Stop-Loss stars Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as three soldiers whose friendships and lives fall apart on their return home after serving in Iraq when Brandon King (Philippe) is "stop-lossed"; the US policy where soldiers who have completed their service are called back to serve again.
Brandon hits the road to seek justice and is accompanied by Michelle (Abbie Cornish), the fiancée of his childhood buddy Steve Shriver (Tatum), while those he leaves in Texas — particularly Tommy Burgess (Gordon-Levitt) — struggle to come to terms with life back home.
The acting by all three main male actors is great, and Channing Tatum won a
Teen Choice Award in the "Movie Actor: Drama" category for his performance.
What better way to cheer up a grey day than to see Ryan Phillippe in all his shirtless glory. We've got a sneak peak at these manjoyment stills, which come from the deleted scenes of the DVD release of
Stop-Loss, Ryan's movie with Abbie Cornish. Also starring Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the film focuses on a how a group of friends and family in Texas react when their loved ones in the military are called back having already served in Iraq.
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and
Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below you can also rent
The Ruins starring Jena Malone and the sixth season of
Monk.
Well, it looks like
21, the film about MIT students who take Vegas by storm, was a safe bet as it easily won the top spot at the box office. However, the
overall weekend box office total was down 17 percent compared to last year, Variety reports. 21 earned an estimated $23 million, beating
Horton Hears a Who and firmly establishing
Jim Sturgess as a viable leading man.
Stop-Loss: Overwrought but Good-Hearted It's an oft-lamented fact that movies about the Iraq war don't do very well — either in box office sales or with audience favor in general. There are plenty of reasons for this, but the fact is it's a challenge for filmmakers to put out movies about a controversial war that isn't yet over.
It's an
oft-
lamented fact that movies about the Iraq war don't do very well — either in box office sales or with audience favor in general. There are plenty of reasons for this, but the fact is it's a challenge for filmmakers to put out movies about a controversial war that isn't yet over. With
Stop-Loss, the filmmakers have attempted to make the topic more appealing by getting MTV on board, using popular good-looking young actors and featuring plenty of quick-edit montages set to rap songs.
After shattering
2008 box office records last week,
Horton Hears a Who once again took the top spot over this Easter holiday weekend. Variety reports that
Good Friday was the strongest day for Dr. Seuss' Horton which took in $25.1 million over the weekend in addition to the movie's opening weekend earnings of $45 million.
Dear Poll: Will You See a Movie Just For the Eye Candy? If you haven't checked out the hot pictures from the LA premiere of Stop-Loss you really must. The serious man candy attached to this film has my interest piqued big time! Of course, I enjoy an Oscar-worthy film as much as the next movie buff, but I also like a movie just for the sheer entertainment of it.
Mar 17 2008 - 11:25pm by
Molly
Ryan Phillippe came out to premiere his new movie
Stop-Loss in LA last night, but he didn't have his
costar/girlfriend Abbie Cornish on his arm. In fact, she didn't come to her premiere at all, which isn't much of a surprise since the
studio's PR team didn't want the couple promoting the movie together and reminding everyone of the Ryan-Reese break up. Instead, Ryan was joined by his male costars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum.
