Month: January 2008

Cloverfield

A monster is terrorizing New York City and a few people with camcorders record the entire thing. The movie starts out as a classified video document that the U.S. Army has found and keeping it as evidence of what happened. It begins with a going away party for a...

Running with Scissors

Based on the memoir of Augusten Burroughs about how his bipolar mother gave him up for adoption to his shrink, and how he spent his teen years with a weird-ass shrink family. How a young boy could grow up with such a smothering and then abandoning mother, dumped off...

TAR: Yippee!

Amazing Race The Final Push Phil checks teams out at the former pit stop of the Chiang Kai-Shek Plaza in Taipei, Taiwan where they find that they need to fly to their final destination city of Anchorage, Alaska, more than 4000 miles away. After landing, they need to go...

Little Children

A stay-at-home mom and a stay-at-home dad start an affair with one another when they realized they have become trapped by their suburban lives. The little children in the title are really the adults who don’t want to grow up and face reality, even though they are well into...

The Good Shepherd

  Fictional account of how the CIA was born through the eyes of a man, showing how it affected his family and friends. I blame Robert De Niro. There were some interesting plot points in the movie, yet the way they were presented and dragged out was so incredibly...

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Directed: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman Based on Stephen Sondheim’s musical, a man seeks bloody revenge after being sent away to prison for a crime he didn’t commit so a rich guy could take his wife and...

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad Channel: AMC Airs: Sunday @10pm Starring: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, RJ Mite, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt Trailer Synopsis: A former chemistry teacher finds out he has a terminal illness. This wakes him up and he decides to use his background to make and sell crystal...

Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Channel: NBC Time: 8/7c Airs: Monday @9pm Synopsis: Takes place after Terminator 2: Judgment Day ended with Sarah Connor and her son, John, fugitives from the law and the terminators are still after them. High production values and nice special effects with the terminators...

Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge to Terabithia Directed: Gabor Csupo Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Anna ophia Robb Based on the novel about two kids who find a magical kingdom and have adventures. I never read the book and never even heard of it before the movie came out, so I can only review it...

TAR: Happy Birthday Jen!

Amazing Race Sorry, Guys, I’m Not Happy to See You Phil checks teams out at the former pit stop of the Tempozan Park in Osaka, Japan where they have to find the building with a hole in it and search the floating garden for their next clue. The hole...