Monday, April 26, 2010
The Secret in Their Eyes.
Choosen Best Foreign Film in 2009 by the Oscars for good reason. Well done adult thriller/mystery centers around a 25 year murder in Argentina. Many subplots and twists in this smartly acted romantic/crime drama. Sub titles take a bit getting used to, but well worth the effort. Probably only being shown at your local artsy cinema. 3 1/2 bananas
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Death at a Funeral
An all star cast of comedians are sometimes very funny and at least once so gross you can't help but laugh in this comedy set around a families fathers death and his viewing in their home. The "F" bomb is used quit often as well as many other swear words. Probably should rent the DVD but worth seeing only because of some of the crazy stuff that goes on. 2 1/2 bananas
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Alice in Wonderland
Beautifully filmed with great special affects. Johnny Depp gives his usual interesting performance as do the two Queens who I have no Idea who they are. Definitely not for the youngsters, as violence rules in this fairy tale. Either I missed this as a kid or much liberty has been taken in this revised edition. Worth seeing but I was bored with it half way through, Barbara loved it--that's it for us as a viewing couple. 2 bananas
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Repo Man
Jude Law is not reposssessing cars but he is taking back body parts from people who can't meet their 'loans' on their new parts. However, Law finds himself on the other side and on the run from his repo company. What starts out as a somewhat interesting idea turns into a blood bath. 1 1/2 bananas
Friday, March 19, 2010
Bounty Hunter
Gerrard Butler and Jennifer Anniston add some very funny moments in this comedy of a bounty hunter who is tasked with arresting his ex only to find himself and his ex being tracked down by two separate sinister forces. Movie starts out great, unfortunately loses its mojo. 2 bananas.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Brooklyn's Finest
All Star cast in this pretty darn good cop drama. 3 cops from the NYPD work through personal and job issuses as they pile up bodies, track down drug dealers and wrestle with their short comings. See it. 3 bananas
Monday, March 15, 2010
Green Zone
George W Bushie will not like Matt Damon in his role of trying to find WMD in Iraq. What Damon does find is a mass conspiracy to draw the US into the war. Well done war movie that moves fast and probably paints a fairly accurate picture as to how the NeoCons conned us into going to war. Definitely worth seeing. 3 bananas
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Cop Out
Typical Bruce Willis cop movie. So stupid it's funny at times. Bruce's treasured baseball card(which he was planning on using to pay for his daughter's wedding) is stolen by the Mexican mob, setting Bruce and his partner on mission to recover the card. If you've got nothing better to do this will kill a couple of hours. 1 banana
Monday, March 1, 2010
The Crazies
Small Iowa town's water supply becomes contaminated after airplane crash carrying government biological experiment creating crazy people among the locals. Soon the Government shows up and things go from bad to worse. Pretty good horror film. 2 1/2 bananas
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Ghost Writer
Smart, stylish and filled with political intrigue and overtones, this Roman Polanski film is a great view. The Prime Minister of England, vacationing on Cape Cod, gets caught up in the political battles of terrorist torture at home while at the sametime finishing his memouirs with a ghost writer who mysteriously is killed. A second ghost writer is called in to finish the book and is caught up in the deepening mysteries surrounding the PM. Keeps you hooked till the end. See it, Crawford forget it! 3 1/2 bananas.
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