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This is the End

reviewed on June 17th, 2013 08:45PM

This is the End stars Seth Rogen as himself who’s planning a weekend for his friend Jay (played by Jay Baruchel as himself), who’s visiting L.A. for a few days. After spending some time hanging out, Seth decides to take Jay out to a party at James...

Desperate Measures

reviewed on June 7th, 2013 05:21PM

Andy Garcia is Frank Connor, a cop whose son has leukemia. He soon discovers that a prisoner who’s a former serial killer, Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton), is a match for his son. When Frank approaches Peter to donate his bone marrow to his son by o...

Take Me Home Tonight

reviewed on May 26th, 2013 06:16AM

In 1988 Los Angeles, Matt (Topher Grace) is a college graduate who’s working at a video store while trying to decide what to do next. His sister Wendy (Anna Faris) is planning to go to college while dealing with moving in with her boyfriend Kyle ...

Bruno

reviewed on May 26th, 2013 05:30AM

Sacha Baron Cohen is Bruno, a German television fashion reporter who gets fired after a controversial event at a fashion show. He later decides to go to Hollywood so he can become famous. He is joined by one of his assistants Lutz, who assists him...

Borat

reviewed on May 26th, 2013 04:29AM

Based on his comedy show Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen reprises one of his characters, Borat, a reporter from Kazakhstan who’s sent to America to learn some information in order to improve his hometown. Along with his producer Azamat (Ken Davit...

Pretty in Pink

reviewed on May 26th, 2013 03:39AM

Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who falls in love with a preppy kid named Blane (Andrew McCarthy) at school. Her best friend is a guy named Duckie (Jon Cryer), who seems to be there for her always no matter what....

Friday the 13th

reviewed on May 25th, 2013 03:48AM

Friday the 13th follows what the previous films have done but it tried some different things that I liked. Except instead of staying at the notorious Camp Crystal Lake, a group of teenagers are staying at some summer cabin, which is right by the c...

Star Trek Into Darkness

reviewed on May 20th, 2013 06:17AM

The movie begins with the Enterprise crew run into trouble while being on a foreign planet. Spock (Zachary Quinto) ends up getting into some trouble, causing Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) to rescue him. After the mission, Spock turns in a report to Ca...

Clean and Sober

reviewed on May 20th, 2013 04:45AM

Daryl Pointer (Michael Keaton) is a cocaine addicted real estate agent who has a tragic incident occur after bringing a one night stand home. The woman happens to be unconscious from a drug overdose. The police suspect he was involved in the accid...

Just Married

reviewed on May 20th, 2013 04:11AM

Ashton Kutcher is Tom, a weather reporter for the radio who has just gotten into a fight with his wife, Sarah (Brittany Murphy). Tom then goes to his radio job and tells the entire movie in a flashback about what happened on their honeymoon. Tom m...

The Departed

reviewed on May 13th, 2013 11:39PM

In Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, Matt Damon is Colin, a cop in Boston who is part of a police investigation to nab legendary gangster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). Leonardo DiCaprio is Billy, a criminal who’s just gotten out of prison to work...

Iron Man 3

reviewed on May 6th, 2013 12:40AM

In Iron Man 3, Robert Downey, Jr. returns as Tony Stark. Tony is living with his girlfriend Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) but his work with his suits is causing trouble in his relationship. It also doesn't help that he's also dealing with some post tra...

Light of Day

reviewed on May 4th, 2013 03:02AM

Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett are Joe and Patti, two siblings who are in a rock and roll band named The Barbusters. They spend most of their time making music and performing all around the country in a van. Their extremely religious mother Jeanette...

Electric Dreams

reviewed on May 4th, 2013 02:54AM

Miles (Lenny Van Dohlen) is an architect who buys a computer to make his life easier and keep his work organized. He doesn’t quite like using the computer at first but he becomes used to it. It should also be noted that in this movie, it’s believe...

Collateral

reviewed on April 29th, 2013 04:24PM

In Collateral, Jamie Foxx is Max, a taxi driver who lives a very typical and unchallenging life. Everything seems to be okay until he meets a mysterious passenger named Vincent (Tom Cruise) who offers to pay to have him for the whole night if Max ...

The Place Beyond the Pines

reviewed on April 22nd, 2013 11:02AM

WARNING: MILD SPOILERS This review is this long for two reasons: 1. I love it so much that I needed to express myself so much about how I felt and 2. (and this is a very important 2) I wanted write a review that was longer than Ghost Dad...

Gung Ho

reviewed on April 20th, 2013 02:22PM

In the comedy Gung Ho, Michael Keaton is Hunt, an employee at an American automobile company who’s sent to Japan to meet with some businessmen who plan to take over the company. When the Japanese come to the small town of Hadleyville to save the s...

Jurassic Park 3D

reviewed on April 13th, 2013 11:26AM

In a movie I’m pretty sure everyone has seen at this point, a group of people go on an island during a preview tour of a new theme park. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is the creator of the park and is enthused to opening the park to the publ...

Lethal Weapon 4

reviewed on March 27th, 2013 06:12PM

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD cops Riggs and Murtaugh, respectively, in this sequel because why would they put in other people in the roles? Anyway, in this one, Riggs and Murtaugh discover a smuggling ring. Chinese people are immigra...

The Hangover, Part II

reviewed on March 27th, 2013 04:41PM

I enjoyed the first Hangover movie. It had a unique premise in addition to being very funny. When I heard there was a sequel, I was willing to see what they were going to do with it. The trailer looked good and I thought about going to the theater...

Signs

reviewed on March 27th, 2013 02:46AM

(Warning: Mild Spoilers) Mel Gibson is Graham Hess, a man who has given up the priesthood after his wife died. He lives with his brother and two kids at the family farm. After hearing strange noises outside their house and discovering a ...

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

reviewed on March 17th, 2013 01:41AM

Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell), along with his partner Anton (Steve Buscemi), have been a successful magician act for 30 years. That is until they have competition from a new Criss Angel-like magician named Steve Gray (Jim Carrey). Gray gains a l...

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

reviewed on March 14th, 2013 01:46PM

Barbara and her brother Johnny are visiting their father’s grave when a strange man starts attacking them. Barbara is forced to leave her brother behind and hide out in an abandoned farmhouse. She meets a stranger named Ben, who’s also hiding in t...

The Godfather: Part III

reviewed on March 14th, 2013 12:51PM

Al Pacino returns as Michael Corleone as he’s now in his 60’s and feeling guilt for all his past criminal activities. He’s now given up the criminal life and has given all responsibility of the family business to gangster Joey Zasa (Joe Mantegna)....

Elizabethtown

reviewed on March 11th, 2013 11:50AM

Drew (Orlando Bloom) is a shoe designer whose latest shoe has flopped. The shoes have all been recalled and the company is set to lose millions of dollars. Drew is then fired and turns to suicide to solve his problems. But just before his suicide ...

Uptown Girls

reviewed on March 7th, 2013 06:51PM

Brittany Murphy is Molly, a spoiled young girl whose father was a famous rock star. Both of her parents are dead and she’s living off the royalties of her dad's music. One day, she discovers her accountant has stolen her trust fund and she’s force...

Wolf

reviewed on March 7th, 2013 06:03PM

Jack Nicholson is Will Russell, an editor in chief who gets bitten by a wolf after hitting it with a car. He gets demoted from editor in chief after a takeover by tycoon Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). Stewart, Will’s protege (James Spader), ...

Dance Flick

reviewed on March 7th, 2013 05:31PM

I was a huge fan of the Wayans back in the day. In Living Color and The Wayans Bros. were hilarious shows. The first two Scary Movies, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Don’t Be A Menace, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Major Payne: all funny movies. So when I saw...

Date Movie

reviewed on March 7th, 2013 04:40PM

Date Movie has a solid idea for a spoof movie. There are millions of romantic comedies that you could poke fun at. Plus, it’s a genre that’s ripe for the picking. How can you go wrong? Well, I don’t know how but the people behind this movie manage...

Ghost Dad

reviewed on March 7th, 2013 03:58PM

Bill Cosby is considered one of the greatest comedians for a reason. The man is funny and he has a great way of constructing a story that pulls you in without using profanity in his stand up comedy. He also was in one of the most successful sitcom...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

reviewed on March 4th, 2013 04:14PM

Daniel Craig is Mikael, a journalist who loses a libel case after writing a story on a corrupt businessman. Another businessman Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) hires Mikael to find out the whereabouts of his grandniece Harriet after she went m...

Swimfan

reviewed on March 1st, 2013 05:27PM

Ben (Jesse Bradford) is a popular high school swimmer who has the opportunity to get a swimming scholarship. He has an awesome and cute girlfriend, good friends, a decent job from his mom, and a nice looking car. One day, he meets a new student na...

As Good As It Gets

reviewed on March 1st, 2013 04:44PM

Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a grumpy obsessive compulsive author who has no friends and lives to tell people off. He hates his painter neighbor Simon (Greg Kinnear) because he’s gay. He goes to his local diner only to get served by this one s...

Laws of Attraction

reviewed on March 1st, 2013 03:21PM

Audrey (Julianne Moore) is a successful divorce attorney who’s happy with her work. She seems to be fine being alone although she has a history of never saying how she truly feels about someone. She meets her match in fellow divorce attorney Dani...

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

reviewed on February 17th, 2013 09:44AM

In this installment, Superman IV: We’ve Run out of Both Money and Ideas, Superman promises to end world peace after getting a letter from a boy asking him to do so. He appears at the U.N. to give some forgettable speech about how we need to be les...

