Daily Archives: October 26, 2009
Great Balls of Fire (1989)
Wow, Jerry Lee Lewis is a creep. This rockin’ biopic depicts the meteoric rise of rock and roll’s most daring living legend, Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid). Concentrating on the years from 1956 to 1959, the film features the songs … Continue reading
Stand and Deliver (1988)
“How do I teach these kiiidddsss!!” East L.A. math teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos),who finds himself in a classroom of rebellious remedial-math students. He stuns fellow faculty members with his plans to teach AP Calculus,and even more when the … Continue reading
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Crazy times with Shakespeare. Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson star as Benedick and Beatrice, two marriage-phobic rivals in Florence, Italy, in a lively plot involving complications, pranks and peerless wordplay. This must be Shakespeare! Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert … Continue reading
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
What were these guys thinking!?? Laid-back rustler Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) and his gang buy a ranch next to their new target: rich landowner Braxton (John McLiam). While Logan courts his neighbor’s daughter (Kathleen Lloyd), Braxton gets wind of the … Continue reading
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Wes Anderson start’s out, with the Wilson brothers. After charismatic but naïve Dignan (Owen Wilson) persuades his pals Bob (Robert Musgrave) and Anthony (Luke Wilson) to rob a bookstore, the trio takes it on the lam. While holing up in … Continue reading
Short Cuts (1993)
A 3 hour and 9 minute film, that still needed more. Robert Altman’s mosaic masterpiece, based on Raymond Carver’s short stories, presents several different characters — including a baker, a chauffeur, a helicopter pilot, a phone-sex provider, a pool cleaner … Continue reading
Lucky Number Slevin (2005)
Not seven, but Slevin. Set in New York City, the plot focuses on the paths of Slevin Kelevra (Hartnett), Lindsey (Liu), two feuding crime lords known as The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley), and a mysterious hitman known as … Continue reading
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
The place where it all goes down, in the forest. Trusted adviser to 1920s Irish crime boss Lee O’Bannon, Tom Reagan’s loyalty is tested when he takes up with O’Bannon’s gal pal, Verna Bernbaum. Meanwhile,rivals Johnny Caspar and Eddie Dane … Continue reading
Atonement (2007)
Love has never been so passionate, damn evil little sisters. When 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) discovers a lustful letter and witnesses a sexual encounter between her older sister (Keira Knightley) and a servant’s son (James McAvoy), her confusion prompts … Continue reading
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Mel Brooks films never get old. Mel Brooks’s take on Hollywood Westerns follows the tortured trail of freed slave Bart, who’s elected sheriff of the racist town of Rock Ridge. He must foil a land-grabbing governor (Brooks) with help from … Continue reading
Hustle & Flow (2005)
What Terrence Howard can do best other than acting, pimping. DJay (Howard) is a pimp with aspirations of grandeur — he wants to make it as a rapper — but he soon discovers that fame isn’t all it’s cracked up … Continue reading
Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)
What happens when you find out your boss is dead act, like he’s alive! Co-workers Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) spending a weekend at the beach house of their boss, Bernie (Terry Kiser), who’s secretly planning to kill … Continue reading
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
I never knew that the mafia was attracted to Broadway so much. The story follows a hack 1920s playwright (John Cusack) who uses a mobster to finance his newest play. When the gangster’s bodyguard (Chazz Palminteri) starts rewriting the play … Continue reading
Stay (2005)
I don’t think you could stay in any bit of sanity after watching this. When a psychologist’s (Ewan McGregor) suicidal client starts making bizarre predictions that, to everyone’s mounting consternation, begin to come true. Now, the shrink must race against … Continue reading
Orange County (2002)
Poor guy, all he wants to do is to get into Stanford, what’s so wrong with that. High schooler Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) dreams of getting himself out of the surf and sun of Orange County and knows that his … Continue reading
District 9 (2009)
I never realized how much I actually care for aliens. When aliens land on Earth, global business conglomerate Multi-National United forces them into rigid containment zones where they are compelled to labor, even as MNU commandeers their other worldly technology … Continue reading
Quarantine (2008)
It’s The Blair Witch Project, without the witch. While on assignment shadowing firemen, a Los Angeles news reporter (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) get trapped in a quarantined apartment complex with a vicious unknown killer. With all forms … Continue reading
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Instead of the Germans its the Russians, so hilarious! A Russian submarine runs aground near a small New England town, and it’s up to Lt. Rozanov (Alan Arkin) as the Russians’ second-in-command to covertly secure a towboat to avoid an … Continue reading
Mystic River (2003)
Thee boys reunite over a lost childhood, in both ways. Tragedy reunites childhood friends Sean (Kevin Bacon), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Jimmy (Sean Penn) when they’re linked together in the Boston-based murder investigation of Jimmy’s teenage daughter. But while detective … Continue reading
