Red Eye (2005)

Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, and Brian Cox, Red Eye is a short compact fun thriller by Wes Craven that I could watch a bunch of times.

Right away Craven starts to layer in the underlying stories of each of the characters, mostly McAdams, a friendly manager at a high rolling hotel who is always trying to keep others happy. On a plane flight back from her grandmother’s funeral, she meets Murphy, who although creepy,

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Batman Beyond Return of the Joker (2000)

What a great movie this is. I think that if you have any interest in the Batman mythos, this is a such a great story, dark, pathological and possible inside of a world ruled by a man dressed like a bat with a rogues cast of villains twice as psychotic.

Batman Beyond is set in the future, Bruce Wayne is very old, and has not been Batman for a number of years. …

The Hot Chick (2002)

Starring Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence, and Rachel McAdams, this is a Happy Madison movie so you know that it is going to be goofy but fun.

Basically, these mystic earrings that McAdams(Jessica) steals from a jewelry store have ancient powers, able to switch two bodies of the two people who each wear one earring. By a silly set of circumstances Jessica and Schneider switch bodies, putting the girl in a man’s body. This is

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Mean Girls (2004)

Starring Lindsay Lohan, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Rachel McAdams, Lacy Chabert, and a handful of other SNL alum, this movie kept popping up on my radar. Written by Fey, this movie gives us a parody of harsh young female interaction can be at the high school level.

Lohan is a new student who is just trying to fit in, when she is noticed by “The Plastics”, and elite group of three girls who are highly exclusive.

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Without A Paddle (2004)

Who’s in it

Seth Green, Matthew Illiard, Dax Shephard, Burt Reynolds

What was good

Seth Green plays a couple of roles really good, and in this movie, he played a super phobic doctor who wasn’t much of a risk taker and was this unlucky straight laced guy among a bunch of frat dudes essentially. Dax Shepherd had some funny lines as the womanizer of the film, but it was mostly Green’s character that was funny especially in the bear

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Waiting (2005)

Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, and a bunch of people you may have seen before but don’t really care about their names. This movie is one big parody of what life might be like for the whole staff of a popular bar type restaurant like O’Charlie’s. It pokes fun a the workers, the politics, and the corporate idea of a restaurant chain. But mostly, it is just humor about different body parts, sex, and

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Legend of Zorro (2005)

Starring Antoine Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones, this follow up to the highly successful “Mask of Zorro” from 1998 was way too much entirely too late.

The story revolves loosely around Zorro not being able to give up being Zorro, being needed by the people. There is tension between Zorro and Elena, but it all becomes convoluted with a blackmail, lust, and jealosy. Elena gets a divorce from Zorro and ends up with

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