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Excerpt: Filmed mostly in Colombia, Maria Full of Grace is a dramatic movie about the illegal drug industry occurring between Colombia and the United States.  The movie was released in 2004 and is approximately 90 minutes long.  Maria Full of Grace effectively portrays the differences in lifestyle between the United States and South American countries with much smaller GDPs (Gross Domestic Products).  Viewers will see the extremes that people will go through to get drugs through customs and make extremely large amounts of money.  In the beginning of the movie, we get a feel of what Maria’s daily life is like in Colombia.  She works in a flower shop, removing thorns from roses.  Her boss walks the isles of his workers all day long asking for more production and asking if his workers are meeting their quotas.  Maria returns home every day to a small home with approximately three rooms which she shares with her mother, two sisters, and baby niece.  She also has a boyfriend named Juan who does not have much of a promising future and has a happy-go-lucky attitude.  Juan and Maria walk the town often and stop to kiss or climb onto rooftops to gain some privacy.  The director portrays an active nightlife in the Colombian city where Maria lives.  She and Juan often go out drinking and dancing at various parties or clubs with Maria’s little sister Blanca.  Juan usually drinks too…

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Excerpt: The U.S. Army bomb disposal unit has three men: anintelligence officer, the specialist who covers thescene with his rifle and the staff sergeant whowalks up to the device and tries to turn it off.Today there’s a report of one on a Baghdad street.Mission simple to define — “Let them know that ifthey’re gonna leave a bomb on the side of the road,”the staff sergeant says, “we’re gonna blow up theirf—in’ road” — but way harder to accomplish. As hewalks toward the contaminated area wearing aheavily insulated space suit on a 130-degree day, hecatches the corner-eyesight of a man about to use acell phone. The spaceman turns and runs. Too late:BOOM! The bomb detonates and so does he. Bloodseeps down his helmet visor like red rain on thewrong side of a car windshield.This is the first scene of The Hurt Locker, which hasits world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival before playing Sunday at the Toronto fest. No U.S. opening or distributor has been secured, but that should change once festival people strap themselves in for this dynamite drive through the Iraq occupation. (Make that war.) Except for a few digressive scenes — a solo sortie of personal vengeance, a conversation about what it all means — that could easily be cut from the 2 hr. 11 min. running time, The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy…

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Excerpt: 2012 – REVIEW 4 out of 10 What can I say about 2012?  The special effects are amazing… everything else, not so much.  The script is horrible, most of the acting is cheesy and the film is waaaaay too long at two hours and forty minutes.  There so many things to snicker at in this movie, it’s difficult to know where to begin.  The only reason the movie merits even a 4 out of 10 is because there is about a half hour of pure movie thrills that will leave you gasping for air.  So roughly one-fifth of the movie is good.  The rest is fairly awful. 2012 is simply about people trying to survive the end of the world.  Director Roland Emmerich has plenty of experience with disaster movies.  He directed Independence Day (his best film by far), Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow and clearly has an affinity for destroying the world.  Really, how many times can one man include a scene where the White House gets demolished?  It’s time to move on Roland.  Perhaps you should revisit your sci-fi Stargate days.  Don’t get me wrong.  Emmerich blows things up with style, but it’s becoming a bit old and predictable.  2012 wouldn’t even be all that bad if it weren’t for the atrocious script by Emmerich and Harald Kloser.  There are so many bad lines and ridiculous moments you’ll be stunned.  I don’t even…

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Excerpt: What do you get when you combine Alec Baldwin, Merryl Streep, and Steve Martin in a movie with a rather tired plot?  It’s not really that complicated.  You get a pretty good movie. Let us first start with Alec Baldwin.  In spite of all of the personal problems he has had, his acting remains absolutely top notch in everything that he does.  Perhaps he has been through so much in his personal life that he knows how to play every role in which he is cast.  In “It’s Complicated”, he plays a rather manic divorcee, not too much of a stretch for him given that his personal life as a manically divorced man has been played out for all to see.  As one of Hollywood’s top leading actors, Alec plays his role as a divorced lawyer who has married a younger woman to a tee. Merryl Streep continues to be a master of the craft and her presence alone makes this one of the top ten movie rentals.  From her early movies to recent endeavors, including “Julia and Julia”, Merryl Streep shines in just about every role that she plays.  In this movie, she plays a character named Jane, who has been divorced by her husband and forced to pick up her life and move on.  She has done quite well in her personal endeavors and has found peace.  That is, until her ex-husband reignites his passions for…

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Excerpt: Terminator 4 (2009) Review Maybe it’s just because I went in with really low expectations after the crappy RT score and generally negative reactions, but I thought the movie was a lot of fun. Definitely surpassed my expectations. The movie had decent action and it appears to mostly make sense (at least on a superficial level), but I really can’t shake that dull feeling that nothing happened. Like “why was this made? Why was Terminator brought back?” This added nothing to anything, and it’s such a disappointment because I think we all wanted to see Connor in the future making it right. It did feel like it was building up to something… that never happened. Now, that could (and probably is) be due to the ending re-write, but the movie we got felt like there was another reel to go before the credits hit. But, after the mess that was T3, I was very happy with T4. The camera work/special effects were awesome. Oh, and with the Arnold thing; for CG, it was great, but for looking like Arnold, I think he just looked way too young. I know it’s from his 1984 model, but they could have added some lines to the face. It looked too clean, but I guess no computer technology right now can match up to reality. I’d go ***. Drag Me To Hell (2009) Review The cast didn’t really do anything…

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