In honor of Jake’s birthday week, we let him pick the movie for family movie night. His choice was Yes Man. This was a story about a guy who decides to say “yes” to everything for a year. Frankly, I wasn’t holding out much hope for the film (for one …
This movie was done before Al Pacino became a caricature of his acting self (way back in the early 1970s). It was quite a good character study. Not a lot of action, but it just wasn’t that kind of movie. It told the story of a police officer named Serpico, …
Brian and I watched this last night. The movie was a parody of the excellent Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line. While there were certainly some mildly amusing moments, this movie was definitely less than excellent. I’m not sure that it would even be mildly amusing if you hadn’t seen …
Quite frankly, I don’t understand the brouhaha this film generated when it was released. Sure, the film had its moments, but the ending wrapped things up in a christian-like way, I thought. What bothered me more about the film was the fact that they gave Judas, played by Harvey Keitel, …
Angelina Jolie did a great job with her role in this movie, but that’s about the best thing I can say about it. It had a decent enough storyline, but there was just something missing for me. Perhaps it was the ending–the viewer doesn’t get much closure. Some, but not …