Porta's Look!..." THE SUMMER MOVIES "

And The Winner Is...

Away We Go

Funny and heartfelt!

Vogue

Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [“The Office’] and Maya Rudolph [“Saturday Night Live’]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch.

Absolutely extraordinary!

Rolling Stone


A sweet, funny, and unabashedly
sincere movie about love.

Interview


'Away We Go' hits home! An
edgy, spontaneous comedy!

CNN.com


Utterly winning and achingly
romantic!

Paper Magazine


John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph
are a marriage made in comedy
heaven.

The New York Times


Funny and poignant!

The New York Observer


Charming and surprising!

MSNBC.com

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The Hangover

Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out bachelor party they’ll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning, they can’t remember a thing. For some reason, they find a tiger in the bathroom and a six-month-old baby in the closet of their suite at Caesars Palace. The one thing they can’t find is Doug. With no clue as to what transpired and little time to spare, the trio must retrace their hazy steps and all their bad decisions in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time to walk down the aisle.

'A strong cast, strong writing, and interesting plot tie together to make this the best comedy I have seen this year. There isn’t a whole lot I can say about this movie that my cohort hasn’t already said (yes, Ken Jeong was fantastic and I can’t wait to see The Goods, and you can’t put enough emphasis on the bromance). If you like raunchy, no holds barred comedy, then this is the movie for you.'

-the portastylistic

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I Love You Beth Cooper







She is HOT! Especially when she said Yummm...

I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER chronicles the story of a nerdy valedictorian who proclaims his love for the hottest and most popular girl in school – Beth Cooper – during his graduation speech. Much to his surprise, Beth shows up at his door that very night and decides to show him the best night of his life.

Now there is one obvious reason for seeing this movie and one surprising reason. The obvious reason is look at the movie poster. The surprising reason is that Chris Columbus is the director. Hmmm. Interesting. Home Alone, Harry Potter and now I Love You Beth Cooper. I’m sure its goofy, and stupid, but maybe not. And if it is, at least its got Hayden Panttierre in it.

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The Boat that Rocked

From Richard Curtis the creator of FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, LOVE ACTUALLY and NOTTING HILL.

" Pirate radio stations in the 60’s and what they did for the British music scene."

In the late 1960s, American radio stations blasted rock and roll 24 hours a day. But in the home country of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the only way 25 million people could hear their music was to tune in…to a boat. Celebrated filmmaker Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually) brings the incredible story of a band of rogue deejays who captivated British radio listeners in the ’60s, playing the music that defined a generation and boldly defying the government that tried to shut them down—The Boat That Rocked. Leading the cast of the comedy are Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Radio Rock’s infamous deejay The Count; Bill Nighy as the station’s owner (and ship’s captain), Quentin; Rhys Ifans as mystic deejay royalty Gavin; Nick Frost as the amorous, sarcastic disc jockey Dave; and Kenneth Branagh as the man out to silence Radio Rock, Minister Dormandy.

Starring Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.

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" Unmissable."

-the portastylistic



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Julie & Julia

In the meantime, here’s the trailer for the film of Julie and Julia:

Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

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Julia Child (1912-2004)

In case you need reminding, here’s a clip of La Child in action:

Julia Child
(born Julia Carolyn McWilliams August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004)

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961)

which brought truly French methods and cuisine into the American kitchen and subsequently revolutionised many kitchens all around the world.

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Moon

It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earths primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of Sarang, the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond Gerty, the bases well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer. Suddenly, Sams health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a support crew on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover whats going on and where he fits into company plans.

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To hear more about the creative collaboration between Rockwell & Jones and the making of the movie, click here.

"I would line up to watch the so, so, so great American actor Sam Rockwell eat breakfast cereal. Lucky for me he is currently starring on the big screen as a lonely astronaut riding out his last two weeks of lunar solitude in Moon, (2009) the new science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (David Bowie's son)."

Classic film to build it up!

-the portastylistic


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Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee - and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of ’60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish - plus a new recording of “Freedom” from Richie Havens - Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible. Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business - a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family’s motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road. Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco - and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur’s farm for “3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake.” With a little help from his friends, including theater troupe leader Devon (Dan Fogler), recently returned Vietnam veteran Billy (Emile Hirsch), and cross-dressing ex-Marine Vilma (Liev Schreiber) - and with a little opposition from townspeople, including Billy’s brother Dan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life - and popular culture - forever.

Cast: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy

Taking Woodstock:
A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life

Neil’s client Elliot Tiber has been a professional creative writer for over thirty-five years. He has written and produced numerous award-winning plays and musical comedies for the theater, television, and films around the world. He was also dramaturge for the National Theater of Belgium. He was a semi-finalist in the Academy Awards for best film. As a professor of comedy writing and performance, he has taught at the New School University and Hunter College (CUNY) in New York City.

Mr. Tiber is also a best-selling author. His first novel, Rue Haute, was an instant bestseller in Europe, and was published in the US as an Avon Paperback under its English title, High Street. As a humorist, Elliot Tiber has appeared on CNN, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and 20/20, as well as on television shows in France, England, Tokyo, Moscow, and Berlin. Tiber has also performed his standup one-man show, Woodstock Daddy, for clubs, theaters, and TV. He currently resides in both New York City and California.

Director:
Ang Lee

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"Ang Lee movie (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
and it stars Demetri Martin, who is one of my favorite comedians.
Sounds like an interesting combo.
I’m the soundtrack will be fantastic also."

“ Considering the iconic event at its center, the most surprising!
This movie won't be for everyone, but it worked for me.”

-the portastylistic



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500 Days Of Summer

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t. This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be — it’s thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn’t quite go where we think it will. When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days “together” to try to figure out where things went wrong. His reflections ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life.

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It's super cute!!!

-the portastylistic