I don’t believe this one did good at the box office and I can see why… It’s a true “chick flick”. A movie about two daughters played by Toni Collete rdand Natasha Richason. Richardson is Constance the settle daughter who seems to have her life together. Collete is Nina, the daughter who changes jobs and [...]
300/ 2007/Drama/Action:
300 was a different kind of movie for me. It’s one that under normal circumstances I wouldn’t have watched. I didn’t know any of the actors in the movie and if I did the make-up covered up their person.
The story is about the Battle of Thermopylae, with the Greeks fighting the Persians. Because the [...]
How Green Was My Valley/1941/Drama:
This black and white oldie stars Walter Pidgeon, Roddy McDowall, Maureen O’ Hara. It is about the Morgan family in Wales, they are a miners. The family has strong family values, but they and the other villagers are torn apart by various events that are caused by the mines and the [...]
The Best Years of Our Lives /1946/Drama/Romance:
The Best Years of Our Lives is an award winning classic still in black and white starring Dana Andrews, Fredric March, and Harold Russell. They portray three WWII veterans returning to a small hometown. They each have their own situations to work through. I enjoyed this movie and its [...]
Elizabeth I/ 2005/biographical drama/HBO miniseries.
Helen Mirren has a strong portrayal of the queen who spent her entire life serving the English people. The miniseries covers the later half of her reign, mostly the incident with Mary Queen of Scots and the difficulties with Spain. Jeremy Irons is Earl of Leicester a close confidant and friend.
The [...]
All the Kings Men, 2006/Political Drama Sean Penn stars as Willie Stark the politically upward candidate for governor. The other main character is Jack Burden; Jude Law, who is a journalist that follows Willie Stark to document his campaign and later goes to work for Stark.
The movie also has various other stars such as Kate [...]
The Pursuit of Happiness/2006/Drama/Biography.
This movie is based on a difficult time in the life Chris Gardner; Will Smith, who was struggling to make a living as in medical equipment sales. It documents the year or so that he tries to turn his life around and become an investment broker.
His son Jaden Smith is his son [...]
The Last of the Mohicans, 1992, romance/historical drama.
The movie loosely recreates the book of the same name. Hawkeye; Daniel Day-Lewis is a stoic man’s-man who along with his Indian family tries to save the life of two sisters and get them to their father who is commander at one of the forts.
One of the daughters [...]
Catch and Release/2006/comedy/romance/drama.
Jennifer Garner plays Grey a finance whose boyfriend dies before their wedding. She moves in with his three friends played by Timothy Olyphant; Fritz, Sam Jaeger; Dennis, and Kevin Smith; Sam.
The friends are a wide mixture of differences, but each tries to console her as they deal with their own grief too. In [...]
The Aviator, 2004, drama/biographical.
The bio-sketch of Howard Hughes depicting the genius and insanity of the wealthy businessman.
This was an interesting, but long movie touching on the business dealings and loves of Hughes as he fights to maintain these plus his sanity. I thought this was DiCaprio’s strongest performance and one of his best films.
This movie [...]