Movies On My Mind

February 26, 2009

The Class (Entre les murs)

Filed under: Movie Ratings — movie_critic @ 7:00 pm
Laurent Cantet's docu-drama set in a tough Parisian school was a worthy winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film...

February 19, 2009

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

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Everyone is comparing Anvil to Spinal Tap but, as (hangs head in shame) I haven’t seen it, I can only review Anvil on its own...

February 16, 2009

8. The International - $10.7M

Filed under: Box Office Stats — movie_critic @ 3:06 am
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to continue financing terror and war.

5. Confessions of a Shopaholic - $17.8M

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Sophie Kinsella's beloved bestseller gets the silver screen treatment with this comedy that transports the novel's action from London to another world shopping capital: New York City. Isla Fisher (WEDDING CRASHERS) stars as Rebecca Bloomwood, a friendly fashionista whose star as a journalist is ascending--but not as fast as her credit card debt.

1. Friday the 13th (2009) - $43.6M

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Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney, with the help of Jenna, a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history -- the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete... Jason Voorhees.
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