Get the plot of “I Love You, Man”. Read this Movie Summary By Michael The Moviegoer.
I Love You, Man = ***
“A Bromantic Comedy”
Upon becoming engaged, Paul Rudd discovers he has no male friends in his life. So who will be his best man? That’s the premise for this new bromantic comedy “I Love You, Man.” [...]
Find out the plot of Sunshine Cleaning by reading the movie summary by Michael The Moviegoer.
SUNSHINE CLEANING = ****
“I Clean Dead People”
This movie opens with a man walking into a gun shop and asking to see a shotgun. He then puts the gun under his chin and blows his own head off. It sets the [...]
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THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD = **
“Howard The Duck?”
John Malkovich is a has-been magician (or “mentalist”) named Buck Howard who believes he’s more famous than he actually is. After 61 appearances on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, [...]
Review and Movie Summary by Michael The Moviegoer.
Rating= **
Duplicity “Two Rights Make A Wrong”
Tony Gilroy’s previous film was the complex, intriguing and Oscar-nominated big-business thriller “Michael Clayton”. Sadly, “Duplicity” is not “Michael Clayton’s” double. In fact, it doesn’t even feel like it was made by the same filmmaker!
The nearly unrecognizable plot in “Duplicity” couldn’t be [...]
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Crossing Over “Crash Course”
Rating: ***
You might think that a drama about immigration into the U.S. that is called “Crossing Over” and is set almost entirely in Los Angeles would deal exclusively with border issues between California and Mexico. But Wayne Kramer’s film follows the formula of Paul [...]
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WATCHMEN: “Watch This!
Rating ***
After all the hoopla surrounding the legal fights between the studios has died down. After you get past the fact that Alan Moore didn’t ever want to see his landmark graphic novel made into a movie. After you’re done hearing about how unfilmable the novel [...]
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THE INTERNATIONAL: “Rates High Interest”
Rating ***1/2
Tom Tykwer is a cool director. Among the cool titles in his filmography are “Run Lola Run” and the criminally underrated and overlooked “Perfume”. With “The International”, Tykwer may have his first big mainstream hit. For those who once prayed that Clive Owen [...]
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CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC: “Declined”
Rating **
Here’s a movie that’s a mixed bag of mixed messages. The charming Isla Fisher plays the crazed shopping-addicted Rebecca Bloomwood. She has a credit card collection to equal that of a young boy’s baseball card collection. Yet she’s over the [...]
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HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU: “Written And Directed By Cupid”
Rating ****
It’s hard to imagine having a good time viewing a film adapted from a self help-style dating manual. But, then, you’re forgetting Woody Allen’s 1972 masterpiece “Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were [...]
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TAKEN: “…But Not Stirred”
Rating: Zero stars
In the first 5 minutes of “Taken” we learn that Liam Neeson is a no-nonsense ex-CIA operative. We learn it again at 8 minutes. And at least a dozen more times during the first 20 minutes for those who are strolling [...]