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January 17, 2008Movie Review: “National Treasure: Book of Secrets”
January 10, 2008
“National Treasure: Book of Secrets” sends our archaeologist hero, Ben Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) on a globetrotting quest to find another secret treasure, all the while restoring his family’s good name.
The returning cast includes Ben’s archaeologist father, Patrick Gates (Jon Voight); Ben’s personal tech support and sidekick, Riley Poole (Justin Bartha); and Ben’s now ex-girlfriend, Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), whose brief romance with the press secretary (Ty Burrell) of the president of the United States affords the gang the opportunity to search for clues in the Oval Office.
The new faces in the adventure are Ben’s mother, who also happens to be Patrick’s estranged ex-wife, Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren), a scholar of ancient languages; and a rival archaeologist and Confederate sympathizer named Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris), who boldly accuses a Gates ancestor, Thomas Gates (Joel Gretsch), of collaborating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln with John Wilkes Booth.
Booth shot Lincoln on the same night that he and a co-conspirator forced Thomas Gates into translating a diary page the disclosed Cibola, the lost city of gold. In order to clear the Gates family name, Ben and the gang must prove the existence of Cibola by finding the long-dispersed fragments of a map. One of the pieces happens to be hidden in a secret book that is handed down from president to president.
Producer/director Jon Turteltaub deserves kudos for laying hold of the…keep reading
Movie Review: “The Bucket List”
January 9, 2008
Rob Reiner’s “The Bucket List” features Jack Nicholson as a cantankerous billionaire and Morgan Freeman as the winking, twinkling teller of truths. Neither role is a stretch for these actors; we have all seen this shtick before.
The movie kicks off with one of Morgan Freeman’s trademark “This is God speaking” wisdom-induced voiceovers. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), the rich SOB, and Carter Chambers, (Morgan Freeman) the car mechanic who once had aspirations of being a history professor, end up in the same room in the cancer ward of a hospital that Edward owns. Each of the men is given a dim prognosis, forecasting that each will be dead in under a year. Being forced to face their own mortality, the two end up writing a bucket list together-a list of things that they want to accomplish before they kick the proverbial bucket.
Some of the entries on their bucket list include: (read the rest of the review here)
Jessica Simpson’s Blonde Ambition Gets Delayed Release
July 10, 2007
How long can you delay a failure? Jessica Simpson’s movie “Blonde Ambition” was slated to debut on August 3, however, the movie is being pulled out of the August competition. Why? It’s no good. Keep reading…
Movie Review: Michael Moore’s “SiCKO”
June 26, 2007
Michael Moore has a secret to share with U.S. citizens. The executives who control the health care industry don’t actually care about the health of American citizens.
In Moore’s latest documentary, “SiCKO” he utilizes the personal stories of insured Americans who wound up in financial ruin due to outrageous medical bills because their health care providers refused coverage. The most tragic stories show how insured Americans died after being denied health care through their very own insurance companies. Viewers will see a teary-eyed mother who tells the story of how her young daughter died because her HMO refused to pay for services at one hospital, resulting in the little girl getting denied emergency care and was then transported to another hospital that is endorsed by Kaiser Permanente, her HMO, just in time for the little girl to pass away upon arriving at the second hospital where she was to finally receive emergency care. An equally heartbreaking story is told by the wife of a man who died because his insurance provider would not cover the bone marrow transplant needed to save his life. There is a hair-raising sequence where an L.A. hospital dumps a dazed patient at a homeless shelter because her health insurance reached its cap. Continue reading the review here.
Spider-Man 3 Movie Review
May 16, 2007
If you are in the mood to see a superhero movie with plenty of thrills and chills, then you will find some enjoyment in the third (and possibly final) installment of the Spider-Man series. Fans that are expecting the delicate genius of Spider-Man 2 will be disappointed. Spider-Man 2 had the unforgettable combination of action, story, and heart. Sam Raimi and his co-writers, Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent, adopted ‘the more, the better’ philosophy when they composed this flick. Spider-Man 3 has more villains, more action, and more romance which leads to underdeveloped characters and a very bloated plot. Spider-Man 3 does not live up to the excitement and romance on the same level of its predecessor…Read More
