The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Bill Murray is a Jacque Cousteau-type character that meets his grown son for the first time and they go out on an adventure to kill a shark for revenge because it ate his friend. Directed by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums). I love Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Tim Burton does his version of the Roald Dahl children’s book with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. I loved this movie. I have never read the book, but I did see the original movie. I loved that too, but I thought this was better. Maybe it was because Gene...
Thirteen
Holly Hunter is mother to a young girl who starts using drugs, having sex, and doing all sorts of other bad things cuz of her new cool, bad friend. The friend was also the co-screenwriter of this movie, at the ripe old age of 14. I expected this movie...
Spartan
Val Kilmer and William H. Macy are detectives assigned to rescue the president’s kidnapped daughter. In the process, they find out about another crime happening within the White House. The trailer must have been misleading to cause me to think William H. Macy was in the movie very much. I...
March of the Penguins
Documentary following emporer penguins in Antarctica as they get together to mate and raise their offspring. A couple of FRANCH guys filmed the penguins while they came up out of the water at the end of their summer to make the march to the breeding ground, find a mate,...
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...
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 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...
I, Robot
I, Robot Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood Directed by: Alex Proyas Written by: Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman, Isaac Asimov (suggested by book) Rating: PG-13 Length: 1 hour 55 min. Genre: Sci-Fi Release Date: July 16, 2004 Robots are personal assistants and one is accused of murder. Robots are taking over! Will Smith plays...