Starring: Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, and Shirley MacLaine
There's nothing quite like a small town, especially in the South. Everybody is in everyone else's business like it's their job. The townspeople think they know everything about everyone else. Because of that, a man's reputation is everything. Rumors and perception rule these cul de sacs. Back in the 90s in a little town in East Texas named Carthage, a man named Bernie Tiede enamored the tow... Continue reading...
Posted by SoberFilmChick on Saturday, May 19, 2012 In : 0.06% Beer or Wine
The Dictator SoberFilmChick
Directed By: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Megan Fox, and John C. Reilly
Do you know those jokes that are highly inappropriate and border on making you uncomfortable as a viewer? Jokes that often result in nervous laughter or dead silence? The Dictator is filled with those moments, but you cannot expect anything else from Sacha Baron Cohen.
Haffaz Aladeen (Cohen) is a ruthless dictator from the fictional north African country of ... Continue reading...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting SoberFilmChick
Directed By: Kirk Jones
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison, Rodrigo Santoro, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Brooklyn Decker, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock, Chace Crawford, and Cheryl Cole
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I read the best-selling book What to Expect When You’re Expecting and it really was a pregnancy “bible.” So I was excited to see what the film would do with the topic of pregnancy and preparing for ... Continue reading...
Posted by James Brown on Friday, May 18, 2012 In : 0.09% Cocktails
Battleship
Directed By: Peter Berg
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson
When I first heard of the movie Battleship, I laughed uncontrollably. First of all, Hollywood is so desperate for money that they’re trying to turn a board game into a film. Second, the film's got plenty of potential to have some terrible acting from a cast that includes the likes of Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker. Finally, the awful trailers made it clear to me that Battlesh... Continue reading...
Posted by SoberFilmChick on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 In : 0.09% Cocktails
The Perfect Family SoberFilmChick
Directed By: Anne Renton
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel, and Jason Ritter
I am a huge Kathleen Turner fan. I grew up on films like Romancing the Stone and The War of the Roses. So I was delighted when I was tasked to review The Perfect Family, Turner’s new indie flick. While the film definitely has some bright moments, it unfortunately feels more like a made for television movie.
The Perfect Family follows Eileen Cleary (Turner), a dutiful Catholic... Continue reading...
Starring: Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, and Brit Marling
Let's be real. Cults are for suckers. The weak-minded fools of the world believe any crap that their leaders spew, no matter how far-fetched it may be. They just go along believing in their "wise" leaders and taking their marching orders. That's what makes cult movies so interesting. We get to watch these fools in action or what we imagine them to be. Zal Batmanglij's Sound of My Voi... Continue reading...
Posted by James Brown on Saturday, May 12, 2012 In : 0.09% Cocktails
Dark Shadows
Directed By: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Bella Heathcoate
When 21 Jump Street came out back in March, we all thought it was just another adaptation of a TV show to the big screen. What was the point of bringing the 80s show back to life? When Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum proved us wrong however, we couldn't have been happier. I was hoping Dark Shadows, an adap... Continue reading...
Starring: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, and Penelope Wilton
"Everything will be alright in the end. So if it's not alright, it is not yet the end." -Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel)
It's the summer blockbuster season once again, and we're at a time when all we get from Hollywood at the end of a hard week is a happy ending. The world can be destroyed, but filmmakers have to make moviegoer... Continue reading...
Posted by James Brown on Friday, May 4, 2012 In : 0.00% Water
The Avengers
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, and Samuel L. Jackson
"There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people, so when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could... " -Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson)
2011 was a good year for comic book movies, but 2012 is the year of the superhero movie. If movies were people, last year's comic book flick... Continue reading...
Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart, and Jules Philip
A child's innocence is a one-time deal. Once it's gone, it's gone for good. That's why we as a society value it so much. When a child is robbed of this innocence, it's a true tragedy. That's why it's so incomprehensible that a suicidal teacher would hang herself in a classroom for all the school to see. That's the proble... Continue reading...
