7/10 Boxing movies usually focus on rags to riches kind of stories, focusing on guys who struggle to make it to the top. The Fighter is a true story about a guy who can’t escape his brother’s shadow despite the tarnish legacy he has. Mark Wahlberg is good here, but not great, and is outshined … More The Fighter (2010)
release date: 12 December 2014 (Canada) run time: 150 mins rated: PG considered: Action, Adventure, Drama director: Ridley Scott starring: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelssohn, Maria Valverde, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Hiam Abbass, Isaac Andrews, Ewen Bremner, Indria Varma, Golshifteh Farahani, Ghassan Massoud, Tara Fitzgerald movie summary: The majority of people in the world know the story … More Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Last week when I was reviewing the Wolverine movie for the second time in a year, I decided to take a look back at my original posts from last July. Most of you will notice that in the beginning my reviews were short, to the point, and didn’t include any movie summaries. Somewhere along the … More Throwback Thursday – The Dark Knight (my original post unedited)
run time: 138 mins rated: R considered: Crime, Drama starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Robert De Niro, Michael Pena, Louis C.K. movie summary: A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them … More American Hustle (2013)
run time: 116 mins rated: R considered: Crime, Drama, Thriller, starring: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Sam Sherpard movie summary: When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement fails to follow through, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice. (www.imdb.com) my thoughts: Out … More Out of the Furnace (2013)
run time: 140 mins rated: PG 13+ considered: Action, Adventure, Crime starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman movie summary: After training with his mentor, Batman begins his war on crime to free the crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption that the Scarecrow and the League of … More Batman Begins (2005)
run time: 165 mins rated: PG 13+ considered: Action, Crime, Thriller starring: Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard movie summary: Eight years on, a new evil rises from where the Batman and Commissioner Gordon tried to bury it, causing the Batman to resurface and fight to protect … More The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
run time: 152 mins rated: PG 13+ considered: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller starring: Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine movie summary: When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing … More The Dark Knight (2008)
Ten Stars or Less 