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The Longest Yard (2005) --> The Longest Yard, starring Adam Sandler, reworks the movie of the same name from 1976. The story is similar but the original is better. The original is less show and more grit which you would both expect and want from a movie that centers on a football game between the prisoners and guards of a maximum security penitentiary. If you like Adam Sandler's other movies you will enjoy this one. Rob Schneider makes his usual appearance in a Sandler movie yelling out "You Can Do It!" for everyone watching to laugh at.


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Dogville (2003) --> Lars von Trier is an extraordinary filmmaker. His films are experimental yet highly accessible. With Dogville he works with a closed set and very little props. It looks like a play taking place in a small airport hanger. Where the buildings should be you only find outlines in white paint, the streets are named on the floor as if the set was directly transposed from a city map. Nicole Kidman stars and is a tour de force. The movie is a morality play where arrogance is its main issue. This is a heady movie that will make you seek out others who saw it in order to discuss all its intricacies and judgments of what is right.


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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) --> Except for the thrill of seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie try to kill each other, this movie is pointless. There is nothing spectacular in this movie by > director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity (2002) and Swingers (1996)). This movie is a let down. From what sounded like a cool concept (hitmen married but unknown to each other as killers), turned out to be just a movie to get both stars on the screen together.


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Le Placard [The Closet] (2001) --> Francis Veber comedy that plays with people's perceptions and conceptions of homosexuality. It tells of François Pignon (Daniel Auteuil) a introverted and dull assistant accountant. He learns that he will be fired. On the prompting of a gay next door neighbour (and with his help), Pignon pretends he is gay. As the company he works for is a condom manufacturer, and their main market is the gay men demographic, they decide to keep him on to hilarious results.


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