OVER HER DEAD BODY (2008)

Paul Rudd; Lake Bell; Eva Longoria; Jason Biggs

Wow, the descriptions sounded terrible but I was
pleasantly surprised. Crackling dialogue, interesting
interplay and some funny scenes add up to a good
movie.

"Would you shut up, you're dead"
"She was crushed by an Angel, sad as I am, I can
appreciate the irony"
"Do animal tranquilizers work on people"
"I can't wait to not read this"
"I never thought I was funny when I was alive"
"Five years, one kiss, that's not slow, that's family"
"It was her job to get rid of me"
"Maybe when we get to Vegas we can have dinner
and talk about not gay we are"
"If you like me now, you're gonna love me when
I'm drunk"

Rating: 3 Very large killer ice angels without wings
or a mean bone in their bodies

RESERVIOR DOGS (1992)

H. Keitel; Tim Roth; S. Buscemi; M. Madsen; C. Penn; Q. Tarantino

Early Tarantino flick, ages well, good characterizations, some twists
bloody, odd in that there is very little action, you hardly see what
happened in the heist, plenty here for Tarantino fans

"You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize"
"Why do I have to be Mr. Pink" "Because you're a faggot"

Rating: 3 Failed gutshot robbers complaining about set-up
after throwing gasoline all over the innocent victim

ADVENTURELAND (2008)

Jesse Eisenberg; Ryan Reynolds; Kristen Stewart

Cute; nerdy; fun. Nerd virgins at a carnival trying
to figure out a way to have fun

"They don't like people like me where I'm from"
"Was the sex good? " "She was really sexy"
"Are you sure you don't want to go. The band is
really awful"
"I stole some of my grandma's cough medicine,
if you want. It's grape"
"Guys can't help themselves"

Rating: 3 nerds getting sick on a roller coaster and
kissing in the face of a Giant Ass Panda

MUTANT CHRONICLES (2008)

Thomas Jane; Ron Perlman; Devon Aoki; John Malkovich

This one didn't really work. Began slowly, got a bit better,
never really materialized. Action scenes leave something to
be desired.

"Many men think we're gonna die, a few of us know it"
"You needed a get outta Hell free card"
"You tellin me God don't drink"
"Ash, stash or cash, nobody rides for free"
"I'm not paid to believe, I'm paid to F*** things up"

Rating: 2 Mutant zombies on the town

STATE OF PLAY (2009)

R. Crowe; B. Affleck; R. McAdams; R. Wright Penn; Jason Bateman

Political "thriller." As much as I like the actors....and it was a
decent movie but parts of it didn't click. Corporations are bad,
politicians corrupt. Usual fare.

Rating: 2 1/2 Prostitute corporate spies with scruples and a baby

DAN IN REAL LIFE (2007)

Steve Carrell; Juliette Binoche; Dana Cook; Emily Blunt

Romantic comedy, funny at times, pretty solid throughout

"You're a good father, but sometimes you're a bad Dad"
"Fine. Or maybe not. My kids can't stand me." "Means
you're doing something right"

Rating: 3 Awkward kisses in the bathroom at the parent's house
with your brother's girlfriend

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)

H. Keitel; Geo. Clooney; Q. Tarantino; Juliette Lewis

Not for everyone, but very good for those who like a bit
of vamps, massacre, action, and kick ass.

Rating: 3 1/2 Fangs

GET CARTER (2000)

S. Stallone; M. Richardson; RL Cook; M. Caine; M. Rourke; JC McGinley"

It holds up pretty well. Fun action flick, Good characters.

"That's all we expect of man ~ this side of the grave; his good is knowing
he is bad" Rbt Browning
"You don't fix things Mack, you break them, don't you remember?"
"Things happen to us, Doreen. It doesn't mean everything that happened
to us yesterday has to happen everyday"
"I'm going to do something for you that nobody everdid for me. I'm going
to give you a second chance"

Rating: 3 Fists in the face

BOTTLE SHOCK (2008)

Chris Pine; Alan Rickman; Bill Pullman; D. Farina; E. Dushku

A surprise, funny, enjoyable movie about wine

"From hardship comes enlightenment"
"Because I'm just British and you're not"
"Please tell me it's not brown"

Rating: 3-3 1/2 Clear, fine wines

MARTIAN CHILD (2007)

John Cusack; Bobby Coleman; Amanda Peet; Oliver Platt

Alright but tired plot; actors do well. Some funny parts.

