Igby Goes Down

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Igby Goes Down (2002) IMDB rating: 7.10 Plot: Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a ...

Ice Princess

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Ice Princess (2005) IMDB rating: 6.00 Plot: A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures' "ICE PRINCESS." Brainy Casey Carlyle ('Michelle Trachtenberg' (qv)) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother ('Joan Cusack' (qv)), who has her on ...

American Haunting, An

Friday, March 12th, 2010

American Haunting, An (2005) IMDB rating: 4.80 Plot: In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe ...

Saving Shiloh

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Saving Shiloh (2006) IMDB rating: 6.50 Plot: Can bad people be rehabilitated, or are some people just inherently bad? Should a person follow his head or his heart? Young Marty Preston (Jason Dolley) wrestles with these issues when dealing with his surly neighbor Judd Travers (Scott Wilson): a man that the entire ...

Domino

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Domino (2005) IMDB rating: 5.90 Plot: The daughter of an actor with a high-society woman, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Mosley and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Mosley and ...

Troy

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Troy (2004) IMDB rating: 6.90 Plot: It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife ...

Passage to India, A

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Passage to India, A (1984) IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiance, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet ...

Cookie’s Fortune

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Cookie's Fortune (1999) IMDB rating: 6.80 Plot: Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close)--a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter ...

Where the Wild Things Are

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Where the Wild Things Are (2009) IMDB rating: 8.10 Plot: An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world—a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Online Movies World Directors: Jonze Spike Actors: Records ...

Miami Vice

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Miami Vice (2006) IMDB rating: 6.10 Plot: Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his ...