Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Directed: Gore Verbinski Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley Everyone goes to bring back Jack Sparrow from the dead and have a mighty battle between pirates and everyone else. While I thought the first two movies were tons of fun and...
28 Weeks Later
28 Weeks Later Directed: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Starring: Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle The U.S. Army is brought to England to help the uninfected start rebuilding, yet it seems there is a new kind of zombie mutant. The movie doesn’t start out 28 weeks later, but only a few days...
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...
Breach
Breach Directed: Billy Ray Starring: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney Ryan Phillippe is a new FBI agent assigned to get to know Chris Cooper, who is a traitor selling secrets to Russia since 1985, but there is no proof. Based on a true story, which I didn’t...
Grindhouse
Grindhouse Directed: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino Starring: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Zoe Bell Double-feature in the style of the 70’s grindhouse flicks. Planet Terror is about biochemical zombies and Death Proof is a car-chase, slasher film. I loved this movie so much that...
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...
Ghost Rider!
Dear Ghost Rider, You are a super fun movie because you have motorcycles and flames and Nic Cage. I also like you because you were starting at a good time when Melissa and I wanted to see a movie when she was visiting from Denver. So go you!...
300
300 Directed: Zack Snyder Starring: Gerard Butler, Vincent Regan Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) about the Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans fought off thousands in the Persian army to save Greece from Xerces. For a movie squarely aimed at guys, almost all the...
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...