Blind Date

reviewed on February 17th, 2013 08:51AM

Bruce Willis is Walter, a hard working and stressed out employee at a major corporation where a huge merger involving a Japanese businessman. Walter is expected to come to a dinner that’s also a meeting involving the merger. He also has to bring a...

The Deer Hunter

reviewed on February 10th, 2013 04:00AM

A group of steelworkers in the small town of Clairton, Pennsylvania are about to fight in Vietnam. But just before that, one of the friends is about to get married. The movie begins with the men, their friends and family getting prepared for the w...

Batman Returns

reviewed on February 8th, 2013 03:12AM

After a wealthy couple leave their son in a sewer, the son grows up to be a strange looking individual called the Penguin (Danny DeVito). Now making a living as a criminal, he blackmails a multi millionaire named Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) t...

Superman III

reviewed on February 8th, 2013 02:45AM

Superman III starts exactly like another Richard Pryor movie called The Toy and where Pryor stars as Gus in line for a job. I know what you’re going to ask. If this is a Superman movie, why is Richard Pryor in the first part of it? I wish I knew. ...

Being John Malkovich

reviewed on February 2nd, 2013 07:18PM

Craig (John Cusack) is an unemployed puppeteer who gets a job organizing files at a unusually small building. One day, he discovers a portal into the mind of Malkovich. Basically, there’s a door that lets you into the mind of John Malkovich for a ...

Joshua

reviewed on February 2nd, 2013 06:19PM

Brad and Abby Cairn (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga) are a married couple in Manhattan dealing with a new baby. Their son Joshua (Jacob Kagan) is a really intelligent kid with a talent at playing the piano. After the new baby enters his family, Jos...

This Means War

reviewed on February 2nd, 2013 05:54PM

Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) is a woman who can’t get dates for some reason. She goes online dating thanks to her best friend Trish (Chelsea Handler). FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) are best friends and CIA agents who would do anything for ea...

Ever After

reviewed on February 2nd, 2013 05:33PM

This movie begins with some old woman in bed who decides to tell The Brothers Grimm a story. It turns out the story the Grimms wrote about Cinderella is all true. Drew Barrymore plays the young Danielle, the old woman’s great great grandmother. Af...

Batman

reviewed on February 2nd, 2013 05:07PM

Ever since millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) witnessed his parents being murdered by a criminal, he has never forgotten it. Now all grown up, Wayne decides to take matters into his own hands by becoming a man who’s also a bat. Batman has cr...

This Is Spinal Tap

reviewed on February 1st, 2013 07:21PM

This is Spinal Tap is a documentary by filmmaker Marty DiBergi (played by cowriter/director Rob Reiner). Spinal Tap (consisting of David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer)) is going on ...

Cloverfield

reviewed on February 1st, 2013 02:36AM

When Rob (Michael Stahl-David) plans to leave New York for a job in Japan, his friends and his brother plan to throw a surprise party for him. The party seems to be going well until Rob’s friend Beth (Odette Annable) comes in. They happened to sle...

Nine Months

reviewed on January 30th, 2013 05:16PM

Samuel (Hugh Grant) and Rebecca (Julianne Moore) are living a happy and comfortable life in San Francisco until Rebecca confesses that she’s pregnant. Samuel isn’t crazy about having a baby even though his job as a child psychologist consists of t...

Bedazzled

reviewed on January 30th, 2013 05:12PM

Elliot (Brendan Fraser) is a lonely computer technician with a crush on a coworker named Allison. He has no friends and his other coworkers don’t want anything to do with him. A gorgeous woman in the form of Elizabeth Hurley shows up claiming to b...

Superman II

reviewed on January 30th, 2013 05:07PM

General Zod, Ursa, and Non are three criminals from Krypton who were banished into the Phantom Zone until a hydrogen bomb that Clark Kent (a.k.a. Superman) (Christopher Reeve) sends through space after a group of terrorists try to blow up the Eiff...

Repo Men

reviewed on January 30th, 2013 05:03PM

Remy (Jude Law) is a repo man but not the kind you may think. In the future, organs can be replaced by purchasing them at a major corporation called The Union. If you don’t make your payments on time, then the repo men takes them away from you. It...

I Spy

reviewed on January 30th, 2013 04:59PM

Bureau of National Security Special Agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is assigned to get an invisible plane back from arms dealer Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell). In order to get close to him at his home in Budapest, he has to partner up with boxer...

Home Fries

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 11:42PM

Dorien (Luke Wilson) and Angus (Jake Busey) is an Army helicopter pilot who scare their father to death. The whole episode was planned after their mother (Catherine O’Hara) wanted him dead when it was discovered that he’s been having an affair. Du...

Drop Dead Gorgeous

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 11:38PM

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a mockumentary following a beauty pageant in Mount Rose, Minnesota set in 1995. Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst) is one of the major contestants planning to compete in order to get out of the trailer park life her mother has made...

Avatar

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 11:10PM

In the year 2154, a major corporation is searching for some valuable mineral named unobtanium that’s worth billions of dollars on a planet called Pandora. The planet is populated by some alien-like creatures called the Na’Vi. In order to get close...

Final Destination 3

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 11:08PM

During a trip to the local theme park, Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has a premonition that there’s going to be an accident on a rollercoaster. When she along with some fellow teens get off, the accident still occurs and it turns out that she wa...

Final Destination 2

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 11:03PM

Kimberly is a college student going to spend her spring break with her friends. Just like the first movie, she gets a premonition that she’s going to be involved in a pileup. She tells the sheriff who doesn’t believe her at first. But just like th...

Final Destination

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 10:58PM

Alex (Devon Sawa) is going on a field trip with his French class to France. He has a dream that everyone’s going to die as a result of the plane exploding. After he and a few other fellow students are escorted the plane, it turns out that Alex was...

The Upside of Anger

reviewed on January 29th, 2013 02:09PM

Terry (Joan Allen) has just found out her husband has left her for his secretary. Soon, she goes into a depression and gives her daughters a hard time. Andy (Erika Christensen) decides to not go to college and get a job at a radio station. Popeye ...

She's Having a Baby

reviewed on January 28th, 2013 03:50PM

Jake and Kristy Briggs are a newlywed couple dealing with a lot of personal issues. They’re broke, their parents give them a hard time, and they fight constantly. Jake isn’t happy in college. He decides to leave college and get a job. Unfortunatel...

The Other Sister

reviewed on January 28th, 2013 01:12PM

Carla (Juliette Lewis) is a mentally challenged girl who’s just finished school to return home. She wants to become a veterinarian and plans to go to vocational school. Her mother (Diane Keaton) is very protective of her and doesn’t want her to go...

Next Stop Wonderland

reviewed on January 28th, 2013 12:47PM

Erin (Hope Davis) is a nurse who’s just been dumped by her boyfriend Sean (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who’s leaving for a protest. Her mother (Holland Taylor) puts a personal ad in the newspaper to find her a date. Alan (Alan Gelfant) is a volunteer...

Jason X

reviewed on January 20th, 2013 10:18PM

I don’t go into these movies for challenging and thought provoking moments. I go into these because I want to see some guy in a hockey mask kill people. When I sat through New Blood, I thought it starting to go downhill but it had its moments. Jas...

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

reviewed on January 20th, 2013 10:16PM

Jason ends up getting slaughtered by a group of government agents. When Jason is taken to the morgue, some doctor ends up eating his heart. It’s never explained why, but I assume it’s some hypnotic properties on the heart or something. I don’t kno...

The Prestige

reviewed on January 20th, 2013 09:12PM

Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are rival magicians in London constantly trying to one-up each other. It turns out that they were former assistants and partners as magicians. When Angier’s wife drowns after an incid...

Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

reviewed on January 20th, 2013 08:50PM

Tim and Eric gets a billion dollars from the Schlaaang Corporation to make a movie. When they waste the money and disappoint their investors, the two leave Los Angeles to go into hiding. After seeing an advertisement offering a billion dollars to ...

The Perfect Score

reviewed on January 20th, 2013 08:30PM

Kyle (Chris Evans) and Matty (Bryan Greenberg) are best friends in high school who are trying to make something of their future but the SAT keeps getting in the way. Kyle dreams of being an architect while Matty wants to go to the same school as h...

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

reviewed on January 19th, 2013 05:10PM

Leigh Ann (Katie Holmes) is a high school senior who’s looking forward to getting a scholarship. Her best friend (Marisa Coughlan) plans to go to Hollywood to become an actress. Another student (Barry Watson) offers to give Leigh Ann the answers t...

Dracula 2000

reviewed on January 18th, 2013 05:36PM

A group of thieves are looking for gold in London when they stumble upon Dracula’s coffin. Dracula ends up coming back to life and turn these people into vampires. He goes on a search for some English chick he wants because I don’t really care. Sh...

Friday the 13th Part VIII

reviewed on January 18th, 2013 04:59PM

Jason somehow comes back to life via lightning just like Part 6 because the filmmakers are obviously running out of ideas. A group of teenagers no one gives a shit about get killed. Another group of teenagers are going to a trip to Manhattan for a...

Funny People

reviewed on January 18th, 2013 04:21PM

George Simmons is a successful comedian who’s just discovered he has leukemia. When he discovers a young fellow comedian named Ira Wright, George hires him to write jokes for him. George also discovers that he’s found the one person he can trust i...

