Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn star in this romantic comedy about a couple who doesn’t quite get along. One night, as they prepare for a dinner with family, they end it all (well, she ends it all).
The only problem? They have a nice condo in Chicago, and they aren’t quite ready to let go of it, so they decide to stay together long enough to get the thing sold. Then they’ll move along.
Everyone loves a good zombie movie. Unfortunately this isn’t one of them. It was okay, but I’ve seen many better.
In the future, it seems, the zombies are so prevalent that those who aren’t zombies are taking up residence in cities protected by natural defenses (rivers) and armed guards. They send the less fortunate (those who aren’t rich) out to raid cities for alcohol, cigars and leftover canned goods – but they don’t let them live inside their walled gardens, except to fight in arenas for entertainment.
This followup to the 1992 movie isn’t that bad. Tony Todd returns as the excellent Candyman, and we learn more about his history.
Sure, we already knew that if you look in a mirror and call his name five times, you’ll soon be visited by him, and he’ll be only too happy to split you from groin to gullet – not a pleasant experience.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in this movie about two contract killers who are married to one another – only they don’t know it (at least at the outset).
They are simply two spouses who aren’t quite as happy in life as they could be, until one day when they are assigned the same target and while they do so, they actually interfere with the other’s plans.
Drew (Ben Affleck) is a successful young man who is ready to commit to his girlfriend, but before she gets married she just must meet his family.
The only problem is that he has no family. So he sets out to find one the only way he knows how. He rents one.
This epic takes us to the crusades, where we encounter a young blacksmith (Orlando Bloom, who seems to have a thing for acting in epics) just as he learns that a passing lord is his father.
The lord invites him to come on a crusade to Jerusalem with him, but he declines, opting to stay where he is, and that he does until the local priest comes to talk about his recently deceased wife. That’s when our young blacksmith spots his wife’s necklace on the priest and kills him, then promptly takes off after his father.
In this latest offering from Dreamworks Animation, they’re making quite an effort at stealing the thunder from Pixar. Actually, they probably couldn’t do quite as good a job if Pixar’s latest effort (the less-than-stellar Cars) wasn’t as poor an outing. Nonetheless, this is quite good.
This is the tale of RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis), a scavenging raccoon who decides to raid a bear’s stash and ends up waking him up in the process. The bear doesn’t like this too much, and the food gets smashed by a truck, so RJ ends up having to replace all the food – in less than week – so he runs to the only source available: The tract homes springing up nearby, and the animals that are being displaced and have just woken up from their own hibernation to help him get the job done.
The Accidental Tourist refers to a series of books written by character Macon Leary (William Hurt), who helps business travelers to make their travel experience a bit better by giving them tips, such as to take packets of laundry detergent so that they can pack lightly yet still have everything they need at their disposal.
He returns from one of his trips to find his wife is leaving him. A year after their son died, she has decided that she cannot handle it any more and needs to get away. Being essentially destroyed, he simply moves on with his life. He fights for a while and then gives into the advances of a dog trainer who seems interested enough to pursue him (played by Geena Davis).
This second (mostly) live-action movie starring the fat cat is (surprisingly) a bit better than the first. The animation of Garfield is actually quite a bit better than the first. That isn’t the surprising part, though. What is entertaining is that the story moves along at a good clip, and without getting bogged down in specifics, it actually entertains throughout.
Prince the Twelfth is a noble cat, from a long line of cats who inhabit the castle, and finds that he has inherited the castle itself when his owner passes. Unfortunately the human who had expected to get the proceeds doesn’t seem to care much for this development, and has decided to take matters into his own hands.
This retelling of the 1953 classic has a big budget and a lot of computer effects, and in general does a very good job. Tom Cruise may not be my first choice for an action hero, but he doesn’t do too badly here. I think that’s probably because the tale is told by what’s happening around him and it doesn’t depend too much on what he’s doing.
Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a New Jersey mechanic who seems to be fighting with life. His wife has moved on and his kids aren’t too far from doing the same. But this weekend they are staying with him, so perhaps something will change. When Ray tries to get his son Robbie Justin Chatwin to play a game of catch, the ball goes through the window instead. I guess it won’t be this weekend after all.
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