"Looking at life from a safe distance...through books"
"I'm not the human, I'm the creature"
"Just as a point of interest, what made you think I'd be a match
for a boy who spends most of his time in a box?"
"The thing about kids, and I wouldn't trade mine for the world,
is that they keep coming at you, alright they're like mosquitoes
sucking the life out of you, they take away your life, your privacy,
your identity"
"Can't really back you if you don't really tell me"


Rating: 2 1/2 kids who think they are maritans

STREETS OF BLOOD (2009)

Val Kilmer; 50 Cent; Sharon Stone

Good crime drama with backdrop of Hurricane Katrina
aftermath. A bit uneven in parts, Sharon Stone not so
great or was it the Director's day off? Her character was
stangely stiff at times and went out to the bars with her
therapy clients. Her part just didn't work for me.

"Better to be judged by 12, than carried by 6"
"Guys like Andy & me, that's all that stands between you
and the end of the world"
"I shot him in the head, I shot him in the head"
"You know the bad guys don't aim"
"Good shooting Tex"
"You're getting attached. I'm paid not to"

Rating: 3 streets afire (scale: 0-5)

THE PROPOSITION (2006)

Guy Pearce; Ray Winstone; John Hurt; Emily Watson

Wow, did this miss the mark. Started out with promise.
Failed to deliver. Sorry I watched it.

Rating: 1 gun (not blazing) (scale: 0-5 blazing guns)

INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009)

Brad Pitt; Melanie Laurent; Chritoph Waltz; Eli Roth; Diane Kruger

Amazing film, very well done story, acting, and
the massacres were Tarantino's finest

Rating: 4 Dead Nazi's

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach

Fun old Spaghetti Western that defined the genre


Rating: 3 Smoking Revolvers (Scale 0-5)

STILL WAITING (2009)

Justin Long; Adam Corolla; Luis Guzman; Andy Milonakis; Vanessa Lengies

Surprisingly decent sequel to WAITING. Not as good as the first but funny
throughout and some decent performances and cameos.

Rating: 3 Ta-Ta's (Scale 0-5 Ta-Ta's)

STARGATE CONTINUUM (2008)

Ben Browder; Amanda Tapping; Beau Bridges; Wm. Devane

I wanted to like this movie; cheesy; B-movie: off off Indie;
maybe they shot the movie in a day the director was ill;
altho peeps die no one ever seems to get hurt; it did get
better over the movie but I wasn't sad it was over

"Walking through wormholes just seems wrong"
"Get rid of the last bad guy & then there's cake"
"Have you ever tried to find a bathroom in a pyramid"
"May your reign last days and your death years"

Rating: 1 1/2 wormyholes (Scale: 0-5) (IMDB rating: 7.4 of 10)

CORALINE (2009)

Voices: Dakota Fanning; Teri Hatcher

Cartoon; basically the story of Pinocchio; fanciful;
charming in parts; cute; too long; music detracts

Rating: 2 Buttons-for-Eyes (Scale 0-5 Buttons)
IMDB Rating: 8 of 10

KISS ME GOODBYE (1982)

Sally Field; James Caan; Jeff Bridges

Screwball comedy; fluff; fun

"As your mother I feel it is my job to point out all the negatives
of the situation"
"I was wrong, I have not come across everything"
"No, little boy, we mustn't sit on the chair, know why? Because it's
a priceless irreplaceable piece of fine art from another Millenium
and you a not quite formed piece of temporary plasmic rubbish
taking up space on this already overcrowded planet"
"It's amazing how death can change a man"
"You slept with every man you had a meal with? Certainly not
breakfasts and lunches?"

Rating: 2 1/2 ghostly incarnations (scale 0-5)

ROCKET SCIENCE (2007)

Nicholas D'Agosto; Ann Kendrick

Wacky fun; hero drifts through; off beat;
sexuality; Music is good

"Someday you'll find love and everything will be different"
"This is the girl's room"
"Go back to where you were before ou tried to exceed your
limitations"
"The suburbs suck the marrow out of you"
"The fights you fight today and the fights you fight until you die"
"You reach a certain age and you are in Jersey or someplace
just like it and you stop trying to figure it all out...you're just
glad for what you have"

Rating: 4 Renditions of Battle Hymn of the Republic
(which really should be our national anthem)
Scale: 0-5