Friday the 13th Part VII

reviewed on January 18th, 2013 03:28PM

Tina is a teenager with telekinetic powers who’s going to a cabin in the woods with her mother to get some help from her therapist, Dr. Crews (Terry Kiser). She seems to have some trauma from the time she unintentionally killed her father. I know ...

The Thing (1982)

reviewed on January 16th, 2013 04:44PM

After a group of Norwegians stumble upon an Antarctica research station while hunting a dog. The men at the station are confused by what’s going on until a strange organism invades the station. Some of the men seem to have been infected and everyo...

Scream

reviewed on January 16th, 2013 12:17AM

A masked serial killer happens to be on the loose after a girl is murdered in the small town of Woodsboro. It’s been a year since Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)’s mother was killed by Cotton Weary, who Sidney put in jail after testifying against ...

Midnight in Paris

reviewed on January 12th, 2013 05:08PM

WARNING: MILD SPOILERS Gil is a successful screenwriter who’s dissatisfied with his life. He’s currently working on a new novel while he’s on vacation with his fiancee Inez (Rachel McAdams). Gil is in love with the 1940’s and the writers...

Bram Stoker's Dracula

reviewed on January 12th, 2013 01:04AM

In 1492, Vlad Dracula (Gary Oldman) is battling the Turks and after coming home, he discovers his love Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) has committed suicide. It was caused by a forged letter by the Turks about Dracula’s supposed death. When it seems that...

The Thin Red Line

reviewed on January 11th, 2013 11:38PM

In Terrence Malick’s first movie in 20 years after his previous movie Days of Heaven, a group of American soldiers in the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. U.S. Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) has gone AWOL and is imprisoned by his company First...

The Haunting

reviewed on January 11th, 2013 10:52PM

After taking care of her sick mother for 11 years, Eleanor (Lili Taylor) gets evicted from her house by her sister (played by Virginia Madsen, Why are you even in this? You’re too good for this much like every other actor here). She then gets a ca...

The Net

reviewed on January 11th, 2013 10:48PM

Angela Bennett is a computer analyst that keeps to herself and spends most her time on the internet. After receiving a floppy disk from a coworker to work on, that very coworker gets killed in an plane accident. Angela then discovers that her cowo...

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part IV

reviewed on January 10th, 2013 12:13AM

Tommy Jarvis goes to a cemetery to cremate Jason’s body as part of some therapy to get over the previous incidents with Jason. Things go wrong when lightning brings Jason back to life. He begins to start killing people around the town while Tommy ...

Friday the 13th - Part V

reviewed on January 9th, 2013 11:54PM

When Tommy Jarvis is sent to a halfway house in the woods, Jason happens to make his return and terrorize people in the small town. Tommy is still traumatized by the previous events of Jason and is finding it hard to cope. There’s a bunch of teena...

Into the Night

reviewed on January 9th, 2013 11:35PM

Ed (Jeff Goldblum) is an depressed insomniac who’s just found out his wife is cheating on him. He leaves the house one night to get some rest at the airport. Diana (Michelle Pfieffer), a jewel smuggler is being chased by a group of Iranians for so...

The Devil's Advocate

reviewed on January 9th, 2013 12:33AM

Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) is an attorney who gets the job of his dreams when he gets a position at John Milton (Al Pacino)’s law firm. Relocating to New York for the new job is going to take some getting used to, especially for his wife Mary Ann ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

reviewed on January 8th, 2013 11:46PM

Arthur Dent is an everyman who lives a rather ordinary life. On the same day he finds out his house is getting demolished, he also finds out his best friend Ford is an alien. Even worse, the Earth has been destroyed. As a result, Arthur must go al...

The Woods

reviewed on January 8th, 2013 10:44PM

In 1965, Heather (Agnes Bruckner) is sent to an all girl boarding school after starting a fire. She doesn’t seem to have any friends except for one girl at the school named Mercy. They are being constantly picked on by Samantha (Rachel Nichols). W...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

reviewed on January 8th, 2013 10:19PM

After a young girl named Kristen (Patricia Arquette) has a horrible nightmare with Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), she ends up in a mental hospital after a mistaken suicide attempt following the dream. Understandably, she’s having trouble sleepin...

Blade Runner

reviewed on January 5th, 2013 11:50PM

In the year 2019, a group genetically engineered robots called replicants have been created by the Tyrell Corporation. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a former “blade runner”, a person who’s hired to eliminate some any replicants since they’re ban...

Batman Forever

reviewed on January 5th, 2013 05:43PM

I’ve always known that Batman Forever wasn’t by any means a great movie. But after seeing this, I have to say this was jawdropping. Mind you, it wasn’t because it blew me away with greatness. It was because I am shocked that an executive at Warner...

Most Wanted

reviewed on January 5th, 2013 04:14PM

Keenan Ivory Wayans is James Dunn, a US Marine who was wrongly convicted for murder. He gets an offer from a Lieutenant (Jon Voight) to join a special operation squad. When he agrees to join the group, his first mission is to assassinate some mill...

Valley Girl

reviewed on January 5th, 2013 03:51PM

Julie is a beautiful Valley Girl who falls in love with Randy, a guy from the other side of the tracks. Her friends aren’t all that supportive of her relationship. Her ex boyfriend Tommy (Michael Bowen) wants to get back together and tries to brea...

The New World

reviewed on January 5th, 2013 03:10PM

The New World deals with the relationship between John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher) during the founding of Jamestown. When Smith is captured by some Native Americans on the land where the English plan to found a colony,...

Curly Sue

reviewed on January 5th, 2013 03:01PM

Bill (James Belushi) and his young partner Curly Sue are have been homeless for as long as they can remember. During a scam, they meet Grey, a rich and attractive divorce lawyer (Kelly Lynch) who gives them a place to stay after Bill gets injured....

Friday the 13th: Final Chapter

reviewed on January 3rd, 2013 04:11PM

A group of teenagers rent a cabin (if I had a quarter for how many times I’ve said in the following few days) near Crystal Lake. Meanwhile, a family is also staying in a separate cabin. Corey Feldman is the son who seems to be really excited to se...

Friday the 13th Part III

reviewed on January 3rd, 2013 04:09PM

In this sequel, we’re introduced to a group of teenagers who visit a cabin. But not before watching a scene with some old couple that has nothing to do with this movie. It took about 10 minutes for it to end and it felt like watching one of those ...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

reviewed on January 3rd, 2013 01:35PM

Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a quiet teenager who keeps to himself. Now about to go into high school, he tries to come out of his shell and befriend two fellow classmates, Patrick (Ezra Miller) and his stepsister Sam (Emma Watson). Charlie becomes re...

The Silence of the Lambs

reviewed on January 3rd, 2013 01:28PM

Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is a young FBI trainee seeks the help of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a psychologist/serial killer to look for another serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). Buffalo Bill is responsible for skinning a ...

Friday the 13th Part 2

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 05:40PM

I found the first Friday the 13th to be a somewhat watchable movie. The characters aren’t all that well developed but there were some cool murders. But let’s be honest, well developed characters are to this series what logic is to Family Guy. We c...

The Crying Game

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 05:20PM

Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA member who has a close yet short lived relationship with a British soldier named Jody (Forest Whitaker), who has been kidnapped. Jody has been kidnapped by Fergus and some other IRA members in exchange for the releas...

The Tree of Life

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 04:26PM

As much as I was looking forward to seeing this movie, I had heard very mixed things about it. Some people has said that it was a masterpiece while others had said that it was really boring and pretentious. I will admit it comes off really pretent...

Cursed

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 04:25PM

Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg are a brother and sister who get attacked by a werewolf in a car accident. They soon discover that they’ve developed some special powers as a result of the attack. It turns out that they have to find the creatur...

The Faculty

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 04:22PM

When teachers at a high school in Ohio begin to act strangely, a group of students try to discover what’s behind it. Elijah Wood is Casey, the nerdy newspaper photographer who’s had a crush on paper editor and head cheerleader Delilah (Jordana Bre...

Groundhog Day

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 04:17PM

Bill Murray is a cynical weatherman named Phil who believes he’s destined for bigger and better things. Every year, he’s assigned to do the Groundhog Day broadcast in which he has to tell viewers or not whether a groundhog named Phil has seen his ...

Django Unchained

reviewed on January 1st, 2013 11:02AM

Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave that gets bought by a supposed German dentist named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). The German happens to be a bounty hunter who takes Django along to assist him in his work. Along the way, they develop a close f...

The Informant

reviewed on December 30th, 2012 12:25PM

Matt Damon is Mark Whitacre, an executive at a food processing and corporate trading corporation called Arthur Daniels Midland. When he stumbles onto a conspiracy about lysine price fixing. He decides to tell the FBI what he knows and assists them...

Synecdoche, New York

reviewed on December 30th, 2012 11:57AM

Philip Seymour Hoffman is Caden Cotard, a theater director dealing with a bunch of personal and medical issues in his life. As he’s producing a play within a play, he begins to worry about his mortality, his artist wife (Catherine Keener) leaves h...

This is 40

reviewed on December 30th, 2012 11:25AM

This is 40 revolves around the characters of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from Knocked Up. They’re dealing with financial problems. Pete has to deal with his record company providing diminishing returns in record sales. He has an albu...

Alien Resurrection

reviewed on December 26th, 2012 04:59PM

Military scientists have cloned Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) for further study along with the alien that was inside her at the time of her death. Also, a group of mercenaries are kidnapping humans and using their bodies as hosts for the Aliens. I...

