The Skeleton Key
Kate Hudson is a hospice worker at a plantation in Louisiana where the old house and the guy she is taking care of is spooky. Movies that take place in New Orleans or on any Louisiana plantation that usually involve some kind of voodoo are good spooky movies...
Red Eye
Surprisingly, I actually liked this movie a lot. Foxy Rachel McAdams is some kind of manager at some swanky hotel in Miami where VIPs frequently stay. It so happens that some big Homeland Security guy is checking in there tonight, though that’s very hush hush. She’s flying back there...
Kung Fu Hustle
From the director of Shaolin Soccer, set in 1930’s Hong Kong, a bad guy get caught in the middle of a battle between mobsters and slumlords. It’s filled with over-the-top cartoonish kung-fu fighting. I had watched the beginning and the end of this movie quite a while ago, but...
The Ice Harvest
On the outside, this movie should be good. John Cusack is awesome, Billy Bob Thornton is under-rated, and Harold Ramis has made some really excellent movies. This is not one of them. The story is pretty vague and hard to follow....
Shopgirl
Claire Danes is lonely when she meets bumbling Jason Schwartzman and starts to date him. She is then wooed with more wit and style by Steve Martin. I watched this movie in Dallas since I was trying to pick a movie that I didn’t think Jer would want to...
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are secret assassins that are keeping their secret jobs from one another until they both are hired for the same job. I knew this would be a fluff movie. It was, but the chemistry between Brad and Angelina actually came through, which doesn’t always...
Wedding Crashers
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are divorce mediators who spend their summers crashing weddings to hook up with chicks and score free drinks. On the surface, this sounds exactly like the kind of movie that I would enjoy. I mean, it has crazy Vince Vaughn, Christoper Walken, the foxy...
Junebug
A big-city art dealer goes to North Carolina to meet her new husband’s family who isn’t too sure of the stranger, except for her brother-in-law’s very pregnant fiance who is fascinated with everything about her and her life outside of North Carolina. Towards the beginning of the movie, we...
Crash
A bunch of people with various backgrounds and races all collide in Los Angeles. I had to trick Jer into seeing this movie. I didn’t tell him that this movie is about everyone basically being racist, which could be true, but is still a horrible thought. I knew that...
A History of Violence
A small town diner owner stops a robbery, which draws the attention of a scary Ed Harris saying he isn’t the man he claims to be. The overall feeling while watching this movie was stillness. It is a small town with Tom (Viggo Mortensen) running a diner while trying...