Monthly Archives: March 2011
The Informant! (2009)
Whoever thought you could be getting so ripped off for just buying a can of corn! Damn ADM! While gathering evidence against his institutional employer to help the FBI build a price-fixing conspiracy case, affable agribusiness executive Mark Whitacre (Matt … Continue reading
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Football is a lot more messed up than I thought. Master director Oliver Stone crafted this look at the gritty world of professional football, capturing the trials and tribulations of the fictional Miami Sharks, a team beset by unnecessary roughness … Continue reading
Transamerica (2005)
I don’t care what people say about me now, but Felicity Huffman was kind of attractive in this. There, I rest my case. Bree (Felicity Huffman) gets the shock of her life a week before her final sex change surgery … Continue reading
Limitless (2011)
If this pill is actually out there, I need to get better dealers. With his writing career tanking and his girlfriend (Abbie Cornish) casting him off, ex-druggie Eddie Morra’s (Bradley Cooper) fortunes finally turn around when he’s given a mysterious … Continue reading
The Departed (2006)
Boston accents always create a good movie. While an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) curries favor with the mob kingpin (Jack Nicholson), a career criminal (Matt Damon) rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there’s a mole among … Continue reading
Love Happens (2009)
Not as bad as everybody makes it out to be, but not all that good honestly. When widower and self-help guru Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) unexpectedly falls for Eloise (Jennifer Aniston), his latent grief threatens his chance at romance. Now, … Continue reading
The Losers (2010)
The 14-year old boys definition of freakin’ awesome! After learning that their handler, Max (Jason Patric), has set them up, a group of disavowed CIA operatives led by Clay — aka the Colonel (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) — bands together to … Continue reading
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Makes me want to go out right now and have a baby with some lucky honey. Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), the young wife of a struggling actor (John Cassavetes), is thrilled to find out she’s pregnant. But the larger her … Continue reading
Paul (2011)
I hope that if aliens do exist, that there more like this dude. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg star as two science-fiction freaks who, while on a quest to discover what lies at the heart of Nevada’s infamous Area 51, … Continue reading
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
If I was able to chill with Russel Brand, I know it would probably be better than this movie. Ambitious young record company intern Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) will let nothing get in the way of his planned rise to … Continue reading
American Gangster (2007)
It doesn’t matter what drug you deal, it all depends on how cool you look when your dealing it. Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) rules Harlem’s chaotic drug … Continue reading
City Island (2010)
Is this how all Italian families from the Bronx are like? When he recognizes his son, Tony (Steven Strait), whom he hasn’t seen in more than 20 years, among a crop of new inmates in the jail where he works, … Continue reading
Crimson Tide (1995)
Black vs. White, in a submarine. Controversy boils over when Soviet rebels point nuclear weapons at the United States, and a message for the nuclear-missile sub USS Alabama gets cut off during transmission. Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) thinks he’s … Continue reading
Gamer (2009)
God, I wish I was playing a video game instead of watching this crap. It’s 2034, and humans can control and kill each other in a large-scale online gaming world. But Kable (Gerard Butler), a wrongfully convicted soldier forced to … Continue reading
Hollywood Ending (2002)
I hope I don’t randomly become blind. I won’t be able to see porn…….movies anymore. Woody Allen plays Val Waxman, a once-famous film director who’s down on his luck and just needs one good picture to bring his career back. … Continue reading
Catch-22 (1970)
War really does make you go crazy. Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries to escape the travesties of World War II by convincing his Air Force commanders that he’s crazy. Hilarity ensues — but so does reality as he watches his … Continue reading
Conversations With Other Women (2006)
Weddings: best place to score one night stands. Sparks fly at a wedding reception when a man (Aaron Eckhart) and woman (Helena Bonham Carter) with an ambiguous connection are reunited in this stylish romantic drama. As the layers of their … Continue reading
Green Zone (2010)
If Jason Bourne suddenly turned into Rambo. U.S. Defense Intelligence Agent Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) doesn’t want to hear what Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) has to say about not finding the weapons of mass destruction — … Continue reading
Easy A (2010)
I know too many chicks that this movie could be based on. Ambitious student Olive (Emma Stone) decides to boost her popularity by pretending to be the school slut. As the school’s swirling rumor mill increases both her notoriety and … Continue reading
Primary Colors (1998)
Whoever thought Danny Zuko could be the President. A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA. A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA (John Travolta). … Continue reading