50/50

reviewed on December 26th, 2012 04:56PM

Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a 27 year old public journalist who has just found out he has cancer. When he tells his friends and family, they are very supportive for the most part. Seth Rogen is Kyle, Adam’s best friend who tries to support him ...

Christine

reviewed on December 26th, 2012 04:54PM

Arnie (Keith Gordon) is your typical nerdy teenager as he gets bullied at school and no girls want to sleep with him. He finds an old beat up 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine he quickly falls in love with. It turns out that the previous owner ha...

Youth in Revolt

reviewed on December 23rd, 2012 06:52PM

Youth in Revolt is a movie starring Michael Cera as Nick Twisp. He’s a pretentious individual who‘s frustrated by the fact that he’s still a virgin. He whines about how no girls want to sleep with him. Honestly, he comes off really pretentious and...

Ronin

reviewed on December 22nd, 2012 05:54AM

Robert De Niro is part of a group of agents led by an female IRA member who try to get a case back. Why? I have no idea. What’s in the case? I don’t know. All you’re aware of is that these people need the case or else, something’s going to happen....

Wall Street

reviewed on December 21st, 2012 10:51AM

Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a young stockbroker who dreams of getting to the top. He meets his hero, a corporate raider (that’s a person who buys a large amount in a company) and millionaire Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). After Bud gives Gordon so...

For Queen and Country

reviewed on December 21st, 2012 10:46AM

Denzel Washington is an English soldier named Reuben who has come back home for good. He then finds out that he’s not going to get the welcome home that he deserves. He meets a neighbor in his building, who happens to be white, that he has feeling...

Out of Time

reviewed on December 18th, 2012 01:00AM

Matthias (Denzel Washington) is a small town cop having an affair with an abused wife (Sanaa Lathan) while going through a divorce. The affair goes so far that he steals some evidence money for something she needs. She is then killed in an arson i...

Restless

reviewed on December 18th, 2012 12:50AM

Gus Van Sant’s latest Restless is about Enoch (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), a school dropout who likes going to funerals and has the ghost of a kamikaze pilot named Hiroshi (Ryo Kase) for a best friend. He meets a cancer patient named Annabel (Mi...

John Q

reviewed on December 17th, 2012 04:44AM

John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is a struggling father who works hard to provide for his family. One day after an incident during his son Michael’s little league game, John discovers his son has a heart disorder that requires a transplant. T...

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

reviewed on December 12th, 2012 03:29AM

Frodo and Sam are continuing their quest to destroy the ring. Gollum and Sam can’t seem to get along and it’s starting to get in the way of the mission. Gollum seems to have some tricks up his sleeve. A war between Gandalf and King Theoden’s force...

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

reviewed on December 12th, 2012 03:18AM

While Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) continue their quest to destroy the One Ring, they meet Gollum (Andy Serkis), a bizarre looking creature who once had possession of the ring. Gollum agrees to help the two get to Mordor. Sam doesn’t t...

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings

reviewed on December 6th, 2012 03:47PM

Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) is a hobbit who receives a ring from his uncle Bilbo. The ring has been around for years and is said to have evil powers. Anyone who touches the ring will be under its power. Frodo has the duty to go to Mordor to destro...

Thor

reviewed on December 6th, 2012 03:12PM

Thor is the crown prince of Asgard who’s in line to inherit his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins)’s throne as king. Behind his father’s back, Thor has a battle with the Frost Giants of Jotunheim that causes the truce made between the Asgardians and th...

Bad Santa

reviewed on December 2nd, 2012 03:54PM

Billy Bob Thornton is Willie, an alcoholic who works as a mall Santa every year. His partner in crime is a little person named Marcus (Tony Cox) who works an elf and has Willie assist him to help him rob malls every year. They decide that their ne...

Man of the House

reviewed on December 2nd, 2012 04:01AM

I can’t believe what I’m about to write. I actually liked Man of the House. And you know what? it made me laugh. I remember seeing ads for this movie when I was younger and telling myself, “I’m never going to see this movie.” Why do I always say t...

Mr. Deeds

reviewed on December 2nd, 2012 02:23AM

Adam Sandler is Longfellow Deeds, a kindhearted small town pizzeria owner from Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire who’s just discovered his recently deceased uncle was a millionaire. Deeds goes to New York so his uncle's company can be sold and he can ...

Madhouse

reviewed on December 2nd, 2012 01:42AM

Madhouse was a movie that I watched a lot as a kid. It was on TV quite a lot and it was something to watch when there was nothing on. Just this past month, one of my favorite podcasts, We Hate Movies, did an episode on this movie. It was a movie I...

You Again

reviewed on November 28th, 2012 11:58PM

The premise of this movie is interesting. Somebody coming home to meet their siblings’ fiancee, who turns out to be the same person that bullied them. That didn’t sound unbearable. And it’s not, but this could have been so much better. The cast, w...

Jaws

reviewed on November 28th, 2012 11:52PM

I don’t think I’m telling any tales out of school when I say that Jaws is considered a classic. The premise is really simple but man, is it impressive. A woman goes out swimming one day and gets attacked by a shark. Police chief Brody (Roy Scheide...

Chronicle

reviewed on November 28th, 2012 11:45PM

Three high school seniors find a weird object in the woods that cause them to have telekinetic abilities. At first, like anyone who discovers they have superpowers, they mess around with them and play pranks on people for their entertainment. Thei...

Slackers

reviewed on November 28th, 2012 05:26PM

Slackers is one of those movies I watched a lot on cable but even back then, I was aware it wasn’t a classic by any means. Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segel), and Jeff (Michael Maronna) are three best friends in college who have scammed their wa...

Training Day

reviewed on November 28th, 2012 05:15PM

Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) is an LAPD officer who gets partnered with a detective named Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) on his training day. Alonzo tries to show Jake the ropes and little does Jake know what’s going to be in for. Jake is a pretty g...

The Godfather: Part II

reviewed on November 26th, 2012 05:50PM

In the sequel, Michael is now the Don of the Corleone family and must deal with business issues. He also tries to find out who’s responsible his attempted murder. Meanwhile, flashbacks are shown with Michael’s father Vito, played by Robert De Niro...

The Godfather

reviewed on November 26th, 2012 05:47PM

Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. His son Michael (Al Pacino) has just returned home from World War II. After a tragic moment happens in the family, Michael is force to get involved in the “family ...

Urban Legends: Final Cut

reviewed on November 26th, 2012 03:53PM

A prestigious school film is giving a Hitchcock award. One of the students in line for the award, Amy (Jennifer Morrison) comes up with the idea for a thesis film in which a serial killer kills people based on urban legends. Meanwhile, there’s a s...

That's My Boy

reviewed on November 18th, 2012 07:20PM

Adam Sandler plays Donny Berger, a man who became famous after having an affair with his 22-year-old teacher (Eva Amurri Martino) when he was 13, who he then impregnated. 28 years later, he’s a slacker who wasted all his money, spends a lot of tim...

Last Action Hero

reviewed on November 18th, 2012 06:09PM

Danny Madigan (Austin O’Brien) is a young boy who loves going to the movies. It’s his main obsession as he puts it before anything else. He comes across a magic ticket that can transport people into movies. One day, the ticket decides to transport...

Breakdown

reviewed on November 18th, 2012 06:06PM

I first remember seeing Breakdown on CBS years ago and have never forgotten it. Watching it years later, it’s held up much better than I remember. Jeff (Kurt Russell) is traveling cross country with his wife Amy (Kathleen Quinlan) from Massachuset...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

reviewed on November 18th, 2012 03:02PM

Neal Page (Steve Martin) is an advertising executive working on an advertising project in New York two days before Thanksgiving. He’s made a promise to his wife that he will make it to Thanksgiving dinner in time by taking an early flight back to ...

The Dilemma

reviewed on November 15th, 2012 03:31PM

Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are the bestest of friends. They would anything for each other. One day, Ronny discovers that Nick’s wife (Winona Ryder) is cheating on him with a younger man. Ronny is hesitant to tell his best pal the ...

Rush Hour 3

reviewed on November 15th, 2012 02:33PM

As a kid, I loved the first two Rush Hour movies. They’re not life changing or groundbreaking, but I had fun with them. To this day, they hold up rather well. For some reason, I decided to rewatch this third movie. I felt I needed to know whether ...

Mother's Day

reviewed on November 15th, 2012 02:09PM

Three brothers decide to go on the run after a bank robbery goes wrong. One of the brothers has been shot and one of the other partners in the robbery has gotten away with the money. They decide to go to their mother’s house to hide out. It turns ...

The Pelican Brief

reviewed on November 10th, 2012 06:43PM

Law school student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes a legal brief that implies that an oil tycoon may have been involved in the assassination of two Supreme Court judges. Darby becomes the target of a few assassins and eventually, she goes on the...

World's Greatest Dad

reviewed on November 10th, 2012 06:22PM

Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) is a man who’s not successful at anything he does in life. He has dreams of being a successful author even though all of his novels have been rejected by publishers. His poetry class is on the verge of being eliminat...

Fatso

reviewed on November 10th, 2012 05:56PM

Ever since he was a kid, Domenick (Dom Deluise) has always loved eating ever since his mother often fed him food constantly when he was younger. When his overweight cousin dies of a heart attack, Domenick promises his sister Antoinette (Anne Bancr...

Jungle Fever

reviewed on November 6th, 2012 02:26PM

Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) is a strong successful black man in the early 1990’s working at an architectural firm. He has a wonderful family including a loving wife and daughter. His company decides to hire Angie (Annabella Sciorra), an Italian...

