Rating: 6/10
“Revolutionary Road”, the first post-Titanic reunion of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, is first and foremost a showcase of some pretty amazing acting. Kate and Leo play a married couple with two kids trying to make good on the hopes and ideals they held during their courtship. The story carries a nuclear amount [...]
Rating: 8/10
Bamn! It takes a few minutes for Gran Torino to get going, but once it does, fasten your seat belt. Clint Eastwood is at the helm and stars as a jaded old man. Once you see him squint his eyes and mutter a few threats, comparisons to Dirty Harry are inevitable. Instead of San [...]
Rating: 5/10
Part “Waiting for Guffman”, part “Stand & Deliver”, part “Rushmore”, “Hamlet 2″ gives Steve Coogan a lot of room to run free; a very good thing if you like his brand of humor.
Coogan plays failed actor Dana Marschz. (Yes, his last name is meant to be unpronounceable.) He lives in Tuscon, Arizona, a [...]
Rating: 3/10
I tend to enjoy movies about midlife crises. You can build a wonderful story around a character whose well-established life is falling apart. You can keep the audience on their toes because in the midst of a crisis, it’s not always clear in which direction a character will go. “Meet Bill” falls under the [...]
Rating: 2/10
This movie has practically every living comedian in it — David Cross, Cheryl Hines, Chris Parnell, Michael McKean, Ray Romano, Jason Alexander, Hank Azaria, Estelle Harris, Richard Kind, and the list goes on. If you were combine all the jokes possible from all these funny people, you would have a very funny movie. And [...]
Rating: 4/10
Street Kings is advertised as being directed by the writer of Training Day, which in my opinion, doesn’t say a whole lot. The ability to write a good film does not automatically make you a good director. Furthermore, Street Kings is not even written by David Ayer, the writer of Training Day, just directed [...]
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