A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar (2007)

A documentary about lawsuits and lawyers and America's obsession with both. Follows law students trying to pass the California Bar Exam, the most difficult in the country.

Up In The Air (2009)

Ryan Bingham's job is to fire people from theirs. The anguish, hostility, and despair of his "clients" has left him falsely compassionate, living out of a suitcase, and loving every second of it. When his boss hires arrogant young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially threatening the existence Ryan so cherishes. His cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. Determined to show the naive girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the downfalls to his way of life.

Walk The Line (2005)

A woman's love, given reluctantly, saves a man from addiction and self-destruction. Traces the life of Johnny Cash from his boyhood, with the loss of a brother and the loss of his father's affection, to 1968 when his outlaw side and his unhappiness give way to the twin triumphs of his concert at Folsom Prison and June Carter's acceptance of his marriage proposal. Along the way there's his first composition, first recording, first marriage, daughters, being smitten with June, divorce, pills and booze, an empty life, and the Carter family's nursing him back to health. June eases Johnny out of a ring of fire.

Blow (2001)

George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

The Pacific (2010)

Ten episode HBO miniseries. This post will be continuously edited as the other episodes become available.

A 10-part mini-series from the creators of "Band of Brothers" telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

Part 1
Part 2

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Each of the Tenenbaum kids was a precocious genius: Chas (Ben Stiller) made a killing as a child investor. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior tennis champ and three-time U.S. Nationals winner. The adopted Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright who won a 50,000-dollar Braverman Grant in the ninth grade. When Royal abruptly left his family, however, it was the beginning of two decades of betrayal and failure that would scar the Tenenbaums for life. Their past resentments are bitterly held against Royal when he suddenly reappears, claiming to have six weeks to live and a desire to reconnect with his family. Typically, Royal's story is a sham, but his presence and sincere desire for absolution soon have a profound effect on the Tenenbaums, who are each dealing with thwarted desires and relationships. Among them are Richie's lifelong love for Margot, who's unhappily married to Raleigh St.Clair (Bill Murray) and Etheline's eccentric engagement to Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), who wishes to marry her.

The Road (2009)

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other.

The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) (2007)

*Note: This is a German film but it includes English subtitles.

The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Jews who had previously worked with printing presses and had experience with forgery were selected at concentration camps to manufacture Allied currency.

Alice In Wonderland (2010)

*Note: This is a cam but it is high-quality.

19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

Minority Report (2002)

In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.

Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

*Note: This is a DVD screener.

Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.

Breaking Bad Season 2

A drama about a high school chemistry teacher who's suffering from the world's worst case of mid-life crisis and becomes a criminal.

Breaking Bad Season 1

A drama about a high school chemistry teacher who's suffering from the world's worst case of mid-life crisis and becomes a criminal.

Mad Men - Season Two

A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.

Mad Men - Season One

A dramatic television series about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.

Flash Of Genius (2008)

Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Based on a true story.

The Informant! (2009)

The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.

Invictus (2009)

*Note: This is a DVD screener.

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

The Blind Side (2009)

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

The Hurt Locker (2009)

Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

List of Movies

This is a list of my movies as of a week ago. From now on I will add a separate post for each movie I download which includes a short summary from IMDb.com. This way if you subscribe to my RSS feed you will see a list of my most recent movies.

25th Hour
American History X
American Psycho
Arrested Development (seasons 1,2,3)
Bruno
Bubble Boy
Burn After Reading
Caddyshack
Catch Me If You Can
Changeling
Children of Men
Cinderella Man
Cloverfield
Con Air
Coneheads
Crash
Death to Smoochy
Defiance
Derailed
Dexter (seasons 1,2)
District 9
Donnie Darko
Dr. Strangelove
Duplicity
Eastbound & Down (season 1)
Edward Scissorhands
Entourage (seasons 1,2,3,4,5,6)
Fanboys
Fargo
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Firefly (season 1)
First Snow
Fracture
Friday Night Lights
Gattaca
Gran Torino
Grandma's Boy
Green Street Hooligans
Hannibal Trilogy (Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon)
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Hitman
Hot Fuzz
House MD (seasons 1,2,3,4,5)
I Am Legend
I Love You, Man
In Bruges
Inglourious Basterds
Inside Man
John Q
King Of California
LA Confidential
Last Samurai
Law Abiding Citizen
Leon (The Professional)
Little Miss Sunshine
Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels
Lord Of War
Lucky Number Slevin
Man On Fire
Memento
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Munich
Nip/Tuck (season 1)
No Country For Old Men
Office Space
Pride And Glory
Primal Fear
Religulous
Revolver
Roger Dodger
Role Models
Rounders
Runaway Jury
Running Scared
Se7en
Serenity
Seven Pounds
Shaun Of The Dead
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Shoot ‘Em Up
Smokin’ Aces
Snatch
Sons Of Anarchy (season 1)
Star Trek (2009)
Stella (season 1)
Step Brothers
Taken
Thank You For Smoking
The Bank Job
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints 2
The Butterfly Effect
The Constant Gardener
The Departed
The Gods Must Be Crazy I
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
The Golden Compass
The Hangover
The Hills Have Eyes
The Illusionist
The Insider
The International
The Italian Job
The Manchurian Candidate
The People vs Larry Flynt
The Prestige
The Sasquatch Gang
The Score
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sixth Sense
The Soloist
The Taking Of Pelham 123
The Usual Suspects
There Will Be Blood
Trainspotting
Traitor
Triangle
V For Vendetta
Wall-E
Where The Wild Things Are
X-Men Origins
Zodiac
Zombieland

Purpose

This site was created primarily to catalog the addition of movies to my home server/NAS. Running Windows Home Server 2008 on a RAID 0 configuration allowing for up to 10 active users, I wanted to create a means by which one of my friends (that's you!) could see what I have added to my collection by either viewing the site or by subscribing to my RSS feed. I would then be more than happy to Dropbox a file of your choice to you or MAYBE if you are deemed worthy I can create an account on my server for you to download (read not write permission only sorry) until your heart drive is content (ha!).

The birth of a blog

Today at 5:oo PM PST, March 11th, 2010 this blog was birthed. Out of the womb it crawled headfirst into a world torn and ravished by the corrupting nature of monetary funds and their empty fiscal promises. I hope you enjoy.


"There's always money in the banana stand."