In The Reel World

The Nines

Lake Placid 2

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Daddy Day Camp

Bordertown

Feel The Noise

Ira and Abby

Rocket Science

Moving McAllister

Deadly End

Mr. Untouchable

over the weekend, “Meet the Spartans” was the #1 movie.

So, I thought what the hell, the trailer looked funny!

The trailer is funny.  The movie is not!

This movie was a completely unfunny, stupid as hell, steaming pile of horse ****!!!!!!

There was nothing good about this movie except for Carmen Electra looking gorgeous as usual.

Rambo

Meet the Spartans

Untraceable

How She Move

Confessions of a Superhero

Sex and Breakfast

Blonde Ambition

Missionary Man

Saw IV

The Game Plan

Sydney White 

And the nominees are:

BEST FILM: Atonement,  Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood

BEST LEADING ACTOR: George Clooney in Michael Clayton, Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd, Tommy Lee Jones in In The Valley of Elah, Viggo Mortensen in  Eastern Promises

BEST LEADING ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Julie Christie in Away from Her, Marion Cotillard in La Mome , Laura Linney in The Savages, Ellen Page in Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford, Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War, Hal Holbrook in Into The Wild, Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There, Ruby Dee in American Gangster, Saoise Ronan in Atonement, Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone, Tilda Swinton in Michale Clayton

BEST DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood, Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country For Old Men, Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton, Jason Reitman for Juno, Julian Schnable for Le Scaphandre et le papillon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, The Savages

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Atonement, Away From Her, Le Scaphandre et le papillon, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Atonement, No Country For Old Men, Le Scaphandre et le papillon, There Will Be Blood

BEST EDITING: The Bourne Ultimatum, Le Scaphandre et le papillon, Into the Wild, No Country For Old Men, Into The Wild

ok, those are the biggies.  For a complete listing (including the ones I didn’t type such as art direction, documentaries, sound design, scores, animation and short films) click here!

I caught “School of Rock” on tv last night (or was it sunday night?).

I missed the first 15 minutes of the movie since I didn’t even know it was on.  So, clearly, my review can’t be complete.

I did see most of it though, and I didn’t really like it.  I’ll admit that the music was fairly decent, but I think it was one of Jack Black’s weakest performances to date, and the story didn’t thrill me either.

I was going to say Joan Cusack wasn’t  very good either… but those who know me know I think John is by far the superior Cusack sibling.

I’ve been dying to see “The Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.  Sunday I got my chance.

It was ok.

I was expecting a laugh riot… what I got was a fairly slow-paced film that had a couple of comedic parts and a couple of tear jerking parts (YES, I cried).

The acting was very good (duh!  Look who’s in it!), and the story was unique… but it got old after a while and I started losing interest pretty quickly.

I’m sure the plethera of senior citizens in the audience loved it and felt some strong ties with the characters and the story… but for me, as a 20-something, it was pretty dull.

I didn’t hate it.  Like I said, it had good points… but it was just ok for me.

I was just a movie-watching machine this weekend! One of the movies I saw was “Catch and Release”.

This was a really cute movie. The acting was good (Jennifer Garner is always good… and even Kevin Smith was decent in this one!), the story was pretty well developed, and it was beautifully shot.

There were a couple of plot points that I didn’t agree with out of personal taste, but all-in-all, I thought this was a very good film.

Since I’ve been watching a bunch of Kevin Smith movies lately, I decided to watch “Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back”.

This movie is awful!

It’s slightly amusing in some place, and is a cool little easter-egg film with TONS of cameos, but that’s where the good words stop. The story was stupid as hell, the pacing was off, the acting was crap, and with exception of a couple of jokes it wasn’t very funny.

There is no reason to watch this movie. If you haven’t seen it, don’t. It’s 104 minutes of pointlessness

Heath Ledger was found dead in his appartment a couple hours ago!  Read about it here!