Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Emma Watson
As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince”…
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Rated R for gangster violence and some language. Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and James Russo.
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Transformers 2 starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro. Directed by Michael bay
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material.
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Jim Carrey delivered a great performance for a bad cause. I was not impressed with this movie, and here’s a review you might enjoy more than the flick:
I didn’t really care to much for this one. Care to hear my thoughts before you watch?
2003
Directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrick
Starring the voices of: Albert Brooks
Ellen DeGeneres
Alexander Gould
Willem Dafoe
This movie truly lives up to its reputation. I had the opportunity to see it with my three sons just this past weekend and I couldn’t possibly think of a better movie to be previewed on Father’s Day.
An overprotective Father forced into that position from an unfortunate incident with his immediate family takes his son Nemo to his first day of school where almost right off the back embarrassment engulfs the little tike from his Father similar to a mother wanting to kiss what she would yell in a crowd of teenage potential girlfriends, “Her little soldier” right before the big game. Rebellion and overconfidence carries Nemo to an unfamiliar place unintentionally leaving newfound friends and of course, O’l Dad in the wake of sheer terror as he quickly realizes the error of his ways.
The majority of the movie is of course spent, “Finding Nemo,” however, it was almost like watching an evening soap opera with the unraveling of drama in different places which creatively moved this family movie right up to the last few moments. The kids were on the edge of their seats refusing any interruption of popcorn, soda, or candy for fear they might miss a tick of the film while I sincerely enjoyed the plot of a Father’s undying love for his son which only fueled his determination to reunite which could easily be translated in a Campus Life meeting as God the Father and Love for His Son, as well as his love for us.
I gladly give this film TWO THUMBS UP for excellent drama with a good mix of humor, great animation, and a Campus Life/JV/Family friendly motion picture, but that’s just My Humble Opinion.
2004
Directed by David R. Ellis
Starring: Kim Bassinger
Chris Evans
Jason Statham
William H. Macy
Jessica Biel
Caroline Aaron
Will Beinbrink
John Churchill
Let’s see. We’ve made a movie in a car, “The Chase” a bus, “Speed” a Phone Booth, …I know! Let’s make a movie on a cell phone about a gang shooting and we can show women in bikinis and shirtless rubber teenage men every 5 minutes to keep people awake while we torture them with acting from Kim Bassinger.
Nokia obviously made out quite well with this little number where rich, soccer mom/science teacher, Jessica Martin (Kim Bassinger – “When Good Film Go Bad” and “Movies You Find at your local Gas Station”) is ambushed in her home by 5 gun-carrying corrupt cops in black who immediately take out the innocent made carrying the life-threatening laundry in display of their sheer power. They ruthlessly throw her into the attic returning moments later with a sledgehammer the size of Ashley Olson smashing the only phone …in the attic. (It’s the millennium; everyone has phones in their attic)
Kim (realizing that her film career is almost over) quickly gathers essential pieces of the phone and using techniques that she picked up from McGuyver which she now teaches in her science class and in her first book entitled, “I was trapped in an Attic” wires a mode of communication and after several attempts over a period of at least 30-35 seconds finally reaches Ryan, a college student who was just dumped by his girlfriend because he is as she describes an irresponsible, self-centered, child who is going to change her opinion by helping Jessica.
Ryan finds the nearest police station which in LA appears to be as close as a Seven Eleven, and begins to incorporate the help of Officer I forget my own name because I’m starring in a Kim Bassinger movie played wonderfully by William H. Macy is about to retire from the force after 27 years of service to open a spa, but is redirected by Ryan’s passion to help Jessica. There is a tad more to the plot, but it doesn’t really matter because it didn’t help it anyway.
Cellular takes you through some of the everyday cell phone problems including lost signal, talking while driving, battery loss, signal strength, and worst of all, having to listen to super-sensitive, gutless, helpless, Kim B. whimper and whine with a Laryngitis voice for 1 1/2hrs. They could have called this film, “I Suck, Go Watch a Different Movie” and it still wouldn’t have done it justice, but that’s just my humble opinion.
