A Serious Man

Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg
Drama, 2009 (Rated R)

A College Professor named Larry (Stuhlbarg) in a small town suddenly finds his life crumbling around him. His wife wants a divorce, his socially awkward brother has camped out on his couch, his children are constantly fighting and his tenure status at the college is in question. To help him navigate this tough time in his life he seeks out the guidance of 3 rabbi's.

• This movie started out weird. When it starts out back in the 1800's and there are subtitles do not be alarmed. It is the right movie.
• The title is A Serious Man and I must say this was a serious movie. Almost too serious. To the point of being boring.
• I got really tired of seeing Larry being such a push over. I wanted to yell at him to just get a back bone already and maybe that alone would solve half of his problems.
• There were some interesting moments but overall this movie was just dry and serious and weird.

1 STAR

Marie and Bruce

Starring: Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick
Comedy Drama, 2004 (Rated R)

An unhappily married woman wakes up one morning determined that she will finally tell her husband how she really feels. Over the course of the day they go about their mundane tasks before meeting up at a friends party after which they have planned to go to dinner to talk.

• This movie was a total disappointment. Good actors don't necessarily make good movies and this was a perfect example.
• There were some strange almost dream like totally non sensical sequences involving Marie. They added nothing to the movie except confusion.
• The dialogue was extremely repetitive, overly formal, and downright boring to the point where after a while I could hardly stand to listen anymore. Darling this and Darling that. In fact, I didn't watch the last 1/3 of the movie preferring instead to surf the Internet.
• Great actors with a great reputations but if you happen to see it in Blockbuster leave it on the shelf.

1 Star

The Girlfriend Experience

Starring: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos
Drama, 2009

A high priced escort who offers her serviced to a variety of men is trying to up advance her business. Her boyfriend is a personal trainer at an upscale gym who is also trying to do the same.

• At least I think that was what this movie was about but it was hard to tell because it really, really sucked.
• A lot of the scenes were shot out of order and it did not work for this movie as far as I could tell. There was a journalist, a guy trip to Vegas, and a client whom she apparently thought might be her soul mate.
• One of the reviews on the cover said "Sasha Grey's performance is totally captivating" but I just didnt' see it.
• Just a bad movie. I am not sure at this point why I thought it would be good but I am generally willing to give movies a shot.

1 Star

Out At The Wedding

Starring: Andrea Marcelius, Desi Lydic

2006, Romantic Comedy

The misadventures of a woman who lies to her new fiance about her family to spare him from them and lies to her family to spare them from her fiance. She sneaks of to her sister's wedding and when a rumor about her sexuality gets started she propagates it spare her little sister's feelings. When her two worlds collide unexpectedly she enlists the help of a lesbian stranger to keep the lie going and what happens next is a totally unexpected comedy of errors.

• This movie was funny but the acting was mostly bad.
• The casting choice for the lesbian was questionable. I couldn't tell if she was a man, women, or male to female transexual. The credits rolled and showed a female name but that still doesn't really answer my question
• It actually had a good story line that was interesting but I can't really rave about it because of the overall poor quality of the acting and appearance of the film.

1 Stars

Dance Flick

Comedy, 2009 (Rated PG 13)
Starring: Daman Wayans Jr, Shoshanna Bush, and a bunch of other Wayans Brothers too!

A white girl who has just recently given up dancing after the death of her mom moves from the suburbs to an inner city school to live with her dad and tries to fit in.

• Basically a spoof of Save The Last Dance with Julia Stiles and then adds in a bunch of other spoofs from various dance movies.
• I usually don't go for the movies that I know are going to be ridiculously and stupidly over the top but I really like dance movies and have seen just about every one out there so I went for it.
• There were some funny moments in the beginning but then I really just lost interest and wasn't paying attention to the point where when the ending credits rolled I didn't even know what had happened. I was too busy on my laptop.

1 Star