Movies Reviews
Battlefield Earth movie
A film that is supposed to be based on a classic science fiction novel by L. Ron Hubbard, however the story is changed that much it’s fair to question the filmmaker’s intentions. John Travolta appears in his perhaps not proudest moment ever, as the leader of an alien species …
Collateral,2004 movie
Collateral, 2004. Vincent (Tom Cruise), a hitman, comes to LA to take care of five “targets.” He hires a taxi, offering the driver a large sum to take him to all five locations. Max (Jamie Foxx), the cabman, unsuspecting at first, takes the job. Then he learns that the …
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Miovie (Anime)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is an anime movie about a lone warrior on the planet Midgar named Cloud Strife who has retired from being a hero after his planet was nearly destroyed by Sephiroth. But the inhabitants are becoming sick with a mysterious disease and theRemnants of …
Drop Dead Gorgeous
It has been a while since I saw the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous so I took the time to watch it this morning when it was on TV.
While not quite as funny as I remember it, it is still an entertaining film.
The movie is essentially a behind-the-scenes look at …
Jump In movie
The Disney movie “Jump In” was released about a year ago. It is about a teenage boxer who discovers his love for jump roping. In the beginning, he only did it to help out his girl friend, but as he spent more time on the ropes and less in …
The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King
This past weekend the local cable television had the series of the Lord of the Rings on for the entire weekend, we watched the
The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King. This was third installment, of the triolgy.It is the story of how Frodo and his …
Righteous Kill
Righteous kill was directed by Jon Avnet and featured Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as the main characters. Other notables in the movie were 50 cent, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, and Brian Dennehy.
The central plot of the movie is that a cop is killing bad guys who …
Wall-E
I quickly became a fan of the movie Finding Nemo shortly after Pixar released it. I not only liked the story but fell in love with the characters. I don’t know how many times I watched it. I must have watched enough to memorize most of its quotes. I …
Ghost Town 2008 movie
Ghost Town is one of those movies where the story is so familiar that you already know what is going to have even if you are only given a little bit of the plot. (I found this with Avatar as well). I mean, this is such a common plot …
Batman 1989 Movie
This darker, more comic book feeling Batman was released in 1989 and was actually the first Batman movie I had ever seen. It was only after seeing this movie that I really wanted to know more about Batman and his character, which started my love for DC and Marvel …
Flawless
This was a great movie, to me. I love jewel thief type movies and this one rates high on my list. It has Demi Moore and Michael Caine in it. I sadly did not catch the end of the movie but I made it up until the last 15 …
The Howling (1981)
Starring: Dee Wallace-Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Elisabeth Brooks, Robert Picardo, Noble Willingham, James Murtaugh, Jim McKrell, Kenneth Tobey, Dick Miller, and Meshach Taylor.
Directed by: Joe Dante.
Based on the same-titled novel by Gary Brandner, “The Howling” is the first movie …
Hot Shots Part Deux
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the sequel to the movie Hot Shots; Hot Shots Part Deux. And I have to admit, after seeing it again this morning, it’s as good as I remember it being.
While the first Hot Shots movie made fun of the film Top Gun, …
Casablanca movie
Classic love triangle, memorable lines, told against an exotic backdrop of French Morocco. These elements served the artists well back in 1942, and have stood the test of time. Casablanca is a treasure among great films.
