SIP Movie Review Blog

 Just went to see Red Tails, starring Terrence Howard (Iron Man, Hustle and Flow), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry McGuire, Men of Honour), Nate Parker (The Great Debaters, Felon), Tristin Wilds (90210, The Secret Life of Bees), Elijah Kelley (Hairspray, Take the Lead), Daniela Ruah (From TV: NCIS, Hawaii Five-O), and Ne-Yo (Precious, Stomp The Yard). Read More...

Just saw an outstanding movie, The Descendants, starring George Clooney (Up In the Air, O Brother Where Art Thou?), Shailene Woodley (TV roles on CSI, My Name is Earl), Amara Miller (first time on big screen), Nick Krause (How to Eat Fried Worms, The Garage), Patricia Hastie (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Princess Kaiulani), Beau Bridges (Fabulous Baker Boys, Stargate SG1), Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo, She’s All That), Judy Greer (Love and Other Drugs, What Women Want), and Robert Forster (Mulholland Drive, Me Myself and Irene).   Read More...

                                                                                                                             Just saw the best movie of the year: Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol, starring Tom Cruise (Top Gun, MI 1, 2, 3), Jeremy Renner (Hurt Locker, The Town), Simon Pegg (MI 3, Star Trek), Paula Patton (Jumping the Broom, Hitch), Michael Nyqvist (All three of the Girl Who… movies from Sweden), and a whole bunch of folks who speak Russian.  We even had a cameo from Ving Rhames who made $7.7 million for a 3 minute walk-on at the end.   Read More...

Just saw a great movie, with no sex, drugs, nothing blew up, not even a drunk appeared.  Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt (Sev7en, Ocean’s 11, 12, 13), Jonah Hill (Super Bad, Knocked Up), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Mission Impossible III, Magnolia), Robin Wright (Unbreakable, Princess Bride), Chris Pratt (Wanted, Bride Wars), Steven Bishop (The Rundown, Friday Night Lights), and Jack Mcgee (Crash, 21) is that movie.           Read More...

Just saw a horror movie, Contagion, starring Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man, Country Strong), Matt Daymon (The Departed, Bourne Ultimatum), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix I, II, III), Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, Cold Mountain), Kate Winslet (Titanic, Revolutionary Road), Marion Cotillard (Inception, Public Enemies), Elliott Gould (Mash, Ocean’s 11 & 13), and Bryan Cranston (Little Miss Sunshine, Drive). Read More...

We have a winner. The 2011 movie of the year is...
The Help, starring Emma Stone (Easy A, Zombieland), Viola Davis (Doubt, Knight and Day), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village, Spiderman), Octavia Spencer (Spiderman, Seven Pounds), Jessica Chastain (Tree of Life, The Debt), Allison Janney (American Beauty, Juno), Cicely Tyson (Fried Green Tomatoes, Sounder), Sissy Spacek (Carrie, Coal Miner’s Daughter), and Mary Steenburgen (The Proposal, Step Brothers). Actually a lot more, just named the ones who were prominent and I know of. So here’s the story, based on a novel by Kathryn Stockett. Emma Stone plays Skeeter, a recent college grad who comes home to start a career, hoping to be a writer. She is armed with a rejection letter from a New York publisher (run by Mary Steenburgen), and a can-do attitude. She comes back to Jackson Mississippi, gets on the staff of the local paper as the “how to clean things” columnist.  Read More...

Just saw a much advertised movie that was good, not great.  Cowboys and Aliens stars Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace), Harrison Ford  (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars), Buck Taylor (old timey cowboy from Gunsmoke, Wild Wild West), Olivia Wilde (Tron:Legacy, Next Three Days), Sam Rockwell (Green Mile, Iron Man 2), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood), Keith Carradine (Southern Comfort, Long Riders).  This was a star stacked movie, just didn’t open up any new doors. Read More...

Now, we have just seen the final edition in the most highly publicized, longest running series on the earth. I am referring to Harry Potter, the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. It stars a lot of the same folks: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron), Emma Watson (Hermione), Michael Gambon (Dumbledore), Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix), Alan Rickman (Snape), and finally Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort-one whose name we do not speak!).  Read More...

Just saw a movie that is the third in a very successful series, Transformers, Dark of the Moon. It stars lots of folks from the first two: Shia Lebeouf (Sam), Kevin Dunn and Julie White (his parents), Josh Duhamel (from TV’s Las Vegas), and returning as the conspiracy theory expert, John Turturro. We also have newbies: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Victoria’s Secret Model taking the place of Megan Fox), Patric Dempsey (from TV’s Gray’s Anatomy), Francis McDormand (Fargo, Burn After Reading), John Malkovich (Con Air, Burn After Reading), and Ken Jeong (Hangover 1 & 2).  Read More...

Finally a decent movie, actually an outstanding movie. One to start the summer with, I’m referring to Super 8, starring a gaggle of youth who are putting together a home movie. Joel Courtney (brand new) leads off as the hero, so to speak. We also have Ryan lee (Trick or Treat, Shorts) as a pyromaniac, Zach Mills (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium) a movie set assistant, Riley Griffiths (new) the movie producer, Gabriel Basso (Alabama Moon, The Big C) the leading man in the home movie, and Elle Fanning (Yes, Dakota’s sister, has been in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Déjà vu) as the leading lady in the home movie. We also have some adults, Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, King Kong), Ron Eldard (Blackhawk Down, House of Sand and Fog) and Joel McKinnon Miller (Big Love, Men in Black 2).  Read More...