So I was chan­nel surf­ing the other day and came upon a movie with Anthony Hop­kins and Ryan Gosling called Frac­ture. I was imme­di­ately sucked into the movie due to the fact that I love Ryan Gosling and any movie star­ring Anthony Hop­kins is usu­ally a really good movie. This movie was made in 2007 and I have never heard of it before but it is def­i­nitely a thriller from the get go. IMDB describes the movie as “An attor­ney intent on climb­ing the career lad­der toward suc­cess, finds an unlikely oppo­nent in a manip­u­la­tive crim­i­nal he’s try­ing to prosecute”(IMDB.com).

The plot of the movie is that Anthony Hop­kins is a bril­liant engi­neer, charged with attempted mur­der of his wife who is cur­rently in a coma. Ryan Gosling is the state appointed pros­e­cu­tor who is up against Hop­kins who decides to defend him­self. As the movie unrav­els Gosling begins to ques­tion if Hop­kins is guilty and is torn with his duty to pros­e­cute and his doubts of whether Hop­kins is a mur­derer or a victim.

I highly rec­om­mend this movie it is an old one but a good one. If you are a fan of Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hop­kins you will enjoy this movie. There are a lot of really good twists and turns and it keeps you guess­ing till the end.

I finally saw the movie the Help a few weeks back and I have to say that it was prob­a­bly one of the best movies that I have seen in a long time.  When I watched this movie I was absolutely, aston­ished at how peo­ple behaved and it was really sad and heart­break­ing to watch. The way soci­ety acted as a whole back then is so dif­fer­ent than it is today. It was a huge eye opener for me some­one born in the 1970’s who has never expe­ri­enced segregation.

This movie takes place in the 1960’s in the south dur­ing the civil rights move­ment. It cen­ters around an aspir­ing writer and maids who are going through major hard­ships work­ing for white women and their chil­dren. The movie stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek and Octavia Spencer. This movie brought me to tears of joy and hap­pi­ness. There are many funny and engag­ing parts of this movie. The act­ing was very con­vinc­ing and I highly rec­om­mend this movie to everyone.

 
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I watched this movie star­ring Helen Mir­ren called The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. This movie is set in the 1950’s where Helen Mir­ren plays the part of an aging stage actress who is mar­ried to a very weatlhy hus­band. While en route to vaca­tion in Rome with her hus­band after a very dis­as­trous play her hus­band suf­fers a heart attack and dies. She decides to stay in Rome and finds her­self friends with the seedy Con­tessa played very well by Anne Ban­croft.

The con­tessa intro­duces her to young gigo­los and she starts a very tumul­tuous affair with a  much younger Ital­ian played by Olivier Mar­tinez. The Con­tessa and the gigo­los use her for her money but she falls in love with her young lover. She also has a very mys­te­ri­ous poor young man that fol­lows her through­out the movie. This adds mys­tery to the movie and keeps you guess­ing as to who he is and what he wants from her.

This movie is very sen­sual and the love scenes are very passionate.There is some­thing delight­ful in the pair­ing of a much older actress to a younger man. This is a rated R movie and meant for mature audi­ences only. The act­ing of Ms. Helen Mir­ren and Anne Ban­croft was excel­lent and I enjoyed this movie very much. So pour your­self some wine, light some can­dles and enjoy this deli­cious movie.

I am a lover of movies of all kinds but I gen­er­ally enjoy a good scary/thriller movie. I grew up in the era of bad but clas­sic hor­ror movies like Hal­loween, Fri­day the 13th etc but I do not like the slasher type of movie. I pre­fer ones with a story like a haunt­ing or crank callers who are call­ing from inside the house type of plot lol. So I came across this movie on Show­time called The Caller star­ring Rah­celle Lefevre. She is not a well known actress but she was in Twi­light and so I decided to watch it.

The movie is cen­tered around the main char­ac­ter of Mary Kee. She is a young divorcee who moves into this old apart­ment build­ing and starts receiv­ing weird phone calls from an older lady named Mary. Mary becomes very demand­ing and insists that the two of them become friends. Mary Kee agrees to the friend­ship until the lady reveals she is call­ing from the past. This spooks Mary Kee and she decides to break off the friend­ship when Mary on the phone admits to killing her boyfriend. Mary becomes angry and takes revenge out on Mary Kee. Mary is psy­cho and has access to Mary Kee and her fam­ily when Mary Kee is a child, since she lives in the past. So any­thing that Mary does to her as a child will effect her in the future day.

This movie totally freaked me out I have to admit it, I was totally into it and it really is a true thriller movie. I liked that it was not your typ­i­cal movie and that it had to do with deal­ing with the past and the present. I have never in my whole life been afraid of an old lady before, the actress that played Mary did an excel­lent job although you never really see her face. She did a very con­vinc­ing act and her voice is creepy. If you like movies that are scary and have a thriller mys­tery to it then you will enjoy this movie. The  sup­port­ing cast in the movie was good as well, Stephen Moyer starred in this for any of you True Blood fans.

So next time you are on Net­flicks or going to a movie rental place pick up a copy of The Caller.

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I saw a very intrigu­ing movie the other day on Show­time called Jolene. I missed the first half of the movie but I became very enthralled with the sto­ry­line. The movie was directed by Dan Ire­land based on the novel from E.L. Doctorow’s novel “Jolene: A-Life”. This movie fol­lows the life of an orphaned girl Jolene who trav­els the span of ten years of her life ages 15 to 25 mov­ing cross-country expe­ri­enc­ing life, love and major heartbreak.

The movie stars Jes­sica Chas­tain. I liked her act­ing and she has a very unique and clas­sic look. She has the essence of an old Hol­ly­wood movie star and I can see her act in period pieces very well. The movie’s dia­logue at best is mediocre but the act­ing from the stars in the movie like Fran­cis Fisher, Chazz Palminteri, Der­mot Mul­roney, and Michael Var­tan are phenomenal.

The movie is very quirky with a lot of sex­ual ref­er­ences and adult themes. So if you are offended easy or don’t like that you will not like this movie. This movie takes on very extreme and some­times dis­turb­ing sto­ry­lines. It deals with Jolene mak­ing bad choices, choos­ing the wrong men and learn­ing to sur­vive at any costs. Some­times the char­ac­ter made me upset when she always went with a man to save her instead of lean­ing on her­self. She did learn to finally make it on her own but not until after she made a lot of mis­takes and expe­ri­enced many bad rela­tion­ships and choices. She was a vic­tim in a lot of cir­cum­stances and she was forced into some things she would not have done oth­er­wise. The movie trav­els over a ten year period and you see her change and evolve with every new city.

I like movies that are out­side the box and not your usual story line that you see in all movies. The main char­ac­ter did things I would never do but it was enter­tain­ing to see her char­ac­ter be unin­hib­ited. The inter­ac­tions with her and the other movie char­ac­ters and her effect on them, was also very interesting.

I rec­om­mend this movie Jolene that came out in 2008. It is avail­able on Net flicks and on some cable chan­nels right now. Jes­sica Chas­tain can also be seen in The Help, The Tree of Life and a slew of new movies for 2012. I have not seen her other movies but plan to rent them now since I am a new fan of hers. Jes­sica Chas­tain I pre­dict will be a break out star for 2012.