Michael Clayton

Very good if you like character developement, plot and dialogue. George Clooney stars as the title character who is basically this law firm's fixer upper guy when it comes to legal troubles (or janitor as he refers to himself). When working on a case, the firms represenative on it comes across some incriminating evidence against the company and illegal chemicals used in their product and so he secretly starts building a case against them to blow the whole thing into the open. He comes off looking a bit crazy though and goes a bit too far... Clayton picks up on it and realizes what his collegue was doing, and attempts to finish what he started.

30 Days of Night

It was pretty good for a vampire movie, with an interesting premise - in Alaska, some of the towns have complete darkness for 30 full days, what would happen if vampires showed up for a non-stop feast on those remaining? The vampires were pretty cool looking - all Nosferatu-esque. There was one scene where we just couldn't stop laughing (if ya see it, think of the convenient store part with the little girl). I only counted jumping a total of 3 times, so while it was good, it wasn't *too* creepy. Ben Foster (from 3:10 to Yuma) is probably my current favorite creepy bad guy - he plays it oh so well! It's also based on a graphic novel and I guess it stuck pretty much to it, only changing one part slightly but producing the same results. We're predicting this one to be better than Saw IV for Halloween this year.

The Game Plan

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Boston Rebels quarterback Joe "The King" Kingman. He lives the life of a celebrity, having a huge bachelor pad covered in memorbilia of not only himself, but Elvis as well. Despite what the father on the team tells him, he thinks he has "the life." Then, after a huge new years party, the next morning a little girl named Peyton shows up on his doorstep, claiming to be his daughter from his short-lived marriage and will be staying with him for a month while her mom is in Africa. Over the course of the next few weeks, Joe goes from being a bad dad, leaving his daughter unattended at a nightclub opening, to being a concerned parent, looking after her and actually taking part in her life and the things she enjoys. Then comes the twist, where all is not as we think it is.

The little girl that plays Petyon is adorable and steals the show, holding her own against the other football players, Joe's agent Stella (Kira Sedgwick for tv's "The Closer") among others, while The Rock shows just how charismatic he can be.

For a Disney family film, it was pretty cute and clever. I'd recommend it for a family night.

Resident Evil: Extinction

I didn't see the second installment of this series, but honestly, you don't need to - if you've seen the 1st you know the basic premise.

The Umbrella Corporation created the T-Virus, creating undead zombies, which they thought had been contained in Raccoon City, however it wasn't and eventually spread throughout the US and eventually the world.

Years have passed and Alice (Milla Jovoich) is still on the move after escaping from the Umbrella Corp. (they were using her), helping the survivors she comes across in the process. The Umbrella Corp is trying to locate her once again though since they believe the key for the antidote to the virus is in her blood and the genetic clones they've made just aren't cutting it for their research.

If you like action movies that include zombies and loud driven music you'll like this one. Milla Jovoich proves once again that girls can too kick some major ass!

Good Luck Chuck

After going to one of his ex's wedding, where she deems him to be her 'lucky charm', Charlie (Dane Cook) is finding women strangely coming onto him. Rumor is, once a girl has 'been with' Chuck, she then finds her soulmate and is soon married. His friend conviences him that it's an awesome deal - sex with tons of beautiful women with no strings attached, however once he meets the girl of HIS dreams (Jessica Alba), he's scared to death his 'curse' is going to make him lose her to the next guy if he sleeps with her.Can he find a way to break the curse and keep the only girl he's ever really loved?

It was a cute movie. It reminded me a lot of 2005's Wedding Crashers, where it starts out as an over-the-top sex comedy for the first half and then turns into a romantic comedy for the last half. Although it's not as funny as the trailers make it out to be, it's still pretty entertaining.

Mr. Woodcock

John Foley (Sean William Scott, American Pie) is a writer of the newest best-selling self-help book about putting your past behind you. When it's announced that his hometown is having a celebration in his honor, he goes home to visit his mother (Susan Sarandon), only to meet her boyfriend of the past 5 months - his hated jr high gym teacher Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thorton). Being a fat kid in jr high, he often felt like he was picked on by the gym teacher. Putting aside everything his book talks about, he strives to show his mom the man Mr. Woodcock really is, only to end up hurting her in the end. Everything does get resolved, revelations are made, etc.

If you like slapstick comedies, you'll like this one, otherwise you're not missing much. Ethan Suplee (Mallrats, My Name is Earl) co-stars.

3:10 to Yuma

Christian Bale (Batman Begins) is a poor rancher, who used the money to pay his land tax to feed his family instead. Because of that decision, the town authorities are giving him 1 week to come up with the money he owes, otherwise they're burning down his property so a railroad can be built through it. Russell Crowe is well known outlaw that gets captured after his crew robs a nearby pony express type wagon. The town officials plan on putting him on the 3:10 to Yuma prison train, however they need brave men to escort him to the station, 90 miles away and throw his following gang of men off track. Needing the money and wanting to earn his eldest son's pride, Bale volunteers for $200, and our journey across the west begins.

