Grill Point
Grill Point Starring: Steffi Kuhnert, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Thorsten Merten, Axel Prahl, Julia Ziesche Directed by: Andreas Dresen Written by: Andreas Dresen, Cooky Ziesche Rating: Unrated Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Genre: Drama Release Date: 2002 Should I even review this movie? I walked out about 3/4 of the way through it. It wasn’t awful, but...
Amelie
A sheltered young woman wants to help others acheive their dreams. Amelie is about a young woman who led a sheltered life as a girl. When she is older she wants to perform good deeds and improve the lives of those around her. She is quite a dreamer and...
A Knight’s Tale
A Knight’s Tale Synopsis: A peasant turns into a knight. It was kinda cheesy with the guy from Dark City and his one eye that goes every which way but straight being a big jerk in the movie while trying to woo the girl that looked like Lisa Bonet’s...
Gosford Park
A night in the life of 1932 dinner party that goes from the fancy guests to the help and wait staff. I like some Robert Altman films. I loved The Player and Short Cuts, but The Gingerbread Man bored me. I love ensemble films so I thought I would...
The Mexican
The Mexican A guy goes to Mexico to pick up a cursed gun to sell it while his girlfriend begs him to quit his criminal activities. I actually like all the actors in the movie but I thought Julia Roberts was just whiny and screechy when she was fighting...
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity Directed: Doug Liman Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox Synopsis: A man wakes up with amnesia while assassins are after him and he seems to have butt-kicking skills for reasons unknown. I enjoyed the movie. I was confused why they showed...
The Others
The Others Starring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan Directed by: Alejandro Amenabar Written by: Alejandro Amenabar Rating: PG-13 Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Genre: Horror Release Date: August 10, 2001 A mother already had to deal with her creepy kids being sensitive to sunlight, now also has to deal with her house being haunted. I...
Training Day
Training Day Directed: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke Synopsis: A new cop is assigned to a veteran rogue cop who isn’t afraid to cross the line to get what he wants. When it came out in the theaters it didn’t look thrilling but I saw it because...
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
In the future, a highly advanced robotic boy thinks he is real and wants his “mother” to love him. It was interesting in how they made the machine feel love (or at least neediness) but everyone pretty much kept treating him like a machine. Even when he ended up...
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Anakin and Amidala fall in love, Ewan McGregor grows a beard and Yoda kicks butt. There’s also supposed to be hardly any Jar Jar Binks. Already an improvement over The Phantom Menace. You might not want to read this if you haven’t seen it since there is spoiler info...