Cast:
Kate Hudson
Anne Hathaway
Bryan Greenberg
Chris Patt
Steve Howey
Rating: PG
This certainly not a good way to kick off the new year.
“Bride Wars” centers around two good friends, Emma and Liv, who’ve both been dreaming of having a perfect wedding. While this is all well and good, their dreams go off the rails when their wedding dates land on the same day.
For this reason, the two become enemies, with each trying to upstage each other to have the better wedding.
1. The Dark Knight
2. Frost/Nixon
3. Wall-E
4. Gran Torino
5. Religulous
6. Cloverfield
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Iron Man
9. Pineapple Express
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1. Meet the Spartans
2. Disaster Movie
3. The Happening
4. 10,000 B.C.
5. The Love Guru
6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
7. Max Payne
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still
9. Prom Night
10. The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Cast:
Tom Cruise
Kenneth Branagh
Bill Nighy
Terence Stamp
Rated: PG-13
Tom Cruise’s latest film has him play Colonel Stauffenberg, an officer in the German military who decides to join a plot to kill Hitler after seeing the devastating effects of World War II.
The film follows Stauffenberg, along with other German military officials, coming up with a plan labeled Valkyrie to kill Hitler, arrest the Nazi leadership and surrender to the Allies.
Cast:
Clint Eastwood
Christopher Carley
Bee Vang
Ahney Her
Rated: R
Clint Eastwood stars and directs in this picture, and he does both very well.
In the film, Eastwood plays Walt. Having just lost his wife, Walt now lives alone and unfortunately has a poor relationship with his kids. His quiet life takes a turn, though, when a young man is caught snooping around his 1972 Gran Torino. The boy, Thao (Vang) begins doing chores for Walt to earn his respect and eventually Walt begins a friendship with Thao and his family.
The situation turns bad, though, because of Thao’s extended family, many of whom are involved in gang violence.
Cast:
Keanu Reeves
Jennifer Connelly
Kathy Bates
Jaden Smith
Rating: PG-13
All this made me want to do was watch the original.
“The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a remake of the 1951 picture of the same name, tells the story of an alien named Klatu (Reeves) who comes down to our planet and is immediately met with a cautious military.
After escaping from the government, though, Klatu meets a woman named Helen and informs her that he has plans to save Earth’s species, except humanity.
Cast:
Hugh Jackman
Ray Barrett
Nicole Kidman
Bryan Brown
Tony Barry
Rating: PG-13
Being in the outback for two hours and forty five minutes is a little too long for me.
Named after its setting, “Australia” tells the story of Sarah (Kidman), a woman looking to settle a cattle ranch in a rural area of the country. To do so, she gets the help of Drover (Jackman), a cowboy who assists Sarah in building up her business.
Conflict arises in the outback, though, as World War II is getting started and a romance starts blooming between the two main characters as well.
Cast:
Haley Bennett
Jake Weber
Chace Crawford
Shannon Marie Woodward
This is the worst movie I’ve seen since I started reviewing by far.
The film follows the titular character, played by Haley Bennet, whose own mother tried to kill her because when she turns 18, she could become evil. The movie picks up with her at age 17 with Molly moving to a town right next to an insane asylum where her mother is at… for some reason.
The film follows both Molly’s experiences as a high school student and her searching for answers into the mystery of why people think she will become evil when she turns 18.
Cast:
Rob Brown
Dennis Quaid
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Omar Benson Miller
Nelsan Ellis
Charles S. Dutton
As a major college football fan, I was hoping for a little more to this picture.
“The Express” tells the story of Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), a star running back for Syracuse University who went on to be the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
The film follows his youth, recruitment and eventual exploits on the gridiron, in which he also has to deal with racism in some parts of the country.
Cast:
Shia LaBeouf
Michelle Monaghan
Rosario Dawson
Billy Bob Thornton
“Eagle Eye,” also known as Big Brother is watching you.
This spy-like thriller follows the character Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf), an everyman whose brother happens to work in the military.
Because of his connection, Jerry ends up getting sucked into a violent, dangerous mission by a government operative to stop some type of attack.
