$9.99

$9.99 is a unique stop motion animated movie centering on Dave, his family and his unusual neighbors in his apartment building and their individual search for meaning in life. Dave orders books (for $9.99) that promise to explain meaning in life, though they don’t seem to do so, or at least he doesn’t seem to be able to apply what he learns. Unemployed, he tries to work with his older brother but can’t bring himself to re-possess an ex-magician’s goods. Though he cooks gourmet meals and takes deli ...  MORE

(500) DAYS OF SUMMER

(500) DAYS OF SUMMER is a fantastically-directed charming and quirky, yet so realistic, movie about a boy who meets a girl, falls in love, and experiences heartbreak and self-discovery when he finds out the girl doesn’t feel the same. Although there are many commendable elements in regards to the production values and the movie’s affirmation of marriage, the experience is ultimately marred by a strong Romantic worldview, foul language, alcohol use, and sexual material. This semi autobiographical story ...  MORE

... AND GOD SPOKE

... AND GOD SPOKE is a comedy about the making of a fictitious movie with the same title. A B-level film director, Clive, and his producer, Marvin, decide that their next film will be a biblical epic, since movies about the Bible "do well, especially in the South." The film tracks the team's doomed efforts to capture the Bible in one movie, from their failure to cast any truly big stars to their eventual drumming by the critics, and suffers the same fate as the movie about the movie: namely, no knowledge ...  MORE

10,000 B.C.

10,000 B.C. is an entertaining but silly popcorn movie. It is a totally fabricated, mythic legend that violates the principles of time and space to imagine a “what if” world in 10,000 B.C. The little Yagahl tribe lives sheltered in the high mountains. The tribe survives on killing mastodons, but the mastodons are getting fewer and fewer. The rightful leader of the tribe, who carried the white spear, seems to have abandoned the tribe. People take out their anger against his young son, D’Leh. The Old ...  MORE

101 DALMATIANS (1991)

One of Disney's best feature cartoons, 101 DALMATIANS features comical dogs and nonsensical humans in a romantic detective story. It all begins when four-legged Pongo and his master, Roger, fall in love with Anita and her dog, Perdita. Roger and Anita marry happily, and puppy love leads to a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies for Pongo and Perdita. When it comes time for the puppies to be sold, a wicked woman named Cruella De Vil demands all 15 puppies. Roger refuses, prompting Cruella to hire a pair of Co ...  MORE

101 DALMATIANS (1996)

101 DALMATIANS is adorable. This live action version of Disney's classic animated movie pushes all the right emotional buttons while upholding marriage and the sanctity of human life, as well as a high regard for animal life. Set in London, 101 DALMATIANS tells about two well-rounded singles who get together through their Dalmatians. Or rather, their Dalmatians drag them together. When they realize that their Dalmatians are in love, they know they can't separate them, so they get married. Soon, both the h ...  MORE

101 REYKJAVÍK

101 REYKJAVÍK is the worst introduction moviegoers can possibly have to the state of movies in Iceland. It may be the filthiest foreign movie ever released in the United States. The protagonist of this movie is a twentysomething unemployed slacker named Hlynur. Hlynur still lives with his hash-smoking mother, who has divorced her alcoholic husband, Hlynur’s father. Hlynur constantly complains about the boring life in Reykjavík, the nation’s capital, and wonders why there is no good pornography on TV ...  MORE

102 DALMATIANS

Disney’s live-action comedy, 102 DALMATIANS, is a sequel to the 1996 hit, 101 DALMATIANS. The top dog in the new story is a Dalmatian female puppy named “Oddball” who doesn’t have any spots. Although the new movie itself is not entirely spotless, it contains many of the same elements that made the previous movie such a hit. Once again, Glenn Close plays Cruella De Vil, the fashion conscious villain in the first movie, as well as in the 1960s animated Disney classic of Dodie Smith’s original nove ...  MORE

12

12, an 2008 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, is a brilliantly acted and well-made Russian movie loosely based on the classic film, 12 ANGRY MEN. Set in contemporary Moscow, 12 is the story of a group of Russian jurors who must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murder. Cloistered away in a high-school gymnasium that is being used as a makeshift jury room, the jurors sit down for what should be a quick declaration of “guilty” over the young Chechen soldier. ...  MORE

12 MONKEYS

It is the year 2035. Time travel is the norm, and the population is viral-phobic and obsessed with the idea that they can change history. The scientists of the day choose a criminal by the name of James Cole, played by Bruce Willis, to go back to 1996 to find out the source of a deadly virus. James is lured by a promised pardon in exchange for this dubious task. The time machinery is deficient, and James finds himself in the middle of a World War 1. He makes it to 1996 but is taken into a mental instituti ...  MORE