Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
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I've Moved...

2008-05-03 01:07:00 by Rachel in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
Hello my faithful readers. I've moved my movie review blog. I'm now at www.rachelsreelreviews.com. I decided to register a domain name and start over from scratch. Yes, it's still through Blogger and my layout is still the same, but the name is different. Anyway, I'm moving all of these reviews over there, so I plan on being done here by the end...
 
 
 
 
 
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X-Men: The Last Stand (Spoilers)

2008-04-25 12:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)Directed By: Brett RatnerWritten By: Simon Kinberg, Zak PennStarring: Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle BerryRated: PG-13Running Time: 104 minutesGenre: Action So the absence of Bryan Singer was heavily felt during this one. A pharmaceutical company has discovered the "cure" for mutation offering it to any mutant who...
 
 
 
 
 
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X2 (Spoilers)

2008-04-24 12:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
X2 (2003)Directed By: Bryan SingerWritten By: Bryan Singer, Zac Penn, David HayterStarring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellenRated: PG-13Running Time: 133 minutesGenre: Action What's better than Wolverine? Naked Wolverine, of course (if only for a few brief seconds). The mutants are back and the X-Men must work with The Brotherhood to...
 
 
 
 
 
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X-Men (No Spoilers)

2008-04-23 12:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
...movies last week with a string of guilty pleasures (sans Napoleon Dynamite), last night I decided I needed a hefty dose of Wolverine. But please
 
 
 
 
 
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Miss Congeniality (Spoilers)

2008-04-19 19:49:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
...Movies Week: It doesn't get much more guilty than this. Well, maybe Dirty Dancing does. Gracie Hart is a very masculine female FBI agent who never saw the point in putting on lip
 
 
 
 
 
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Sixteen Candles

2008-04-18 12:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
Sixteen Candles (1984)Directed By: John HughesWritten By: John HughesStarring: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael SchoefflingRated: PGRunning Time: 93 minutesGenre: Comedy The 6th Guilty Pleasure Movie: To this very day, Jake Ryan still makes me swoon. It's Samantha Baker's 16th birthday, but her entire family forgot because everybody...
 
 
 
 
 
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Dirty Dancing (Spoilers)

2008-04-17 12:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
Dirty Dancing (1987)Directed By: Emile ArdonlinoWritten By: Eleanor BergsteinStarring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry OrbachRated: PG-13Running Time: 100 minutesGenre: Drama, RomanceGuilty Pleasure Movie No. 5. Yes, Jennifer Grey's career went nowhere after this. Yes, Patrick Swayze became somewhat of a joke not long after this came out...
 
 
 
 
 
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Napoleon Dynamite (No Spoilers)

2008-04-16 12:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
...Movies Week. Many people may not consider Napoleon Dynamite a guilty pleasure: I am not many people.Napoleon Dynamite lives in a small Idaho town with his brother and grandmother. He has a fro
 
 
 
 
 
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10 Things I Hate About You (No Spoilers)

2008-04-15 12:21:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)Directed By: Gil JungerWritten By: Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, William ShakespeareStarring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-LevittRated: PG-13Running Time: 97 minutesGenre: ComedyAhh, my other favorite teen comedy from the 90s. The modern day retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, with...
 
 
 
 
 
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Clueless (Spoilers)

2008-04-14 15:11:50 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
 
...Movies week, I've decided to cover my all-time favorite teen comedy, which just happens to be based on a Jane Austen book. It's funny that even though I hadn't watched it over 5 years, I can