Cobb’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) specialty is a new form of corporate espionage termed “extraction.” It involves stealing people’s secrets from deep within their subconscious while they dream. Cobb’s expertise has made him a fugitive and unable to return home to his children. That is until he is offered a job by Saito (Ken Watanabe), a powerful businessman with the money and authority to clear Cobb’s name. The only thing is that Saito doesn’t want a routine extraction, instead he is asking for quite the opposite. He wants Cobb to plant an idea in someone’s head (an “inception”). Saito would like for Robert Fisher, Jr. (Cillian Murphy), the heir of a multibillion dollar oil company, to decide to dismantle his father’s empire. Read More
Inception
– July 21, 2010
The Good Guy
– July 20, 2010
Tommy (Scott Porter) works for Wall Street and is really good at taking and giving risks. One of their best guys leaves the company for a better job offer and he decides to take Daniel (Bryan Greenberg) under his wing. Tommy is also dating Beth (Alexis Bledel), who falls hard for Tommy and his romantic acts. They seem very happy together, but things take a turn when Tommy starts mentoring Daniel. Tommy and his crew are teaching Daniel how to dress, act and talk to others to make it on Wall Street, when Daniel just is too honest to be in this field. At a work event, Tommy brings Beth, and invites Daniel to come hang out at book club to try and set him up with one of her friends. Little do we know, that they are going to start falling for each other. One of the reasons they do, is due to Tommy not being around and spending less time with Beth. We learn how big of a player Tommy is and how he just loves living his life this way.
Despicable Me
– July 19, 2010
I had asked my son what his thoughts were about this film, and he just had two words for me….”Good and Funny!” And, I totally agree with him.
This movie is about two supervillains who are in competition on who can steal the next biggest thing. Gru (Steve Carrell) feels threatened when he learns that there is another supervillain amidst him who has stolen the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. After Gru meets the supervillan,Vector (Jason Segel) coincidentally, he comes up with a plan using three orphan girls, cookie robots, and minions to steal the moon….yes, the moon. I thought that this was totally impossible, but apparently NOT if you have a “Shrink Ray.”
Brokedown Palace
– July 18, 2010
I am actually proud of myself for reviewing this lost but not forgotten film from the 90′s! I would consider this movie a “chick flick” and I actually love this movie! For those of you who know me, I really don’t enjoy this genre of movie, however, Brokedown Palace has chick power all wrapped into one great drama of a movie.
Greenberg
– July 16, 2010
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
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).
