Inglourious Basterds - Brad Pitt (2009)

I don't know, I must be getting old.And Brad Pitt is getting old.But I just didn't think this movie was that good.Don't get me wrong; I loved Pulp Fiction. But Quentin Tarantino's latest effort--Inglourious Basterds-- is more of the same, tired, overly violent crap.The blood baths, so outrageous in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, are no longer shocking. It is just gross.And it just wasn't that funny.I thought Pitt did an excellent...

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Chéri - Michelle Pfeiffer (2009)

This gorgeously filmed movie, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, is an adaptation of two novels by famed French novelist, Collette.Collette, a writer of the late 1800s and early 1900s, wrote the novel Gigi, upon which the same-titled film is based.The novels, Chéri and La Fin de Chéri, are about a aging courtesan and her relationship with the son of a fellow courtesan.Michelle Pfeiffer plays the 1890s version of a cougar with elegance and verve. Still startlingly...

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Julie & Julia - Amy Adams, Meryl Streep (2009)

I thought I was going to have to sit through GI Joe since my friend had brought her husband along with us to the movies.I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had bought tickets for Julie & Julia.Oh, what a wonderful movie. And Meryl Streep--what an astounding actress. She surprises me over and over again.The story of a 29 year old's quest to "make something of herself" before she hits 30, Julie test her limits by cooking all of the famed American cook Julia Child's 536 recipes in 365 days.Telling the tale of two stories--Julia's and...

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