RACE TO WiTCH MOUNTAIN (2009)

Dwayne Johnson; AnnaSophia Robb; Alexander Ludwig; Carla Gugino

cheesy cute; at one point stuff just starts blowing up; music adds;
awkward parts (not in the good way); suspension of belief is required
ending was bad

"They aren't children, they aren't even humans" (so kill em?)
"You're not always the one to blame"
"Life comes at you fast"
"Don't go in the pimped out fridge, Jack"
"You are whaat you think you are" the Buddha
"Hey, easy on the human-bashing"
"Trust no one, wahtever trouble you're in"
"Who lays low in Vegas?"
"It's pure science, chaos theory, underlying order in apparently
random data...a predetermined order of how things work in
the universe"

Rating: 2 flying saucers (scale 0-5)

OUTSOURCED (2006)

Josh Hamilton; Asif Basra; Ayesha Dharker; Matt Smith

So it's like a remake of Gung Ho (1986) with M. Keaton;
Predictable,; cute; some charming parts, got better over the movie
Lame artifice ~ make you feel its dangerous turns out its Mardi Gras
but it was ok

"For me instant gratification isn't quick enough"
"Listen, I was resisting India, once I gave in it was much better"
"That's whats strange about Americans, you don't live with your
parents, then you see them every week? You hate your boss and
you don't like this company"
"Americans have more choices that anywhere in the world"
"You ironed my underwear. Of course, doesn't your mother?"
Story of Kali ~ basically a big penis threatened to destroy all and
a woman came forth absorbed al the power and saved the world
"It's the (third eye) eye with which you see the important things"

Rating: 2 1/2 Third Eyes (Scale 0-5)

NUMB (2007)

Matthew Perry; KevinPollack; Mary Steenbergen; Lynn Collins

Good script, well-made, more of a drama than expected but well done

"I felt overwhelmed by the uncertainty of what I had"
"From that pint on I would suffer from a symptom so frightening
it would consume every minute of every hour of every day. The
official term was "depersonalization."
"The sense that the external world was unreal or strange...hellish dream state"
"I don't feel comfortable in my own skin"
"I'm going to really need you to put down that fork"
"You do realize we haven't had sex, yet?"
"What do you look for in a relationship? Just someone who can stand
to be with me, I guess"
"I'd become a cognitive whore"
"Is it this, prune juice and then death?"
"I miss Sara, I don't think I can be a writer anymore and I am completely alone"
"I was my problem"
"I'm going to love you for the rest of your life so things'd be a lot better for
me if you were going to be around"

Rating: 7 Psychobabblings (scale 0-10 babbles)

BIG MAN JAPAN (2007)

Hitoshi Matsumoto

And now for something completely different; wacky;
farcial; cartoonish; absurd; passive; awkward story
of a aging subpar superhero who is unpopular and
stuggling; funny at times

"It only gets big when you need it to, I like that"
"I want to see a real fight"
"He causes more harm than good"
"The rituals are really necessary. Why are they observed?"
Running away, "Apparently it's not Japanese"
"What is Justice" "Oh, thats a hard one"
"White lovers chocolate"

Rating: 1 Fat Giant Super Un-Hero (Scale 1-5)

WATERBOURNE (2005)

Jon Gries

The subplots weave like the movie "Crash;"
in this post-modern world with terrorists poisoning water
supplies; the movie started strong and had some interesting
aspects but overall ended up disappointing

"They say you never appreciate something until its gone"
"People are animals with comforts"
"Everything important to us became petty and useless"
"There's a direct relationship between fear and consumption"
"If I want your opinion soldier, I'll give it to you"
"All eyes are closed, no one is asleep"
"Life's more interesting when you're not afraid to die"
"Your consciousness shall become immaculate and pure"
"I thought the people close to me would always be there"
"I thought the water would always flow"
"Sometimes you need a splash of cold water on your face"

Rating: 2 bottles of contaminated water (scale: 0-5)

THE BURROWERS (2008)

Clancy Brown; William Mapother; Sean Patrick Thomas

A Wild West Cavalry Horror flick; good story/feel/flow
a well-crafted, unusual movie with interesting characters

"She's a skinny one, might as well poke the boy"
"That's not a very godly sentiment"
"I'd rather walk in the wrong direction than ride with
my head up my ass"
"No one hires the Irish, because we're a bunch of thieves and beggers"
"Apologize to the man for undermining his authority"
"I apologize for undermining your authority"
"We need to face the enemy before us"
"There's something scratching inside her"
"They eat the soft parts"
"I like my soft parts"

