Carol
Carol Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, John Magaro Directed by: Todd Haynes Written by: Phyllis Nagy (screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (novel) Rating: R Genre: Romance Release Date: 2015 Carol is a slow movie, but I was never bored while watching it. I could see other people not having the...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Directed: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen The third sequel in the series almost twenty years after the last one where they smartly have Indiana Jones age about twenty years in the process...
Notes on a Scandal
Notes on a Scandal Directed: Richard Eyre Starring: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Philip Davis, Michael Maloney, Juno Temple, Max Lewis, Julia McKenzie Cate Blanchett is an art teacher that starts an affair with a student. Judi Dench is an older teacher at the same school...
Babel
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are vacationing in Morocco when she is shot accidentally by two boys. Their Mexican nanny back home is trying to get to her son’s wedding when this happens so she tries to take their two kids across the border illegally. And somehow a Japanese...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Bill Murray is a Jacque Cousteau-type character that meets his grown son for the first time and they go out on an adventure to kill a shark for revenge because it ate his friend. Directed by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums). I love Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums...
The Missing
In 19th century New Mexico, directed by Ron Howard, Tommy Lee Jones comes back to New Mexico to make amends with his daughter, Cate Blanchett, but her daughter is kidnapped. The acting in this movie was really good. The story wasn’t all that interesting. It could have been, but...
Coffee & Cigarettes
A bunch of short pieces of film starring actors, musicians, and other famous people as themselves at times and characters at other times all discussing anything over coffee and cigarettes. This movie was disappointing. I have liked Jim Jarmusch’s other films before. They usually consist of a lot of...