Chloe (2009 — 96 mins) A. Seyfried, L. Neeson, J. Moore     David (Neeson) and Catherine (Moore) are a happily married couple for a long time. Yet, when flirty David misses a flight and thus misses a surprise birthday party, Catherine gets suspicious that he might be having an affair. She approaches an escort,Chloe (Seyfried) to […]

Letters To Juliet (2010– 105 mins)  Amanda Seyfried    Letters is a pretty typical rom-com. Girl with fiance’ meets guy who isn’t great at first, but turns out to be the man of her dreams, fiance’ is not the worst guy in the world but doesn’t pay enough attention to her, girl and dreamy guy […]

Harry Brown (2009– 103 mins) Michael Caine    Michael Caine is Harry Brown, an ex military man who doesn’t have much left in his life. His wife is in terminal condition in the hospital, his best friend is constantly being harassed by the local gangs, and he himself has a nasty case of emphysema. When the two […]

The Back-up Plan (2010– 106 mins) J-Lo, A. O’Loughlin    The Back-up Plan is a generic rom-com about a woman (J-Lo) who has had no luck with dating in life and has decided that she wants a family now, so she gets artificially inseminated. As life happens she meets the man of her dreams (O’Loughlin) […]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010–116mins) J. Gyllenhaal, B. Kingsley,G. Atherton, A. Molina    When a movie is a blockbuster action release they always put out a video game for it, and 99.999% of the time it sucks. Other times they put out a movie based on a video game. Some of these […]

Date Night (2010— 90 mins) S. Carell, Tina Fey    When you take two classicly trained improv comedians like Carell and Fey, and throw em into a wild night movie and let them have plenty of times to just “let it roll” with takes, what comes is some great scenes of comedic gold. Date Night […]

Killers (2010— 93mins) Kutcher, Heigl     Killers is a romantic comedy about a gov’t special agent (Kutcher) who meets that special girl (Heigll) who makes him want to hang it all up. Being a gov’t appointed killer he doesn’t want to scare his new love so he never reveals this to his new squeeze. This […]

The Jone$es (2009– 96 mins) D. Moore, D. Duchovny The Jonses is a movie where there are some plot points that they try to keep a secret for about the 1st 1/4 or so of it, so to say to much might give it away. Let me first give you how IMDB.com describes the plot.  […]

The Ghost Writer ( 2010—- 128 mins) E. McGregor, P. Brosnan, K. Catrall, T. Hutton    The Ghost writer is a political drama about a writer (McGregor) who is hired to be a ghost writer for the  former prime minister’s memoirs. As he gets deeper into the writing and uncovering more and more on the […]

Solitary Man (2009 — 90 mins)M. Doiuglas, Sarandon, J. Fischer,DeVito, Louise-Parker, J. Eisenberg    Solitary man boats a nice cast and starts with some occasional laughs but really is not much more then a complete downer of a story. Michael Douglas is a successful businessman who has everything but over the course of some time of […]