Million Dollar Baby
This movie is about an boxer trainer, Frankie (Clint Eastwood), an ex boxer, Scrap (Morgan Freeman) and a girl who wants to become a boxer, Maggie. (Hilary Swank) Maggie is from a dysfunctional lower class family and finds herself in Frankie’s gym to start training. Over time, Frankie finally...
Jarhead
Jarhead Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Peter Sarsgaard Directed by: Sam Mendes Written by: Anthony Swofford (book), William Broyles Jr. (screenplay) Rating: R Genre: War Drama Release Date: 2005 Sam Mendes directs Jake Gyllenhaal as a marine trying to survive boredom during the 1991 Desert Storm Gulf War. I wanted to see...
Good Night, and Good Luck
George Clooney directs a docudrama about Edward R. Murrow taking on Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his communist hearings during the mid-1950’s. The entire movie is in black-and-white, which makes it very pretty to view. It also makes a nice effect with the massive amount of smoking that happens to...
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Steve Carell is the virgin and his friends try to help him fix that problem once they find out. At first glance, The 40-Year-Old Virgin looks like your typical frat boy rated-R sex comedy. I had higher hopes for this movie because it was written and directed by Judd...
Brokeback Mountain
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are two cowboys who fall in love in 1963, but can’t really share that with the rest of the world....
King Kong
During the Great Depression, a shifty movie producer tells his cast and crew that he is making a moving picture on a ship heading to Singapore, but he really wants to find the mysterious Skull Island where they find King Kong and other really big beasts and bugs. This...
Bring It On
Kirsten Dunst plays head cheerleader in high school when she finds out that her former leader stole cheers that gave them five state championships. I recently rewatched this movie during Thanksgiving break. I usually have no interest in watching a movie about cheerleading, but I think I watched it...
Derailed
So the Friday before Christmas, I had the day off and my mom and I decided to have pedicures and go to a movie and lunch. This was mom’s movie choice, I wanted to see Wallace and Gromit – Wererabbit! Anyways, Clive Owen is in this movie and I...
Fantastic Four
Five scientists get caught in some ball of light thingy that changes their DNA. The good ones become the Fantastic 4 while the bad one becomes Dr. Doom. Another comic book movie where I really know nothing about the comic books, so all the characters are new to me...
Syriana
Middle Eastern thriller about oil drilling and American big business. While watching this movie, it reminded me a lot of Traffic. There were a lot of story lines going on that were all related to the overall plot of the movie, but not all the characters interacted with one...