My wife was in MTL this weekend so I rented a few good flicks.
We are Marshall.
Great schlocky sports flick with Mathew McConaughy as the head coach who's gonna "rebuild the football program" after a horrific plane crash that wipes out the team.
It's one of those movies based on a true story that is really good and it turns out true.
Definitely worthy if you're browsing and can't make up your mind.
7 out of 10.
You Kill Me.
Stars Ben Kingsly as an alcoholic hit-man who is messing up on his job (not killing people!) so his employers, the Buffalo Snow-Plow Mob send him Westward for help.
He joins AA, meets Luke Wilson, gets to sex it up with Tea Leone (also the films producer) and eventually finds sobriety, redemption and gets back to the biz of killing.
I liked this mainly cause Ben Kingsly is a dang good bad guy. It's a much watered-down version of his crazy assassin in Sexy Beast but BK can still bring it.
Also Tea Leone is nice to look at.
7.5 out of 10.
Fred Claus.
I took Spencer to this while Charlie had some boys over for a project. (A whole other story but suffice it to say I made it clear to the lads that a) I was crazy and b) should anything go on bad things would happen.)
Anyway Fred Claus is a fine kid-flick with some huge acting pedigree up on the screen.
Paul Giamatti, Kevin Spacey, Vince Vaughn, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, and Kathy Bates.
Too bad the script was so weak. That cast should have been doing The Usual Suspects 2.
The whole thing is like every Vince Vaughn movie you've ever seen. He's a wise-cracking hipster who has spent his whole life in the shadow of his younger brother Santa Claus. A bunch of stuff happens and then in the end Vince and Santa hug and it's over.
Your kids will like it but not if they're too young. I think any age under 6 or 7 will have trouble toughing out the nearly 2 hours of holiday hokeyness.
6.2 out of 10
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