Tag: natalie portman

Top Chef: Veggie Time!

Top Chef: Las Vegas Meat Natalie Here is a quick run down on the two challenges: Quickfire Challenge: TV Guide Quickfire – Reinvent a classic TV dinner Elimination Challenge: Cook at Craftsteak at MGM Grand I love when the show throws what should be obvious twists out to the...

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl Directed: Edward Shearmurk Starring: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana The two Boleyn sisters that were mistresses of Henry VIII, the king of England. Henry VIII has always been an intriguing fellow. I knew he had many wives, he broke from the Catholic Church and...

V For Vendetta

Britain is ruled by a totalitarian government in the future where no one has any rights, everyone lives in fear and the government runs wild with corruption. Set in the not-too-distant future, but it doesn’t really state when, the United States has fallen to terrorism and Britain has risen...

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

The last Star Wars installment that ties together how Anakin turns to the dark side of the Force to become Darth Vader. **Some spoiler stuff so don’t read if you don’t want to know.** R2D2 is awesome and he has bypassed Yoda as my favorite character. I love Yoda...

Cold Mountain

At the end of the American Civil War, Jude Law journeys home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with Nicole Kidman. Renee Zellweger is in there somewhere too. I thought this movie looked pretty boring, but decided I should watch it anyway. It was much better than I expected. It was very long, but...

Garden State

The main guy from Scrubs wrote, directed, and stars in a story about a man who comes back home to New Jersey from L.A. when his mom dies and is reminded how much he likes his home state. This movie was highly amusing. Largeman (his last name) is drugged...

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...