Monthly Archives: November 2009
To Die For (1995)
Usually I don’t like Gus Van Sant, but he is starting to grow on me. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has always harbored one dream: being on TV. She’s dead-set on making that dream come true, but there’s one hitch: her … Continue reading
Return to Me (2000)
Oh how love is so beautiful. A building contractor (David Duchovny) donates his wife’s heart after she’s tragically killed in an accident. A year later, he falls in love with a plucky waitress (Minnie Driver), only to discover she had … Continue reading
Cruising (1980)
I don’t think that Pacino can pull off the gay guy as well as we all thought. After a serial killer brutally murders several gay men in New York’s S&M and leather districts, cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) goes undercover … Continue reading
Clara’s Heart (1988)
HAhahahahhahaha, Neil Patrick Harris!!! While vacationing in Jamaica to get over her baby daughter’s death, Leona Hart (Kathleen Quinlan) strikes up a friendship with perceptive maid Clara Mayfield (Whoopi Goldberg). Soon, she transfers her place of employment to Leona’s Maryland … Continue reading
Following (1998)
This is why stalking is badd!!!! Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a seedy young Brit (Jeremy Theobald) who’s obsessed with following people — albeit harmlessly at first. After meeting a … Continue reading
Sex Drive (2008)
Watched this movie with 3 of my pals, and let me just say that is what I call a good time!!! Determined to lose his virginity, 18-year-old Ian (Josh Zuckerman) grabs two pals (Clark Duke and Amanda Crew) and drives … Continue reading
Filed under 1950s and below
Oh God! (1977)
When I think of what God looks like, I know I don’t think about George Burns. Buttonholing venerable comedian George Burns for the title role was certainly a divine inspiration! God, in the guise of a wisecracking old gent, decides … Continue reading
Shadowboxer (2006)
In order to get ready for Precious, I chose another Lee Daniels film, that I’m hoping will make Precious a better trip than what I expect. A nasty crime lord (Stephen Dorff) hires Rose (Helen Mirren) and her stepson Mikey … Continue reading
Bulletproof (1996)
I could not have imagined these two as once being the best of friends. In this buddy crime comedy, hard feelings must be set aside when undercover cop Rock Keats (Damon Wayans) is first shot by small-time crook Archie Moses … Continue reading
Match Point (2005)
Its official, Woody Allen can do no wrong!!! Tennis pro Chris (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) gets mixed up with the darker side of high society in this suspenseful drama with a Hitchcockian flair from writer-director Woody Allen, who sets the action across … Continue reading
Vantage Point (2008)
Does it actually take 8 different point of views to see who assassinated the president? Moments after he arrives in Spain for a landmark anti terrorism summit, U.S. President Ashton is shot. The 15 minutes leading up to the shooting … Continue reading
Six Degrees Of Separation (1993)
If only it was six degrees of Kevin Bacon, then this would have been a 10/10! Paul (Will Smith) is a charming and engaging young con artist who appears one day on the doorstep of Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald … Continue reading
Pieces of April (2003)
What a great Thanksgiving!!!! Reformed wild child April Burns (Katie Holmes) attempts to make Thanksgiving dinner — while battling a temperamental oven — for her estranged suburban family at her grungy New York apartment and anticipates introducing them to her … Continue reading
Con Air (1997)
Nic Cage takes a ride with a bunch of convicts featuring Dave Chapelle, yeah this is a movie. When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it’s asking for trouble. Before you can say, “Pass … Continue reading
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
This King really does know how to mack back in the 16th-century. Director Justin Chadwick’s opulent historical drama stars Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn and Scarlett Johansson as her sister, Mary — both beautiful, ambitious and vying for the heart … Continue reading
Marvin’s Room (1996)
Leonardo DiCaprio can honestly be one annoying little shit!!! The tables are turned when straight-laced Bessie (Diane Keaton) — who devotes her life to caring for her chronically ill father (Hume Cronyn) — must ask her estranged, bohemian sibling (Meryl … Continue reading
The Doors (1991)
Wow, Jim Morrison was kind of an ass now that I think about it. This drama is as much about 1960s music culture as it is about legendary outlaw Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer), one of the most influential figures in … Continue reading
Havoc (2005)
White kids, please stay in the suburbs. Havoc is a motion picture about the lives of wealthy Los Angeles, California, teenagers whose exposure to hip hop culture inspires them to imitate the gangster lifestyle. They run into trouble when they … Continue reading
Double Team (1997)
Note to future action movies: Professional Athletes cannot act!! Jean Claude Van Damme plays counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to bring an elusive terrorist known as Stavros (Mickey Rourke) to justice. Things become personal when Stavros kidnaps Quinn’s … Continue reading
