Haywire, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Gina Carano is the story of a private sector security agent who is double crossed and sets forth on a mission of revenge. First question: Who is Gina Carano? Gina is a mixed martial arts fighter and, I’m totally serious, a former “American Gladiator.” While this is not [...]
Read More action, adventure, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Gina Carano, Haywire, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Noah, Steven Soderbergh, thrillerGordon Gekko seems to bring out the actorly best in Michael Douglas, who deservedly won an Oscar for playing the cold-blooded corporate raider in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and so skillfully reprises the part in this glossy follow-up that winning a second gold man doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
Read More blu-ray, Carey Mulligan, David, drama, DVD, Frank Langella, Josh Brolin, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, PG-13, Shia LaBoeuf, Wall Street Money Never SleepsSolitary Man is Michael Douglas’s ode to the aging man who fails to recognize that he is no longer the man he once was. He plays Ben Kalmen, a man who’s clinging to the past. He’s now divorced (Susan Sarandon plays his ex-wife, and although her role is small, she adds a lot to the [...]
Read More Avy Kaufman, blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, joyce, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Douglas, R, romance, Solitary Man, Susan SarandonBeyond a Reasonable Doubt, this is an entertaining movie. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, this movie has an implausible plot twist. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Michael Douglas took this part because it took a few days of his life, he made millions, and he could do it in his sleep. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Amber Tamblyn [...]
Read More Amber Tamblyn, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Bruce, drama, DVD, Michael Douglas, Mystery, Orlando Jones, PG-13In Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, Matthew McConaughey takes the lead as the gorgeous, smooth-talking, emotionally shallow photographer Connor Mead. Mead is stuck firmly in his womanizing ways, and stops at nothing short of breaking up with 3 women simultaneously via teleconference. But Mead is forced to face his past while attending his brother’s (Breckin Meyer) [...]
Read More Breckin Meyer, comedy, DVD, Fantasy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Jennifer Garner, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Douglas, PG-13, romance, SpookTrumbo, based on a stage play of the same name, tells the story of Dalton Trumbo. Mr. Trumbo was a novelist, a screenwriter, and an accused communist. As one of the Hollywood Ten, he was blacklisted for his supposed beliefs, and for refusing to name names during the HUAC trials.
Read More biography, Dalton Trumbo, David Strathairn, documentary, Donald Sutherland, DVD, Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Noah, Paul Giamatti, PG-13, TrumboDuring the recent Academy Awards, Frank Langella was revered by Best Actor presenter Michael Douglas: “The pitfalls of playing a historical figure so familiar and so widely interpreted are too numerous to mention - which is why when I viewed in amazement the new life brought to Richard Nixon by Frank Langella … the comparisons [...]
Read More Anthony Hopkins, blu-ray, Casey, David Frost, drama, DVD, Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon, History, Kevin Bacon, Michael Douglas, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Peter Morgan, R, Rebecca Hall, Richard Nixon, Ron Howard, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones, Watergate