Friday the 13th (1980)

reviewed on November 3rd, 2012 09:56AM

A group of counselors are staying in a campsite while a killer is on the loose. The story goes that a boy named Jason Voorhees drowned after the counselors who were supposed to be watching him were too busy having sex. Ever since then, there have ...

Wedding Crashers

reviewed on November 3rd, 2012 09:20AM

John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are divorce litigators who crash weddings in their downtime to sleep with women, including Diora Baird. They decide to attend the wedding for the daughter of William Cleary, the U.S. Secretary of the Tr...

Quarantine

reviewed on November 3rd, 2012 08:50AM

Quarantine is a found footage movie that first follows Angela (Jennifer Carpenter), a television reporter and her cameraman Scott (Steve Harris) doing a story on local firefighters during their night shift. While working on that story, Angela and ...

Child's Play 2

reviewed on October 20th, 2012 06:34PM

Here’s a funny story about watching Child’s Play 2. I saw that my cable provider’s onscreen guide said that Child’s Play was going to be on. I decided to record it because I hadn’t seen it before as well as the other Chucky movies and I thought it...

Monte Carlo

reviewed on October 20th, 2012 05:54PM

Grace (Selena Gomez) and Emma (Katie Cassidy) are best friends waitressing in order to go on a trip to Paris. Grace’s stepfather ends up paying her stepsister Meg (Leighton Meester) to join along as well. Grace isn’t really thrilled about that and...

Country Strong

reviewed on October 20th, 2012 03:41AM

I went into Country Strong with really no expectations. I was thinking it could go either way. I remember this coming out in a really weird time where Hollywood was forcing the American public that Gwyneth Paltrow was the greatest singer that ever...

The Royal Tenenbaums

reviewed on October 20th, 2012 02:56AM

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) is a disbarred lawyer who hasn’t seen his family in years. The rest of the family has gone their seperate ways as well. Royal and his archaeologist wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) have been separated but never offic...

Happy-Go-Lucky

reviewed on October 17th, 2012 05:35PM

Poppy is an extremely optimistic schoolteacher dealing with life. She begins taking driving lessons with a cynical and insufferable driving instructor named Scott (Eddie Marsan). Meanwhile, Poppy tries to help a classmate with his problems at home...

The Monster Squad

reviewed on October 17th, 2012 03:51PM

Sean, Patrick, Horace, Rudy, and Eugene are part of a group called the Monster Squad. It’s consists of a group of kids obsessed with classic monster movies. Sean, the leader of the group is given a diary of Abraham Van Helsing written in German. T...

Nothing to Lose

reviewed on October 10th, 2012 04:21PM

Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) is a successful advertising executive with a really good marriage. One day, he comes home and catches his wife with his boss. Nick then goes into a deep depression when he kidnaps a carjacker (Martin Lawrence) and drives ou...

Showtime

reviewed on October 10th, 2012 03:38PM

Robert De Niro is Det. Mitch Preston, a veteran cop who’s working on an important case. One night while working on said case, police officer and aspiring actor Trey Sellars (Eddie Murphy), gets into a misunderstanding in which he mistakes Mitch fo...

The Town

reviewed on October 1st, 2012 06:16PM

In the Boston town of Charlestown, four guys rob a bank and take a bank manager named Claire (Rebecca Hall) hostage. They soon realize that the manager lives in the same area as them. Knowing that this may cause trouble, one of the robbers, Doug (...

The Master

reviewed on September 29th, 2012 10:39PM

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, The Master, Joaquin Phoenix is Freddie Quell is an alcoholic and mentally unstable Naval veteran who has returned home from war. One day, he meets a charismatic individual named Lancaster Dodd, also known as ...

Quills

reviewed on September 28th, 2012 12:39AM

The Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) has been incarcerated in an asylum while he gets assistance from a laundress named Madeleine (Kate Winslet) to publish his pornographic stories publicly behind Abbe de Coulmier’s (Joaquin Phoenix) back. When Dr....

Mars Needs Moms

reviewed on September 28th, 2012 12:17AM

One night while Milo (Seth Green doing motion capture work with a voice-over by 11 year old Seth Dusky) is arguing with his mother (Joan Cusack), he wishes that he didn’t have a mother. Later that night, she’s abducted by aliens. Milo then sneaks ...

The Cabin in the Woods

reviewed on September 21st, 2012 10:46PM

WARNING: MILD SPOILERS A group of college students go on vacation to a cabin in the woods. Just writing that, I’m pretty sure there’s a million movies that have that exact storyline. You’re probably like, what makes this movie any differ...

Money For Nothing

reviewed on September 21st, 2012 08:52PM

Money for Nothing is a comedy based on the true story of Joey Coyle, an unemployed dockworker who finds $1.2 million from a armored truck. Out of work and broke, he decides to keep the money for himself. Benicio Del Toro is Dino, a local gangster ...

The Mask

reviewed on September 21st, 2012 08:44PM

Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is a shy bank clerk who gets pushed around a lot. He longs to have a girlfriend that’s willing to be with a nice guy like him. Driving home one night, Stanley finds a mysterious looking mask in an ocean and decides to t...

Assassins

reviewed on September 21st, 2012 08:38PM

Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a professional assassin with many years of success who wishes to quit what he’s been doing and what he’s known for. During an assignment, he discovers that someone has already done his job for him. That person i...

Big Daddy

reviewed on September 19th, 2012 06:08PM

Sonny is an underachiever who works at a tollbooth one day a week. He spends the majority of his life goofing around and hanging out with friends. When a kid named Julian gets mysteriously left at his door, it turns out to be the illegitimate kid ...

Point Break

reviewed on September 3rd, 2012 04:46PM

Keanu Reeves is Johnny Utah, an F-B-I AGENT! who gets partnered with a veteran cop named Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey) to investigate a series of bank robberies committed by people who wear US president’s masks around town. A group of people who are ...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

reviewed on August 31st, 2012 10:27PM

TV show composer Peter Bretter (Jason Segel, who also wrote the screenplay) has just been broken up by his girlfriend, actress Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Peter is understandably upset and goes into a deep depression. Being that Sarah's a well ...

The Five-Year Engagement

reviewed on August 29th, 2012 05:40PM

In the Judd Apatow-produced The Five-Year Engagement, Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) have recently gotten engaged. Just when they’re ready to get the wedding prepared, Violet gets into a post-doctorate program that will force them to r...

Paranoid Park

reviewed on August 24th, 2012 06:04PM

Paranoid Park, written and directed by Gus Van Sant, follows Alex, a 16-year-old skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard. That happens 45 slow paced minutes into the movie and it’s the only huge action of any kind that the movie offer...

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

reviewed on August 24th, 2012 05:42PM

In Gremlins 2, Gizmo is living in New York with his owner Mr. Wing, who has recently died of a heart attack. Soon after that, Gizmo is nabbed by one of the twins from Good Morning, Vietnam and Terminator 2 to be experimented on. Meanwhile, Billy (...

Traffic

reviewed on August 20th, 2012 08:56PM

Police officer Javier Rodriguez (Benicio del Toro) deals with the drug trade in Tijuana, Mexico when he discovers that a high ranking official named General Salazar may be involved in some questionable activities. In the US, drug czar Michael Wake...

The Last Days of Disco

reviewed on August 18th, 2012 04:20PM

I only saw The Last Days of Disco one other time when I was in high school. Honestly, if you were to give me a million dollars, I could not tell you what was the entire point of this movie. If you’re ever in high school and this movie looks intere...

Harold and Maude

reviewed on August 18th, 2012 12:42PM

Harold Chasen has an odd fascination with death. He constantly has fake suicides in order to creep out his mother. When he’s not doing that, he goes to funerals of people he never knew as a hobby. At one of these funerals, Harold meets a free spir...

The Descendants

reviewed on August 13th, 2012 05:22PM

Matt King (George Clooney) is a lawyer in Honolulu with a lot on his plate. He has some land that he and the rest of his family must sell before the ownership expires in seven years. He is having troubles relating to his two daughters, Alex and Sc...

Drive

reviewed on August 13th, 2012 04:41PM

Ryan Gosling is The Driver, a nearly mute stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver. He gets involved with the mobster Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) after Bernie gives him the chance to drive a stock car that Rose has just purchased. He also falls...

The Punisher

reviewed on August 13th, 2012 03:50PM

Frank Castle has just retired from being an FBI agent. While attending a family reunion, Frank witnesses a shootout involving the henchmen of crime boss Thomas Saint (John Travolta). Saint finds out that Frank was involved in the drug deal that so...

Knocked Up

reviewed on August 11th, 2012 07:54AM

I remember seeing Knocked Up in the theater with my mom when I was 15. She really wanted to see it too and also I had no one else I could see it with. I remember Judd Apatow’s first movie, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and I (along with everyone else who...

Almost Famous

reviewed on August 11th, 2012 06:59AM

William Miller is an aspiring rock journalist who meets an up and coming band named Stillwater. He’s a 15 year old in San Diego who has no friends and has a very close relationship with his mother going back to when he was a child. With help from ...

Pretty Persuasion

reviewed on August 9th, 2012 10:06PM

Evan Rachel Wood is Kimberly Joyce, a 15 year old teenager who dreams of being a famous actress. After her best friend Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois) is humiliated by their drama teacher, Mr. Anderson (Ron Livingston), Kimberly (along with Brittany ...

