Note:
- Movies with a rating of    (3 and a half stars) or better are recommended.
- Ratings are subject to change
- Content from the old blog site can be found at the *poofgone* blog archives

This site is still in an experimental stage. Changes in appearance and content may occur frequently.

For an alphabetical list of all reviews, see the film archive.

New Releases (most recent films are on top):

Priceless     (3.5)
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jacques Spiesser

Forgetting Sarah Marshall     (3.5)
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Cast: Jason Segal, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Bill Hader, Jack McBrayer, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd

Nim's Island     (2.5)
Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler

Leatherheads     (3)
Director: George Clooney
Cast: George Clooney, RenÈe Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Root

21     (3.5)
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Laurence Fishburne, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts

Run, Fatboy, Run     (3.5)
Director: David Schwimmer
Cast: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort

Penelope     (4)
Director: Mark Palansky
Cast: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Simon Woods, Peter Dinklage, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon

The Bank Job     (3.5)
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Jason Stathan, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner

Miss Pettigrew Lifes For a Day     (4)
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Tom Payne, Mark Strong

Be Kind Rewind     (3)
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melanie Diaz

In Bruges     (3.5)
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Thekla Reuten

Definitely, Maybe     (3.5)
Director: Andy Brooks
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin, Kevin Klein

The Spiderwick Chronicles     (3.5)
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn, Joan Plowright
Cast (voices): Martin Short, Seth Rogan, Nick Nolte

Fool's Gold     (3)
Director: Andy Tennant
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone

Persepolis     (3.5)
Director: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Cast (voices): Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes

There Will Be Blood     (4)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciaran Hinds, Dillon Freasier

27 Dresses     (3.5)
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Edward Burns, Judy Greer, Maulik Pancholy

No Country For Old Men     (4)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Cast: Josh Brolin, Javiar Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Root

Alvin and the Chipmunks     (3)
Director: Tim Hill
Cast: Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson, Jane Lynch
Cast (voices): Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney

Charlie Wilson's War     (3)
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Amy Adams

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly     (3.5)
Director: Julien Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze

P.S. I Love You     (2.5)
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Cast: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, James Marsters, Harry Connick Jr., Kathy Bates, Jeffery Dean Morgan

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street     (4)
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener

National Treasure: Book of Secrets     (3.5)
Director: Joe Turteltaub
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood

The Savages     (3)
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco

Atonement     (4.5)
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave

Juno     (4.5)
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney, Olivia Thirlby

Enchanted     (3.5)
Director: Kevin Lima
Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, Susan Sarandon

August Rush     (3)
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrance Howards, Robin Williams

Michael Clayton     (3.5)
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack

Recent Releases (in alphabetical order):

2 Days in Paris     (2.5)
Director: Julie Delpy
Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Marie Pillet, Albert Delpy, Alexandre Nahon, Adan Jodorowsky, Aleksia Landeau

3:10 to Yuma     (3.5)
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Dallas Roberts, Logan Lerman, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Alan Tudyk

Across the Universe     (4)
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford     (4)
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Paul Schneider, Jeremy Renner, Mary-Louise Parker

Becoming Jane     (3.5)
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

The Brave One     (3)
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Jodie Foster, Terrance Howard, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen

Dan in Real Life     (4)
Director: Peter Hedges
Cast: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Dianne Wiest, Emily Blunt

The Darjeeling Limited     (3.5)
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Camilla Rutherford, Anjelica Huston

Death at a Funeral     (3)
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Matthew MacFadyen, Rupert Graves, Peter Dinklage, Alan Tudyk, Kris Marshall, Andy Nyman, Keeley Hawes, Daisy Donovan

Eastern Promises     (3.5)
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Hairspray     (4)
Director: Andy Shankman
Cast: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Amanda Bynes, Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Brittany Snow, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney

In the Shadow of the Moon     (3.5)
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, Charlie Duke, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Dave Scott

The Jane Austen Book Club     (3.5)
Director: Robin Swicord
Cast: Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Kathy Baker, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Marc Blucas

King of California     (4)
Director: Mike Cahill
Cast: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters     (3.5)
Director: Seth Gordon
Cast: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Todd Rogers, Steve Sanders

The Kingdom     (3)
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven

Lars and the Real Girl     (4)
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson

Lust, Caution     (3)
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Tang Wei, Tony Leung, Joan Chen, Wang Lee-Hom

No Reservations     (3.5)
Director: Scott Hicks
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson

Outsourced     (3.5)
Director: John Jeffcoat
Cast: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra

Provoked     (3.5)
Director: Jag Mundhra
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews, Nandita Das, Robbie Coltrane

Rendition     (2.5)
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Omar Metwally, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin

Stardust     (4)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Mark Strong, Ricky Gervais, Peter O'Toole, Sienna Miller, Rupert Everett

Sydney White     (3.5)
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton, Matt Long, Jack Carpenter, Jeremy Howard, Crystal Hunt, Danny Strong, Samm Levine

Vanaja     (3)
Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli
Cast: Mamatha Bhukya, Urmila Dammannagari, Krishnamma Gundimalla, Karan Singh

Wristcutters: A Love Story     (3.5)
Director: Goran Dukic
Cast: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits, Will Arnet, Leslie Bibb

For a list of all film reviews, see the film archive.