At the Movies with Fatwayne

I just got back from the Moon and I had a great time! No, I am not talking about my latest vacation but rather the new sci-fi film now showing at a theater near you. Moon is an intriguing movie that is practically a one man show. Sam Rockwell stars as Sam Bell who is [...]

This 6th installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series does not disappoint. Harry and the gang are back at Hogwarts for yet another year. Harry is getting taller and starting to sprout facial hairs. Ron Weasley is becoming broad in the shoulders and Hermione Granger is showing curves in all the right places. It has [...]

What can you say about Johnny Depp? He has this amazing ability to become fully absorbed with his characters. He can go from the swishy swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow to the crazed demon barber Sweeney Todd in the blink of an eye! You never know what he will look or act like from film to [...]

They’re back! Not only are they back but they brought some of their baddie buddies with them! I’m talking about the Transformers. This time out The Fallen (one of the thirteen original Decepticons) brings his hordes to Earth and resurrects Megatron from his watery grave in the Laurentian Abyss. They plan their revenge on the Earth [...]

Another great movie to hit the theaters this summer! The rest of the audience and I had a great time seeing The Proposal! Sure, you knew where the plot was going and how it would end but who cares! All of the fun was getting there! Sandra Bullock as Margaret Tate is a treat to [...]

Here is the setup. Evan Danielson (Eddie Murphy) is a successful financial guru who’s career is being challenged by a co-worker named  Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Hayden Church). Evan is a workaholic and has neglected his family consisting of his estranged wife, Tricia,  and his six year old daughter, Olivia. Quite by accident while caring for [...]

Drag me to hell while I jump and laugh all the way! This movie is both funny and scary and it proves my point that it doesn’t have to be gory to succeed as a horror movie. Yes there are the usual movie stunts designed to make us jump like the cat (poor kitty!) ,the loud [...]

This movie was adapted from the book of the same name which was published in 2000 by Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code followed three years later in 2003. The movies, however, were released in reverse order with the Da Vinci Code preceding Angels. If you enjoyed the first movie you will undoubtedly enjoy this [...]

The movie is based on events that occurred in the life of newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his chance encounter with a mentally unbalanced street person, Nathanial Ayers (Jamie Foxx). As is usually the case for Steve, he is searching at the last minute for a subject to write his article about. [...]

This reminds me of Bill Murray’s movie Scrooged. Here we have a successful photographer, Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) who is up to his eyebrows in beautiful models and actresses who all want his “attention”. He is the kind of guy who wants to play the field and really doesn’t believe in love and settling down with [...]