Jodie Foster brings a woman living in New York City as a radio personality named Erica Bain with a deeply loved fiance who is brutally attacked in Central Park and almost destroyed as a result of it emotionally in this 2007 Neil Jordan movie.

Matt Reeves‘s much marketed 2008 action/horror/thriller Cloverfield lives up to its hype.  It takes the point-of-view camera technique utilized in The Blair Witch Project and brings it to new extremes as it ekes out a truly creepy and unsettling looking at an attack on Manhattan by what can only be described as a monster.

Domino’s main problem it’s so ridiculously beyond the scope of reality, even with the suspension of disbelief. It’s the attitude and casting of The Spice Girls crammed awkwardly into the packaging of a B-rate thriller. Domino Harvey is an English-accented young woman played by Keira Knightley, born into money in Beverly Hills who has tomboy characteristics and trouble in school, but makes it through and pledges a sorority only to attack the sisters when mild hazing begins. She somehow has a British accent despite her California upbringing and a never-explained attraction to practicing with nun-chucks.

Goofy and ridiculous would be an apt description of The Contract, the 2006 thriller starring Morgan Freeman as Frank Carden and John Cusack as Ray Keene, directed by Bruce Beresford.  This is a very interesting mix of absolutely ridiculous plot points, cliches, and poor writing to prevent the good cast line-up from living up to their potential.  Carden is the leader of a mercenary team comprised of ex-military individuals who are all doing their parts to perpetuate the cliched view of such individuals as wise-cracking, tough guys constantly fighting for respect.

In Live Free or Die Hard, John McLane (Bruce Willis) is back for another installment in the Die Hard series. This time McLane is drawn into a global scheme by a disaffected computer infrastructure consultant from the Department of Defense who is now terrorizing the United States in particular in order to steal great sums of money; he is sent to transport an individual computer programmer Matt Farrell (Justin Long) as part of the FBI’s investigation, from New Jersey to Washington, D.C.