I've been an avid movie goer since high school when I started doing one paragraph movie reviews for the school newspaper. Every three weeks, those same reviews were published in the small town paper. At the time, my snippets were written to provide the essence or atmosphere of the film without revealing any major plot details, ensuring the film wouldn't be ruined for readers.
Since January 2005, I have begun reviewing movies I see in Coralville and Iowa City, Iowa at the local cinemas here where I attend 7-12 films each month. Although my reviews are no longer one paragraph events, I still attempt to avoid revealing too much of the plot, focusing on my opinion of the film's events and atmosphere. I welcome you to disagree with any reviews on this site and to post your thoughts on the Meet Me in the Aisles forum and to email me at if you would like to post reviews in addition to mine.
This week's newest reviews:
The Weather Man--A 15 degree variance can upset the weather for the life of a man who just predicts it on t.v. for a few hours a week (seen October 29 2005)
Elizabethtown--Drew Baylor just lost his job and his father and met the perfect girl all on the same day (seen October 22 2005)
Stay--The living and the dead brush the surface to interconnect in this newest film with Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts (seen October 21 2005)
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story--A man's daughter has a dream about a magical horse called Soņador or Dreamer (seen as a special preview October 16 2005)
Into the Blue--Treasure hunting in the deep blue waters of the Bahamas goes awry (seen October 15 2005)
RatingBar.com features:
RatingBar--one for my reviews and one for user poll votes--to track comparatively how each movie fares with all others for the year
Now Playing section with a listing of all theatre and DVD film reviews
Meet Me in the Aisles forum for movie discussions where theatre film reviews link to forum threads and polls rank films based on user opinions
More Popcorn? section with links to movie-related sites and Iowa City/Coralville theatre showtimes
Most Popular--one ranked by movie thread hits and one by forum thread hits--to see which movies garner the most interest
Three random movie pictures at the top where you can click on the image to see the review for that film
Future plans:
RSS feeds to read the latest movie news
Gallery of photos on films and trailers to the films