The Exorcist

reviewed on August 8th, 2012 06:03AM

Ellen Burstyn is Chris McNeil, an actress whose daughter Regan (Linda Blair) has become possessed by the devil. While seeking help for this problem, she finally decides on a Catholic exorcism, Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) agrees to help her...

The Hunted

reviewed on August 8th, 2012 05:32AM

Two hunters have been murdered in the wilderness by Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), a former assassin who’s suffering from Posttraumatc Stress Disorder after serving some time. The FBI are now investigating the case and turn to L.T. Bonham (Tommy...

The Hitcher (1986)

reviewed on August 5th, 2012 04:35AM

Watching The Hitcher the first time was a pretty dull viewing experience, at least for me. I didn't really get why we were supposed to care for either of the main characters. I felt like I didn't get enough detail about what was going on. The seco...

Cherry Falls

reviewed on August 5th, 2012 03:57AM

Cherry Falls is a pretty decent slasher film that has a really interesting premise. It begins with a murderer who is on the loose in the town of Cherry Falls. It turns out teenagers are getting murdered and it’s tied to the fact that they were vir...

The Dark Knight

reviewed on August 5th, 2012 02:43AM

When he’s not Batman and attempting to foil The Joker’s plans, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) comes to a point in his life where he has to make an important decision: choosing Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the woman he loves or continue being th...

Batman Begins

reviewed on July 31st, 2012 05:59PM

Batman Begins starts with billionaire Bruce Wayne as a kid as he falls into a well. Since falling into this well, he has always had a fear of bats. One day, his parents get killed right in front of him. Now an adult, he has still not gotten over h...

Hall Pass

reviewed on July 31st, 2012 02:52AM

I hadn’t heard much positive things about Hall Pass before seeing it, but I thought I would give it a try. I like the Farrelly Brothers, so I said to myself why not? Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are two whipped best friends who act...

High School High

reviewed on July 31st, 2012 02:25AM

High School High is one of those movies that if you went to an Auchan (remember that store, anybody?), it was a pretty easy find there back in the day as they had a pretty decent selection of VHS movies there. I never actually bought it myself but...

Vampire in Brooklyn

reviewed on July 27th, 2012 02:37AM

Eddie Murphy plays a Caribbean vampire named Maximilian who travels to New York to search for a half-vampire, half-human woman that he needs to be with in order to live past the next full moon. It is believed to be a Brooklyn police officer Rita V...

Chasing Amy

reviewed on July 27th, 2012 02:07AM

Holden (Ben Affleck) is a young comic book artist who meets a fellow artist named Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams) at a comic book convention. There is one little detail that he didn’t know: she’s a lesbian. Even discovering the detail, he still feels a...

Fear

reviewed on July 27th, 2012 01:56AM

When Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) first meets David (Mark Wahlberg) at a rave, they fall for each and it seems like an innocent relationship. Her father Steven (William Petersen) is suspicious of David and very cautious of his daughter. Little by li...

Freddy vs. Jason

reviewed on July 26th, 2012 02:52AM

As a kid, I didn’t watch a lot of horror movies. I would get easily scared and would have nightmares if I watched them. But that was a long time ago and these days, I don’t mind seeing whatever horror movie is out there. This is the first Freddy K...

Legend

reviewed on July 26th, 2012 02:25AM

Princess Lili (Mia Sara) is with her friend Jack (Tom Cruise) in the forest one day when she makes a promise to marry the one person who gets the ring. Jack attempts to get the ring at the bottom of the ocean while Lily is nowhere to be found. Onc...

The First Wives Club

reviewed on July 25th, 2012 03:43AM

It was 2003. I was at a Wal-Mart and I was at the $5 DVD section with my mom. Keep in mind, I was 11, so I didn’t have the money to buy my own DVDs and I think I was too young to know what were the best choices in purchases. Although, I did see an...

In & Out

reviewed on July 25th, 2012 03:09AM

Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is a normal high school English teacher living a normal life in a small town and about to get married. During the Academy Awards, Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), a former student of Brackett, thanks him in his award acce...

The Dark Knight Rises

reviewed on July 23rd, 2012 01:57PM

8 years after the events of what happened in the Dark Knight, Batman has taken the rap for what happened to Harvey Dent. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), in the past few years, has been a recluse in his large mansion. When a mysterious criminal named...

Billy Madison

reviewed on July 20th, 2012 02:49PM

Billy Madison is a spoiled rich kid who loves to party all the time. When it’s revealed he won’t be getting the hotel company from his father and become the CEO, he’s determined to prove to his father that he can do something if he really works at...

Catch .44

reviewed on July 20th, 2012 02:34PM

Three girls are waiting in a diner while waiting for a drug shipment. After everything doesn’t go according to plan, a police officer (Forest Whitaker) gets involved. Bruce Willis also shows up as the boss of the three girls. I honestly only watch...

King Ralph

reviewed on July 18th, 2012 02:43AM

King Ralph stars John Goodman as a Vegas lounge singer who is named the king of England after the rest of the royal family has been electrocuted to death in a freak accident. When he arrives in England, he gets help from his private secretary Will...

Scream 4

reviewed on July 18th, 2012 01:50AM

Scream 4 follows Sidney (Neve Campbell), Gale (Courtney Cox), and Dewey (David Arquette) ten years later back in Woodsboro. Sidney is an accomplished author. Gale is struggling to write a new book. It seems that the Ghostface killer has returned a...

Scream 3

reviewed on July 17th, 2012 06:07PM

In this sequel, Sidney (Neve Campbell), Dewey (David Arquette), and Gale (Courtney Cox) return as well as the Ghostface Killer. Sidney is living in a secluded area as a crisis counselor. Gale runs into Dewey in Hollywood who’s working as an adviso...

Ted

reviewed on July 16th, 2012 06:51PM

As a kid, John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) never had many friends. After receiving a stuffed teddy bear as a Christmas gift, he makes a wish that his bear could be real. The next day, it comes to life and Ted and John inseparable for many years. Now i...

Election

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 03:07PM

Election is one of my favorite movies. It actually has been since I saw it on pay-per-view behind my mom's back (she was the one paying for the cable) at age 7. I realize that’s too young to have seen this but you have to understand that I had a h...

Cool as Ice

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 01:58PM

Cool as Ice stars Vanilla Ice as some guy who falls in love with an honor student. He rides a motorcycle with his friends. He lives with his grandparents, who are mechanics. Why? I have no idea, it’s just the way it is. The same could be said for ...

Modern Problems

reviewed on July 7th, 2012 04:14PM

Modern Problems stars Chevy Chase as an air traffic controller who’s living a very boring life. His girlfriend dumps him, which leaves him bummed. One day, he is exposed to nuclear waste and gains super powers. I really wanted to like this but it ...

Larry Crowne

reviewed on July 5th, 2012 04:52PM

Larry Crowne (starring, directed, and cowritten by Tom Hanks) is about a middle aged man who works at a department store. One day, he’s fired because he didn’t go to college. As a result, he decides to start over and go to community college. He me...

Aliens

reviewed on July 5th, 2012 04:49PM

Aliens picks up where the original left off. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the last survivor of the space ship Nostromo. Soon, she ends up with a group of Colonial Marines who investigate the planet LV-426, where her team had found the alien...

Cinemania

reviewed on July 5th, 2012 04:42PM

Cinemania is a very interesting documentary about film fanatics in New York. Many of film fans in this documentary are very, very committed to film. In fact, most of these people schedule their whole lives around watching films all around the New ...

Reality Bites

reviewed on July 3rd, 2012 03:15PM

Reality Bites takes place in my hometown of Houston in the 1990's. Winona Ryder stars as Lelaina, a recent graduate who dreams of being a documentary filmmaker. She lives her promiscuous friend Vickie (Janeane Garafalo). She’s also friends with a ...

Brokeback Mountain

reviewed on July 3rd, 2012 02:30PM

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are two cowboys who meet while sheepherding. While on the job, they fall in love with each other and keep the relationship going throughout many years. Ennis and Jack both get married a...

Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns

reviewed on July 3rd, 2012 01:10AM

Angela Bassett is a single mother who travels to Atlanta after realizing a relative has passed away. Her son’s a high school basketball player who has a chance of playing in college, according to some sports scout guy or something (It’s never expl...

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

reviewed on July 1st, 2012 11:26AM

In this Tyler Perry movie, three kids break into Madea’s house. It seems that their grandmother has gone missing and they have no one to take care of them. It’s then up to their alcoholic nightclub singer aunt named April (Taraji P. Henson) to tak...

Daddy's Little Girls

reviewed on July 1st, 2012 10:51AM

Idris Elba plays Monty, a mechanic trying to get by. He has three daughters that he’s trying to take care of and loves to death. One day. the girls’ grandmother dies and Monty’s ex-wife attempts to get her children back. The only problem is that J...

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

reviewed on July 1st, 2012 02:05AM

I went into this with low expectations. I wasn’t expecting greatness or anything. I’ve seen a few Tyler Perry movies in the past and I wasn’t crazy about him. Although, I liked Why Did I Get Married? quite a bit. This weekend, I decided to watch a...

Just Go With It

reviewed on June 27th, 2012 11:15AM

For as long as he can remember, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) has always used a wedding ring to get ladies. He attempts to use some sob story to get in their pants and it has never failed. Now, he feels he has met “the one”. She’s ...

