TRANSPORTER 2 (2005)

 

Directed By: Louis Leterrier Written By: Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen  Cinematography: Mitchell Amundsen Editor: Christine Lucas Navarro & Vincent Tabaillon

Cast: Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, Alessandro Grossman, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine, Jason Flemyng, Keith David, Francois Baerleand, Annalynne McCord

Transporter Frank Martin surfaces in Miami, Florida, and is implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.

WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg  Written By: Josh Friedman & David Koep Based On The Novel By: H.G. Wells Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski  Editor: Michael Kahn 

Cast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto, Yul Vazquez, Rick Gonzalez, Lisa Ann Walter, Lenny Venito, David Alan Basche 

An updated version of H.G Wells' seminal sci-fi classic about an alien invasion threatening the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0062: 13 TZAMETI (2005)

Written & Directed By: Gela Babluani 
 Cinematography By: Tariel Meliava 
Editor: Noemie Moreau 

Cast: George Babluani, Aurelien Recoing, Pascal Bongard, Vania Vilers 

Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.

MORTUARY (2005)

Directed By: Tobe Hopper 
Written By: Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch 
Cinematography: Jaron Presant 
Editor: Andrew Cohen 


Cast: Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Denise Crosby, Bug Hall, Courtney Peldon, Rocky Marquette, Stephanie Patton, Adam Gierasch 


The widow Leslie Doyle has just lost her husband and moves with her teenage son Jonathan and her young daughter Jamie to a mortuary in a small town in California that she has bought with the intention of starting a new business, practicing her knowledge as mortician. When they arrive, Leslie realizes that she was lured by the former owner, Elliot, and that the decrepit Fowler Brothers Funeral Home was completely abandoned and with problem with the septic sewer. While Leslie tries to improve and clean the place and start embalming corpses, Jonathan is informed about the legend of Bobby Fowler, the deformed son of the Fowlers. Meanwhile a weird substance attacks people, transforming them in zombies.

LAST DAYS (2005)

Written, Edited & Directed By: Gus Van Sant 
Cinematography: Harris Savides 


Cast: Michael Pitt, Asia Argento, Lukas Haas, Harmony Korine, Kim Gordon, Ricky Jay, Nicole Vicius 

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent to those of and Based on the last days of musician Kurt Cobain.

GUESS WHO (2005)

Directed By: Kevin Rodney Sullivan 
Written By: David Ronn, Jay Scherick & Peter Tolan 
Story By: David Ronn & Jay Scherick 
Based on The Original Screenplay “GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER” By: William Rose Cinematography By: Karl Walter Lindenlaub 
Editor: Paul Seydor 

Cast: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott, Hal Williams, RonReaco Lee, Sherri Shepherd, Niecy Nash, Paula Newsome, Phil Reeves, Nicole Sullivan, Jessica Cauffiel, Kimberly Scott, Richard Lawson 

Percy and Marilyn are renewing their vows for their anniversary, and their daughter Theresa brings her boyfriend Simon for them to meet. Unbeknownst to her parents, the kids plan to announce their engagement during the weekend. The Jones family is Black; Theresa neglects to tell them Simon is White. Race complicates Percy's general mistrust of any boyfriend, so he instigates an investigation of Simon, discovering he's recently lost his job and hasn't told Theresa. Mistrust rears its ugly head, and in the process of Theresa and Simon's argument, Marilyn and Percy fall out. What can the men do to cross the divide between each other and between men and women? Will anyone be exchanging vows?

DOMINO (2005)

Directed By: Tony Scott 
Written By: Richard Kelly 
Story By: Richard Kelly & Steve Barancik 
Cinematography By: Dan Mindel 
Editor: William Goldenberg & Christian Wagner 


Cast: Kiera Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mo’Nique, Christopher Walken, Mena Suvari, Tom Waits, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green, Lew Temple, Lucy Liu, Dale Dickey, Jaqueline Bisset, Macy Gray, T.K. Carter, Dabney Coleman, Peter Jacobson, Jerry Springer, Frederick Koehler, Andy Milder 


The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while the FBI is monitoring two gangs of mobsters.

MISTRESS OF SPICES (2005)

Directed By: Paul Meyeda Berges 
Written By: Gurinder Chada & Paul Mayeda Berges 
Based On The Novel By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 
Cinematography By: Santosh Sivan 
Editor: Alexandro Rodriguez 


Cast: Ashyana Rai, Dylan McDermott, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Caroline Chikezie, Pamda Lakshmi 

In India, Tilo has the ability of foreseeing the future. When their parents are killed by bandits, she is kidnapped but escapes and is raised by the First Mother in a sort of traditional cult of spices. She becomes the Mistress of Spices and is sent to the Spice Bazaar in San Francisco, with the mission of following three basic rules: help her clients to accomplish their desires with the spices, but never hers; never leave the store; and never be touched in the skin. When she meets the handsome American architect Doug, she feels a great attraction and desire for him, breaking the first rule and being punished by the spices.

THE SANDLOT 2 (2005)

Written & Directed By: David Mickey Evans 
Based On Characters Created By: David Mickey Evans & Robert Gunter 
Cinematography By: David Pelletier 
Editor: Harry Keramidas 

Cast: Max Lloyd-Jones, Samantha Burton, James Wilson, Brett Kelly, Sean Berdy, Greg Germann, Reece Thomspson, James Earl Jones 


In the 12-years-since comedic sequel to 1993's The Sandlot, a new group of kids have moved into the sandlot: David Durango , Mac McKing, his deaf brother Sammy "Fingers" , Tarquell , Scotty's younger brother Johnnie Smalls, and a surprise for The Sandlot 2, a girl in the group Hayley Goodfarier. When Johnnie mistakenly sends a model rocket over the junk fence in The Great Fear's yard, the gang must retrieve it. Even with the help of The Retriever, a kid who steals dog tags and finds The Great Fear's a challenge. Yes, complete with another psychotic name-calling scene with Mac and little league captain Singleton.

