Archive for the 'nMates' Category

50 First dates

22Dec04

50 First Dates, is a great romantic comedy, based on meeting for the first time, 50 times. The movies follows the love life of Henry Roth, played by Adam Sandler. Henry is a vet on a pacific island who falls in love with tourists and feels great about breaking up with them when they leave. [...]


American Pie

15Dec04

American Pie is a classic coming of age movie. It follows the hapless Jim Levenstein, played by Jason Biggs in his final year in high school. He and his mates are trying the become men and have trouble getting it on with the girls at parties. They make a pact to get with a girl [...]


View from the Top, stars a range of top class actors, in a movie that is a little predictable. The movie starts Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna Jensen the daughter of a single mum living in a caravan and going no where fast. Donna then watches a TV show with Sally Weston, played by Candice Bergen. [...]


After the disaster that was our previous movie selecion, we went for a sure thing and saw the original Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Jake and Elwood. On a “a mission from God” they hold a concert to save the orphanage. This features an incrediable number of cameos, including James Brown, Cab [...]


Ride or Die

12Nov04

Ride or Die is a crime movie set in the Rap music industry. This is the first movie that me and my mates have pulled the plug on. I guess the rap music was just too much for us to take.
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Showtime

05Nov04

Showtime follows Detective Mitch Preston, played by Robert De Niro. Desperate for ratings, Chase Renzi, played by Rene Russo, dreams up a TV show staring Mitch, after he shoots one of her network’s TV cameras and the ratings go through the roof. Meanwhile Patrolman Trey Sellars, played by Eddie Murphy, is trying make a start [...]


Kill Bill Volume 2 I feel was a waste of time. This movie seems to be getting a lot of good coverage in the press, but I can’t see the point of it. I guess I may not understand the movie as I have not seen the first one. The story seems to take ages [...]


Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as the tag line says One Man’s Struggle To Take It Easy. Staring Matthew Broderick as Ferris, he and his sick best friend, Cameron Frye get Matthew’s girlfriend, Sloane Peterson out of school. They take Cameron’s Dad’s 1961 Ferrari 250GT California Spyder for a spin into the city and live life [...]


Taking Lives

09Oct04

Taking Lives is a crime/thriller with some excellent twists. It stars Angelina Jolie as Illeana, an FBI agent called in to help catch a serial killer. Illeana tracks the killer to Costa, played by Ethan Hawke with Hart as the prime suspect played by, Kiefer Sutherland.
The killer is essentially taking over people’s lives. He begins [...]


The Sweetest Thing is a raunchy romantic comedy, cross between Sex and the City and Something bout Mary. It stars Cameron Diaz as Christina Walters, a confident single lady that is leaving a trail of dumped men whom she can not live in a long term relationship with. These men all fall for her and [...]