Posts Tagged ‘Movie Review’

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…)

Here’s a movie that I must admit goes beyond anything I ever expected in the realm of science-fiction (and not in a good way).  David Lynch is well known – as I’ve discovered in the last few weeks – for his overly stylized weirdness.  This time going into the one genre of filmmaking which requires an immense imagination he not only falls into the realm of over aloof-ness but he just misses the point of making a movie. (more…)

Mary (Brittany Murphy) is taking the morning off from work to take her boyfriend, Kevin (Dean Cain), to the hospital for surgery.  After a few hours of waiting in the lobby for him she realises that something has to be wrong.  She soon confronts some medical staff only to be told that her boyfriend is not in their system, the doctor he was coming to meet is on leave and there’s no one coming in for the kind of operation that she claims he was scheduled to do.  She’s left being accused of being insane and wondering who’s playing the sad joke on her. (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…)

Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) has spent centuries after the death of his master, Merlin, keeping the evil sorcerers at bay and searching for the chosen one – i.e. The Prime-Merlinian or the magically inclined descendant to Merlin.  One afternoon Balthazar finally finds him in a nerdy ten-year-old boy, Dave.  Dave (Jay Baruchel) becomes the physics geek that learns that he needs to become the next greatest sorcerer since Merlin. (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…)

Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey) Foster are ‘happily’ married.  They’ve reached the stage of their lives where they have stuck each other into a routine that they won’t admit that they’re tired of.  Once a week they get the babysitter to watch their children and they go out to dinner and a movie and every week it’s the same.  This week however, after finding out their friends are getting a divorce, they decide to change up the routine and drive into the city and go to some fancy new restaurant.  Unfortunately they reach the restaurant way too late to get a table.  Phil, hell bent on making this night special for his wife, decides to steal the Triplehorns’ reservation.  This is where the night goes all wrong because when two goons pick them up believing they are the Triplehorns they begin a night of running for their life and solving the mystery of who the Triplehorns are and what they’ve got that these guys with guns want. (more…)

Aaron (Chris Rock) is trying to get through the day as he’s about to bury his father.  The family is coming in and does it become a day and a half.  Ryan (Martin Lawrence), Aaron’s famed published author brother, is coming in – and refuses to help pay for the funeral.  Elaine (Zoe Saldana) accidentally gives her fiancé, Oscar (James Marsden), a hallucinogenic drug when she gives him one of Jeff’s (Columbus Short) apparent ‘valium’.  All at the same time a dwarf named  Frank (Peter Dinklage) claiming to be Aaron’s father’s lover and trying to blackmail Aaron  so that he will keep his father’s secret affair a secret. (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…)