Movie Reviews

Review: The Box

Rating: 8/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A mysterious, badly scarred stranger (Frank Langella) presents a struggling young couple (Cameron Diaz & James Marsden) with a wooden box containing a button. If they press the button, they will receive $1 Million dollars tax free- but someone,...

Review: The Fourth Kind

Rating: 6/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Supposedly fact based (riiiiight), this film examines close encounters of the so-called “fourth kind”- involving alien abductions, and the unsettling experiences of a psychologist (Milla Jovovich), who, along with several of her patients- becomes a victim to this phenomena....

Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats

Rating: 8/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A reporter (Ewan McGregor), embedded in Iraq in 2003, teams up with a former special ops soldier, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be a highly trained psychic warrior, or “Jedi Knight”. Cassady claims he’s the product of...

Review: A Christmas Carol

Rating: 7/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A 3D animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic Victorian tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who changes his miserly ways after being visited by a series of spirits on Christmas Eve. REVIEW: I’m a sucker for Scrooge. I love this story,...

Review: Boondock Saints 2

Rating: 8/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Ten years later, the boys are back in town. When a priest is killed and the boys are framed, they do exactly what the bad guys expect… the MacManus brothers come out of hiding and head back to Boston....

Review: The House of the Devil

Rating: 6/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Samantha is a young college student looking to get out of her current situation, and hopefully finding a place of her own to live. Groovy! She finally finds a flyer asking for a babysitter, and gladly (well, maybe not...

Review: Gentlemen Broncos

Rating: 6/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Benjamin (Michael Angarano) is a young man living in a small town. This unassuming nerd lives with his mother Julia (Jennifer Coolidge), who designs frumpy nightgowns and sells popcorn balls on the street. To escape, our young hero writes...

Review: An Education

Rating: 8/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Sixteen year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan), is working hard during her final year of high school to gain admission to Oxford University, in order to please her overbearing father (Alfred Molina). One day, she’s approached by a debonair, sophisticated,...

Review: This is It

Rating: 7/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A candid look behind the scenes at what would have been a series of comeback concerts for Michael Jackson, staged at London’s O2 arena, and produced by famed choreographer/ filmmaker Kenny Ortega. REVIEW: Like many, I was stunned to...

Review: Cirque du Freak

Rating: 5/10

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia) is a kid in a bland little town, with bland little friends. But when a flyer for an illegal freak show appears in front of Darren and his delinquent friend Steve (John Hutcherson), he begins...

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