Rating: 3 1/2 previously buried but still alive internal organs (scale 1-5)

THE GURU (2003)

Jimi MIstry; Marisa Tomei; Heather Graham

Engaging; funny; joyous; good dialogue; silly fun

"If they have the $$ they care about sex, if they have sex
they care about $$, if they have the sex and the $$, they
feel guilty and raise $$ for the Opera"
"I swear she was 16"
"We have jack shit...or we don't have jackshit...I dont know
which one it is"
"My whole body is about to think"
"Deepok Chopra has a philosophy and shit. You can't just put
on a turban and screw chicks"
"When we release we let go of our fears, when we let go of our
fears we touch our soul"
"I really want to help mankind"
"Name one Indian star in America" "That Indian guy on the Simpsons"
"How come he didnt have any tools?" "He's a holistic plumber"
"I think she sounded naked"
"Life brings us new dreams"

Rating: 4 well-wrapped Turbans (Scale: 0-5 Turbans)

FAST AND FURIOUS (2009)

Vin Diesel; Paul Walker; Michelle Rodriguez; Jordana Brewster

Couldn't think of another name? Well, the movie doesn't work
much better, it's pretty horrible, couple pretty women, some
cool cars, car races (scenes could've been done better) and
it ended ok. Music was decent. Kinda poor man's Gone in 60 Sec.

"Maybe your the bad guy pretending to be the good guy"
"What do you look for in a woman?" "It starts with the eyes,
gotta have eyes that see through the bullshit to see the good
in someone"
"Nothing really matters unless you have a code"
"You still put milk and cookies out for Santa Claus?"

Rating: 1 '70 Plymouth with illegal mods (Scale: 0-5)

THE NINTH GATE (1999)

J Depp; Lena Olson

So often, right after the meglomanical mad men attain
their dream of invicibility, then they die
Disappointing ending; Music not great

Rating: 2 Ancient scrolls (scale 0-5)

BAD GIRLS (1994)

Madeline Stowe; MS Masterson; D Barrymore; A McDowell; Rbt Loggia; D Mulroney

I like all the actors so it was enjoyable, light romp, and kinda went along
alright, some of Kid Jarrett scenes not great, kinda preposterous shoot out
scene towards the end

"We might could change your mind"
"The whore shot the Colonel, get her"
"Let the Jezebel be dead to death"
"Can't tell one from another, just like men"
"We sold our bodies, why can't we sell some wood"
"I heard ya twice, the first time"
"I didn't know the language of love had words, maam"
"Bye sweetheart", "Bye sweet pea"

Rating: 3 Whoorin Cowgirls (Scale 0-5 whooors)

THE SURE THING (1985)

John Cusack; Nicolette Sheridan; Tim Robbins; A Edwards

Fun, light, 80's, romance, music is very good

"You have to experience it to write about it"
"You're flunking English, that's your native language"
"Use sincerity, its the best technique"
"I'm not going to bed with you, I'm going to bed in a
bed that you're in also"

Rating: 3 Babes on a California beach (Rating 0-5)

THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD (2008)

Colin Hanks; J Malkovich; Emily Blunt; Steve Zahn

Kinda charming; interesting movie; heartwarming ending

"He made the impossible seem possible"
"Not affection, but something like it"

Rating: 3 Disappearing coins (scale 0-5)

THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE (1977)

2 hrs. 15 min. homage to the Dead; graphics fun;
music excellent; Bill Graham; Fillmore West;
guitar cries and sings lullabies and ballads or
gently transports you to another place and time;
Sugar Magnolia; Casey Jones; Truckin; Playin the Band;
Johnny B. Goode; Jerry throws Phil down the stairs


"If the Thunder dont get ya the Lightning will"
"You cant let go and you cant hold on"
"We're all confused, what's to lose"
"They can't revoke your soul for tryin"
"Trouble ahead, trouble behind and ya know that
notion just crossed my mind"

Rating: 4 Doses (0-5 scale)

BOMB THE SYSTEM (2005)

Mark Webber; Jaclyn DeSantis; Gano Grills

Surprising indie artsy ghetto tale of heroism and infamy
with wanton drug use; a someone has to go to far and someone
has to get killed movie, gentle as he can be we know he could kill
Good story well-told

