Cloverfield is a 2008 movie starring Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, by director Matt Reeves. The most interesting thing I found about this movie is that it was filmed as if done by hand with camcorders. This effect, combined with the explosions, drama, and craziness in New York city, does make for [...]
Hellboy 2 stars actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Alexander, and James Dodd. It was directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola. This movie was produced by Chris Symes, Joe Roth, John Swallow, Lawrence Gordon, and Lloyd Levin. It is an amazing second movie after Hellboy. [...]
The Forbidden Kingdom stars Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Crystal Liu, Collin Chou, Liu Yifei, Li Bing Bing, and Ye Xiaokeng. It was directed by Rob Minkoff. This fast paced, fun kung-fu movie was based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. The movie takes place between Boston in the USA and China. [...]
X2, and a great 134 minutes in length, is the second of three X-Men movies. It was directed by Bryan Singer, and stars Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, and Ian McKellen. In this action movie, the mutants have to deal with an attack on the president and then with fighting General Stryker (Brian Cox) [...]
Inside Man is a Spike Lee movie that stars three academy award winners, including Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. Denzel Washington plays a sharp detective, Clive Owen plays a masterful bank robber, and Jodie Foster plays a fix it person. This is a heist crime thriller like no other. As Denzel Washington tries [...]
Mission Impossible III is the third in a set of three modern Mission Impossible movies. This was my favorite one since it was so clever and worldly. Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in this J.J. Abrams adventure movie. Cruise is convinced to come back to the action as the movie starts out. Hunt faces a [...]
Firewall is an exciting, suspenseful thriller starring Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany. In this thrilling movie, Harrison Ford is Jack Stanfield, head of security for a local bank. It turns out that a nice man he has met with is not a good person, kidnapping his family with a team of his people. Paul Bettany’s [...]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a movie by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. This 122 minute action adventure movie is the fourth in a set of four Indiana Jones movies. In this one, Indy (Harrison Ford) and Shia LaBeouf try to beat Cate Blanchett to find the crystal skull of [...]
Crimson Tide is a 1995 movie by director Tony Scott, featuring actors Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. In this drama, Washington and Hackman argue about what to do from their submarine, the USS Alabama. Hackman wants to send off nuclear missiles and Washington wants to ensure they go through right channels and reasoning, to prevent [...]
The Rock, starring Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, and Ed Harris was a terrific movie. This interesting, fast paced movie has all the elements of a winning movie. These elements include strong story line, romance, action, drama, and interesting scenery. In this movie, Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery are brought in to help save San Francisco [...]