The King’s Speech (2010–118 mins) C. Firth, G. Rush, H. Bonham Carter Ah yes, “The King’s Speech”, the movie which was all the hype at the Oscars this year. It took home best picture, best actor, best director and best screenplay. So with all this hype obviously as always I am skeptical. It didn’t look […]

The Next Three Days (2010–122 mins) R. Crowe, El. Banks During the year I always go to outlets such as IMDB roughly every other week and watch a ton of trailers. I LOVE trailers. So naturally even lesser movies that come out I have at least heard of and have seen the trailer of them. […]

The Tourist (2010– 103 mins) Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie Interpol is after 2 thieves, Elise (Jolie) and her mysterious counterpart the master thief in disguise Alexander Pierce. However, even tho Elise is an accomplished thief herself the real big fish is Pierce. Not only has he stolen nearly a million dollars that the police want, […]

Country Strong (2010–117 mins) G. Paltrow, G. Hedlund, L. Meester, T. McGraw For the last year or so we have seen Gweneth Paltrow coming more and more out of her comfort zone and shell. Between being on TV a bunch with Cee Lo Green singing, and doing a great job hosting SNL she’s been in […]

Hereafter (2010– 129 mins) M.Damon, C. De France Hereafter is really three seperate stories of sadness involving death and their inevitable coming together in the end to wrap it all up. First we have George (Damon) who has psychic connection to the afterlife and the dead. He is able to make a connection to a […]

Get Low (2009– 100 mins) R. Duvall, Bill Murray, S. Spacek  In this 1030’s tale, Duvall plays Felix Bush, the small town’s hermit who lives out in the woods all alone, rarely being seen or heard from by the townspeople. He is one of those mysterious guys who everyone has a story about, and no […]

Stone (2010–105 mins) R. De Niro, M. Jovovich, E. Norton Stone is a dark character driven drama in which a criminal named Stone (Norton) is up for parole and is trying to use his wife (Jovovich) to influence his paroloe officer (De Niro) to approve his parole. Like most character driven dramas this one is short on […]

Love and Other Drugs (2010–112 mins). J. Gyllenhal, A. Hathaway As if “How Do You Know” wasn’t a missleading trailer and marketing misdirection enough, here comes “Love and Other Drugs”! Yet another movie that leads us to believe it’s a laugh a minute romantic comedy. Then here comes the drama train. Again here we have […]

How Do You Know (2010– 121 mins) P. Rudd, R. Witherspoon, O. Wilson, J. Nicholson We are starting to get an overabundance of movies which are not totally romantic comedies but the rom-com-dramas. I don’t know if these studios are thinking the rom-com genre has been over done in the last ten years or so […]

Wild Target (2010– 98mins) Bill Nighey, Emily Blount, Rupert Grint When a world class assassin Victor Maynard (Nighey) who is close to retirement stumbles upon the target of a job he can’t quite kill, hi jinx ensues and a funny movie is had. It’s a slapstick type assassin tale but from a bit of a British point […]