Paycheck (2004)

A fun, unexpected romp with an interesting premise, Paycheck is a welcome return to good movie stature for director John Woo. Ben Affleck is a corporate tool who looks donates his body in exchange for the big payoff. With the promise of one final self sustaining job he is caught in a swirling conspiracy without any memory of two years prior. A thriller that ends up being more fun in the end, a highly entertaining

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Family Guy Episode – Road to Rhode Island

This week was the first of two weeks of Family Guy marathons on Fox. This is in preparation of new episodes next fall, and a new show by Seth McFarlane early next year. They did some promotion for that show during the episodes, but not nearly as much as I would have expected. Not to mention, why the episodes, why now, the new ones seem too far off. Is it so people remember what Family Guy was before the …

Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Thirty minutes of action that goes from solid special effects and intrigue to a typical drama and really bad dialogue. Tomorrow is a good movie in a sense, but even for a destruction movie it was anticlimactic, not really showing that much destruction in context, instead giving more global verbalizations of future destructive events.

With interesting theories on the Atlantic current and instantaneous freezing temperatures, this movie isn’t all BS. It is also good for enormous

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South Park the Movie (1999)

Having seen this movie for the first time in four years, it’s rating slipped some then if I had commented on it at that time. With edgy jabs and the best musical revolving around body noises ever constructed, this is still a classic and a piece of my college nostalgia.

Matchstick Men (2003)

A movie about a con artist, Nicolas Cage was the overwhelming obsessive compulsive in this movie, further blurring the line between his personal reality and acting. Obnoxiously quirky Cage’s conscience and obsessive personality overtakes him and he reaches out for his long lost daughter, another great performance by Alison Lohman. I was so bored that the major twist and the end of the movie was too little too late.

Extreme Home Makeover

Now, I must admit, I knew of this show but never thought I would get sucked in. Tyler Penninghamingfordinski, or whatever his name is, is this hunky, goofy guy that every post college years girl dreams about. He is obnoxious, and the whole show is so abrasive, with the gay guy, gasp, that is the interior designer, and the whole other crew that continuously say throughout the show “I don’t think we’ll get this finished”.

But the idea of the show, believing that bad things can happen to people, and that some people actually deserve a …

Godfather Part I (1972)

When Justin Varner and I watched this for the first time in college, I knew this was a great movie. But when Sarah and I rented this from the library, I picked up on so much more and realized why this movie is such a classic. Al Pacino really is at his best in this movie, to see his character change from slightly denying what his father did for a living but war hardened to

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