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

reviewed on June 27th, 2012 10:49AM

I just want to say to say before this review that whenever I review an Adam Sandler movie, please take them with a grain of salt. I know a lot of people hate his movies, but I happen to enjoy them. I know a lot of them are stupid and they’re never...

Modern Girls

reviewed on June 25th, 2012 06:02PM

A young guy named Clifford is about to go on a date with Kelly (Virginia Madsen). Little does he know that Kelly has gone to see her ex-boyfriend at a club. Kelly's friends (Margo and CeCe, played by Daphne Zuniga and Cynthia Gibb, respectively) d...

Moonrise Kingdom

reviewed on June 24th, 2012 09:12PM

Moonrise Kingdom is the best movie of the year so far. Maybe that could be stated as hyperbole, but it’s true. I know some people aren’t the biggest Wes Anderson fans, but trust me, this movie is definitely a charmer. On a New England island, Sam ...

Anchorman

reviewed on June 23rd, 2012 08:06PM

I know that Anchorman isn’t what someone may call a thinking man’s movie. But it really means a lot to me, I was in middle school at the time and was going through a lot of personal changes in my life. In some strange way, I think we had parallels...

Corrina, Corrina

reviewed on June 23rd, 2012 07:00PM

In Corrina, Corrina, Whoopi Goldberg plays a maid named Corrina, who has just been hired by the recently widowed Manny Singer (Ray Liotta). Manny is still struggling with his wife’s death while his daughter Molly (Tina Majorino) decides to take a ...

Weekend Pass

reviewed on June 23rd, 2012 06:38PM

A bunch of guys in the Navy have a weekend pass. They decide to go to Los Angeles and have some fun. One wants to be a comedian, another is the token black guy with street smarts, another is a nerd, and another is the typical jock. I know this doe...

From the Hip

reviewed on June 23rd, 2012 06:14PM

Judd Nelson plays Robin “Stormy” Weathers, a lawyer who doesn’t follow the rules. He takes risks to get ahead and it works. After an attention grabbing stunt at a party at the law firm where he works, he gets the opportunity to work on his first c...

The Man with Two Brains

reviewed on June 22nd, 2012 07:01AM

Steve Martin plays Dr. Hfuhruhurr, a brain surgeon who has recently lost his wife. One day, he hits a woman (Kathleen Turner) with his car. He soon falls in love with her and marries her. Unbeknownst to him, she’s a conniving gold digger determine...

Multiplicity

reviewed on June 22nd, 2012 06:38AM

Multiplicity stars Michael Keaton as Doug, an overworked contractor who doesn’t have time to see his wife and kids. He often feels like he needs some time to himself and is getting stressed out. One day, he gets the opportunity to have a clone of ...

Prometheus

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 10:54AM

I took me a week to write this review. It’s hard to review this movie to the simplest terms because it’s a movie that requires deep thought about what you’ve just seen. Prometheus follows a group of explorers who embark on a journey to find out wh...

Beverly Hills Cop 3

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 10:25AM

Beverly Hills Cop III is something of a disappointment. It starts with Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley doing undercover work at a chop shop when his boss is killed. He decides yet again to return to Beverly Hills to avenge his boss’ killer. It turns ou...

Beverly Hills Cop II

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 10:20AM

In Beverly Hills Cop II, Axel Foley’s back in Beverly Hills after Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox) from the first movie gets shot by someone involved in a series of “alphabet crimes”. The crimes consist of someone leaving a note after a robbery has tak...

Beverly Hills Cop

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 02:42AM

To mention how much I love Beverly Hills Cop, I should say that I own all three on VHS and as of last Sunday, DVD. I also have the soundtrack to the first movie and have listened to it countless times as a kid. In fact, I loved the song, The Heat ...

Date with an Angel

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 01:14AM

When I saw this after watching Shanghai Surprise, I was not in the best mood as Surprise really pissed me off with its awfulness. Being that I had heard little about Date with an Angel and none of what I heard was positive, I thought this movie ha...

Shanghai Surprise

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 12:39AM

I have known about Shanghai Surprise for awhile and knew of how bad received it was. Yet, I was curious to see it and thought it stars Sean Penn and Madonna, how could that go wrong? At best, it could be a so bad, it’s good type of movie. Wow, was...

My Chauffeur

reviewed on June 17th, 2012 12:10AM

I’ve been recently writing a screenplay and while It’s been going good so far, I felt that the main female character that I’ve written was missing a little something. I was watching My Chauffeur and realized that it needed a Deborah Foreman in the...

Touch and Go

reviewed on June 16th, 2012 11:25PM

Last week, I bought a 2-disc, 8-pack 80‘s comedy movie collection at Wal-Mart. The only reason I got it was for a very specific movie called Touch and Go. It has never been released on DVD and the only opportunity that I had to get it was with a c...

Bernie

reviewed on May 30th, 2012 02:36AM

In director Richard Linklater’s latest, Bernie, Jack Black plays Bernie Tiede, a friendly and effeminate mortician in the small town of Carthage, Texas who is loved by many of his fellow citizens of the community. He’s loved because he’s often fri...

Hot Fuzz

reviewed on May 27th, 2012 08:02PM

Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a very talented police officer. It’s because of this that his fellow officers have a problem with him. Because of his exemplary work, he seems to be making his fellow officers look bad. Angel is forced to be transfer...

Sideways

reviewed on May 27th, 2012 06:47PM

Paul Giamatti is Miles, a middle school teacher/failed author. His best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) is an out of work actor about to getting married. For a week before the wedding, he has decided to take him on a wine tasting trip. Miles liv...

Dirty Work

reviewed on May 27th, 2012 03:34PM

To start this review, I have to say I love Norm McDonald. I’ve watched him on Conan numerous times over the years. I have the movie Screwed on DVD. I’ve seen his one-time sketch comedy special, Back to Norm on Comedy Central and even have it recor...

Problem Child 2

reviewed on May 18th, 2012 01:55PM

People, there’s something I have to admit. I’ve only seen Problem Child 2 more than Terminator 2. Why do I mention that? Well because they came out the same weekend. Now, I just rewatched this and all I have to say is that T2 blows this movie out ...

Get Him to the Greek

reviewed on May 15th, 2012 05:53PM

The Larry Sanders Show, The Ben Stiller Show, The 1992 HBO Young Comedians Special, The Critic, Heavyweights, The Cable Guy, Celtic Pride, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Anchorman, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Fun ...

Dumb and Dumber

reviewed on May 15th, 2012 04:39PM

I’ve watched this movie so many times, my mom has it alongside Independence Day and Jurassic Park in a list of movies she’s sick of sitting through again. It’s a movie that’s so stupid that it took someone like the Farrelly Brothers to be so cleve...

The Avengers

reviewed on May 13th, 2012 01:51PM

Unless you've been living under a rock, The Avengers has been the hugest movie since last week. As the plot above says, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow, and Thor are recruited by Nick Fury of SHIELD. It turns out that Loki, Thor’s bro...

21 Jump Street

reviewed on March 25th, 2012 07:45PM

21 Jump Street stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as Schmidt and Jenko, respectively. They're both former high school students. Predictably, Schmidt was a nerd and Jenko was a jock. Seven years later, they find each other at the police academy an...

Man Trouble

reviewed on March 17th, 2012 03:23PM

Jack Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a guard dog trainer who falls in love with Ellen Barkin. Barkin plays Joan, an opera singer whose home has just been vandalized. For the time being, she stays at her sister’s house. Harry helps Joan protect hersel...

Wanderlust

reviewed on March 4th, 2012 12:21AM

Wanderlust starts with George and Linda, a New York couple who have just decided to buy a studio apartment. George (Paul Rudd) is suddenly laid off one day after the company he works for is under investigation. Linda (Jennifer Aniston) has recentl...

Magnolia

reviewed on February 21st, 2012 01:25PM

This past Sunday, I bought Magnolia on DVD. Honestly, I have never liked this movie until yesterday. I know what you're thinking. Why would you buy a movie that you don't even like? For some reason, it just felt right, if that makes any sense. Wel...

Bottle Rocket

reviewed on February 5th, 2012 04:41PM

As some people know, I love Wes Anderson. Not because he's from Houston like myself, but because he has a great visual style, great musical choices, and he has one of the most original voices in film today. Some people say he's always making the s...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

reviewed on February 4th, 2012 04:53PM

I saw this in the theater like many others, but I still thought this wasn't as bad as people say. Was it a masterpiece? No. Is it going to rank amongst the three other films? No. That said, if you're willing to suspend disbelief and I mean really ...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

reviewed on February 4th, 2012 04:05PM

It's surprising how I've seen the rest of the movies in the franchise, but I had all but ignored Last Crusade. After seeing it, I'm surprised I didn't see it earlier as it's the the best in the series. Everything just feels right: the plot, the ac...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

reviewed on February 4th, 2012 03:46PM

As a kid, I never really watched the Indiana Jones that closely. No one introduced me to them and I just watched bits and pieces while waiting to go outside to do whatever kids do. Out of all the films, this one stuck out the most. For an Indiana ...

Raiders of the Lost Ark

reviewed on February 4th, 2012 03:27PM

Indiana Jones is an archaeologist/adventurer who one day gets an offer to go on an around the world adventure to find a treasure known as the Ark of the Covenant, which is thought to have some special powers. He also gets some help from an old gir...

Ringmaster

reviewed on February 4th, 2012 03:02PM

I'll be honest, on a day when there's absolutely nothing to do, Jerry Springer is a perfect way to kill time and it's a guilty pleasure. In fact, I often find myself laughing out loud at some of the situations that happen on this show. But that do...

