Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
This Charlie guy does sound like a real dick! Romance and suspense ignite a modern Paris backdrop in director Jonathan Demme’s fresh take on the Stanley Donen film Charade (also included on this disc). Regina (Thandie Newton) meets Joshua (Mark … Continue reading
Cop Land (1997)
I highly doubt any of these guys would be cops at all. When a local patrolman is implicated in a controversial shooting in a small New Jersey town, put-upon sheriff Freddy Heflin teams up with Lt. Moe Tilden (Robert De … Continue reading
An Education (2009)
Sounds like a Pink Floyd song. Jenny’s (Carey Mulligan) Oxford-bound teen life is undistinguished in 1961 London until she’s given a different kind of education after being immersed in the beguiling but hazardous world of cultured and much-older David (Peter … Continue reading
The Pacifier (2005)
Sorry Vinny, but I would not trust you one bit with my kids. Tough-guy Navy SEAL Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) never imagined that he’d wind up as a babysitter for a crop of unruly kids. But now that he is, … Continue reading
Everything is Illuminated (2005)
Elijah Wood will never be able to live down his role as Frodo no matter how good he is. A young American Jewish man begins an exhausting quest — aided by a naïve Ukranian translator — to find the righteous … Continue reading
Closer (2004)
Jesus these people all need to get a room! Director Mike Nichols exposes the ugly core hiding behind the slick veneer of four beautiful people and their tangled personal relationships in this drama based on the hit Broadway play. A … Continue reading
Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Yeah this really is some trouble! Stock market millionaire Chris Thorne (Chevy Chase) and investment lawyer Diane Lightson (Demi Moore) are headed to Atlantic City when they take the wrong exit off the New Jersey Turnpike. A local cop (John … Continue reading
Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)
Not quite what I was expecting. Viciously abused by her mother (Mo’Nique) and pregnant by her father, Harlem teen Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school. Teacher Blu … Continue reading
It’s Complicated (2009)
Could not put that disturbing poster of Alec Baldwin and his chest hair, just too disgusting. Ten years after their divorce, Jane (Meryl Streep) and Jake (Alec Baldwin) enjoy an amicable friendship. When the two unite for their son’s college … Continue reading
The Man Without a Face (1993)
In order to prep for Edge of Darkness, I’m going to give this Mel Gibson treat a try. Against long odds, a young boy (Nick Stahl) works hard to pass the entrance exam that will allow him to enter his … Continue reading
City of God (2002)
Brazil is such a fucked up place to be! Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues) is frightened he’ll end up like the countless others around him — troubled, violent or dead. But his saving grace is his photographer’s eye, through which the stories … Continue reading
Foul Play (1978)
Now I can see where Kate Hudson gets her looks! Goldie Hawn shines as gentle librarian Gloria Mundy, who finds her peaceful and slightly boring existence shaken when she uncovers a plan to assassinate the Pope in this action-comedy inspired … Continue reading
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
One of the worst planned out plays ever! In the 1930s, as labor strikes erupt across the country, New York City launches a dramatic cultural revolution of its own. Orson Welles (Angus Macfadyen) stages the controversial titular play — a … Continue reading
Blood Work (2002)
Clint showing he was going to die so early in his career. Retired FBI director Terry McCaleb (Clint Eastwood), feeble from a recent heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (Wanda De Jesus) to investigate the death of her sister, … Continue reading
The Hurricane (1999)
Who can Denzel not play! Denzel Washington lands a knockout punch as Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a prizefighter who — at the zenith of his boxing career — finds himself wrongly convicted of a triple homicide and sentenced to three life … Continue reading
The King of Comedy (1982)
Celebrities: sometimes we love them, sometimes we hate them, but mostly we’re obsessed with them. Director Martin Scorsese hits a satirical bulls-eye in this black comedy that explores the absurd lengths to which nebbish Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) will … Continue reading
Hudson Hawk (1991)
I really wish I didn’t have to take time out of my life and watch this, honestly. This Bruce Willis vehicle puts its star in the shoes of Hudson Hawk, a skilled cat burglar who times his robberies by singing … Continue reading
Hard Eight (1997)
PT taking a page out of Tarantino’s book. Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s first film charts the relationship between reckless youth John (John C. Reilly) and world-weary card shark Sydney (Philip Baker Hall), who takes John under his wing after showing … Continue reading
The Road (2009)
After reading the novel over the summer, finally got to seeing this. In the near future, the world has been virtually destroyed. From the ash-covered, post-apocalyptic remains of Appalachia, the Father (Viggo Mortensen) and Son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) take to the … Continue reading
Gomorrah (2009)
When realism takes its way into the world of mobsters. The intertwining tales of a delivery boy, a tailor, a businessman and two cocky teenagers form the fabric of this gritty and lyrical examination of the influential Neapolitan mob known … Continue reading
