Where The Wild Things Are, one of the most anticipated films of 2009 is finally being released in UK cinemas December 11th (it was released in the US back in October!!!). The good people behind the film are giving away prizes for the best yowler in the country . I was fortunate to attend the screening yesterday at the swanky Warner Brothers screening room, I’m gonna post my thoughts later today.

The US number one box office hit and coolest flick of the year – Where The Wild Things Are – is hitting UK cinemas on 11^thDecember, and, to celebrate, the Wild Rumpus has officially begun! We are recruiting Yowlers in shopping malls around the country, or in the safety of their own homes, to create the longest Wild Thing Yowl.

A yowl can be a sound that expresses anything you want – from joy and excitement to letting off some Christmas shopping steam, or to just prove that you are louder than your mate. Think of a howl – but wilder!

Customised Wild Thing yowling booths are visiting shopping centres around the country collecting your yowls in the run up to the movie’s release. Just look out for the HUGE tree stump in the following locations and yowl as long as you can.

29th November                METRO CENTRE, GATESHEAD
30th November                TRAFFORD CENTRE, MANCHESTER
1st December                   CABOTS CIRCUS, BRISTOL
4th December                   WESTFIELD, LONDON
5th December                   WESTFIELD, LONDON
6th December                   WESTFIELD, LONDON

If you’re a shy Wild Thing…and you’d rather yowl in the privacy of your own home, office, school or wherever you please, just visit http://www.youtube.com/wildthingsyowl and upload your yowl direct. There you can check out the movie’s trailer and  a heap of exclusive Where the Wild Things Are content.

The best Yowlers can bag some amazing prizes, including games consoles, games and personalised limited edition awards for the best of the bunch, in any of our five categories:

-         Yowl in most ridiculous costume
-         Yowl with most people on screen
-         Longest Individual Yowl in one breath
-         Funniest/Strangest/Cutest Yowl
-         Favorite Yowl!

Where The Wild Things Are is award-winning director Spike Jonze’s eagerly-awaited interpretation of one of the most beloved books of all time. It tells the story of Max, a rambunctious and sensitive boy who feels misunderstood at home and escapes to where the Wild Things are.  There he meets mysterious and strange creatures whose emotions are as wild and unpredictable as their actions.  It is released in cinemas nationwide on 11^th December 2009

There is a Wild Thing in All of Us…we just don’t let it out often enough, but now you have your chance! Unleash your Wild Thing and get Yowling!

I really like the look of this, I’m a big fan of Jake Gyllenhall. Reviews have been trickling in all with positive feedback.

Apart from Hurt Locker (one of my films of 2009) I haven’t enjoyed any other films based on, or around the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict, they have seemed to care more about preaching and the politics around the two wars than giving the audience a good honest story, which would have a greater impact in my books, it’s like they’re preaching to the converted, the high majority of people around the world are against both wars. I’m a big fan of war films Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket are amongst some of my favorites

BROTHERS tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace (Natalie Portman), with whom he has two young daughters. Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail whos always gotten by on wit and charm. When his Black Hawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains Sam is presumed dead and the Cahill family suddenly faces a shocking void. Tommy tries to fill in for his brother by assuming newfound responsibility for himself, Grace, and the children. In the grief and strangeness of their new lives, Grace and Tommy are naturally drawn together. Their longstanding frostiness dissolves, but both are frightened and ashamed of the mutual attraction that has replaced it.

But Sam is not dead; he and a fellow soldier have been captured by Taliban fighters. In Afghanistans harsh, remote Pamir Mountains, Sam is subjected to traumas that threaten to rob him of his very humanity. At the same time that Sams sense of self is being destroyed overseas, Tommys self-image is strengthening at home. When Sam unexpectedly returns to the States, a nervous mood settles over the family. Sam, uncharacteristically withdrawn and volatile, grows suspicious of his brother and his wife. Their familiar roles now nearly reversed, Sam and Tommy end up facing the ultimate physical and mental challenge when they confront each other. In the shifting family dynamics, who will dominate?

Directed by six-time Oscar® nominee Jim Sheridan (IN AMERICA, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER), BROTHERS tells the compelling tale of how two brothers come to terms with issues of love, loyalty, and manhood—and with the woman caught between them.

Coming to US theaters December 4th, 2009 and the 22nd of January 2010 in the UK

I am looking forward to this, negative reviews have slightly put me off but it still interests me, what red blooded male doesn’t like ninjas!!!! Check out the new Red Band Trailer below it’s got a lot of blood. This film is out today in the states but not until the 8th January 2010 in UK.