"A thief never thinks he'll get caught and a
cop never thinks he'll get shot"
"Real bad boys communicate in silence"
"That's the bitch about grafitti, it's temporary"
"Hate I can deal with, anonymity I can't"
"You have a chance to make something truly eternal"

Rating: 3 Tagged Els (0-5 Els)

THE HORSEMEN (2008)

Dennis Quaid; Ziyi Zhang; Clifton Collins, Jr., Patrick Fugit

Psychological thriller, lots of blood; grisly; kinda an 80's
feel to it, not quite up to today's standards

"I understand things that I see every year, buddy"

Rating: 2 1/2 bleeding forcibly extracted teeth (0-5 bloody teeth)

THE NIGHT LISTENER (2006)

Robin Williams; Rory Culkin; Toni Colette; Sandra Oh

Interesting; decent dialogue, interesting relationships,
suspenseful, I liked the way they handled the ending
Based on a true story

Music: Piano/classical adds to the movie

"What am I supposed to tell them, that there's a blind,
crazy woman from Wisconsin with an imaginary child who's
upset with me?"
"How's it possible to miss someone who never existed?"
"I loot my life for fiction"
"Real isn't how your made, its the thing that happens to
you" from Velveteen Rabbit

Rating: 3 Imaginary Friends (Scale 0-5)

[REC] (2007)

Manuela Velasco

Spanish zombie/horror flick done in documentary style,
with the heroine telling the camera (Pablo is the eyes
of the movie, we never see him) what she sees and in-
terprets as they are sealed in a building by the health
inspector/government as they fear an outbreak

Interesting in that it chronicles the beginning of the
epidemic, disgusting often, bloody.

Rating: 2 Severed limbs (scale of 1-5 severed limbs)

MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007)

Geo. Clooney; Tom Wilkerson; Tilda Swinton; Sydney Pollack; Michael O'Keefe

Action, conspiracy, vague morality, hero takes forever to "come around" to doing
the right thing, with all that not a particularly satisfying ending
Music not great

"If its real the pills won't kill it"
"It's like you're strapped to a bomb" (having alcoholic wife)
"We've been summoned"
"You got all the cops thinking you're a lawyer and all the lawyers
thinking your a cop"
"Find the seeds, Shape the soil, Speed the harvest, Feed the planet"
"I'm Shiva the God of Death"

Rating: 3 Sleezy Corporations (Scale 1-5 corps)

FANBOYS (2008)

Sam Huntington; Chris Marquette; Dan Fogler
Wm. Shatner, Silent Bob and Jay, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams

Well-geeked

Rating: 3 1/2 bitten off heads of chickens (scale 0-5 heads)

THE GAMERS: DORKNESS RISING (2008)

Funny in parts

Rating: 2 20-sided dice (Scale of zero to infinity)

THE INVISIBLE (2007)

Justin Chatwin; Margarita Levieva

Starts with stereotypic good boy-bad girl dynamic.
Good momma's boy about to breakout, gets beaten
to death, or does he? Both main characters go
through significant transformations and come to
understand. He is saved by death in this impossible
love story but maybe there is no death just another
re-start. Edgy. Charming. Worth a look. By the
makers of Sixth Sense.

Music quite good. Syntax, A Perfect Circle, Snow
Patrol, Death Cab for Cutie, Suicide Sports Club,
Sparta, Broken Social Scene, Trail of the Dead

"This won't change a thing for you" (mother expaining
the impact of his father's death on his life)
"Dont worry Mom, this won't change anything for you"
(Chatwin explaining the impact of his death on her life)
"Word is, you're in trouble and I'm in business"
"I didn't see you before, I didn't know you"
"Still you" are the broken one "Still you"

Rating: 3-3 1/2 invisible stars (scale 1-5)

WIND CHILL (2007)

Ashton Holmes: Emily Blunt

Stalker freak (Holmes) chauffeur under false pretenses taking
unsuspecting college mate home for Christmas who then have run
ins with phantoms from 1953. The fun begins. Oh, btw it's
really chilly.

"I'm getting a restraining order on you if we ever get out of here"
"I would do it differently" (Blunt referring to the past 24 hours)

Rating: 2 1/2 violent phantoms (scale 1-5 phantoms)

KNOWING (2008)

N. Cage, Rose Byrne

So you want disturbing? Unbelievable teacher-class and father-daughter scenes?
A movie that tells you the story in the dialogue?

