The Book of Eli
- Directed by: Albert and Allen Hughes
- Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis
- Plot: “A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.”
Review: New age apocalypse meets old world religion? Pass. (C-)
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Shutter Island
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsly
- Plot: “Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.”
Review: Dear Martin, please make good, passionate films again. Thanks! (C+)
Legion
- Directed by: Scott Stewart
- Starring: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Kate Walsh
- Plot: “An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race, when God loses faith in humankind.”
Review: God’s clearly furious with humanity if he delivered this crap. (D)
Invictus
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
- Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
- Plot: “Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.”
Review: Who knew Rugby was this sentimental? (B)
Daybreakers
- Directed by: Michael and Peter Spierig
- Starring: Ethan Hawke, Claudia Karvan, William Dafoe
- Plot: “In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.”
Review: Gory fun, but often without the fun (C-)
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The Lovely Bones
- Directed by: Peter Jackson
- Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Whalberg, Rachel Weisz
- Plot: “A young girl, who has been murdered, watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.”
Review: Sentimental, psychedelic garbage - but Stanley Tucci was damn evil! (C)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Directed by: Terry Gilliam
- Starring: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits
- Plot: “A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.”
Review: Weird, disjointed and beautiful - the perfect last film for Heath. (B)
Pirate Radio (AKA The Boat That Rocked)
- Directed by: Richard Curtis
- Starring: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost
- Plot: “A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s.”
Review: This movie did indeed rock … at least, the music part did. (B-)
The Blind Side
- Directed by: John Lee Hancock
- Starring: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw
- Plot: “The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.”
Review: Bullock deserved her Oscar, everything else deserved my money back. (B-)
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