Recently released to DVD, Noah Baumbach‘s Greenberg stars Ben Stiller in a role that demonstrates an audacious will to step outside his comedy-for-dummies stereotype and play a multi-level, emotional, still funny but also serious character – and play it well. Read More
Greenberg
– July 16, 2010
Knight and Day
– July 13, 2010
Director James Mangold, with successful movies such as Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, delivers again with Knight and Day. Mangold’s films entertain us. I don’t mind paying to see a movie if I can walk away feeling I got my money’s worth, which is somewhat rare these days, but I was pleasantly pleased with Knight and Day.
Killers
– July 12, 2010
Killers, starring Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, is an action/comedy/romance about a licensed-to-kill FBI agent named Spencer Aimes (Kutcher) who falls for a sweet, innocent woman named Jen (Heigl) while both are visiting Nice, France – he for work, she for vacation with her parents (Catherine O’Hara, Tom Selleck).
Adopted
– July 11, 2010
Yes, that is Pauly Shore on the cover of this movie, and yes he actually directed and stars in his newest “mockumentary”, Adopted. This film has erupted so many emotions and controversies and has everyone’s panties pretty much in a wad. But how could you hate this curly haired movie star from the 90′s? His completely inappropriate and brazen humor is so ridiculously absurd that you just have to laugh.
Eclipse: The Twilight Saga
– July 9, 2010
I wanted to like this movie. I certainly wanted to like it more than the previous two, which were quite terrible. Twilight gossip buzz and Borders customers promised me it was the best one yet. And I suppose it was, which simply reiterates how awful the last two were.
Flipping through Entertainment Weekly for a feature on the strange and mysterious life of Bill Murray, I had stumbled upon an interview with Kristen Stewart (Bella), Robert Pattinson (Edward), and Taylor Lautner (Jacob). Their chemistry in the article intrigued me. My completist and gossipy nature left me curious. I began to think perhaps, for a just a moment, that this might be a decent film.
However, I soon found that the best part of Eclipse was a trailer for the final Harry Potter films during the previews. Read More
Ondine
– July 8, 2010
This is an Irish film that has been entered into various film festivals this year. It was screened this past Monday, July 5 at the Paris Film Festival (Festival Paris Cinema), which I was lucky enough to attend.
Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is a local fisherman who is well known for his drunken antics. In fact, the whole town calls him “Circus” because of all the entertainment he has provided for the town. He sobered up though after finding out that his daughter Annie (Alison Barry) has kidney failure, but he still can’t seem to shake his nickname. Life as a fisherman has been tough for Syracuse. He barely makes ends meet and despite the fact that Annie’s mother is also an alcoholic, she kicked Syracuse out because of his inability to control his drinking. On top of it all, Syracuse struggles daily to maintain a cordial relationship with Annie’s mother just to be able to see his daughter. Syracuse’s luck begins to change though when he finds a woman, Ondine (Alicja Bachleda), caught in his fishing net. Whenever she goes out to sea with him and sings, Syracuse ends up with an unbelievable amount of lobsters and fish. Annie is convinced that Ondine is selkie. In Celtic myth, selkies are magical seal creatures that become human when they come on land and take off their seal coat. Selkies can remain on land for 7 years if they bury their seal coat and find a human husband. They are also able to grant one wish. Like all fairytales though, there is a catch….. A selkie has a selkie husband and if he comes to claim her she must return to the sea.
Runaway Bride
– July 6, 2010
One of my favorite chick flicks of all time!!!!!
Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts) just can’t seem to walk down the aisle and commit to marriage. She has been engaged 3 times and has left the groom hanging at the alter alone. Now she will be trying for her 4th marriage to Bob Kelly (Christopher Meloni) when a reporter named Ike Graham (Richard Gere) writes an insulting article about Maggie, with no facts at all. He gets fired and heads to Maryland to get the real story on Maggie. They start spending time together so he can get to know her, and they realize how much they are falling for each other.