JUST FRIENDS (2005)

Directed By: Roger Kumble 
Written By: Adam Davis 
Cinematography By: Anthony B. Richmond 
Editor: Jeff Freeman 


Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Amy Smart, Chris Klein, Stephen Root, Julie Hagerty, Chris Marquette, Robin Dunne, Ashley Scott

ELIZABETHTOWN (2005)

Written & Directed By: Cameron Crowe 
Cinematography By: John Toll 
Editor: David Moritz 
Music By: Nancy Wilson 


Cast: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer, Bruce McGill, Paul Schneider, Loudon Wainwright III, Alec Baldwin, Jed Rees, Paula Deen

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME? (2005)

Written & Directed By: Bertrand Biler 
Cinematography By: Francoise Catonne 
Editor: Marion Monestier 

Cast: Monica Belucci, Bernard Campan, Gerard Depardieu

GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' (2005)

Directed By: Jim Sheridan 
Written By: Terence Winter 
Cinematography By: Declan Quinn 
Editor: Roger Barton & Conrad Buff Jr. 

Cast: Curtis “50 CENT” Jackson, Terrence Howard, Tory Kittles, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Leon, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Mykelti Williamson, Bill Duke, Viola Davis, Russell Hornsby, Mpho Koaho,

THE BAD NEWS BEARS (2005)

Directed By: Richard Linklater 
Written By: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa 
Based On The 1976 Screenplay By: Bill Lancaster 
Cinematography By: Rogier Stoffers 
Editor: Sandra Adair 

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear

HITCH (2005)

Directed By: Andy Tennent 
Written By: Kevin Bisch 
Cinematography By: Andrew Dunn 
Editor: Troy Takaki & Tracy Wadmore-Smith 

Cast: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta, Jeffrey Donovan, Adam Arkin, Michael Rapaport , Paula Patton, Kevin Sussman, Matt Malloy, Robinne Lee, Maria Thayer, Joe LoTruglio, Rain Phoenix, Beau Sia

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES: HALL OF FAME: FILE #24: TRAIN MAN (2005)

Directed By: Shosuke Murakami
Written By: Arisa Kaneko
Based On The Novel By: Hitori Nakano
Cinematography By: Shigeki Murano
Editor: Junosoke Hogaki

Cast: Takayuki Yamada, Miki Nakatani, Ryoko Kuninaka, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tae Kimura, Yoshinori Okada

JADE (2005)

Directed By: William Friedkin
Written By: Joe Eszterhaus
Cinematography By: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editor: Auggie Hess

Cast: David Caruso, Chazz Palmenteri, Linda Fiorentino, Angie Everhart, Donna Murphy, Richard Crenna, Kevin Tighe

ROMANCE & CIGARETTES (2005)

Directed & Written By: John Turturro
Cinematography By: Tom Stein
Editor: Ray Hubley

CAST: James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Mandy Moore, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Elaine Stritch, Tony Goldwyn, Mary Louise Parker, Amy Sedaris, Aida Turturro, Bobby Canavale, Eddie Izzard, Kumar Pallena

KICKING & SCREAMING (2005)

CAST: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Mike Ditka, Rachael Harris, Kate Walsh, Musetta Vander, Dave Herman, Laura Kightlinger, Tom Virtue, Martin Starr, Jarrad Paul

Directed By: Jesse Dylan
Written By: Steve Rudnick & Leo Benvenuti
Cinematography By: Lloyd Ahern II
Editor: Stuart H. Pappe & Peter Teschner

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This is what you get when you have a film starring will Ferrell but it is a restrained will ferrell he doesn’t have as many chances for improv with this film no doubt restrained since this is more of a film centered for families plus the cast is mostly kids. Do he is forced to play it more as scripted. The results are not horrible but exactly what you would expect in a family film. But if you notice up until now he still hasn’t made another family centric film since.

On the plus side it's not as horrible as youwould expect it's entertaining even amusing at times. Some other people are funny but it is mainly a project for Ferrell to take center stage. This is one of the comedies you would thinkhe would have taken more when he was on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE not so much when he made the leap to features. But this did help cement him a guaranteed hit and open up his fan base to a younger demographic that could actually get to see his films without there parents. Since most of the movies he had made at this point were Rated R.

The film is about Ferrell as a kind not very athletic businessman who’s father is a manly man who is a soccer coach who benches his grandson. so Ferell decides to coach his own soccer team with his son and other misfits as team members. At first he is a nightmare until he gets mike ditka to coach due to a rivalry with his father and soon the success and power goes to his head.

The main theme of the film is, Learning understanding and the importance of a relationship between a father and son. Which is unusual in of itself as most Will Ferrell films don't actually have a main theme. they are jsut surreal and off the wall.

Not the best of Will Ferrell’s films in fact this is one of his first sports themed films. It’s like watching a caged animal watching his work here. He is still entertaining and putting on a good show, but it’s like he is being held back from the top of his talent and what he is capable of. But at least you understand why it must be like this.

This is a nice film to watch with the whole family, a noteworthy rental

GRADE: C+

ROCK SCHOOL (2005)

Directed & Cinematography By: Don Argott
Editor: Demian Fenton