Month: October 2004

Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman runs around Prague, er Transylvania, hunting Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man. I thought it was horrible! Dracula’s wives were beyond annoying. One of them said, “Too bad, so sad” which made me say, “Did she really just say ‘too bad, so sad’?” There were too many...

Swimming Pool

A London writer goes to her editor’s house in the south of France to relax, but then his daughter shows up to wreck havoc. ...

American Splendor

Biopic about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. I heard this movie was really good even though it didn’t reach out and grab me as overall interesting looking when it was released. It was pretty good and entertaining but not completely awe-inspiringly wonderful. I...

Chopper

Based on the true story of a legendary Australian criminal who wrote a best-selling autobiography in prison while serving a murder sentence. Eric Bana is the guy that played The Hulk and Hector in Troy. He’s famous in Australia as a comedian. I didn’t know that. Anyway, this movie came...

Wimbledon

Paul Bettany was a rising tennis star that has been going downhill and he’s about to retire after playing Wimbledon one more time. Kirsten Dunst is an up-and-coming tennis star who goes after him and improves his game in the process. I’m not a big romantic comedy fan. Well,...

Taxi

New York city cop loses his driver's license do to a few unfortunate accidents. In effort to be first on scene at a bank robbery he takes a taxi. The taxi so happens to belong to a female who aspires to be a Nascar driver. The bank robbery happens...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carrey finds out that his girlfriend has had their relationship erased from her memories, he decides to do the same. Of course, it doesn’t work out quite like he expected.  I wanted to see this movie because Being John Malkovich and Adaptation that were written by Charlie Kaufman were so...

Collateral

Tom Cruise plays a hitman that has to kill five key witnesses in a federal case in one night and he is holding Jamie Foxx hostage as his taxi cab driver for the mission. I have stated before that I do not like Michael Mann movies, yet I always...