True Grit

reviewed on December 30th, 2011 10:06PM

To start off this review, I have to admit that I've never been a fan of westerns. So for me to enjoy this so much more really surprised me. It probably helped that I'm a huge fan of the Coen Brothers because despite that this movie is new territor...

Horrible Bosses

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:33PM

On paper, Horrible Bosses seems like a ripoff of Throw Momma from the Train or Strangers on a Train, the Hitchcock film of which this film and Throw Momma take inspiration from. But trust me, this movie is actually original in its plot structure a...

Chloe

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:29PM

Chloe begins with Julianne Moore's character Catherine, a gynecologist who suspects her husband of cheating. She then hires a prostitute named Chloe, played by Amanda Seyfried, to confirm her allegations. When Catherine makes this decision, she so...

Bridesmaids

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:27PM

Producer Judd Apatow often gets criticized for not giving women significant parts in his films. Well, he can prove those critics wrong because Bridesmaids, which he produced, shows that women can also be funny. Bridesmaids stars Kirsten Wiig a...

Freaked

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:24PM

Let's face it. Freaked was never going to be a massive hit. It was never going to appeal to the mainstream, considering the budget was cut during production and it was from the creators of a now forgotten MTV show called The Idiot Box. It's the ty...

Angus

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:21PM

Angus is a touching, funny, inspiring and sometimes painful portrait of an overweight kid who's good at science but also devotes part of his time to the football team. Being good at football should make a very popular kid, right? Wrong, in fact, w...

Hanna

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:18PM

Joe Wright has directed such serious pieces of work such as Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and The Soloist. To see his name connected to Hanna, an action movie about 16-year old assassin on the run from the CIA is a real surprise for people who are...

Bad Boys II

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:16PM

When I was 11, long before I became a true film fan, my mom took me to see Bad Boys II. We had both wanted to see this movie, it looked like the perfect Hollywoood summer film to see. Being African American, it felt satisfying to see two black mal...

Ghost World

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:13PM

Ghost World is one of the few films that I felt I could relate to on a personal level. Especially, the message of being an outsider in a world that is difficult to relate to was very relatable. Enid is a recent high school graduate who, along with...

Opportunity Knocks

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:11PM

Dana Carvey is an talented performer and it's a shame that he's not as well known as he was when he appeared on Saturday Night Live in the late 80's and early 90's. Opportunity Knocks is one of those movies that just seemed to fall by the wayside ...

Cyrus

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:08PM

In recent years, it seems Hollywood have run out of original ideas and feel that the only way to get people to go to the movies and spend their hard earned money is to remake or redo a movie that people have probably done a billion times before. T...

The Hudsucker Proxy

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 02:06PM

The Hudsucker Proxy from Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski) is a bizarre film, especially for those uninitiated in the films of the Coens. It's a smart, clever and original film that's also an homage to the screwball comedies of the 193...

American Graffiti

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:59PM

George Lucas' coming of age story American Graffiti follows a group of teenagers who spend one final night in 1962 together before two of them go to college. Future Oscar winning director Ron Howard and Cindy Williams play Steve and Laurie, the po...

American Beauty

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:55PM

Sam Mendes made a great leap from directing theater to feature films debuting with the modern classic American Beauty, written by Alan Ball, the future creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood. Oscar winner Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a man...

Adventures in Babysitting

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:53PM

Chris Columbus is probably best known for his work on the first two Home Alone movies, the first two Harry Potter movies, and Mrs. Doubtfire. But some might have forgotten that Columbus had his first directing effort, Adventures in Babysitting, re...

A Beautiful Mind

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:50PM

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe as a mentally ill mathematician named John Nash. The film chronicles the years Nash spent with schizophrenia and how he, along with his wife Alicia (played by Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly), learn...

21

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:48PM

21 is the true story of a group of MIT students who spend weekends in Vegas counting cards and winning big at blackjack. The group is led by professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey), who recruits student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) because of his excep...

EDtv

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:45PM

Edtv has always been one of my personal favorites after renting it on VHS from Blockbuster Video as a youth in 1999. Seeing it eleven years later, I still find it to be one of Ron Howard's funniest and most underrated films. Edtv stars Matthew McC...

Something Wild

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:43PM

Something Wild is an offbeat 1980s film from director Jonathan Demme. The film stars Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels as two complete opposites. Griffith plays Lulu (aka Audrey), an eccentric and attractive young woman who kidnaps Charlie (Daniel...

The Social Network

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:23PM

Director David Fincher continues his winning streak with The Social Network, which chronicles the beginning of Facebook, the social networking site that has become a phenomenon with millions worldwide. After seeing it, I can now say that this film...

Reservation Road

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:20PM

Reservation Road is the titular street name where a horrendous accident occurs that changes the lives of two fathers. This film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Ethan Learner, a father who loses his son in a tragic hit and run accident. He witnesses the a...

Revolutionary Road

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:15PM

Revolutionary Road reunites Titanic stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet as an unhappy couple, Frank and April Wheeler who are unsatisfied with the outcome of their lives. They live in a 1950s Connecticut suburb with their two children. Their ...

Sling Blade

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:11PM

When people talk about Sling Blade, I hope they talk about Billy Bob Thornton's flawless portrayal of Karl, a mentally-changed adult recently released from a local mental hospital. Karl was originally in the hospital for murdering his mother and a...

The Ice Harvest

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:08PM

2005 was no doubt a great year in movies. But there was a movie that slipped past many viewers, The Ice Harvest. This is a complete 180 degrees for director Harold Ramis, responsible for such comedy hits such as Animal House, Groundhog Day, Analyz...

Rushmore

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 01:01PM

As a Houstonian, it was great to see someone from my own hometown make a pretty funny movie featuring comedy legend Bill Murray. Rushmore was one of my first movies to make me love the world of cinema. I didn't quite like it at first glance. But i...

The Squid and the Whale

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:57PM

The Squid and the Whale is a movie about divorce, one of the major subjects that helps me relate to the characters since my own mother and father got divorced. It has what I love: comedy, drama, and a good soundtrack. Another reason that I like it...

The Other Guys

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:52PM

As a huge fan of such Will Ferrell-Adam Mckay collaborations such as Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and Step Brothers, I really had high hopes for the Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg action comedy The Other Guys. While it wasn't a huge disappointment, it...

Ishtar

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:49PM

When it comes to box-office disasters, Ishtar is one of the films that's always come to mind with film fans. Especially when you're talking about a great cast with two huge stars like Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, a script by comedy legend Ela...

Funny Games

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:45PM

Michael Haneke's American remake of his own 1997 Austrian original, Funny Games seemed promising. But I'm afraid to say that it was a huge disappointment. Naomi Watts and Tim Roth are Ann and George Farber, a married couple with a son and a dog wh...

Dan in Real Life

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:41PM

Steve Carell plays the title character, Dan Burns, an advice columnist who's been widowed for four years. He's a nice guy and a great father to three daughters. The only problem is that he's very overprotective with his daughters, especially with ...

Dinner for Schmucks

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:30PM

"Dinner for Schmucks" starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd is an enjoyable comedy and although it might not be for everyone, I still thought it was funny. Paul Rudd stars as Tim, who works at an financial company. After Tim has a successful pre...

Inception

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:18PM

Christopher Nolan's Inception has been one of the most anticipated movies of the year and rightly so. Many people like myself have been waiting patiently since seeing the trailer late last year. After seeing it on opening weekend, I have to say it...

In The Loop

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:14PM

In The Loop was a critical darling when it was released last summer, so I finally decided to check it out to see if the was worth the hype. I have to say it is pretty funny. This might be more enjoyable if you like enjoyable if you are a fan of su...

Pineapple Express

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:07PM

Pineapple Express stars Seth Rogen as a weed-loving process server named Dale Denton and James Franco is Saul Silver, his dealer who just wants to have a friend. One night while delivering a summons, Dale accidentally witnesses a murder involving ...

Grosse Pointe Blank

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 12:02PM

In a time when Hollywood has run of original ideas, it's inspiring to look at a time when it wasn't all remakes and sequels. Grosse Pointe Blank is a perfect example of an entertaining and different kind of action comedy starring John Cusack. C...

A Serious Man

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 11:54AM

I have to say that before writing this review, I had some mixed feelings about the Coen brothers' most recent film A Serious Man. But I have to say that it is far superior to their previous effort, Burn After Reading. A Serious Man tells the story...

The Breakfast Club

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 11:45AM

For many, John Hughes' The Breakfast Club showed what teenagers felt like in the 80's. It showed that no matter what background or what cliques you come from, we have all problems. This movie deals with a lot of tough subjects such as suicide, chi...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 11:40AM

As a child, There was a film that I watched many times and quickly became one of my favorite movies of all time. The name of the movie was Ferris Bueller's Day Off from writer/director John Hughes, the Judd Apatow of 80's teen comedies. It's a sha...

Terri

reviewed on November 29th, 2011 08:28AM

I admit that I was like Terri in high school and in middle school, except for the pajamas, the missing parents, and the obsession with dead animals. I had experienced some of the bullying that he got, which was why I sympathized so much with this ...

Colombiana

reviewed on August 28th, 2011 08:49AM

Colombiana stars Zoe Saldana as a girl from Bogota, Colombia who becomes an assassin after witnessing her parents' murder. That's pretty much it. There's really no more, no less. The plot is something you've seen a million times before and the end...

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