The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli (2010) – on rental. There are a couple of actors in Hollywood today that are able to switch with relative ease between roles of opposite alignments. Most can’t. For instance, the one time when Arnuld Schwarzennegar
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Agora
Agora (2010) – on rental. One of the films I was really looking forward to catching this year has been Agora. The film stars Rachel Weisz, and she plays Hypatia, a Greek scholar and teacher of mathematics and philosophy who
Dear John
Dear John (2010) – on rental. The other romantic drama to arrive while I was away was Dear John, a film starring Channing Tatum, the beefcake previously seen in G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and up and coming
Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day (2010) – on rental. Film director Garry Marshall has produced several romantic drama hits, including Pretty Woman that spiraled Julia Roberts to stardom and a Best Actress award, and the two The Princess Diaries films (first was great,
Knight and Day
Knight and Day (2010) – AMC Loews Harvard Square. No American experience is complete also without catching a film at the local theatre. There’s been movie trailers running of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s new action-comedy for a month or
Iron Man
Iron Man (2008) – on HD. I tend to pick Blu-rays by the bundle these days, then slowly consume them over several weeks on top of the DVD rentals that continue to arrive at our door step. The most recent
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan (2008) – on HD. There are a small handful of films in the last decade or two that has defined entire genres of films that all subsequent productions of the same theme are now matched against. One
Made of Honor
Made of Honor – on HD (2008). Laugh if you will… but the real reason why I picked up Made of Honor – a chick flick starring Patrick ‘McDreamy’ Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan – is because it was going for
Contact
Contact (1997) – on HD. As much as I enjoy space operatic sci-fiction films and TV series, it’s the sci-fi films that tries to be more rooted in science than fiction that fascinate the both of us at home. It’s
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) – AMK Hub. There’s just a couple of video games that Ling has interest in, and also film adaptations if they ever get turned into them. One’s Uncharted, and the other is
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker (2009) – on rental. There were three films on the list of nominees for this year’s 82nd Academy Awards’ Best Picture that were serious contenders for that prize: two of them were deserved, the third was controversial.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood (2010) – at AMK Hub. I’ve always enjoyed Ridley Scott’s films, especially his string of Middle-East set of epics that started with Gladiator in 2000, and followed by Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven and finally Body of
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