After the terror of IKWYDLS, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) stiffens her resolve and isn’t going to be a victim anymore. As usual, nobody believes her story, there is storm on the horizon, the holiday resort is emptying faster than fish catch from a seine and bodies are starting to pile up. But help is on the way through rough seas in the from of Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) who doesn’t plan to take any prisoners. When she’s a captive and Ray finds them in the grave yard, there is a moment when you’re wondering whether the producers can wring another movie out of this. But that seems unlikely when Ben Willis (Muse Watson) drives a hook into his son’s chest and Julie decides to step up and finish off Ben with Ray’s pistol.

Director:  Danny Cannon Writer:  Lois Duncan; Trey Callaway Cast:
Jennifer Love Hewitt -  Julie James Freddie Prinze Jr. -  Ray Bronson Brandy -  Karla Wilson Mekhi Phifer -  Tyrell Muse Watson -  Ben Willis Bill Cobbs -  Estes Matthew Settle -  Will Benson Jeffrey Combs -  Mr. Brooks		Jennifer Esposito -  Nancy John Hawkes -  Dave Ellerine! -  Olga Benjamin Brown -  Darick The Dockhand Red West -  Paulsen Michael P. Byrne -  Thurston Michael Bryan French -  Doctor Dee Ann Helsel -  Nurse

It is always the little things that make us doubt how well we know someone who has been a part of our lives. We get confused when they react differently than we expect. We get concerned when they say something not in keeping with their character. Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) has many of these moments when he meets and talks to the people with whom his now murdered son Mike (Jonathan Tucker) has served in Iraq. It’s as if he doesn’t know this man who is his beloved son who gets wrecked on booze and drugs, pokes a prisoner’s open wound for fun, laughing at an amputee’s limb loss, tossing change at a stripper.

Director:  Paul Haggis Writer:  Paul Haggis; Mark Boal Cast:
Tommy Lee Jones -  Hank Deerfield Charlize Theron -  Det. Emily Sanders Jason Patric -  Lt. Kirklander Susan Sarandon -  Joan Deerfield James Franco -  Sgt. Dan Carnelli Barry Corbin -  Arnold Bickman Josh Brolin -  Chief Buchwald Frances Fisher -  Evie		Wes Chatham -  Corporal Steve Penning Jake McLaughlin -  Spc. Gordon Bonner Mehcad Brooks -  Spc. Ennis Long Jonathan Tucker -  Mike Deerfield Wayne Duvall -  Detective Nugent Victor Wolf -  Private Robert Ortiez Brent Briscoe -  Detective Hodge Greg Serano -  Detective Manny Nunez

There are moment in time when it seems as if everything stops, waiting for you to take a decision. The details coalesce in your mind and you know instinctively which is the proper way. They may defy logic and all vestige of common sense. But it is the right one at the right time. Sadly, you may not be the one in control of the circumstances and the choices are made for you. All you can do go along. Del Spooner’s (Will Smith) car is involved in a car accident with another car holding a twelve-year-old girl who wants to be a dentist and a truck which slams both vehicles into the river. A nearby robot comes to effect their rescue and it chooses Del (it calculates a 45 percent chance of his survival) over the girl (11 percent chance). Tragically, he dreams that the robot made the wrong choice.

Director:  Alex Proyas Writer:  Isaac Asimov; Jeff Vintar; Akiva Goldsman Cast:
Will Smith -  Del Spooner Bridget Moynahan -  Susan Calvin Alan Tudyk -  Sonny James Cromwell -  Dr. Alfred Lanning Bruce Greenwood -  Lawrence Robertson Adrian L. Ricard -  Granny Chi McBride -  Lt. John Bergin Jerry Wasserman -  Baldez		Fiona Hogan -  V.I.K.I. Peter Shinkoda -  Chin Terry Chen -  Chin David Haysom -  NS4 Robots Scott Heindl -  NS5 Robots Sharon Wilkins -  Woman Craig March -  Detective Kyanna Cox -  Girl

I’m a math guy. In point of fact, I’m a statistician by training and career. At one point in the movie, we discover that ten people get stranded in a remote motel and the all have the same birthday, May 10th. There is Ed (John Cusack), a former cop who is a driver for an actress, Caroline Suzanne (Rebecca De Mornay). He accidentally runs down a woman Alice York (Leila Kenzle), the mother of a 10-year-old self-imposed mute boy (Bret Loehr) and the wife of George (John C. McGinley), all of whom Ed transports along with his boss to the motel run by Larry (John Hawkes). Later, a hooker on her way to Florida named Paris (Amanda Peet) and a pair of newlyweds, Ginny (Clea DuVall) and Lou (William Lee Scott), are forced off the road and into the motel. And there is a cop Rhodes (Ray Liotta) who is holding in custody the loopy but dangerous Robert Maine (Jake Busey). They are scampering frantically to solve the mystery of who is in the process of murdering all of them and why.

Terrific movie… but let’s get back to the math. I went looking up details in my math stuff and figured out that the chances are one in eight that two people in a room of ten would have the same birthday. And if you had 23 in the same room, chances would be 50-50 that two people would have the same birthday. To have a 50 percent chance of ten people in the same room with the same birthday, you’d need approximately 1,181 people. If any of this is of interest, do a Google search on “birthday problem” or “birthday paradox.”

Director:  James Mangold Writer:  Michael Cooney Cast:
John Cusack -  Ed Ray Liotta -  Rhodes Amanda Peet -  Paris John Hawkes -  Larry Alfred Molina -  Dr. Malick Clea DuVall -  Ginny John C. McGinley -  George York William Lee Scott -  Lou		Jake Busey -  Robert Maine Pruitt Taylor Vince -  Malcolm Rivers Rebecca DeMornay -  Caroline Suzanne Carmen Argenziano -  Defense Lawyer Marshall Bell -  District Attorney Leila Kenzle -  Alice York Matt Letscher -  Assistant District Attorney Bret Loehr -  Timmy York

When I was working through my teenage angst, I hid behind sarcasm. I think it was a way to deal with confusion as to what I wanted to do and where I was going in life. I finally figured it out on the precipice of expulsion from school and the panic in realizing I’d have to get a job. So I can identify somewhat with Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) whose mum Mimi (Susan Sarandon) wants to run his life. He is headed to the dreaded military academy when he detours to the New York City loft of the mistress of his godfather, D.H. (Jeff Goldblum). Rachel (Amanda Peet) has some problems of her own (like heroin) but he meets and is smitten by Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes). She seems to have the whole world figured out, but it turns out she is just as confused about things. His brother Oliver (Ryan Phillippe) shows up and tells Igby that Mimi is suffering from cancer. He know it is only a matter of time before he’s going to have to grow up. Now my life wasn’t quite this dramatic but I did decide what and where I was going.

Director:  Burr Steers Writer:  Burr Steers Cast:
Kieran Culkin -  Jason ‘Igby’ Slocumb, Jr. Claire Danes -  Sookie Sapperstein Jeff Goldblum -  D.H. Banes Jared Harris -  Russel Amanda Peet -  Rachel Ryan Phillippe -  Oliver ‘Ollie’ Slocumb Bill Pullman -  Jason Slocumb Susan Sarandon -  Mimi Slocumb		Rory Culkin -  10-Year-Old Igby Peter Tambakis -  13-Year-Old Oliver Bill Irwin -  Lt. Ernest Smith, Pershing Academy Kathleen Gati -  Ida Gannon Forrester -  Little Cadet Celia Weston -  Bunny Elizabeth Jagger -  Lisa Fiedler Nick Wyman -  Suit