Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is a former Marine.  He, as well as many others in the neighbourhood, has had to put up with the shenanigans of a set of young hoods that terrorize their living area and sell drugs.  After the death of his best friend, Leonard (David Bradley), Harry has decided he’s had enough and has to teach these children a lesson.  He goes on a hunt for the man that murdered his friend the only way that he knows will work, without the police. (more…)

Fredrick Treves (Anthony Hopkins), a surgeon at London Hospital, visits the local carnival one day to find a most curious show on display.  A man, Bytes (Freddie Jones), has enslaved this man and put him on display as a monster.  Treves takes this Elephant Man into his care and brings him back to health, not just physically but mentally.  We soon learn that this man isn’t an animal at all, but a man whose name is John Merrick (John Hurt) and is a lot more intellectually capable than we imagined he would be.  The film follows the progression of Merrick and his friendship with Treves. (more…)

Lucas (Paul Dano) is a homeless young man who’s failed to kill himself and Jacques (Brian Cox) is an old man with a heart problem who runs an old Oyster Bar in the city.  These two meet in the hospital as they recuperate.  Jacques decides to take in Lucas as his student that will keep his bar running when he eventually passes.  So begins the story of The Good Heart. (more…)

The last thirty minutes of my life has proven that it’s impossible to try and summarize this film.  There are so many un-understandable points in this film that I have no idea as to what happened or what it meant.  I could easily write a two-hundred word paragraph giving away every plot point of this film, but I’m sure I would only confuse those who haven’t seen this movie even more.  Let’s just say a lot of weird things happen, and somehow Fred (Bill Pullman) goes to jail and transforms into Pete (Balthazar Getty) and they both encounter this mystery man, played by Robert Blake. (more…)

This is the movie that everyone has been waiting to see this year.  After Christopher Nolan did The Dark Knight a couple years ago everyone has been waiting with baited breathe for the next film in the Batman trilogy, however Nolan decided – just as he did with the previous Batman instalment – to take a break away from the world of comic books and bring us into this new original science-fiction heist film that he’s apparently been working on from birth (or something like that).  This movie takes the heist genre and decides to bring it into the world of the dream.  In the art of espionage the effectiveness of an agent is measured by how reliable the information is that’s at his fingertips, well how much more reliable can you get when you’re stealing the information directly from the subject’s subconscious while he’s sleeping.  This is the world that we’re thrust into in the film Inception. (more…)

Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) are in love and on the run from any and everyone that Lula’s mother, Marietta (Diane Ladd), has sent on their trail to kill Sailor.  While on this trip Lula and Sailor encounter numerous strange individuals through the roads of Louisiana and Texas. (more…)

Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) wants to be a rock star and wants to bring the world the first real all girl rock band.  With the help of famed rock producer Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) they put together an all-girl rock band with the jail-bait lead singer Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) to sweeten the deal.  They are called The Runaways and the rest is history. (more…)

note: I know that my Outlaw Josey Wales review was supposed to go up last week, I plan to post it sometime this weekend.  Until then enjoy this review for The Gunfighter.

Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) is the infamous gunfighter has come to the town of Cayenne looking for his true love, Peggy (Helen Westcott).  After all his years of gunslinging he’s finally realised how pointless it all and has finally decided he no longer wants to be that man.  So while on the run from three brothers seeking revenge against him he spends the morning in Cayenne to try and convince the love of his life to go with him. (more…)

Mary Daisy Dinkle (Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old girl living in Australia with her drunken mother and taxidermy obsessed father.  One day she decides by random selection to mail Max Jerry Horovitz (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), an obese man living in Ney York that suffers from an inability to discern subtlety (i.e. Asperger’a Syndrome), and they become pen pals.  The film follows their 20-year relationship through postage and their lives over that time. (more…)

Sherry (Taraji P. Hensen) and Dre (Jaden Smith) have to move to Beijing, China after Sherry was transferred to the Chinese division of the can company she works for.  There Dre meets Meiying (Wenwen Han) and immediately falls in love, but Cheng (Zhenwei Wang) doesn’t like Dre and begins to bully him to stay away from Meiying.  Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) finds out about this and decides to teach Dre Kung-fu so that he can defend himself and participate in an open tournament. (more…)