Monthly Archives: April 2010
Hot Shots! (1991)
Remember how Charlie Sheen was in a dramatic war movie, Platoon? Yeah, me either. Ace pilot Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is obsessed with living down his father’s disastrous reputation and winning beautiful psychiatrist Ramada from professional and romantic rival Kent … Continue reading
Set It Off (1996)
Four crazy ass black woman, that guys don’t have just all the fun robbing places. Sick of being victims of circumstance and fighting a system that keeps them from realizing their dreams, four black women from the Los Angeles projects … Continue reading
O (2001)
Whoever thought that Jungle Fever could get this violent. A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s “Othello” that takes place in an exclusive boarding school where Odin James (Mekhi Phifer) is the star basketball player and sole black student. Odin’s beautiful girlfriend, … Continue reading
The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Larry Flynt vs. Hugh Hefner. Who is the better porno seller. Notorious pornographer Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson) carries his free-speech campaign from lowly strip clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court in this film about censorship and the sex industry from … Continue reading
Manic (2003)
If everyone from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, were teenagers. Teenager Lyle Jensen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is committed to the juvenile ward of a mental institution after brutally beating another boy. There, he encounters a pack of equally lost souls, … Continue reading
Filed under 1950s and below, 2000s, 8-8.5/10, Movies
Colors (1988)
Time has not treated this movie well. Veteran cop Bob Hodges (Robert Duvall) has nothing but contempt for his new partner, fiery rookie Danny McGavin (Sean Penn). But he comes to appreciate Danny as they patrol the mean streets of … Continue reading
Filed under 1950s and below, 1980s, 5-5.5/10, Movies
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Like Snakes on a Plane, what you see is what you get. Fueled by energy drinks, vodka and nostalgia for their younger, wilder days, a group of aging best friends (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke) travel … Continue reading
You Kill Me (2007)
One weakness to a hit-man: alcohol. After alcoholic hit man Frank (Ben Kingsley) botches an assignment, he leaves the Polish mob family he works for to clean up the mess and relocates to San Francisco, where he dries out, gets … Continue reading
Tape (2001)
3 friends meet to what becomes the most awkward conversation ever. After 10 years apart, three friends (Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman) reunite in a motel room to play out the unresolved drama of their final high … Continue reading
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Hey, it got me dancing! Director John Badham’s musical ushered in the disco craze with the character of 19-year-old Tony Manero (John Travolta). By day, Tony’s a paint store clerk, but at night he’s a polyester-clad stallion who rules the … Continue reading
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
The visuals in this film will blow you away, because you got all these crazy colors flyin at you sometimes and you feel as if your trippin’ mad balls, when you realize your inside of the Lynch maze. Continue reading
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Nothing like watching a great classic, on a crappy Sunday. Nominated for seven Oscars, this legal thriller profiles the attempts of country lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart) to exonerate Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), who’s charged with a local barkeep’s murder … Continue reading
Filed under 10/10, 1950s and below, Movies
My Top Ten Movie Facts!
So there has been this big bunch of tagging going around for this Top Ten Movie Facts thingy, and I have been tagged once (thank you Aiden). If you ever wanted to know anything I haven’t already told you guys … Continue reading
Filed under 1950s and below
Date Night (2010)
I hope my dates never turn out to be this way. Who knew simple dinner reservations under a different name could turn one New Jersey couple’s date night so terribly upside-down? Claire (Tina Fey) and Phil (Steve Carell) Foster leave … Continue reading
Very Young Girls (2008)
Pimps are assholes, except for 50 Cent, whos the only good P.I.M.P David Schisgall’s startling documentary captures the heartbreaking stories of underage girls — many as young as 13 — who’ve been forced into prostitution in New York, exposing how … Continue reading
Duplicity (2009)
Seeing these two in Closer, almost ruined the movie for me. Julia Roberts and Clive Owen co-star in this curveball-throwing thriller as a pair of romantically involved corporate operatives who are entangled in a bitter rivalry between two mammoth pharmaceutical … Continue reading
The Yards (2000)
Who ever thought the life owning rail road tracks was this dangerous? Fresh out of the joint, Queens native Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) tries to get himself on the right track in the rail yards with help from his shady … Continue reading
Amadeus (1984)
“Mozart” didn’t sound pretentious enough. Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), a mediocre composer whose churlish young rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), wins immortality with his musical genius. Not happy to see his talent eclipsed, Salieri dons a disguise and … Continue reading
Moon (2009)
After a year or so, I’d just quit my job if I had to do this for a whole 3 years. As he nears the end of a lonely three-year stint on the moon base Sarang, astronaut Sam Bell (Sam … Continue reading
Mallrats (1995)
I wish crap like this was going down in my mall, or I’d be there everyday of my life. Young, suburban every men Brodie (Jason Lee) and T.S. (Jeremy London) lose their girlfriends on the same day, so they take … Continue reading
