Derek Daniels (middleeasternfilms)

Watchable starring vehicle for Weird Al, who was virtually untouchable in the 80's. It's barely even funny, though back in the day I loved to sit and watch this thing (oh how times and tastes change) and relies extensively on parodies that can only take a movie so far.

LMAO!!!

Paul Thomas Anderson's shining moment as a filmmaker (though most would now say it's There Will Be Blood), this is one movie that has had it's whole premise stolen over the years by such films as Crash, 11:14 and The Air I Breathe. The film follows an ensemble cast portraying characters within different stories that are all interrelated somehow and without the right casting and magnificent acting that this films supplies, it would fall flat as it relies on a lot of visuals to make it through the length. It would be very hard to pick out a best acting performance in this one, though Cruise won some awards for his role as a sexist and arrogant infomercial guru. Magnolia is just another chapter in the filmmaking wonderland of Anderson's career.

Ryan Gosling gave an Oscar-nominated performance as Daniel Dunn, an inner-city history teacher fighting his own personal demons while forming a friendship with a girl in his class. This movie, even moreso than Fracture, really showed how great of an actor Gosling really is. Combine this with incredible natural perfomances from Mackie and Epps and an almost perfect musical score by Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene and this was certainly movie of the year quality!