DEJAVU - Denzel Washington, Val Kimer, Jim Caveziel An ATF agent travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, is falling in love with her during the process. Trying to do the impossible by bending time to help save a victim that he thinks is beautiful and starts to fall for her.
My Rating ***
BABEL - Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Three stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan. The story begins with a tragedy striking a married couple on vacation. Strange concept how all these languages and non languages can cause a trouble some story. But this leaves much to be desired I would not waste time or money on this film.
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STRANGER THAN FICTION - Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson Karen Effiel is an author writing her latest novel about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. The real Harold Crick is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence and one day begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she puts on paper to what Harold has and is doing. Because of this Harold insists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life including beginning a relationship with his IRS client, a government-hating bakery owner named Ana Pascal. Harold, however, finds trouble when he hears that Karen plans to kill him.
My Rating ****
CATCH A FIRE - Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Tim Robbins- A political thriller that powerfully tells the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
My Rating *
BLOOD DIAMOND - Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer, a South African mercenary - and Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen, an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.
My Rating **
MARIE ANTONETTE - Kirsten Dunst. The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to her beheading in 1793 at the age of 38. very boring movie fell asleep.
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS - Adam Beach, this story is of three of the six surviving servicemen, John "Doc" Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon, and Pvt. Ira Hayes who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima. There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. The picture became one of the most famous images of the U.S. winning a battle during WWII. Three of the marines being killed in action the other three servicemen were taken out of battle and flown back to the states. The photo made these men heroes, and the government used these new heroes to promote the selling of war bonds on the War Bond Tour.
My Rating **
PRESTIEGE - Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, David Bowie, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. Full of twists and turns, THE PRESTIGE is set in the turn-of-the-century London.
My Rating ****
FLICKA - Allison Lohman, Maria Bello, Tim McGraw, Flicka remains true to the book, even if they made Flicka's owner a girl instead of a boy. The teenage girl with spirit who finds Flicka, a similarly spirited mustang befriends the animal. This film shows how a child growing up can be like a wild animal needing to be tamed and the trials the parents go though trying to live with this. I had a hard time seeing Tim as anything other then a singer.
My Rating ***
SANTA CLAUSE 3 - Tim Allen, Martin Short, A Christmas story that has an escape clause and Jack Frost wants to be Santa and is trying in all ways possible to get this job. There is also a secondary story where if it never happen as it did in the first what would be come of the Santa as we know it.
My Rating ***
BORAT - This is a mocumentary on a foreigner who comes to America to learn things to take back to his country of Kazakhstan, A Kazakhstani TV talking head Borat (Cohen) is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment. Not my type of movie but most people were laughing the whole time.
My Rating **
A *****
B ****
C ***
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F *
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