Kung Fu Hustle
From the director of Shaolin Soccer, set in 1930’s Hong Kong, a bad guy get caught in the middle of a battle between mobsters and slumlords. It’s filled with over-the-top cartoonish kung-fu fighting. I had watched the beginning and the end of this movie quite a while ago, but...
Music From Another Room
Jude Law plays a romantic who believes he is meant to be with a certain woman, much to the dismay of her fiance. I caught this one weekend morning when I was flipping through cable channels. I wasn’t really awake so I kept it on it since it had...
The Ice Harvest
On the outside, this movie should be good. John Cusack is awesome, Billy Bob Thornton is under-rated, and Harold Ramis has made some really excellent movies. This is not one of them. The story is pretty vague and hard to follow....
Wicker Park
Josh Hartnett meets a girl who reminds him of an old girlfriend who went missing and he starts his search for her again. When discovering the Postal Service a few years back, I downloaded their cover of Against All Odds. That’s when I realized it came from the soundtrack of...
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are secret assassins that are keeping their secret jobs from one another until they both are hired for the same job. I knew this would be a fluff movie. It was, but the chemistry between Brad and Angelina actually came through, which doesn’t always...
Wedding Crashers
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are divorce mediators who spend their summers crashing weddings to hook up with chicks and score free drinks. On the surface, this sounds exactly like the kind of movie that I would enjoy. I mean, it has crazy Vince Vaughn, Christoper Walken, the foxy...
The World’s Fastest Indian
The World’s Fastest Indian Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea Directed by: Roger Donaldson Written by: Roger Donaldson Rating: PG-13 Length: 2 hour 7 min Genre: Biography Release Date: March 24, 2006 Dear World’s Fastest Indian You are a nice movie, I like you, let’s be friends okay! [ ] yes [...
V For Vendetta
Britain is ruled by a totalitarian government in the future where no one has any rights, everyone lives in fear and the government runs wild with corruption. Set in the not-too-distant future, but it doesn’t really state when, the United States has fallen to terrorism and Britain has risen...
Spellbound
High strung, nail-biting, intense competition of spelling bees! No really, it’s true! A documentary that follows eight 8th graders as they go to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. I can’t find the information anywhere now, but I thought I read when this movie came...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh Directed by: Rob Marshall Written by: Robin Swicord (screenplay), Arthur Golden (book) Rating: PG-13 Length: 2 hour 25 min Genre: Romance Release Date: December 23, 2005 Dear Geisha Movie, You are confusing at first, since everyone is speaking in Japanese but then you switch to English,...