Deja Vu
A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly...
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3 Directed: Sam Raimi Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Hayden Church, Topher Grace, James Franco, James Cromwell, Bryce Dallas Howard Peter Parker is proposing to Mary Jane while battling three bad guys: Sandman, Green Goblin II and Venom. When I heard there were three bad guys, I...
Duchess of Langeais
The Duchess of Langeais Directed: Jacques RivetteStarring: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu A woman flirts with a general who proclaims his love for her, but she does not return the love while teasing that she might one day. When he is finally fed up, she realizes she is in love...
Irina Palm
Irina Palm Directed: Sam Garbarski Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop A middle-age woman takes a job at a sex club in order to pay for her grandson’s experimental surgery that might save his life. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. What could be depressing is a...
Family Ties
Family Ties Directed: Kim Tae-yong Starring: So-ri Moon, Hyo-jin Kong Three different stories told at different times and tied together at the end. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. The first story is about a young woman who is excited when her brother who has been away with...
You, The Living
You, the Living Directed: Roy Andersson Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund Short sketches in the daily lives of the Swedish. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. Poor movie. It has the bad luck that I decided to get violently ill halfway through it. No idea what...
MWG: Always – Feb Movie
Hi Everyone! I am choosing the movie for February – sorry that I am late! The movie will be Always – directed by Steven Spielberg, staring Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus. Hope you enjoy! Netflix Synopsis: Director Steven Spielberg delivers an old-fashioned romantic adventure, as firefighting pilot Richard Dreyfuss...
Portland International Film Festival
I love the Portland International Film Festival. I like it because I have seen some awesome movies at past festivals that have never been released in the U.S. and I can’t find on DVD. I don’t see as many movies as I would like to when I go since...
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...