Closer
Four people, two couples and a lot of intermingle over the course of four years. Starring Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, and Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts bugs me. She didn’t used to, but she has bugged very much in the past few years. Her character was supposed to...
Pieces of April
Katie Holmes is the girl that couldn’t wait to get out of the suburbs. She is determined to make Thanksgiving dinner for her estranged parents in her tiny Lower East Side New York apartment where everything that could go wrong does. Katie Holmes is good in this movie. She...
The Longest Yard
I remember watching this movie when I was younger and couldn’t wait to see this latest version. Kat and I went from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants straight into this movie. What a difference in genre! For those who didn’t see the original or don’t know the concept –...
The Missing
In 19th century New Mexico, directed by Ron Howard, Tommy Lee Jones comes back to New Mexico to make amends with his daughter, Cate Blanchett, but her daughter is kidnapped. The acting in this movie was really good. The story wasn’t all that interesting. It could have been, but...
In Good Company
Topher Grace plays the 26-year-old boss to Dennis Quaid’s 51-year-old character. He also has a thing for Quaid’s daughter, played by Scarlett Johansson. I highly recommend this movie. Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace are great in it. Scarlett Johansson didn’t have much to do in the movie so it...
The Clearing
The Clearing Starring: Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren Directed by: Pieter Jan Brugge Written by: Pieter Jan Brugge, Justin Haythe Rating: R Length: 1 hour 35 min Genre: Thriller Release Date: July 16, 2004 Willem Dafoe gets fed up by his boss, Robert Redford, so he kidnaps him....
Hero
Before China was unified, seven states were warring. One of the state’s king wanted to become the first Emporer of China but there are assassins from the other states set out to stop that. I really liked this movie. It told the same general story over and over again,...
Intolerable Cruelty
Coen Brothers movie starring George Clooney as a divorce lawyer and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the gold-digging wife of his client. Can they make a romantic comedy? I liked this movie a lot more than I thought I would. George Clooney and the Coen brothers make a good combo. This movie was...
The Day After Tomorrow
Global warming decides to destroy Earth while making Donnie Darko star in a disaster flick. Bad global warming! I kept telling Donnie Darko to travel back in time and fix stuff or maybe the tornadoes in L.A. were just looking for him. The movies were a bit similar: end...
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Earth is about to be destroyed due to an intergalatic highway coming through so Arthur Dent is taken on an adventure through the galaxy by Ford Prefect. I recently read the first book after many years of starting to read someone else’s copy of it and then not being...