I'm not really big into westerns, but I'll admit, this one was pretty good. It was entertaining and suspenseful. The characters were very 3-dimensional, having a great amount of depth to them. Bale, Crowe and Ben Foster all do an amazing job.

This is most likely one you'll see again, come Oscar-time.

Rob Zombie’s Halloween

*note* I never saw the original John Carpenter's Halloween, however, like most, I'm aware of the basic story and have seen parts of the sequels.

This version of Halloween is Rob Zombie's interrpretation of the original. It is not another sequel. Zombie worked with Carpenter to capture the essence of the original.

The result is a classic 70s horror movie, stylized very much like how we saw in the most recent omage to 70s film, Grindhouse. The supsenseful jump-your-seat moments were timed perfectly, it has a bit of the grindhouse type subtle wit/humor you would expect from a 70s B movie (think the Evil Dead series).

It starts out in the late 70s/ early 80s with Michael Myers as a 10yr old boy. He comes from a broken home where his mother works as a stripper, his sleazy abusive stepdad is an alcoholic with a broken leg, and his older sister is known for being a whore.Bullies at school constantly pick on him for how his family is. After Mikey's most recent run-in with the bullies, the school counselor finds photos in his bag of smaller animals he's tortured and mutiliated and promptly suggests his mother get him evaluated before Mikey goes off the deep end.

A little too late.

After school we see Mikey beat one of the bullies to a pulp with a tree branch, Later that night, after mom goes to work and his sister refuses to take him trick or treating, Mikey ducts tapes his passed out stepdad to a chair and slits his throat, beats his sister's boyfriend to death with an aluminum baseball bat, and then slice and dices big sis with a knife. When mom gets home, Mikey's sitting on the steps out front, waiting with baby sister Laurie.

He spends the next 15 years in a mental facility, but never getting any better and eventually refuses to talk or take off the odd masks he makes in his alone time. In a late night transfer gone wrong, the behemoth Mikey breaks lose and takes off in search for his baby sister. As his doctor says, whatever his reasons are, they can't be good.

As you can tell, there's lots of gore and violence.

Some familar faces you may recongnize are Sheri Moon Zombie as Mikey's mom, Malcom McDowell as Dr. Loomis, with appearances by Danielle Harris and Danny Trejo.

It's interesting to see how Mikey came about wearing the mask we all know him to wear and the boogyman conversations between the 2 little kids Laurie babysits are completely amusing, especially when he shows up!

I never saw Devil's Rejects and I thought House of 1000 Corpses was one of the stupidest movies ever made (although the art/imagery used was interesting and a bit disturbing, the plot made no sense and overall it was just a giant gorefest), but this one I actually liked. Some people will hate it, others will like it.

Just remember kids, if you listen to Blue Oyster Cult and have sex, you die!

The Last Legion

Before Arthur pulled Excalibur out of the stone, there was the Last Legion.

The boy Romulous is about to be crowned Caesar. But soon after, Rome is attacked and the boy is taken captive, as is the mysterious man who aids him, pursuading their captors that the boy is worth more to them alive than dead. His general comes to rescue them along with allied soliders. In their journeys, the boy comes across Exalibur and they all head to Britianna to find the last legion of the Roman Empire to fight against their oppressors.

Somewhere out there is an R-rated version of this film, as you could tell they cut parts of fights out to not display the graphicness of the fight. The story was entertaining - i was expecting to be bored, but I wasn't - the action was decent (but not nearly as cool as 300).

This one stars Ben Kingsley as the Merlin-esque figure and Collin Firth as the General, as well as a hot indian chick.

War

I looooove Jason Statham - he makes being a hitman look classy and hot - and Jet-Li movies are pretty cool too. So I was excited for this end of summer action flick.

Statham is an FBI agent working in the San Fransico area, keeping an eye on the activity of the local Asian gangs. His partner and his family get gunned down, with their cabin burned to the ground, causing Statham to find the guy who did it. 3 years later, the same bullets that were recovered at his partner's death resurface, causing him to continue his search, which brings him right into the middle of a War between 2 asian families - the Shiro's and the Chang's and their gangs, the Triads and Yuzuka. Jet-Li is obviously the bad guy in this movie... or is he?

Although the ending just kind of... ends, the twist is one that'll make ya go 'oooh, i see...' being not one you'd think of right away.

The Jet-Li action scenes were pretty good, despite the sub-par plot... however there just wasnt enough Jason Statham action scenes.

If you're in for an action movie or a Jason Statham/Jet-Li flick, you might be interested in this one.