The Express (2008)

Sam Minardi

Inspirational is an overused term, in my humble opinion.  However, “The Express” can only be described as such.  The story of Ernie Davis is extraordinary and it’s quite amazing to see how far African-American athletes have come over the past half century.

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Jackie Brown (1997)

Kevin Meehan

Somehow I had made it this far in life without seeing Jackie Brown and that pisses me off.

I don’t think I’ve ever been disappointed by a Quentin Tarantino film so how did I let Jackie Brown slip under my Cool Filmz radar?

Just what in the hell have I been doing since this Elmore Leonard-based flick was put to the talents of our good friend Q. Tarantino?

Man, I could have had another two and a half hours of quality entertainment in my life.

Here’s what I had been missing...

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Joshua (2007)

Sam Minardi

Joshua, starring Sam Rockwell as Brad Cairn and Jacob Cogan as Joshua Cairn, is a story of a nine-year old boy coping with the birth of his new baby sister, Lily. Joshua torments his parents, the newborn and any living species he happens to encounter.  He’s a deceitful little shit and rivals Macaulay Culkin’s character in “The Good Son” (1993) for the most sadistic kid in recent memory. 

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X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008)

Matthew J. DeReno

This nearly decade after the first installment of X-Files: Fight The Future (1999) is a worthy film for the genre.  You need not be a fan of the original TV Series or even knowledgeable about it, but it surely helps.  In this X-Flick we are reunited with FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who have since both retired from the FBI, but whose services are sought in one form or another, to help solve a perplexing crime.  For fans of the series, it is hard not to enjoy both Duchovny and Anderson reprising their famous roles.   

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Marley and Me (2008)

Matthew J. DeReno

Soon after their wedding, John and Jenny Grogan hightail out of the cold Michigan winters  and set up family shop in a southern Florida neighborhood.  They are hired as reporters for newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fires at the local garbage dumps.  Not sure how they even pay the house on the obit writing job. 

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Righteous Kill (2008)

Matthew J. DeReno

I have been waiting, waiting for so long to see a super kick ass flick with surely who are the penultimate CoolFilmz legends: DeNiro and Pacino – men whose first names we dare not mutter for fear of a bloody boot stomp to the head or a good old piano wire garroting (“leave the canola”). Capeesh?  

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Guns (2008)

Sam Minardi
This may be the first and last time you ever read a review of a Canadian TV mini-series (now available on DVD) on this site.  But how can CoolFilmz.com not review a movie that has all of the following – a smokin’ hot chick (Elisha Cuthbert), street thugs, bad ass cops, organized crime and a shit load of guns.  What else can a guy ask for?   

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Burn After Reading (2008)

Kevin Meehan
Joel and Ethan Coen achieved possibly their greatest critical success with 2007’s No Country for Old Men, a film they were writing the screenplay for at the same time as their new release Burn After Reading.

Just because they were made at the same time, however, doesn’t mean Burn After Reading is going to be anywhere near as good as No Country For Old Men.

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