Gangs of New York
Overall I thought it was okay but I also thought it was too long. I don’t have an aversion towards long movies, but they do have to hold my interest. It came on 2 DVD’s from Netflix. I fell asleep sometime during the second one. I think it was...
Gangster No. 1
Gangster Number 1 Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows Directed by: Paul McGuigan Written by: Johnny Ferguson (screenplay), Louis Mellis (original screenplay), David Scinto (original screenplay) Rating: R Length: 1 hour, 43 minutes Genre: Crime Drama Release Date: 2000 A British gangster, played by Malcolm McDowell, looks back on his life of when he...
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in MexicoDirector: Robert Rodriguez The third movie in the El Mariachi trilogy, but it’s really just a sequel to Desperado since that was just a remake of El Mariachi. Confused yet? Plot line was entertaining, characters were interesting, and the good guy wins (of course.)...
25th Hour
Edward Norton has one last day of partying before serving seven-year jail sentence for drug dealing. I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Edward Norton wants to say goodbye to his friends from school and his dad before going off to jail. Most of the characters were great and...
Punch-Drunk Love
Punch-Drunk Love Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson Written by: Paul Thomas Anderson Rating: R Length: 1 hour 35 minutes Genre: Romantic Comedy Release Date: November 1, 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) directed Adam Sandler in a serious role that is getting Oscar buzz. No...
Phone Booth
Phone Booth Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes Directed by: Joel Schumacher Written by: Larry Cohen Rating: R Genre: Thriller Release Date: 2002 Colin Farrell is hunted down in a phone booth by a sniper that says he will kill him if he leaves the phone booth. I found it...
A Guy Thing
Don’t ya just hate when you wake up in the bed with a pretty girl who just happens to be the cousin of your fiance? We also watched this with Keiran and Erin the same night we watched Equilibrium. It took me a while to remember the movie, since...
The Devil’s Backbone
Creepy ghost story taking place in a Spanish orphanage during the Civil War. When I added a bunch of movies to Netflix, I had some foreign films here and there. Unintentionally, three of them showed up at the same time. By the time we reached this one, Jer was...
Bruce Almighty
Jim Carrey is offered the chance to be God for a while. Compared to other Jim Carrey movies, this was not as funny as Ace Ventura or Liar, Liar, but it was amusing....
Daredevil
Radioactive waste is at it again in the superhero world. This time it makes this guy blind, which in turn, makes him an acrobatic martial arts superhero. Of course! Daredevil Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson Written by: Mark Steven Johnson Rating: PG-13...