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From Paris With Love (2010)
Aug 23rd
Director: Pierre Morel Writers: Adi Hasak, Luc Besson (story) Rated: R (violence, language) Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Kasia Smutniak
Travolta and Meyers team up for the explosive spy thriller called From Paris With Love. Travolta plays the crazy and unorthodox secret agent, Charlie Wax, who gets paired with James Reece (Meyers), an aid to the US Ambassador in Paris. A reluctant Reece doesn’t know what to make of Wax’s outrageous methods, but soon finds that they’re involved in a a very serious situation. It starts off with drug rings, then Pakistani terrorist plots, but honestly the story isn’t More >
The Secret in Their Eyes (2010)
Aug 21st
aka El Secreto de Sus Ojos
Director: Juan José Campanella Writers: Juan José Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri (novel) Rated: R (language, violence, nudity, rape scene) Cast: Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín, Pablo Rago, Guillermo Francella, and Javier Godino
Retired federal justice agent Benjamín Esposito (Darín) is writing a novel on the one big case of his career that was never completely solved. When he returns to his old stomping grounds he finds himself bringing up old feelings about his former colleague Irene Menéndez Hastings (Soledad Villamil) in addition to new questions about the big case.
The Secret in their eyes is based on the novel written by More >
Salt (2010)
Aug 21st
Director: Phillip Noyce Writer: Kurt Wimmer Rated: PG-13 (violence) Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, and August Deihl
Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent caught in a possible Russian terrorist plot. Right from the beginning the action gets going and doesn’t let up. High tension chases, lightning fast martial arts ass-kickings, and balls-to-the-wall shoot outs kept my heart racing. To top it off, the story is quite exciting as well. It keeps you guessing who Salt really is and how things will play out. Jolie is in top form in this one, and I was very More >
Date Night (2010)
Aug 21st
Director: Shawn Levy Writer: Josh Klausner Rated: PG-13 (mild language) Cast: Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Mark Wahlberg, Jimmi Simpson, Common, and Taraji P. Henson
Date Night opens with The Ramones’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ playing, which right away gave me a bad feeling about this movie. Not that I don’t like the song, I love it, but it has no business in a romantic comedy.
Steve Carrell and Tina Fey play a couple in a marriage crisis who find themselves mixed up in a sticky situation after a case of mistaken identity. What follows is a series of wacky and unrealistic events and More >
Say Goodnight (2008)
Aug 7th
Writer/director: David VonAllmen Rated: R (language/sexuality) Cast: Aaron Paul, Carly Pope, Rob Benedict, Shannon Lucio, Christopher Gessner, Smith Cho, and David Monahan.
Say Goodnight follows four buddies recalling the beginnings of which three of them found the so-called loves of their lives. The result is a blend of raunchiness, laugh out loud humor, and surprisingly realistic relationship situations.
First time writer and director David VonAllmen crafts a pleasant and sexy romantic comedy in a genre that seems to offer less and less originality these days. While the story behind Say Goodnight is nothing incredibly original, it’s still well executed, nicely acted, and most importantly More >
