10 titles

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
THE U.S VERSUS JOHN LENNON

Release: Sep 06 - Review: 28 Aug 07

Working Class Hero.
... an insular little diversion, showcasing Lennon’s post-Beatles period when his activist voice made the United States government tremble in its widdle booties.
TOP
THE UGLY TRUTH

Release: Jul 09 - Review: 10 Apr 11

Uglier than you can imagine.

Yes, it's funny and farcical and prurient - but arrived at in such a contrived manner that it ruined it for me and I had to put my pants back on in the theater.
TOP

UNDERWORLD

Release: Sep 03 - Review: 7 Feb 10

Overwrought Underworld.
Guns, Gore and Grrrrrls in growling leather.
TOP

UNFORGIVEN

Release: Aug 92 - Review: 22 Apr 06

The Rise and Recant of a Western Iconography.
What we did not see coming was that the Man With No Name who sweated blood and bullets giving birth to The Stranger iconography - Clint Eastwood - would himself be responsible for its world-shaking, elegiac swansong.
TOP
UNITED 93

Release: Apr 06 - Review: 7 May 06

United They Fall.
UNITED 93 may be nothing more than an unstructured fiction based loosely on fact, but it may achieve nothing less than a nationwide catharsis.
TOP

UNLAWFUL ENTRY

Release: Jun 92 - Review: 17 Jan 10

Creepy Eyes stalks Sexy Eyes and Doe Eyes.
...Liotta is unbalanced cop, Officer Pete Davis, who terrorizes a break-in victim, Michael Carr (Kurt Russell), for a piece of Michael's wife, Karen (Madeline Stowe, who is just asking for it by being Madeline Stowe).
TOP

UNSTOPPABLE

Release: Nov 10 - Review: 28 Sep 11

Train-ing Day.
... a kinetic, racing steel headrush about an out-of-control, unmanned freight train a half-mile long, loaded with explosives, headed for the city of Pennsylvania. And only Denzel and Captain Kirk can stop it!
TOP
UNTHINKABLE

Release: Jun 10 - Review: 21 Mar 11

The punishing stupidity of punishing stupidity.
UNTHINKABLE is all about the torture, so it gets down to it pretty quickly, so you and your fellow viewers can start arguing right away.
TOP
UP

Release: May 09 - Review: 22 Feb 10

Two Thumbs UP.
A whip-cracking put-us-in-our-place illustration of just how a story should be told, with humor, action, poignancy, and every little detail paid off--squirrel!
TOP
UP IN THE AIR

Release: Dec 09 - Review: 15 Apr 10

Loner Class.
... it's a movie about romance, but it's not a Romantic Movie; it takes us on a bucking and diving flight across the landscape of human emotions and leaves us... up in the air.
TOP
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z



Poffy The Cucumber is copyrighted to Jon Dunmore © 2005, and the character and his name may not be used without permission.
"Poffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania" is the official website of Poffy The Cucumber
© and a division of Egomania Records ®.
All movie reviews are the original work of Jon Dunmore and may not be duplicated
without permission. Plagiarism is an offense punishable by being slapped senseless with a cabbage.


Top of Page