Category: 2002 Movie Reviews

Superbad Director: Greg Mottola Starring: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help...

Juno Directed: Jason Reitman Starring: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons Dear Juno, I hope that Coni will still see you, even after Hard Candy made her not like Ellen Page. You have a lot of great acting – I really liked Juno’s...

La Antena Directed: Esteban Sapir Starring: Alejandro Urdapilleta, Valeria Bertuccelli A city had its voice taken away by a big businessman, and one family is trying to get back together, and bring voices back to its city. It is like a silent movie, very dependent on its music. It...

Spider-Man 3 Directed: Sam Raimi Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Hayden Church, Topher Grace, James Franco, James Cromwell, Bryce Dallas Howard Peter Parker is proposing to Mary Jane while battling three bad guys: Sandman, Green Goblin II and Venom. When I heard there were three bad guys, I...

You, the Living Directed: Roy Andersson Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund Short sketches in the daily lives of the Swedish. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. Poor movie. It has the bad luck that I decided to get violently ill halfway through it. No idea what...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Directed: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman Based on Stephen Sondheim’s musical, a man seeks bloody revenge after being sent away to prison for a crime he didn’t commit so a rich guy could take his wife and...

Bridge to Terabithia Directed: Gabor Csupo Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Anna ophia Robb Based on the novel about two kids who find a magical kingdom and have adventures. I never read the book and never even heard of it before the movie came out, so I can only review it...

Reno 911!: Miami Directed: Robert Ben Garant Starring: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant The Reno cops head to Miami for a police convention. The movie was very much like the show where some jokes are funny and others fall flat. What the movie seemed to have more of than...

Charlie Wilson’s War Directed: Mike Nichols Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman So my family decided to go see this movie when we were all in Florida. This was me, my sister, my dad, my aunt and my grandmother. My brother in law, Terry Blueberry, wasn’t feeling...

Hitman Directed: Xavier Gens Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott Based on a video game, an assassin has been set up so he’s out for revenge, and because he didn’t get paid for that job where he was set up. When I saw this movie, I had no idea it...