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. [...]
Burn After reading is quite an interesting movie. Starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, and Brad Pitt, this movie was directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. This murder mystery is one you should see if you want to witness a strange, twisted plot. Characters in this movie are memorable, and the story [...]
American Teen was directed by Nanette Burstein in 2008. It takes place in a small Indiana town. The beauty of this movie is that it hits home for many of us and our childhood. This movie is in a fairly typical town many of us could be from. In the movie, there is the jock, [...]
Breach stars Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Eric O’Neil and Laura Linney. This movie is inspired by a true story. Eric O’Neil is set to work for Chris Cooper to gather information about him and his practices. During the investigation, it looks as if things won’t be solved, until Eric O’Neil really gets clever and comes [...]
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 [...]
National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. This Walt Disney movie stars Nicolas Cage and John Voight. I was impressed that not only is this a good long movie, but it is thoroughly imaginative and unique. This movie was created by Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of Pirates of the Caribbean. In the movie, Nicolas [...]