Movie Reviews

Taken

Directed by Pierre Morel Staring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Holly Valance Ratting MA Score 6/6 A former spy must use his skills to rescue his estranged daughter, who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade. Better then Bourne or Bond. Taken is everything that an Action-Thriller movie should be with quick cuts…

Swing Vote

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern Staring Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper & Nathan Lane Rating M Score 6/6 In Extraordinairy turn of events the fate of the entire US Prsedential Election comes down to the fate of one man, from a small town in New Mexico. This is the kind…

Surrogates

Directed by Jonathon Mostow Staring Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Ned Vaughn, Jack Noseworthy, James Ginty, Boris Kodjoe Rating M Score 5/6 People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates — sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It’s an ideal world where crime,…

Surfer Dude

Directed by SR Bindler Staring Matthew McConaughey, Alexie Gilmore, Scott Glenn, Jeffery Nording, Willie Nelson & Woody Harelson Rating MA Score 3/6 Longboarding soul surfer Steve Addington returns to Malibu to spend his summer surfing his home break. But the waves go flat, and his sponsorship deal turns south. Surfer Dude is very much a…

Streets of Fire

Directed by Walter Hill Staring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe & Deborah Van Valkenburgh Rating M Score 6/6 A Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang, in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950’s and the present or future. Her ex-boyfriend…

Street Kings 2 : Motor City

Directed by Chris Fisher Staring Ray Liotta, Shawn Hatosy & Clifton Powell Rating MA Score 3/6 When a rebellious young detective and his by- the-book superior team up to solve the murder of an undercover cop, they soon discover a trail of corruption within their police unit that leaves them both suspicious of one another’s…

Street Kings

Director: David Ayer Staring: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Terry Crews, Naomie Harris, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury Nolasco, Common, Jay Mohr Rating: MA Score 6/6 When evidence links veteran LAPD officer Tom Ludlow to the execution of a fellow officer. Ludlow is forced to go against the police culture that he has…

Stop Loss

Director: Kimberly Peirce Staring: Channing Tatum, Ryan Phillippe & Abbie Cornish Rating: MA Score 6/6 A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army. I’ve always wondered about the war movies…

Still Crazy

Directed by Brian Gibson Staring Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Juliet Aubrey & Billy Conolly Rating M Score 5/6 All hail the gods of rock ‘n roll because it aint over till it’s over. 70’s rock band Strange Fruit had it all Fame, Money, Girls and even a singer who died from…

Sydney white

Directed by Joe Nussbaum Staring Amanda Bynes, Matthew Long, Sara Paxton, Jeremy Howard & Crystal Hunt Rating PG Score 4/6 College freshman Sydney white planned to pledge her late Mother’s soroity. She is cast out of the soroity house after discovering it is nothing like it used to be and ends up finding refuge with…