The Namesake (2006) Movie Reviews

The Namesake (2006)

American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family’s unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

Pride (2007) Movie Reviews

Pride (2007)

The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.

Reign Over Me (2007) Movie Reviews

Reign Over Me (2007)

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

Shooter (2007) Movie Reviews

Shooter (2007)

A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up.

The Host (2006) Movie Reviews

The Host (2006)

A monster emerges from Seoul’s Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim’s loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

Breaking and Entering (2007) Movie Reviews

Breaking and Entering (2007)

A landscape architect’s dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.

I Think I Love My Wife (2007) Movie Reviews

I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

A married man who daydreams about being with other women finds his will and morals tested after he’s visited by the ex-mistress of his old friend.

Premonition (2007) Movie Reviews

Premonition (2007)

Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.

300 (2007) Movie Reviews

300 (2007)

King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

Miss Potter (2006) Movie Reviews

Miss Potter (2006)

The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children’s book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”, and her struggle for love, happiness and success.

The Lives of Others (2006) Movie Reviews

The Lives of Others (2006)

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

The Ultimate Gift (2007) Movie Reviews

The Ultimate Gift (2007)

A deceased billionaire leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive “the ultimate gift,” with the resentful grandson having no idea what that might be.

Black Snake Moan (2006) Movie Reviews

Black Snake Moan (2006)

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

Full of It (2007) Movie Reviews

Full of It (2007)

A young kid is forced to live out the lies he told to become popular.

Zodiac (2007) Movie Reviews

Zodiac (2007)

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.

Amazing Grace (2006) Movie Reviews

Amazing Grace (2006)

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

The Astronaut Farmer (2007) Movie Reviews

The Astronaut Farmer (2007)

A NASA astronaut (Thornton), forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government’s threats to stop him.

Breach (2007) Movie Reviews

Breach (2007)

FBI upstart Eric O’Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.