Cloverfield
A monster is terrorizing New York City and a few people with camcorders record the entire thing. The movie starts out as a classified video document that the U.S. Army has found and keeping it as evidence of what happened. It begins with a going away party for a...
Little Children
A stay-at-home mom and a stay-at-home dad start an affair with one another when they realized they have become trapped by their suburban lives. The little children in the title are really the adults who don’t want to grow up and face reality, even though they are well into...
The Good Shepherd
Fictional account of how the CIA was born through the eyes of a man, showing how it affected his family and friends. I blame Robert De Niro. There were some interesting plot points in the movie, yet the way they were presented and dragged out was so incredibly...
The Holiday
The Holiday Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Jack Black Directed by: Nancy Meyers Written by: Nancy Meyers Rating: PG-13 Length: 2 hours 18 minutes Genre: Romantic Comedy Release Date: 2006 Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet are alone at Christmas so they participate in a house exchange where Kate goes to Los Angeles and...
Freedomland
A woman says that she was carjacked with her little boy in the backseat, which turns into major race issues due to the neighborhood it takes place. Freedomland is an orphanage or state-run facility of some sort where unwanted children ended up. I can’t recall exactly because it is...
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Fantastic Four must battle the Silver Surfer before Earth dies. I have no idea why there was a need to make a sequel after the horrible first movie, but here we are with the silver surfer guy. What I complained about in the first movie is what I’ll...
Night Watch
Others are beings with supernatural powers and there has been a truce between the light and dark side until now. I read the book just before watching the movie. It is the first book in a trilogy. The book follows Anton as a worker in Night Watch, which...
Hollywoodland
Based on the true story of the unsolved death of TV’s Superman, George Reeves. Was it suicide or murder? This movie was slow and that might have worked if there was some payoff at the end, but there isn’t since no one is really sure if George Reeves killed...
Babel
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are vacationing in Morocco when she is shot accidentally by two boys. Their Mexican nanny back home is trying to get to her son’s wedding when this happens so she tries to take their two kids across the border illegally. And somehow a Japanese...
The Illusionist
During the 19th century, Edward Norton is an illusionist, Paul Giamatti is the Chief Inspector trying to prove he’s a fraud, and Jessica Biel is the former childhood friend that falls for him, much to the Crown Prince Leopold’s chagrin. I loved the way this movie was filmed. When...