We review the movies The Departed and The Prestige.

The following movies are reviewed by The Radio Outlaw and Michele our movie reviewer.They are given 0-4 stars based on the following chart:0 stars-Poor don't waste your time,1 star-okay but only watch if you are really bored,2 stars - good -worth watching but don't expect any Osacrs, 3 stars - Very good - Worth seeing because of the movie itself or a notable acting performance, 4 stars - a must see .

Dark Passage 1947
Black and White. Warner Bros. Directed by Delmer Daves. The film is based on the novel by David Goodis.
Bogart, imprisosned for a crime he didn't commit, escapes and changes his face to find the real killer. It was the third of four films Bacall and Bogart made together.This film employs a subjective camera technique in which the viewer sees the action through Bogart's eyes.
Michele - 3 stars. Radio Outlaw - 4 stars.

An Inconvenient Truth - 2006 - Al Gore.
Academy Award nominated documentary film about climate change, specifically global warming, 3rd highest-grossing documentary in the U.S.. Proceeds will further educational campaigns about climate change
Michele - 4 stars. Radio Outlaw - 3 stars (a little slow).

Lady in the Water - 2006 - Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bob Balaban, M. Night Shyamalan.
A building superintendent is rescued by a young woman from the pool. He discovers that she is from another world and is trying to make the journey back to her home. He rallies his tenants to help protect from the scrunt that is determined to prevent her from returning to her world.
Michele - 3 stars (a little long to get to the point) . Radio Outlaw - 3 stars.

The Departed - 2006 - Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg (Nominated for best Supporting Actor) , Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin.
Nominated for Best Picture. A cop goes undercover to nail an Irish-American crime boss.Remake of crime thriller Infernal Affairs made in 2002.
Michele - (if anyone else was in the movie other than these stars it would've been panned. Over kill on the violence, should've been nominated for best casting) 0 stars.
Radio Outlaw - (Too much blood and very noisy guns) 3 stars.

Schindler's List - 1993 - Starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes.

Three Hours +.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, this movie tells the tale of Oskar Schindler, a businessman who saved the lives of over 1000 Jews during the Holocaust. Schindler hired them to work in his factory and kept them from being sent to the Nazi concentration camps.
Michele - Very Good. 4 stars.
Radio Outlaw - Even though I'm a big, early Spielberg fan, I avoided seeing this movie for quite some time on purpose.Now I wish I'd seen it sooner,The parts that were tough to watch were short and the story of this man was unbelievable.Don't miss it! 4 stars.

The Illusionist - 2006 -starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel.
Eisenheim falls in love with Sophie. They are separated and then find each other again. Then Sophie is murdered and the fun begins. Michele - Very Good. 3 1/2 stars.
Radio Outlaw - A good movie but if you're going to see one magician movie see The Prestige.I had this one figured out halfway into it, but the Prestige kept me guessing until the end! 3 stars.

Hard Candy - 2006. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page. Director: David Slade Rated R. A true entertainment news report out of Japan spawned Hard Candy. Ruffians would pose as underaged kids on the internet to lure pedophile businessmen to private locations with the promise of a one on one sexual encounter only to show up as a group of thugs and mug the would be molester. Hard Candy is the story of a 14 year old girl who captures and torments a 32 year old internet preditor within a single isolated location Michele - 2 stars.Acting was good,story was implausible.Whoever wrote it needs a help because it was pretty twisted.Difficult to believe that he would continue to believe her to the end after she had shown him so many times she was lying. Radio Outlaw - 2 1/2 stars.I got it because Ebert & Roper gave it 2 thumbs up. I can't rely on them anymore because half the time it's Ebert I rely upon and when it says Ebert & Roper half the time it's not even Ebert but some "guest" critic. This movie was good for the first half but I figured she was bluffing half the time and when he was tied in the chair it looked like he could get out. I never understood what she had on him because he broke free a couple of times and never escaped or called the polce. Very hard to believe. A waste of my time. If she's cutting your balls off you'd feel that. Look Both Ways - 2005.Starring: William McInnes, Justine Clarke Director: Sarah Watt Rated PG-13. After a horrific train crash, three newsmen take stock: Nick, a photojournalist, learns he has cancer; Andy, a writer with two children who lives with his ex, learns his lover Anna is pregnant; Phil, an editor, realizes he's missing his children growing up. An artist who constantly imagines disasters, witnesses a train accident kill a man, meets Nick and a relationship develops. Michele - 3 1/2 stars.What was weird was it was well written and acted but I just didn't care for it.There's definitely talent in that movie. The montage at end was good and the animation was fine. i just don't like movies that are depressing. Radio Outlaw. 2 1/2 stars. This movie got an average of 4 1/2 stars out of 5 on Amazon.com's review section by 7 reviewers! It was okay but nothing exceptional. Michele thought the acting was great .I wasn't as impressed with it. Again this was 2 thumbs up from Ebert & Roper and their credibility is starting to wane. The animation was primitive and the storyline good but I never really got "into" the characters and cared about what happened to them.