Monthly Archives: February 2010
Cliffhanger (1993)
My fear of heights would never give me this job. A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) and his partner, Hal (Michael Rooker), are called to return to the same … Continue reading
Juno (2007)
Honestly, who other than Michael Cera would want to knock this chick up?? Facing an unplanned pregnancy while she’s still in high school, quirky teen Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) devises a plan to locate her unborn baby’s perfect adoptive parents. … Continue reading
Blue Streak (1999)
Martin Lawrence once again playing a cop, no literally. Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) returns to his hiding place after a jail stint — only to find that his booty is buried under a newly constructed Los Angeles police … Continue reading
Fish Tank (2010)
Teenage angst at its worst. The life of hot-tempered teen outcast Mia (Katie Jarvis) takes an unexpected turn when her mother, Joanne (Kierston Wareing), brings home a handsome and mysterious boyfriend named Connor (Michael Fassbender), who pledges to bring sweeping … Continue reading
Apocalypse Now (1979)
One of those trippy war films. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic adapts Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, where special operations Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) must travel deep into the Cambodian jungle to locate and kill the mysterious … Continue reading
Poetic Justice (1993)
Ehh I think Singleton should just stick with his hood films. Pop superstar Janet Jackson makes her big-screen debut in this sensitive urban drama. Justice (Jackson) sacrifices her dream of attending college and becomes a cosmetologist after her boyfriend gets … Continue reading
A River Runs Through It (1992)
How exciting is fly-fishing after all? Two fly-fishing brothers, straitlaced scholar Norman (Craig Sheffer) and trouble-finding gambler Paul (Brad Pitt), struggle to mollify their Presbyterian preacher father’s (Tom Skerritt) lofty moral — and fishing — standards. Director Robert Redford’s nostalgic … Continue reading
The Replacement Killers (1998)
So much action, so little time. Hit man John Lee (Chow Yun-Fat) refuses an assignment to kill a police officer’s 7-year-old son — defiance that doesn’t sit well with his Chinatown drug lord boss, Mr. Wei (Kenneth Tsang). Wei hires … Continue reading
Gattaca (1997)
One of those sci-fi thrillers that actually mean something in today’s world. With one eye on his lifelong dream of working in outer space, a genetically flawed but determined “In-Valid” (Ethan Hawke) hires a DNA broker (Tony Shalhoub) to help … Continue reading
The Last Samurai (2003)
Ruined all hopes for a Samurai Jack movie. Tom Cruise stars as Nathan Algren — an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare — in this lush epic set in the 1870s, which finds … Continue reading
Rosewood (1997)
Proof that John Singleton can do other stuff than just gang films. The film stars Ving Rhames who travels to the town of Rosewood, Florida, United States, and becomes a witness to the 1923 Rosewood massacre. The supporting cast includes … Continue reading
11:14 (2003)
The same old techinique that gets better every time. Even though they’re strangers, Buzzy (Academy Award winner Hilary Swank), Mark (Colin Hanks), Cheri (Rachel Leigh Cook), Jack (Henry Thomas) and Eddie (Ben Foster) will become part of each other’s lives … Continue reading
Heat (1995)
A long ass movie that didn’t need to be an long ass movie. De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a professional burglar who is a calm and methodical introvert, while Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna, veteran LAPD homicide detective whose explosive … Continue reading
Notorious (2009)
After seeing this movie I have just realized something, Biggie was a ladies man! Based on the story of Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G. (played by Jamal Woolard), this insightful biopic chronicles the gangsta rapper’s troubled life as … Continue reading
Shutter Island (2010)
Basically Scorsese can do it all! Director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio re-team for this taut adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel about Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio), a U.S. marshal who searches for an escaped psychiatric patient on a mysterious remote island … Continue reading
In the Bedroom (2001)
Hopefully my parents don’t grow old like this! Set in a tranquil town on the Maine coast, this character-driven drama tells the story of a couple (Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson) whose teenage son (Nick Stahl) is involved in a … Continue reading
The Matrix (1999)
Reason why I don’t take pills, or trust guys that wear sunglasses indoors. In this complex story that aspires to mythology, a computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He finds … Continue reading
Spanking The Monkey (1995)
There are so many names for masturbation, and this is probably the best. Susan Aibelli (Alberta Watson), a married, lonely woman, suffers a leg injury at home just as her husband is about to leave on his job as a … Continue reading
Enemy of the State (1998)
Would this actually be happening in real life? Just putting it out there. Hotshot Washington lawyer Robert Dean (Will Smith) becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue … Continue reading
