Category: 2006 Movie Reviews

Freedomland

A woman says that she was carjacked with her little boy in the backseat, which turns into major race issues due to the neighborhood it takes place. Freedomland is an orphanage or state-run facility of some sort where unwanted children ended up. I can’t recall exactly because it is...

The Break Up

The Break-Up Directed: Peyton Reed Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaugh decide to break up after being together for two years, but neither one wants to give up the condo. Why did I watch this movie? It was more out of curiosity, but I had...

Idiocracy

Idiocracy Directed: Mike Judge Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph Mike Judge directs his follow-up to Office Space where Luke Wilson plays a dumb fighter pilot that volunteers for an experiment that sends him 1000 years in the future. He finds out that society has become stupider and he’s the...

Over the Hedge

It’s a goofy movie, but one to watch with kids that won’t make adults go insane. I didn’t read the comic strip enough to know how well it translated over. I did enjoy the completely spazzy squirrel, especially when he was given sugar for a secret mission. My other...

The Black Dahlia

The Black Dahlia Directed: Brian De Palma Starring: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner Two detectives try to solve a gruesome murder in 1947 L.A. While I was hoping for an intriguing, film noir murder mystery with femme fatales, what I got instead was a...

Hollywoodland

Based on the true story of the unsolved death of TV’s Superman, George Reeves. Was it suicide or murder? This movie was slow and that might have worked if there was some payoff at the end, but there isn’t since no one is really sure if George Reeves killed...

Babel

Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are vacationing in Morocco when she is shot accidentally by two boys. Their Mexican nanny back home is trying to get to her son’s wedding when this happens so she tries to take their two kids across the border illegally. And somehow a Japanese...

The Illusionist

During the 19th century, Edward Norton is an illusionist, Paul Giamatti is the Chief Inspector trying to prove he’s a fraud, and Jessica Biel is the former childhood friend that falls for him, much to the Crown Prince Leopold’s chagrin. I loved the way this movie was filmed. When...

Click

Click Directed: Frank Coraci Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken Adam Sandler gets a hold of a universal remote that controls everything in his universe, but it starts going wacky and he can’t control it. I didn’t go out of my way to see this movie. I didn’t...

Brick

Detective story taking place in a high school and shot as a film noir. A girl is murdered and the main character is trying to find out who did it and why. The mystery wasn’t the main point of the story for me, since I really didn’t like what...