8/26/2005
A duo of wedding-crashing bachelors get in over their heads when they inadvertently fall for members of the family whose wedding they've crashed.
Wedding Crashers is a great time at the movies. Although the film achieves nothing new in terms of creativity, and its style is more "by the book" than more recent comedies (i.e. "Anchorman"), it's nonetheless funny, and the performances prove there is a reason Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are two...
8/26/2005
The book that MADE John Irving
The World According to Garp is a monumentous work of biographical fiction. It tells the story of T.S. Garp, from the tale of his mother's conceiving of him, to beyond his death. It explores the life of this fatherless child as his mother becomes an overnight feminist author sensation. It goes on...
8/19/2005
When impoverished Charlie wins a chance to tour the world famous chocolate factory of Willy Wonka, he enters a world like nothing he could have ever imagined.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, adapted by Ronald Dahl's book of the same title, follows the story of an impoverished Charlie, played by the adorable Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland), as he stumbles upon the last of five golden tickets that offer entry into the world renowned chocolate...
8/19/2005
On a quest to find his illigitimate son, one man comes to terms with the recklessness of his heart.
Broken Flowers follows the story of Don Jonston (played by the adorable Bill Murray) who is informed by a letter written by an anonymous lover that he has an illegitimate son. With the help of his neighbor, Winston (Jeffery Wright), he gets the current addresses of four women that could be the...
8/19/2005
Lurking behind the superficial bliss of the roaring twenties is a tale of lust, longing, and the unforeseeable consequences of our actions.
Bootlegged gin, cigarettes placed into mouths following the clicking shut of their golden cases, gowns, suits, chauffeurs. Games, double meanings, illicit affairs, fortunes made in mysterious ways, drinking to drown an awkward moment or the quiet disappointment of your life.
8/19/2005
Comic books, escape artists, and nazis all tied together through the bonds of ambition, love, and war.
1930's: New York. Asleep in his bed, Sammy Klayman wakes when his mother introduces him to a distant cousin from Prague. The young man's name is Joseph Kavalier, and having just escaped from his Nazi oppressors and left his family behind, he's trying to find a way to make the money that will...
8/19/2005
A sprawling, beautiful look at how the sins of the past affect the genetic outcome of the future.
A question: what is it then, exactly, that dictates who we are: is it the code of our DNA, swimming in our cells, or is it something larger: upbringing, perhaps? Family?
