The Departed
Leonardo DiCaprio is an undercover cop in a mob gang run by Jack Nicholson. Matt Damon is a mole in the police department working for the mob, trying to figure out who is the undercover cop. This movie is long, but involved. I can’t think of any way for...
The Fountain
Traveling through three time periods–1500, 2000 and 2500 to cover the themes of life, love and death. This movie is a mess. When it began, I thought we had started watching it in the middle. Sometimes movies start out in the middle or the end of a story, but...
The Proposition
The Proposition Starring: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Richard Wilson Directed by: John Hilcoat Written by: Nick Cave Rating: xRx Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Genre: Western Release Date: 2006 Australian western set in 1880s starring Guy Pearce as a bad guy who is captured along with his younger brother. The law guy offers...
Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland In 1971, Idi Amin took over the country of Uganda with the promise of freeing it from British control. When he fled in 1979, he had executed 300,000 of his own people. For being a movie that is about Amin’s rule over Uganda, he...
Little Miss Sunshine
A little girl is a finalist in a beauty contest and her entire dysfunctional family makes the road trip to California. When I first saw the trailer for the movie that had the dinner scene near the beginning of the movie, I wanted to see this movie. I...
Borat
Sasha Baron Cohen (Da Ali G Show) plays Kazahkstan TV reporter, Borat who comes to America and manages to offend almost everyone. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Da Ali G Show. I had seen episodes here and there. Sometimes it was funny and other times, it just...
Children Of Men
Children of Men Directed: Alfonso Cuaron In the near future, women are infertile and the youngest person on Earth died at age 18. Clive Owen becomes an activist at the request of his ex-wife Julianne Moore, the leader of an underground group. Wow! This movie is intense. I didn't...
Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada Based on the novel with the same name, Meryl Streep is an evil editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine. Anne Hathaway is her new assistant trying to get into journalism. Anne Hathaway's character, Andy, wants to break into journalism in New York, but comes to realize...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are all back. Jack Sparrow owes a debt to Davy Jones, who happens to be dead, and now wants his payment. Even though the movie made millions and millions of dollars while breaking box office records, critics for the most part did...
Stranger Than Fiction
Will Ferrell plays a man who realizes his life is being narrated (literally in his head) by Emma Thompson since he’s a character in her book and she’s planning on killing him off. I wanted to see this movie since I read a little snippet about it in Entertainment...