Friday, July 22, 2011 Cont...

 The Emperor's Club       ***** out of 6

An idealistic prep school teacher attempts to redeem an incorrigible student.

                 *To go along with the other movie in this post I decided to revisit another one of my favorite actors, Kevin Kline.  Although I had seen this movie before I didn't remember it fully so I watched it again.  But of course I still love it and even though its not his usual drama-dy it still holds up to his past standards.


Forget Paris      **** out of 6

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.

                     *Pretty good movie.  Although it helps that I am a Billy Crystal Fan.  As usual the movies quirky and has a good sort of surprise ending with a capturing story.

Friday, July 22, 2011

 Kids are all Right      ** out of 6

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life.
      
           * Not a very good movie.  OK story plot but seemed more like a star filled Lifetime Movie.


Luxury Liner       ***** out of 6

A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.


Despicable Me    ** out of 6

When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.



 Green Lantern       ***** out of 6

A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.


Super 8       **** out of 6

After witnessing a mysterious train crash, a group of friends in the summer of 1979 begin noticing strange happenings going around in their small town, and begin to investigate into the creepy phenomenon.

Saturday, July 09th, 2011

Big Business   **** out of 6

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.


 Basic     **** out of 6

A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.


Splice    ***** out of 6

     Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.