My Sister’s Keeper is a novel by Jodi Piccoult and a movie recently released on DVD. I try to make a concentrated effort to read a book before watching it on film because it is never as good on film. I have to admit that while reading …

This movie is yet another disgrace of a movie, even though it stars some very decent actors, the movie just did not live up to the hype that was created around it and once again, we have a hit and miss coming out of the studios of the fames …

The Secret of Nimh 2 is the sequal to the original Secret of Nimh.It is now focused on Mrs. Brisby’s son Timmy.The movie begins when Timmy begins to leave his family home to travel to the location of the rats of Nimh,Thorn Valley.He is sent to thorn valley to …

I saw this movie, and you have got to believe this I was in some kind of hallucination or translation while I was watching it. The movie really pulled me into it and I was almost like lost in it. It was as if you have entered some kind …

A Man Apart, directed by F. Gary Gray is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong graphic violence, language, drug content and sexuality. The original release date was April 4, 2003 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars …

I love this movie, my husband and I watch it whenever it is on television. Sister Act II is the sequel to Sister Act, Sister Mary Clarence, played by Whoopi Goldberg, is back undercover again (this time from the priests) to help save a school. My favorite …

When we rented Blades of Glory, I didn�t know what to expect from it. We�ve watched Will Ferrell movies in the past and, while some are absolutely hilarious, there are just as many that were very disappointing to us.
The good news for us was, while I wouldn�t put Blades …

8mm is a thriller movie released in 1999 starring Nicholas Cage as a private investigator named Tom who is hired by a rich elderly women to find out if a snuff film she discovered in her dead husbands belongings is real, Tom delves deep into the underground pornography ring, …

I was really excited about this movie right before it was shown in theaters. Because just the thought of a Panda doing Kung Fu? his weight, clumsiness, and incredibly large tummy and the dream of becoming a Kung Fu master.It’s quite hilarious right?How would someone be doing Kung Fu …

If you’re looking for a “scary” film to bore someone to death with, The Cave is the film you should rent. Otherwise, stay clear of it.
The movie focuses on a group of divers who are seeking to explore an underwater cave and encounter some supernatural creatures along the way. …

I found Seven Pounds to be very intense and a tad complicated. To be honest I did not know what was going on until probably the last 20 minutes of the movie. I usually like movies with a twist, but Seven pounds unfortunately did not meet my expectations, especially …

Well, I can say one good thing about Attack of the Clones, it was better than The Phantom Menace! (I said that in my sarcastic voice by the way). First off, the relationship between Anakin and Padma is probably one of the worst relationships every put on …

I will start by saying the film “Remember Me”, starring Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, and Emilie de Ravin, is surprisingly good. On the surface, it contains a cliche plot, one of a boy who dates a girl to get back at someone else but ultimately falls …

The thing about slasher movies is they normally are good if you’re looking for a good laugh or just like watching a lot of blood and gore. But, as far as being scary, most fall well short of expectations.
I had never heard of the movie The Butcher before so …

If you have never seen the original movie name Dumb and Dumber starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, then you are going to be in for a treat as this movie is basically a prequel to that movie. This story tells the teenaged tale of how the two friends …

Transformers was one of the most awaited films of 2007. And honestly, I wasn’t really that keen on watching it, maybe because I never was aware of the animated series in the 80’s. But because one of my closest friends really wants to watch it, I decided to come …

A screenwriter’s dream, this movie is often used as a model for budding screenwriters, to show them how a story should be structured. It is tightly structured in its three acts, and well played out.
Lukas Haas is the witness, Samuel Lapp. He witnesses a murder. What makes him a …

In the beginning, B Rabbit is involved in a Rap Battle, but he chokes on stage and ran off in disgrace, this is his passion, but he is yet to find his muse. As he continues with his life as a struggling Rapper, he spends most of his work …

Ghost World was one of those films that I was always hearing good things about but never really took the chance to watch. I never read the graphic novel either, so I couldn’t have given you the first clue about what what it was supposed to be like, although I …

Lloyd (John Cusack) is heading into a life of uncertainty as he finally graduates from High School where he was a pretty normal boy and not warrenting of much attention or expections. One thing he is certain about is his crush on pretty and intelligent Diane (Ione Skye). Having …

Djay that act as a matchmaker is sometimes not seen by others. In Djay tacit have ambition to be a famous rapper. Of course, this is very difficult for Djay, but Nola, the girl’s upbringing and Shug, the women who lived together during this very Djay support the ideals …

The sequel to the classic masterpiece 2001 - A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. Nine years later an american-soviet space ship is sent to Jupiter to try and figure out what really happened to the old space ship Discovery over there. This is not really a sequel to the …

I am reviewing the movie, Double Jeopardy, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd. Ashely Judd’s character seems to have the perfect marriage. One night, however, she awakes to find blood all over her yaught and her husband missing. It is assumed that her husband has been …

After enjoying the first movie in the Divergent franchise, I was happy to know that there would actually be a sequel. I expected that it might be a lot better than even the first one especially since it would probably have more action and fight scenes. I was also interested …

Since I have just reviewed the new movie “The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” I thought it would be a good idea to review its first part, “The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” released in 2003. The first movie is much better …

