Ten Movies Joe Can’t Wait to See (Fall 2008 Edition)
Joe picks his ten most anticipated films of the Fall 2008 movie season.
Joe picks his ten most anticipated films of the Fall 2008 movie season.
A youngish man returns to the womb of his parent’s incredibly odd home in this torturously slow but occasionally intriguing effort.
Melissa Leo gives an Oscar-worthy performance as a desperate woman who enters a dangerous game to save her family.
Paul W. S. Anderson’s noisy, nonsensical remake fails to hold together even in its own paper-thin world.
Is he a traitor, a good guy or someone working solo? That is the question that drives this high energy political thriller that satisfies as long as you can get past the stench at the end.
In 1966, a young British boy is having a bar mitzvah but soccer’s World Cup may interfere in this tale that tightropes between schmaltz and comedy, thankfully never falling into the gaping abyss.
A young French beauty attracts two vastly different men. One is a successful writer, the other, a rich spoiled brat. The result is even less appealing than it sounds.
Stiller & Co. deliver not only a clever action movie parody, but a beyond-meta, multi-layered satire that bites the Hollywood hand that feeds it.
Sincere, relentlessly somber parable about a severely depressed man whose self-imposed suburban exile is upended by a familiarly-shaped stain on his wall.
The degeneration of the “Star Wars” saga continues unabated with this latest, most kid-friendly Lucas-produced assault on the memory of the once-beloved franchise.
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |