the pre-production process, wherein the company harnesses it resources for the actual shoot by hiring a cast and crew, selecting a location and putting up sets.

In the ensuing production stage, the film crew records the raw elements of the film and graduates it into the post-production stage. Here, the editing process takes place and appropriate visual and audio elements such as music and special effects are incorporated. This invariably involves the use of computer-graphic visual effects. In the case of an ad or corporate film, the product is then delivered to the client. If the film is a commercial venture, the company’s sales and distribution division ensures that it reaches theatre and/or DVD distributors for dissemination to the general public.

Yes, these are exciting and challenging times for any movie production company in India. As the market for quality movie making expands in the country, more and more companies are rising to occasion.

Many of you probably had experiences with movies like mine when you were growing up. Your parents (if you were lucky enough to have at least one) would use the TV or Movies to keep you occupied (out of their hair). My Dad would give me two dollars every day for entertainment so I spent it mostly on movies. Yes, every day, and keep in mind that this was the early fifty’s when most theaters were 25 cents and the most expensive theater in town was seventy five cents. The same money would be around twenty five dollars today.

At the time most movie houses were showing double features and some had three features with two cartoons and a serial. And because of my love for movies I saw every one of them at least twice and some many times. This went on for years and of course couldn’t have been good for me. However it gave me a focused education in films and stories and perhaps a little confusion about real life.

People in movies don’t have to follow through with work and school and oh yeah, the big one, Love. The music plays and they simply are already a brave policeman or cowboy or engineer or even president. The heros in movies seem to do little or no work to be anything they want. I Expected no less for myself than rocket speed to sucess.

Somehow in my little kid brain I replaced my parents love and parts of real life with western movies and their stars. You can imagine why nice family type movies and westerns were so appealing to me with no brothers and sisters and living with my grandmother. In later years it was shocking to discover my movie heroes didn’t give a crap what I felt or know me from Adam. “Gosh Mr. Rogers, don’t you remember me? I was the kid in the fifth row back?”

“Sorry, I don’t give autographs” he said. “Huh?” I said as he walked away. Now I was a young adult when this true event happened, but still I stood there sort of in a daze until my wife came looking for me. She said, “What’s wrong with you?”

“Roy Rogers just gave me the buzz off,” I said. “He must have known it was me that threw rocks at the screen.”

“Oh, don’t be silly” she said. “He wouldn’t give me an autograph” I said. “Oh is that all, so what?” she said. “Why would that bother you so much?” she said. “I don’t know, it just does that’s all” I said. There was this little pause and she said, “For your information they live like three blocks away from us. You mean you didn’t know!” she said.

“No, I don’t keep track of where people live,” I said. “I see Dale Evans every week at the store or post office. She’s very nice” she said. “Oh great, my childhood hero lives close enough to hear trigger fart and I can’t even get an autograph?” “It’s almost like not being able to talk to your uncle or something because he’s too darn famous.”

“Listen honey,” she said, “Trigger can’t fart anymore and besides you’re taking this way too seriously.” “Yea,” I said. “So what can we do to find out why it affects me so much?” “You saw too many of those westerns I think. Didn’t you do anything else?” She said. “Sure, lots of things,” I said. “But the movies made the stuff I did more dangerous.”

She said “Now that I think about it most of the jobs you do are related in some way to movies and now you’re a screenwriter.” she said. “You seem to be obsessed with not only stars but also in the locations where they were filmed, like Lone Pine for example. We found every rock that Randolph Scott used in his westerns.”

“It feels like I’m looking for my long lost family.” I said. “She said “Remember the actress last year that was kidding you about one of your scripts? She knew you were only kidding and laughed with you about it. Why didn’t she affect you the way Roy did?” “It’s probably because she’s a new star of today’s movies,” I said, “And I didn’t grow up watching her.” “Remember what Jack Palance said to you about movies? He said you were full of crap about them that they were only movies.” “Yeah,” I said, “he said he only made films for the money and could care less and “You should do the same.”.

“OK,” she said, “I have an idea. Why don’t you write about it? You write about everything else so maybe other people have the same problem or worse they let it happen to their kids.” “That’s right,” I said, “it is happening to kids today isn’t it, only in a little different way with music lyrics and the general bad behavior of actors.”

“Yes,” she said, “only its worse now and these kids won’t get over it maybe ever.” “OK, that’s what I’ll do is give my opinion about how movies can be improved and still make the studio money.” “So you’re going to tell them to remove the violence and sex and make lame one hundred and twenty minutes of nothing? I can hear the laughing already.”

“No, of course you need these elements of real life in any story. You must have a good story and a reason for things to happen. Some movies today start out dark and evil and progress to dark and evil and end with dark and evil and that’s no way to tell a story. For a film to be successful the audience must tell friends about it. One big problem is the high cost that scares investors into making something safe.

What they need to make movies safer for investors is a new kind of testing. Why make a film unless you KNOW people will like. I can’t believe investors take such big chances with all that money. It’s possible to make good honest pictures that people will love and still make money for the studio.” “You know that not one person in Hollywood is going to pay attention to you don’t you?” she said.

“I know, but it doesn’t matter about that because Hollywood’s days are numbered anyway. They are so mixed up they can’t even make an original movie or endorse an original screenplay. Can you see them making Rocky 15?

Good actors have little to work with in Hollywood and that’s a shame. That’s why indie films are getting bigger and better every day and sooner or latter with the combination of pissed actors and increased technology a new generation of indie films will put Hollywood to shame.”

Many have been there, taking your mate to a movie, a romantic comedy on Valentine’s day. But here is the thing, if you are a man, you dislike the movie but have to go, if you are a woman you might enjoy the movie but feel bad for your boyfriend.

The solution to this matter doesn’t stand anywhere between E-Walk or AMC 25 Empire, it sits on a chair in the middle of the road.

That means a movie which contains both sides of the agenda.

Can a romantic action survive? George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez tried it in their movie, Out of Sight, and haven’t find any success. And many other movies sunk like they where a fish who swallowed a heavy stone.

I have the answer for this matter. A movie which is a sort of a mix of everything. Do you like Woody Allen? Do you love romantic comedies? how about tragic stories like William Shakespeare wrote? And would like the Matrix?

Yes, almost everything in one little movie. I would recommend it and write the name of this movie in the end of this article (don’t jump down, just read until the end).

This movie is an ensemble. couple of stories, vignettes my friend loves to call them. Are they a valentine’s day material, you bet you they are. If you want a moment to kiss your girlfriend, you have plenty of those. If you want a moment where your jaw drop of excitement, I can see couple of those moments.

I can attach you with some incredible movies made in recent years, that might came close, 4 rooms, Magnolia and… well… go figure.

Some people are very excited about this movie, as I am about the reveal it’s name, I must tell you that A friend of mine, went to the hospital by just reading the script. I want kicked out of the synagogue after revealing the script to couple of people. Some people stopped speaking to me because of this script. Some agents and producers refused to help with the project, since it might give some bad reputation to them.

So, this movie is called, One Way Out ? . This movie will be released this year, some time soon. So you are probably asking yourself, why am I reading this right now Mr. Amir Ragporker. So You will remember to rent One Way Out ? next Valentine’s day…

(Writer is the Writer/Director of One Way Out ? – released in late 2008)