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- DirectorSteve OedekerkStarsMartin LawrenceTim RobbinsJohn C. McGinleyNick's wife's in bed with his boss. He later gets a gun to his head by a carjacker but steps on the gas pedal. They end up friends after adventures together - holdups, burglary, reckless driving, revenge etc. Twists follow.1/1-Started the movie, but didn't finish it. I don't think I ever will finish it.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsPierce BrosnanRene RussoDenis LearyA very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.1/1-Interesting movie to start the new year. Nothing really stood out but that Denis Leary guy. And he didn't stand out that much!
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsAnthony HopkinsJulianne MooreGary OldmanLiving in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.1/6-Major disappointment! I was anticipating this but it just dragged on and on and was not very memorable. And the scene in the end was totally disgusting.
- DirectorDudley MurphyWilliam C. de MilleStarsPaul RobesonDudley DiggesFrank H. WilsonUnscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.1/12-A very different kind of movie for me. I just was in the mood for seeing something set in a whole other time and place. Plus, I heard so much about Paul Robeson, so I had to check him out. Not a great old movie, but is historically relevant.
- DirectorDavid OstryStarsTim DalyHayden PanettiereWilliam SadlerAn unpopular high school teacher turns his life around after a student is kidnapped.1/20-A sloppy mess of a movie that tried to engage in interesting storytelling but ended up going all over the place. If you decide to watch this, after you do, google the movie title and ending and there are numerous blog entries and various question site discussions of this movies ending, making it something of a movie nerd cult classic.
- DirectorPeter BergStarsBilly Bob ThorntonJay HernandezDerek LukeBased on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.1/21-Started this one, but didn't see the end. I think I have seen this before but don't remember it. Will see it again!
- DirectorAdam ShankmanStarsJohn TravoltaQueen LatifahNikki BlonskyPleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.1/27-Didnt do it for me. I love the original. This was made into an episode of Glee.
- DirectorJohn WhitesellStarsMartin LawrenceBrandon T. JacksonJessica LucasMalcolm Turner and his stepson Trent go undercover at an all-girls school to flush out a killer.2/3-Standard DVD fare for the BET set. The girl co-star was pretty cute.
- DirectorJim DonovanStarsMarie AvgeropoulosChristina CoxCasper Van DienSuspected of murdering her best friend, a teenage computer-hacker goes on the run to find the real killer.2/23-Very amusing, but over the top Lifetime movie!
- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.3/2-This movie was simply amazing. Maybe the story was a bit overblown and sensationalized to keep the audience's attention, but I really liked it!
- DirectorCurtis CrawfordStarsSydney PennyCameron MathisonCynthia PrestonA shocking surprise awaits a man who marries a seemingly perfect woman.3/2-Really funny. I like those campy Lifetime movies!
- DirectorJason HewittStarsLuke GossVal Kilmer50 CentWhen big city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang related murder, small town Sheriff Michael Savion drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.3/23-Bland urban/gangsta drama with Val Kilmer (who seems to be paid off a lot of these type of movies these days) and 50 Cent (who wasn't in but 10 minutes) Surprisingly bland, stereotypical, unrealistic and over the top.
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsRosanna ArquetteMadonnaAidan QuinnA bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.4/6-Saw this on HBO while I was trying to do a report on China. It was on, I was like, why not? I guess I was in an 80s mood.
- DirectorJoseph MandukeStarsMoses GunnRosalind CashBernie CaseyA 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.4/20-Rather interesting "blaxpoitation" flick that I thought I saw before but I didn't. This wasn't a good black movie. This was a great movie, period.
- DirectorEster AndersonGian GodoyStarsEster AndersonAston BarrettCarlton BarrettBased on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP IMAGE AWARD winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 HOPE ROAD, Kingston, to see and hear the young BOB MARLEY before he was famous. The film shows us the WAILERS' first rehearsal, when the idea of a Jamaican supergroup like the BEATLES or the STONES was still just a dream. We sit in on the launch of their international career with "GET UP STAND UP", "I SHOT THE SHERIFF", and the "BURNIN'" and "CATCH A FIRE" albums that brought to the world REGGAE music and RASTA consciousness together as one, starting a revolution that would change rock music and contemporary culture.4/21-I think I saw this on FUSE TV. What I didn't know was that April 21 is Grounation Day, a Rastafarian holiday. Also, April 20 is an unofficial day when people who observe it smoke weed. Not sure if there is a connection.
- DirectorVondie Curtis-HallStarsTupac ShakurTim RothThandiwe NewtonTwo friends try to kick their drug addiction after a friend dies from an overdose, when they try to enroll in a detox program, things quickly go wrong.4/27-Saw this just one night, I know I seen it before but I watch anything by Tupac Shakur.
- DirectorJames GrayStarsJoaquin PhoenixMark WahlbergEva MendesA New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian Mafia hitmen.5/2-Already saw this movie, but I just had to see it again. I think this is one of Marky Marks finest.
- DirectorSalim AkilStarsJordin SparksCarmen EjogoWhitney HoustonIn the 1960s, three sisters form a girl group and soon become local sensations with major label interest, but fame becomes a challenge as the close-knit family begins to fall apart.5/4-Slow in the beginning, but it did pick up. Whitney did great in her last role.
- DirectorJoe NussbaumStarsAimee TeegardenThomas McDonellDeVaughn NixonA group of teenagers get ready for their high school prom.5/8-Ugh, hated this movie, after waiting so long to watch it. Too many cliche's and they were taken so seriously. Have watched too many movies like this that were better to really enjoy it.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.5/23-Waited a long time to see this. Pretty brutal expose of life in Brazilian favelas. Very violent and depressing.
- DirectorChris BrowneStarsPaul CampbellMark DanversCarl BradshawA police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running racket. Jamaica's highest-grossing film to date.5/26- home movie quality movie about the life of a cop in Jamaica. Interesting lesson in patois.
- DirectorErik WhiteStarsShad MossBrandon T. JacksonNaturi NaughtonKevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million.6/2-Watched this on a BET Sunday Afternoon. Shan Bonita is really hot in this. If you look close, you will see her.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsMark WahlbergGiovanni RibisiKate BeckinsaleTo protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.6/17-Standard Mark Wahlberg kickass urban flick. Nice for a Monday night.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsChanning TatumAlex PettyferOlivia MunnA male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.6/17-Was expecting more in terms of the plot. I don't really get excited seeing dudes butts.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsMatt DamonKate WinsletJude LawHealthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.6/22-Interesting. Most alarming part is the end sequence that pretty much shows the sequence of events that led to the killer virus that is the main subject of the movie.