Posted in Movies on Jun 6th, 2008
Based on the classic children’s cartoon, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a young hotshot race-car driver who has a good support team behind him, including his mom (Susan Sarandon), dad (John Goodman) and girlfriend, Trixie (Christina Ricci). With his powerful race-winning Mach 5 vehicle, Speed angers a ruthless mogul (Roger Allam) who is out to […]
Posted in Movies on May 2nd, 2008
Tom (Patrick Dempsey) has it all: great career, good looks and women falling all over him. Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) is the one woman he’s never slept with, and the two of them are platonic best friends. After Hannah leaves for an extended overseas trip, Tom realizes just how much he is in love with her […]
Posted in Movies on Apr 30th, 2008
Two random strangers (Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher) wake up in a Vegas hotel room and discover that they got married to each other during a night of drunken debauchery. They also learn that one of them won a huge jackpot while playing slots with the other’s quarter. They must then spend the entire day retracing […]
Posted in Movies on Apr 27th, 2008
Those two loveable stoners, Harold and Kumar (John Cho, Kal Penn), try to fly to Amsterdam for a smoke-filled vacation, but on the plane, they’re accused of being terrorists.
Posted in Movies on Apr 10th, 2008
Kate (Tina Fey) is a single woman with a successful career who is longing to have a baby. However, instead of putting her climb up the corporate ladder on hold to get pregnant, she hires a surrogate mom (Amy Poehler) to have the kid for her.
Posted in Movies on Mar 11th, 2008
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a billionaire industrialist whose forte is building weapons of mass destruction. When he’s severely injured while testing one of those weapons in Afghanistan, he’s kidnapped by insurgents and has to build a suit of iron armor to escape his captors. After returning to the U.S., Stark refines his iron […]
Posted in Movies on Dec 24th, 2007
The Kingdom is one of many movies in the ever growing “boy the Middle East sucks” genre that’s taken over theaters since it became clear to most of the country that the war on terror isn’t going to be easily won. But director Peter Berg’s film is more than just another face in the crowd. […]
Posted in Movies on Dec 23rd, 2007
Michael Clayton is a vague, corporate espionage procedural masquerading as a thriller. It stars George Clooney as the titular Michael Clayton, a “fixer” for one of the nation’s most powerful law firms. When one of their clients has a problem, they call on him to solve it under the table. There’s a lot of talk […]
Posted in Movies on Dec 17th, 2007
On a sunny, hot afternoon in West Texas, a hunter named Llewelyn Moss tracks a deer across a remote stretch of prairie, stumbling upon the remnants of a bloody gun battle between warring drug cartels. There in the middle of nowhere he finds bodies, guns, heroin, and a bag of money which he keeps. Llewelyn, […]
Posted in Movies on Nov 17th, 2007
You can expect a few things from a Saw movie. To quote the franchise’s serial killer, Jigsaw, there will be blood – lots of it. The franchise definitely doesn’t hold back on the gore factor, which is kind of cool in an era where so many movies shoot for the PG-13 crowd. There will be […]
