Category: 2002 Movie Reviews

Far From Heaven

A 1950’s rich family’s life turns upside down when the wife catches her husband in bed with another man. Starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, and President Palmer, er I mean Dennis Haybert. It takes place in the 50’s and is filmed like movies were filmed in the 50’s. People...

Roger Dodger

A naive boy has his sleazy uncle Campbell Scott show him the ways of the city with women and sex. A kid goes to New York to check out colleges and visit his uncle Roger who his mom (Roger’s sister) has quit talking to over the years. Roger is...

Adaptation

A writer tries to adapt a book into a movie and writes himself into the script. Directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich). It is written by the same guy that wrote Being John Malcovich and both were directed by the same guy too. The screenwriter was actually hired...

Secretary

Days after being released from a mental institution, a young woman starts her new life as a secretary including some kinky sex with her boss.  This is a very twisted love story about a lawyer and his secretary. Lee is released from a mental institution and goes out to...

Chicago

I had seen Chicago in a traveling Broadway show and love it, so I was excited when they started talking about making a movie version of it a few years back. I know it had people attached to it like Madonna and Goldie Hawn. eek! I think they made...

Pumpkin

Christina Ricci stars as a sorority girl that thinks she has it all. She is a senior with a really stupid boyfriend that is supposed to be hot but his hair is so greasy it scares me. Her sorority’s only goal is to win the best sorority of the...

The Salton Sea

Val Kilmer plays a man who doesn’t know what to do with his life after his wife is murdered. He hangs out with a bunch of druggies and Vincent D’Onfronio plays a guy with no nose. I wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy this movie or not,...

I’m the Father

Second to last film festival movie I watched this past week. German movie about a young family that aren’t really happy. Dad just got a promotion at work but that meant he was never home with his wife and kid. The promotion will mean even less time. The wife...

Y Tu Mama Tambien

This movie comes from Mexico and it contains a lot of sex and a lot of naked guys. Two seventeen year old boys (Tenoch and Julio) just graduated high school and plan on goofing off for the summer. Their girlfriends just left to prance around Europe while they stay...

Morvern Callar

A girl wakes up on Christmas day to find her boyfriend has committed suicide in the kitchen. He has left her a note asking her to mail off his manuscript for him until it gets published and he also left her money for his funeral. Morvern didn’t seem too...