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Night Watch
Russian Supernatural Horror. Okay, this is a vampire movie that has some cool moments in...
Firewall
Suspense Thriller. Harrison Ford as a computer security executive for a major bank whose family...
The Matador
Buddy Black Comedy. An aging assassin who is losing his touch befriends an everyman nice...
Casanova
Period Romantic comedy. Infamous promiscuous adulterer falls in true love with a proto-feminist in 18th...
Matchpoint
Erotic Thriller. A middle class Englishman falls in love and marries a woman from a...
The New World
Historical Romance Epic. The story of Pocohantas and her relationship with John Smith, the Western...
Underworld: Evolution
Supernatural Horror. A sequel about Vampires versus werewolves that quite frankly, I could not describe...
End of the Spear
Jungle Thriller. A son explores returning to the stone age tribe that killed his missionary...
Munich
International Espionage Thriller. "Based on true events," this is a self-loathing Jewish "Godfather" interpretation by...
Hostel
Horror. A couple of American tourists happen upon a hostel in Europe that captures unsuspecting...
The Hurt Locker
This docudrama type movie is about life in an American bomb squad in Iraq. As...
Fun with Dick and Jane
Satire Comedy. A Jim Carrey vehicle about a married couple pressured to pursue the American...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Romantic epic. Actually, the story of a high class call girl who finds love. A...
King Kong
Epic Action adventure. The remake of the famous story about the huge ape who falls...
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Mythological fantasy. A phenomenal adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic. In fact, I would say...
Proof
Family melodrama. A brilliant mathematician (Gwenyth Paltrow) must take care of her brilliant mathematician father...
Just Friends
Romantic Comedy. Obese high schooler grows up, gets hot and successful, comes back home 10...
Walk the Line
Biopic of the famous/infamous Johnny Cash and his relationship with June Carter. Joaquin Phoenix and...
Pride and Prejudice
I am a fan of the BBC 5 hour adaptation, but I have to say,...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Children’s fantasy. Five children receive lottery type tickets to tour the world’s most amazing Chocolate...
Three Extremes
Japanese horror trilogy. Two of the stories were just too esoteric for me to appreciate....
The Weather Man
Dramedy. Very thoughtful, at times profound, ultimately cynical worldview. Nicolas Cage is a ladder-climbing weather...
Shopgirl
Existentialist romantic dramedy. Steve Martin has written a rather thoughtful piece here that seems deeply...
Capote
Heavy psychological drama. This biopic of the infamous effeminate, lisping, out of the closet homosexual...
In Her Shoes
Romantic melodrama. A tale about two sisters, diametrically opposite in personalities and lifestyles, who battle...
A History of Violence
Viggo Mortensen plays a diner owner, Tom Stall, in a small town whose act of...
Flight Plan
A great basic thriller about a woman, played by Jodie Foster, who accompanies her daughter...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Boring British stuff. Although it has my favorite character name of all time, Zaphod Beeblebrox....
Just Like Heaven
The antidote to Million Dollar Baby. Mark Ruffalo plays a guy grieving over the death...
Lord of War
Kind of Recommended with qualifications. A black comedy polemic about arms dealers. Nick Cage is...
The Constant Gardener
Not Recommended. Story of a political lobbyist of some kind (Ralph Fiennes) who seeks to...
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Highly Recommended. This is a story based on an allegedly true story that occurred in...