Celluloid Heroes

Kate (Famke Janssen) has a problem. She has a column due and the one that she's written isn't appropriate. What's worse is that her boss is about to fire her. So she starts talking into one of those little tape records about what has gone wrong with her life to get her where she is now and why she has no experience to write about relationships. It turns out that the problems started on the playground when she was 9.

This is probably the best bit of the movie and it goes downhill from there. We jump forward from there (but not all the way forward to the absolute present) to where she met her big love - Adam (Jon Favreau). Adam was different and swept her off her feet, right out of the arms of someone else who she didn't like at all and things just took off. But that doesn't mean that they went well.

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Posted by Chad Everett on September 30, 2006 in Romance

Charlize Theron plays Josey Aimes, a down-on-her-luck woman who has decided to go to work in the mine, which is not exactly a woman-friendly environment in the late eighties. Though there are a handful of women there, they are roundly dismissed as real workers and regularly harassed in just about every imaginable way.

This is the story of how Josey Aimes fought back against the great machine that she was up against, and how nearly everyone was against her - not just the men in the mine and the courts, but even the other women who were at times her friends and the people in her own family.

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Posted by Chad Everett on September 30, 2006 in Drama

Kate (Famke Janssen) has a problem. She has a column due and the one that she's written isn't appropriate. What's worse is that her boss is about to fire her. So she starts talking into one of those little tape records about what has gone wrong with her life to get her where she is now and why she has no experience to write about relationships. It turns out that the problems started on the playground when she was 9.

This is probably the best bit of the movie and it goes downhill from there. We jump forward from there (but not all the way forward to the absolute present) to where she met her big love - Adam (Jon Favreau). Adam was different and swept her off her feet, right out of the arms of someone else who she didn't like at all and things just took off. But that doesn't mean that they went well.

Read All of "Love and Sex (2000) Review" »
Posted by Chad Everett on September 30, 2006 in Romance

Charlize Theron plays Josey Aimes, a down-on-her-luck woman who has decided to go to work in the mine, which is not exactly a woman-friendly environment in the late eighties. Though there are a handful of women there, they are roundly dismissed as real workers and regularly harassed in just about every imaginable way.

This is the story of how Josey Aimes fought back against the great machine that she was up against, and how nearly everyone was against her - not just the men in the mine and the courts, but even the other women who were at times her friends and the people in her own family.

Read All of "North Country (2005) Review" »
Posted by Chad Everett on September 30, 2006 in Drama