In my opinion, the movie Cleopatra was outstanding and exciting till the last moment. The movie was broke into joyful sections, melancholy sections, and humorous sections. One of the humorous sections was when the Egyptian fleet was set on fire by Caesar; Cleopatra instantly went to meet him. Caesar …

Frozen is a terrifying, harrowing movie about three young people who are trapped on a ski lift, 100 feet above the ground, at a ski resort that is closed and abandoned for the week. Adam Green directs this scary story. Emma Bell, played by Parker O’Neill, is …

I loaded another Looney Tunes Cartoon on our Netflix Player the other day for our daughter “Daffy Duck’s Quack Busters.” It was an OK movie but not as good as I expected.
When I loaded it, I figured it would be a cute spoof of the show Ghost Busters, or at …

I have been skipping over Doubt on my Netflix list, because quite frankly, I couldn’t tell what the movie was about. And when I looked at the synopsis, I couldn’t really get a grip on the gist of the film. It seemed like some kind of …

Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for some scenes of strong brutal violence and some related nudity. The original release date was December 10, 1997 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/History/Mystery and stars Morgan …

Father of the Bride, directed by Charles Shyer is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was December 20, 1991 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Family and stars Steve Martin as George Banks, Diane Keaton as Nina …

The Wedding Ringer is a Comedy movie that delivers- in parts. Often I was laughing really hard but other times the comedy got a little bland. I did enjoy myself and found the change on the classic ‘loser get’s the hot girl’, interesting.
The story is about a man named Doug …

A Mediterranean island is invaded by Italy and its population held under martial law, one of the officers falls for the village doctor’s daughter but she isn’t impressed by his initial behavior and she shuns his approaches. Given time, she warms up him as she sees that he is …

This 1959 Doris Day movie, It Happened to Jane, is one of my favorite Day productions. It costars Jack Lemmon, and Lemmon is just top notch. He and Day are wacky and adorable together. For most of the film, they’re just friends with underlying love that …

As an animation enthusiast I am in love with what companies like Pixar do. In my opinion Cars is one of their greatest creations.
When Cars first hit the theaters it was my must see movie of the year. I am by no means a child on the outside, but …

This is one of those splendid BBC adaptations that is almost as good as the original novel. The novel in this case is a work by Anthony Trollope, who is one of my favorite novelists, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed in this movie.
The story is about a wealthy young …

District 9 is a movie I bought after seeing it in theaters. I love science fiction-type films, and since this one contains aliens, it was right up my alley.
District 9 is a section set aside for the insect-like aliens that also inhabit Earth. It’s basically a slum, …

There was a point in my life where I had begun to like home invasion movies, it but it was only after a while when I had begun to see the same type of plot play out over and over again and they had become slightly cliché, that I …

School for Scoundrels (2006) is a comedy directed by Todd Phillips and is rated PG-13 for language, crude and sexual content, and some violence.
School for Scoundrels is about a man named Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton) who runs a school where luckless men are taught how to become an …

My wife and I have been watching the Rob Zombie re-makes of the films Halloween and Halloween II. Since we couldn’t remember anything about the original (she’s never seen it and it has been quite a few years since I last watched it), we figured we would rent the …

The yaadein (remembrance) of the film Yaadein in perhaps no longer in any of our mind apart from its lovely songs and charming promotional advertisements (Lol). This movie released in 2001 and was directed by Subhash Ghai. I remember how lovely the promotional advertisement of the film was and …

Tom Dodge is the 2nd in command of a nuclear sub for many years; sadly, he has always been passed over by the selection board in assigning him a vessel of his own to command until it came to be that his name is selected eventually. He get his …

Sean Penn plays a man on death row, who committed a rape and a murder (late in the film we find out that his partner in this crime went free). A woman priest wants to help this man, not to get him free, but to make God forgive him …

David S. Goyer is a name films fans should recognize. From his humble beginnings with Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment to his recent success working with Christopher Nolan, he’s one of the biggest names in screenwriting. Sure, he also wrote Jumper and the TV movie, Nick Fury: …

Mike Nichols’ classic film about the confused young Benjamin who is seduced by a older woman, a friend of his parents, which, he later finds out, is an act to keep him away from the daughter of this family, who he in fact is in love with. This is …

This is a beautiful movie, and that may be a strange term to use when thinking about or describing the military. This movie focuses on the Coast Guard and a man’s sacrifice to save the lives of countless others, and the influence that he had on the people who …

In order to spend more quality time with his children, Robin Williams’ character disguises himself as a Nanny/House Keeper. His seemingly good intention turns sour when his deception got flawed after putting pepper in his ex-wife’s new boyfriend’s food. To save the poor soul from kicking the bucket, he …

One of the most famous films with the comedy couple Laurel & Hardy.
The latter is heartbroken when is girlfriend leaves him for another, so he goes looking for her new love and takes Laurel with him.
These two gentleman were sometimes brilliant humourists, but there were also times when their …

Not many people realize that the movie “Blades of Glory” is meant to be a spoof of the internationally acclaimed sport of ice-skating. If you want a movie that’s not a spoof, rent one of the all-time sports hero classics like “Rocky” or something of that nature. …