Started a bit slow, picked its way up to some pretty good suspense and action
scenes. The chosen have to leave everything behind. Seems like the end, maybe
it's just a new beginning. So, does the end of the world bring out the criminal
in you or the humanitarian?

Determinism v. Randomness/Chaos Theory ~ dumb argument, right? Everything is
determined? Everthing is random? Silly rabbit.


Rating: 7 Alien spaceships (scale 1-10 alien space vessels)

WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY (2007)

Patick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits

Been seeking something a bit different? A movie with a good sense of humor?
A movie quite fine, exquisite in its own way with Miracles in strange places.

"The only way its going to work is it if it doesn't matter"
"How much you eat, that's how old you are"
"Because if any of us had a clue, we wouldn't be here"
"When I'm here with you, I miss myself the way I used to be"
"We're all trapped in the world of the living"
Bad News ~~ "It looks like they'll be sending her back to Life"

Another change, new perspective
new eyes, newborns, side by side
smile and say goodbye

Music +

Rating: 10 Razor blades (Scale 0-10 blades)

THE READER (2008)

Ralph Fiennes; Kate Winslet

In case you forgot what you were about to watch, the music reminds you
with a sad, reflective, melancholy number
Strange feel to it, a vague, anomie with a hint of distaste and paranoia
With the sexual relationship his world was changed, he was now a member
She decides whats best for both of them and leaves without a word
You don't see much penis in movies
It is fascinating in some strange way (the movie not his penis)
She, who neither writes nor reads is moved more than anyone by the words
Evocative, touching...the impossible love as a theme for great drama with
the most moral sincere person being the most castigated, an irony of
justice movie
Satisfying ending



"You don't matter enough to upset me"
"The more I suffer, the more I love"
"Leave life more beautiful than when you entered it"
"Let me show you where we're going
It's ok kid, I don't want to know"
"Julia, how wrong you can be" (RF to his daughter who thought the distance
between them was all her fault)
"What we feel is utterly unimportant, its what we do" (NO!!!)
"It's exciting because its justice"
"The question is not was it wrong but was it legal"
the Concentration "camps weren't universities, we weren't there to learn"
"It doesn't matter what I think or feel the dead are still dead"

Rating: 69 out of 96 Tears

NEAR DARK (1987)

Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton

As this Vampire movie began I wondered how/why I got this one
With wild preposterous Winnebagos, lame characters, one bite and
a life lost, a bit sick and weird with the bllod sucking that's
supposed to be sensuous or sexual, a movie we are supposed to take
seriously, then we're not and most of the time we can't adding up
to a vamp love story with family values and violence and blood

"What do we do now?
Anything we want until the end of time"

"I come through every 50 years, make me a reservation"

"I'm down to my last inch of skin"

Rating: 1 1/2 bags of blood (on a scale of 1-5 transfusion bags of blood)

IN THE ELECTRIC MIST (2008)

Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenbergen

Alcoholic who won't drink, good "leavings out" enough
to keep you guessing, some snappy dialogue,
shots were fired, scared straight theme, the thick
plottens, showdown ok not great, did we need the FBI
lady in battle with a see through top?, glorifies
planting evidence, a bit too neat and tied up at the end.

Some great blues, the music definitely adds to the movie

"If you look less, you may see more"
"It'll sound like cannonfire but it'll be thunder"
"It's still Louisiana, he still black"
"You address the past by addressing it"

Rating: 3 shots of non-alcohol (scale 0-5 shots)

SEVEN POUNDS (2008)

Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson

Different, interesting, provocative, Rosario Dawson sparkles, music not so much

Rating: 7 pounds out of 10

ABOUT A SON (2006)

Fascinating psychological study of Kurt Cobain created from hours and hours of taped interviews with video added years later. A creative project. Well done.

Rating: 4 Platinum Albums (on a 0-5 platinum album scale)

WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU (2008)

Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo, Donnie Wahlberg, Amanda Peet

Kinda rough, gritty, not-at-all Disney, it is a movie of
transformation of street thugs with their own sense of honor.

Prison clarifies who your friends are, they are the ones who
know your release date.

ya "keep going down the same road, keep ending up getting to
the same place"

She waited 5 years while you were in jail, you owe her

Sometimes the same things happen to policemen that they have
perpetrated on others

Music: Ho-hum

Rating: 3 1/2 beating (on an Assault Scale of 0-5)