Posts Tagged ‘Movie Review’

After Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) ruin a massive undercover investigation through their usual antics they have been suspended from the force.  With Jimmy strapped for cash right before he has to pay for his daughter’s wedding he heads out to sell his mint condition rare baseball card.  In a turn of unforeseen events the card is stolen from him and this sends Jimmy and Paul on the case of the stolen baseball card which becomes something else entirely. (more…)

Lawrence [Benecio Del Toro] returns home to try and solve the mystery of what beast killed his brother.  While out in the night searching for answers he happens to come in contact with the beast and is wounded.  He is now cursed.  Lawrence must now come to terms with his new self while at the same time learning more about this life under the pale moonlight. (more…)

James Reece [Jonathan Ryhs Meyers] is the aid to the US Ambassador in France.  James wants to become a proper special ops agent and after showing some initiative his employers decide to team him up with Charlie Wax [John Travolta] on a mission to get answers in Paris to stop the bad guys. (more…)

Emma Craven [Bojana Novakovic] decides to come home and spend some time with her father, Thomas Craven [Mel Gibson], when she is suddenly murdered in her father’s arms.  As Thomas, being a Boston Detective, works his way to the truth as to who killed his daughter and why he finds out about multiple conspiracies occurring with his daughter’s employers and the US Government. (more…)

After Nelson Mandela [Morgan Freeman] is released from prison and elected the President of South Africa he uses the upcoming Rugby World Cup to help bring his nation together and get them past the Apartheid system that was abolished only 4 years earlier. (more…)

God has lost faith in mankind, and so he decides to end it (like he’s done in the past).  Michael [Paul Bettany] is an angel that hasn’t lost his faith in men.  He decides to go to Earth and make sure that man’s one and only chance of surviving is born.  Michael comes to Paradise Falls (a diner in the middle of nowhere) and help a bunch of random people live through this apocalypse that the Lord himself has ordered. (more…)

The world as we know it has ended.  Eli [Denzel Washington] carries the one book in the world which holds the secrets for the Earth’s salvation across America as he attempts to reach his destination where he believes it will be safe and it will serve its purpose.  Along the way he reaches a small town which Carnegie [Gary Oldman] rules over with a slew of men who do his bidding.  Carnegie wants this book and Eli refuses to give it up as he tries to move on in his travels while at the same time staying alive and keeping the book. (more…)

Lord Hidetora Ichimonji [Tatsuya Nakadai] after many years of battle and eventually becoming the ruler of his vast lands has decided that he has done enough and would like to retire from his life.  He decides to bequeath his kingdom to his three sons: Taro [Akira Terao], Jiro [Jinpachi Nezu] and Saburo [Daisuke Ryu].  After his third son, Saburo, speaks up frankly his father takes offense and decides to disown Saburo and banish him from his lands.  Tango [Masayuki Yui], Lord Hidetora’s assistant, defends Saburo and receives the same treatment as Saburo.  Shortly after Lord Taro and Jiro takes power of the land Lord Hidetora finds himself quickly being shunned out of his world by his sons due to their inability to put up with his ways anymore now that they no longer need to answer to him. (more…)

We meet Sherlock Holmes [Robert Downey Jr.] as he has caught Lord Blackwood [Mark Strong] in the act of attempting to murder his very next victim.  Lord Blackwood is then sent to jail and hanged.  However, shortly after there are words of Lord Blackwood being back from the dead and powerful men are being murdered all across London.  Holmes must solve this mystery along with his friend Dr. Watson [Jude Law]. (more…)

I decided to join a film review club called The 1001 Movies You Must See Club to help make me watch better movies.  What they do is every month recommend four movies everyone should see and review on their various blogs.  These films are taken from a book entitled 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.  Now I know I’ve seen some of these films but not all of them.  So enjoy as I revisit some and discover classics I probably would never see without this little nudge in the right direction.

Where do I start in this world that Paul Thomas Anderson has made for us?  He takes us through the lives of about ten different people who are all interconnected, in some way or another, over the following 24 hours and all are in Los Angeles. (more…)