Trevor Morris

These are movies I have rated which I watched in April 2008.

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    9

    The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn’t paralyzed.

  • Street Kings

    7

    Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire…

  • Casablanca

    7

    Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

  • Moulin Rouge!

    8

    A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources.

  • Atonement

    8

    Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.

  • Once

    9

    A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

  • Punch-Drunk Love

    8

    A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.

  • In Bruges

    7

    Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.

  • 21

    7

    The fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

  • The Return

    7

    Joanna Mills (Gellar), a traveling business woman, begins having nightmares of a murder that occurred 15 years ago. Soon she is drawn to an old farmhouse, where the murder took place.

  • The Man Who Wasn’t There

    6

    A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife’s boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.

  • THX-1138

    6

    Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society.

  • Appleseed

    6

    In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

  • H

    5

    A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. He is imprisoned, awaiting the death sentence for his crimes. Yet the killings do…

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    5

    Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey”, set in the deep south during the 1930’s. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

  • Two Thousand and One: A Space Odyssey

    10

    Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.

  • Awake

    6

    The story focuses on a man who suffers “anesthetic awareness” and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His young wife must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them.

  • One Missed Call

    4

    In this remake of the Japanese horror film “Chakushin Ari” (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves — messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

  • London

    8

    London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend.

  • No Country for Old Men

    10

    Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.

  • The Orphanage

    9

    A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

  • Ils - Them

    7

    Lucas and Clementine lives peacefully in there house but one night they wake up… As strange noise… They’re not alone…

  • Millions

    5

    Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront on this masterly-written, directed and acted, fun, very rare film when a 7-year old finds a bag of Pounds with a few days to spend before the currency is switched to Euros and learns what…

  • Big

    6

    When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight.

  • Special

    9

    A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he’s a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

  • Big Nothing

    8

    A frustrated, unemployed teacher joining forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

  • Son of Rambow

    7

    Set on a long English summer in the early 8O:s, Son Of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up.

  • Drillbit Taylor

    5

    Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.

  • Platoon

    9

    A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.