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Bank Job, The (2008) ****1/2 2008-03-13 15:12:15 Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Michael Jibson, Richard Lintern
Director Roger Donaldson is on a roll. His last three films, The World’s Fastest Indian, The Recruit, and Thirteen Days, have all been fine efforts, but all are outdone by this captivating, true story of [...]
In Bruges (2008)***1/2 2008-03-09 21:27:11 Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleason, Clemence Poesy, Ralph Fiennes, Jordan Prentice,
First time feature film writer/director, Martin McDonagh gives viewers a bit of everything with this fresh, genre-bending, small-scale, character-driven action/comedy/drama. McDonagh showcases his writing skills here as well, with a smooth, entertaining script that also allows the performers to [...]
10,000 B.C. (2008) *1/2 2008-03-09 07:12:37 Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Bell, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Marco Khan
Well, after creating an alien invasion in Independence Day and a giant monster in Godzilla, two things have become abundantly clear about writer/producer/director Roland Emmerich. He is very skilled at creating large-scale CGI spectacles, and [...]
Descent (2006) ***1/2 2008-03-07 19:17:15 Director: Talia Lugacy
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Chad Faust, Marcus Patrick,
Rosario Dawson starred and Produced this raw, graphic picture that was written and directed by Talia Lugacy (apparently Dawson and Lugacy either grew up on the same street or Dawson owes Lugacy a favor because everything with Lugacy’s name on it stars Rosario Dawson). [...] Read more:Descent
Be Kind, Rewind (2008) **1/2 2008-03-03 15:17:27 Director: Michael Gondry
Starring: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz,
Writer/ director Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is back with another so-so effort in this slow moving and one gag film. Jack Black is here firing out all he can, but he runs out of zingers before [...]
Red Dawn (1984) ** 1/2 2008-03-20 13:23:50 Director: John Milius
Starring: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey, Brad Savage
Red Dawn was an uneven 80s vehicle for young stars like Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell (both hot from The Outsiders), soon-to-be-stars like Charlie Sheen (Red Dawn was his very first role), Lea Thompson and [...]
Gettysburg (1993) **** 2008-03-20 12:08:15 Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Starring: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Richard Jordan, Cooper Huckabee, Sam Elliott, C. Thomas Howell, Kevin Conway, Stephen Lang,
Gettysburg is magnificent civil war epic that seems to run for longer than the battle itself! At over four hours, and with more characters than a season of soap operas, [...]
Southland Tales (2006) *1/2 2008-03-20 10:55:32 Director: Richard Kelly
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake, Nora Dunn, John Larroquette
Donnie Darko fans rejoice! For the master has returned with another strange (but not as strange), surreal feature that is as sure to collect cult fans as my copy of Donnie Darko is to collect [...] Read more:Tales
Revolver (2005) ** 2008-03-20 10:18:50 Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, Andre Benjamin, Terence Maynard, Mark Strong
I was pleasantly surprised when I found this little known Guy Ritchie (Snatch) crime feature. It sounded great and Ritchie’s cool and stylish hand was immediately evident in the lightning editing and unusual use of color. The [...] Read more:Revolver
Run Fat Boy Run (2007) *** 2008-03-24 04:54:11 Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, Matthew Fenton
Writer/actor Simon Pegg split off from Edgar Wright, his partner from Shaun of The Dead and Hot Fuzz to work with David Schwimmer from Friends, on this more mainstream romanatic comedy. There is a decent, but painfully [...]
Drillbit Taylor (2008) *** 2008-03-23 10:46:59 Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Owen Wilson, Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, Ian Roberts, David Dorman, Valerie Tien, Alex Frost, Josh Peck
Ahhh, the carefree, locker-slamming, change room-fearing days of high school. Really, for most of us, high school is the closest we will ever come to experiencing the violent, anything goes, prison environment. There [...] Read more:Taylor
Darkon (2006) **** 2008-03-26 09:26:51 Director: Luke Meyer, Andrew Neel
Starring: Skip Lipman, Daniel McArthur, Rebecca Thurmond, Kenyon Wells
One of the wonderful things about documentaries is their ability, when done well, to open our eyes to worlds within our own of which we were completely unaware. Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel have given us just such a [...]
Funny Games U.S.(2007) ***1/2 2008-03-25 19:32:53 Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart
Writer/director Michael Haneke did a scene by scene exact remake of his 1997 Austrian feature to create this English language version of the thought provoking film that questions the industry’s perceptions of violence and reality, unlike any film since 1971’s Clockwork [...] Read more:Funny
, Games
Kite Runner, The (2007) ****1/2 2008-03-26 18:25:06 Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Homayoun Marshadi, Shaun Toub
German director, Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball) has done an outstanding job turning David Benioff’s screen treatment of Khalad Hosseini’s best-selling novel into one of the pre-eminent films of 2007. The story is strong, and [...] Read more:Runner
Phenomenon (1996) ****1/2 2008-03-29 21:30:30 Director: Jon Turtletaub
Starring: John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duval,
Some rare motion pictures have the power to fill us with a sense of wonder and cause us to speculate on the possibilities, beyond what we think we know. Phenomenon
is one of these scarce films, though not everyone seemed to see [...]
