Note

All of my data (years, descriptions, etc.) come from IMDB.

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Films watched in each month.

January: 40
February: 11
March: 14
April: 6
May: 3
June: 8
July: 1
August: 3
September: 14
October: 17
Total: 117

Monday, April 30, 2007

For the month of April...

Best Film of the Month: Pulp Fiction

Didn't watch a film bad enough to be considered worst of the month.

Friday, April 27, 2007

April 27, 2007

Grindhouse (2007)
Directors: Planet Terror--Robert Rodriguez, Death Proof--Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Planet Terror--Robert Rodriguez, Death Proof--Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Planet Terror--Rose McGowan and Freddy Rodriguez, Death Proof--Zoe Bell and Rosario Dawson Co-Starring: Both--Too many to list.
Description:
From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. "Grindhouse" (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino's film, "Death Proof," is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film "Planet Terror" shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the '50s exploitation drive-in classics.
Rating:
B+
In a word... awesome!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

April 26, 2007

O, Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Writer: Homer, Joel, and Ethan Coen
Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, and Holly Hunter
Co-Starring: Chris Thomas King, Charles Durning, and Del Pentecost
Description: Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
Rating: B
In a word... annoying-ish.

April 25, 2007

Stranger than Fiction (2006)
Director: Marc Forster
Writer: Zach Helm
Starring: Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Co-Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson
Description: Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. The narrator it is extraordinarily accurate, and Harold recognizes the voice as an esteemed author he saw on TV. But when the narration reveals that he is going to die, Harold must find the author of the story, and ultimately his life, to convince her to change the ending of the story before it is too late.
Rating: A-
In a word... adorable.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

April 22, 2007

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Tim Roth, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Amanda Plummer
Co-Starring: Eric Stolz, Bruce Willis, and Ving Rhames
Description: Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Rating: B+
In a word... mothafucka!

Saturday, April 14, 2007

4/14/07

Bobby (2006)
Director: Emilio Estevez
Writer: Emilio Estevez
Starring: Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Lawrence Fishborne, Heather Graham, and Anthony Hopkins
Co-Starring: Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LeBeouf, William H. Macy, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore, Freddy Rodregiuez, Christian Slater, Martin Sheen, Sharon Stone, and Elijah Wood
Description: Tuesday, June 4, 1968: the California presidential primary. As day breaks Robert Kennedy arrives at the Ambassador Hotel; he'll campaign, then speak to supporters at midnight. To capture the texture of the late 1960s, we see vignettes at the hotel: a couple marries so he can avoid Vietnam, kitchen staff discuss race and baseball, a man cheats on his wife, another is fired for racism, a retired hotel doorman plays chess in the lobby with an old friend, a campaign strategist's wife needs a pair of black shoes, two campaign staff trip on LSD, a lounge singer is on the downhill slide. Through it all, we see and hear RFK calling for a better society and a better nation.
Rating: C
In a word... boring.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

April 7, 2007


Reign Over Me (2007)
Director: Mike Binder
Writer: Mike Binder
Starring: Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle
Co-Starring: Jada Pinkett Smith and Liv Tyler
Description: Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until he lost his family on the fateful day of 9/11, and the grief he felt caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss.
Rating: A-
In a word... heart-stopping.