Category: Movie Reviews

Chopper

Based on the true story of a legendary Australian criminal who wrote a best-selling autobiography in prison while serving a murder sentence. Eric Bana is the guy that played The Hulk and Hector in Troy. He’s famous in Australia as a comedian. I didn’t know that. Anyway, this movie came...

Wimbledon

Paul Bettany was a rising tennis star that has been going downhill and he’s about to retire after playing Wimbledon one more time. Kirsten Dunst is an up-and-coming tennis star who goes after him and improves his game in the process. I’m not a big romantic comedy fan. Well,...

Taxi

New York city cop loses his driver's license do to a few unfortunate accidents. In effort to be first on scene at a bank robbery he takes a taxi. The taxi so happens to belong to a female who aspires to be a Nascar driver. The bank robbery happens...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carrey finds out that his girlfriend has had their relationship erased from her memories, he decides to do the same. Of course, it doesn’t work out quite like he expected.  I wanted to see this movie because Being John Malkovich and Adaptation that were written by Charlie Kaufman were so...

Collateral

Tom Cruise plays a hitman that has to kill five key witnesses in a federal case in one night and he is holding Jamie Foxx hostage as his taxi cab driver for the mission. I have stated before that I do not like Michael Mann movies, yet I always...

Garden State

The main guy from Scrubs wrote, directed, and stars in a story about a man who comes back home to New Jersey from L.A. when his mom dies and is reminded how much he likes his home state. This movie was highly amusing. Largeman (his last name) is drugged...

The Secret Lives of Dentists

Can dentists’ lives be exciting? Does it count if you are hallucinating about Denis Leary?...

Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator

Documentary about the skateboarding trend in the 1980's and Mark "Gator" Rogowski who is in jail for murder. I think you would only be interested in this movie if you skated or were interested in skating at one point in your life. I loved the little skater boys when...

Auto Focus

Biopic of Bob Crane from Hogan’s Heroes starring Greg Kinnear and his mysterious death that still remains unsolved. Greg Kinnear played Bob Crane as very skittish kind of man. I really don’t know anything about Bob Crane so he might have been like that, but it was a tad unnerving to watch....

Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

The princess must get married within 30 days or she will lose her control of her country. Holy crap I must have been insane to think this would be a good movie. I forced my sons to go… I think they will have mental problems now. I thought the...