21 (2008) *** 2008-03-29 20:33:41 Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts,
All right! Finally, a way to make some money in Vegas! Let’s grab some tickets. I’ll learn to count cards during the flight, and I should be rich by dinner! Director, Robert Luketic (Monster-In-Law)takes [...]
Stop Loss (2008) *** 2008-03-28 11:16:02 Director: Kimberly Peirce
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum, Victor Rasuk, Timothy Olyphant
Director, Kimberly Pierce, who has been conspicuously absent from Hollywood movie credits since her auspicious debut with Boys Don’t Cry, returns with a motion picture that gives us yet another reason to hate the war in Iraq: [...] Read more:Stop Loss
Leatherheads (2008) **1/2 2008-04-06 06:10:52 Director: George Clooney
Starring: George Clooney, Rene Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Root, Keith Loneker
Is George Clooney going through some kind of middle-aged nostalgia craze? Like The Good German, Leatherheads is a semi-successful attempt to re-capture the charm of a movie-making era long past. This time out, Clooney takes a shot [...]
Counterfeiters, The - (Falscher Die) (2007) **** 2008-04-07 15:27:52 Director: Stefan Ruzowitsky
Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stubner, Sebastien Urzendowsky, Andreas Schmidt,
The true story of the largest counterfeiting ring ever is subject of this Austrian sub-titled feature and believe if or not, it wasn’t the mob, the KGB or Danny Ocean and his pack of cool [...]
The Ruins (2008) *** 2008-04-07 12:48:35 Director: Carter Smith
Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson
Novice director Carter Smith (Bugcrush) turns out an entertaining little suspense film based upon Scott B. Smith’s novel, and screenplay. This is the first screen work for Scott B. Smith since he turned his earlier novel, A Simple Plan into [...] Read more:Ruins
Alvin and The Chipmunks - movie quotes: 2008-04-09 12:32:04 “I’m sick of struggling for survival, competing with gophers and earth worms and that loser sparrow who always takes my nuts and I’m especially sick of this stupid, stupid tree.“
“We gotta expand the munk’s fan base.”
Movie lines from Alvin
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Sharkwater - movie quotes: 2008-04-09 12:31:02 “You’re told…that sharks are dangerous. Finally you’re underwater and you see the thing…that you were taught to fear and it’s perfect and doesn’t want to hurt you.”
“Sharks are so contaminated with mercury and other pollutants…that eating shark products is more likely to cause disease than cure it.”
“Well, if you kill anybody, I’m holding you personally [...] Read more:movie
Reservation Road 2008-04-11 18:25:28 Reservation Road - movie quotes:
“Can you hear music if you’re in Heaven?”
Movie lines from Reservation Road Read more:Reservation
Smart People 2008-04-13 18:48:10 Smart People - movie quotes:
“Why would you have a baby with me?”
“Because you don’t know how to use a condom.” MMM - to paraphrase another film, “Chicks dig guys with skills (especially condom skills).
“These children haven’t been properly parented in many years. They’re practically feral. That’s why I was brought in.” MMM - this was [...] Read more:Smart
Smart People (2008) *** 2008-04-13 18:47:16 Director: Noam Murro
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Hayden Church, Ashton Holmes
First time director Noam Murro does a commendable job in creating this amusing drama about socially malfunctioning people and those who love them. The story is a routine light romance about recovery from loss and family dynamics. [...] Read more:Smart
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008-04-20 10:59:55 “Let’s go with the usual. Something dark and ominous. Like losing his penis is a bad thing.”
“Off to find the mythical clitoris”
“You can’t be so casual about this. This isn’t Europe. There are rules here.”
“I saw him beat up a guy with a starfish”
“That’s ridiculous”
“That guy was me.”
Movie lines from Forgetting SarahMarshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) ***1/2 2008-04-20 10:58:50 Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Jason Segal, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Aldous Snow, Jonah Hill
Yes, penis lovers, rejoice, for there is another oh-so-funny ball-dropping event, thanks to Hollywood’s most prolific comedy creator, these days, Judd Apatow. Since leaving an illustrious TV career in 2003, producer Judd Apatow has come up with a formula for [...] Read more:Sarah
, Marshall
One Missed Call 2008-04-26 13:31:12 One Missed Call - movie quotes:
“In the name of God and in the name of all his heavenly angels, be gone from this cell phone!” MMM - I’m not kidding. This is an actual line from this movie.
Movie lines from One Missed Call
One Missed Call (2008) * 2008-04-26 13:30:42 Director: Eric Valette
Starring: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Azura Skye
One Missed Call is French director Eric Valette’s first English language feature, and if he doesn’t find better projects than this, there won’t be many more. The performers here are a mixed bag of Hollywood beauties, who, for a feature of [...]
Movie Quotes from Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 2008-04-27 15:47:22 Movie Quotes
- Harold
and KumarEscape
from Guantanamo Bay
“Maybe if you stupid Americans would put down your donuts and realize what your government is really doing, there wouldn’t be terrorists like me”
“We like donuts” “Yes they are delicious”
“Zip it hello kitty, i know your operation is funded through drugs”
“I am sick of all the hype [...]
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