Posted in Movies on Apr 5th, 2009 No Comments »
I like Jason Segel in “How I Met Your Mother”, so I was looking forward to his movie. It was funny, but with just a tad too much full-frontal nudity. Segel must be very comfortable in front of the camera. The star of the show, though, was Russell Brand who plays Sarah Marshall’s British boyfriend. […]
Posted in Movies on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Twilight is based on the first book in a series I read last year. I thought the books were great and was looking forward to the film. For all of the negative press it got, it really wasn’t that bad. Kristen Stewart did a decent job of playing Bella. I wasn’t impressed with Robert Pattinson’s […]
Posted in Movies on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Bill Maher’s interesting documentary examines faith and politics, presenting a large amount of statistics and arguments against organized religion. While I don’t know the accuracy of those stats, there was an interesting one: 93% of scientists in the American National Academy of Sciences are atheist or agnostic. I didn’t expect that number to be so […]
Posted in Movies on Mar 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Anne Hathaway plays an interesting role as a recovering addict leaving a rehab home and returning to her family’s home, where her sister, Rachel, is getting married. While Rachel feels a deep love for her sister, Kym’s return brings out a lot of issues from the past and fills the wedding weekend with tension.
Rating: ***+
tags:***+, […]
Posted in Movies on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
This 11-minute movie won the Academy Award for best animated short film. For only 11 minutes, it was a really moving film. An old man lives in a town submerged in water. He must continually add bricks to the top of his house to keep up with the rising water. When he swims down to […]
Posted in Movies on Feb 25th, 2009 No Comments »
I saw this movie the day before it won an Academy Award for best documentary. It was good - especially the old footage from Philippe’s early days. And the build-up as Philippe and his friends plan to sneak into the World Trade Center to set up a high wire for Philippe to cross is suspenseful, […]
Posted in Movies on Feb 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
The title of this movie tells the premise of the entire film: two friends, Vicky and Cristina, go to Barcelona for the summer. While the girls are very close friends, their opinions on love and relationships differ greatly. Vicky prefers long-term, committed relationships, while Cristina flits from relationship to relationship, and quickly falls in and […]
Posted in Movies on Feb 18th, 2009 No Comments »
W. was an interesting movie. It was less about George W. Bush’s presidency than it was about how he got there, with a focus on his relationship with his father. The movie was not an overly condemning film of our 43rd president, but it also didn’t portray him in a great light, either. The best […]
Posted in Movies on Feb 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
One user on IMDb wrote a comment, which I thought summarized this movie well: “Cute enough for an evening’s mindless entertainment, but exactly that and not a penny more.” I was never a huge fan of the television series, but I watched it occasionally. I find it really hard to relate to the obsession with […]
Posted in Movies on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
While I’ve never seen the original film, this remake wasn’t that great. A few lines and scenes were funny, but the characters were unbelievable and unconvincing.
Rating: **
tags:**, annette bening, comedy, debra messing, eva mendes, meg ryan, USA