Anything Bogie steps into is going to come out shining like the North Star. …
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Movie
At the time of its release, it was an amazing film with wonderful acrobatics, animation and storyline…the characters were well casted also. Imaginative choreography with hand to hand combat and weapons fighting. It was the talk of the town then and it’s a great film to watch even now. …
Roman Polanski’s The Tenant
‘The Tenant’ is a classic study of insanity. Made and released in 1976, directed by Roman Polanski, it tells the story of a young lonely man, named Trelkovsky an immigrant from Poland, who moves in to a new apartment in an old residential building. It turns out that the …
The Pacifier
I recently watched The Pacifier starring Vin Diesel as Shane Wolf a Navy Seal whose latest mission is to protect 5 children from assassins trying to get a secret program from their home. Lauren Gram plays a principal and Brad Garret a laughable vice principal at …
The Perfect Man (2005)
The perfect man is a movie about a daughter who wants to find the best man for her mother who never has a serious relationship. It is about Holly, who has no permanent life and relationship because she always moved from one city to another just because her mother …
The Comebacks
I don’t ever remember seeing the movie “The Comebacks” advertising to be released in theatres. In fact, thinking about it now I realized I must have, but at the time I probably thought that it was just one of the many sports movie dramas which were being released at …
The Myth movie
This is one of my favorite Jackie Chan’s movie and in Chinese. This movie consisted of combination of ancient and modern China. The story is about Jacko (Jackie Chan) as an archeologist who get confused with his inner memories. He kept dreaming that he used to be a warrior …
Stargate SG-1 Cold Lazarus
The “Cold Lazarus” episode of Stargate SG-1 is one of my favorites because it gives us more insight into the character of the lead character, “Colonel Jack O’Neill” as played by Richard Dean Anderson. Here, we meet the colonel’s estranged wife, “Sara” who is elegantly acted by Harley …
Remember the Titans (2000)
Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for thematic elements and some language. The original release date for this movie was September 29, 2000 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Sport and stars Denzel …
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a drama starring Julianne Moore, Heather Graham and Mark Wahlberg. The movie is set in 1970’s and 1980’s in California and the story revolves around pornography industry. The major plot is about a young man who works as dish washer at a night club and his …
Volcano movie
In the late 1990s it became some sort of trend in Hollywood with nature disaster films, just as it was in the early 70s, and Volcano is one example of this. It appears a volcano is having an eruption right outside the city of Los Angeles, and Tommy Lee …
Raising Waylon movie
I saw Raising Waylon for the first time recently and was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. I say that because I’m not really a fan of the movie’s stars, Tom Gibson and Poppy Montgomery, and because it’s pretty predictable from start to finish. …
See No Evil
See No Evil is one of my favorite bad horror movies. I’ve seen it several times on my own and recently introduced a friend to it, only to find out that he loved it as much as I did. The movie has one of those setups that you only …
Wanted film
Wanted is a movie about a group of assassins, cool group of people with trainings and camp and all. Angelina Jolie, as usual plays a beautiful woman with a cold heart, full of actions and great body. James McAvoy, kind of a new comer in movies, and …
A Simple Twist of Fate
A Simple Twist of Fate is a drama starring Steve Martin. I watched this movie recently on cable and sort of liked it. Though the first half of the movie is a bit boring, the movie picks up the pace in the later half and finally ends on an …
“Alice Adams” (1935) starring Katharine Hepburn
The 1935 “Alice Adams” was produced in black and white by RKO. The movie is based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. “Alice Adams” runs 99 minutes which is a little too long as parts are slow. The beginning twenty minutes and the ending twenty minutes make the movie …
The Day the Earth Stood Still movie
I don’t know what on the earth prompt me to go for this movie; I had already read so many reviews about the film with filled mixed reactions. Those who had watched highly acclaimed classic with the same name made in 1951 simply loathed this one. I myself had …
The Toy-movie
The Toy is a 1982 comedy/drama film starring the comedian Richard Pryor.In this film Richard Pryor is a black man,Jack Brown who is down on his luck.His house is about to be mortgaged if he dosen’t make a payment on it.The problem is,he is an unemployed writer and he …
Return of the Jedi movie
Some call this movie Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, but as I’ve said before, to me, it’s just plain Return of the Jedi. Once commonly thought of as just another sequel, once George Lucas actually wrote his other scripts, it became a rung in …
Movie: The Family Stone
I recently watched The Family Stone on DVD with my fiance. I was hoping it would be slightly funny and pleasant to watch, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.
With an all-star cast including Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Claire Danes, and Diann Keaton, this movie …
Transformers
It has been long time that I was able to watch such a wonderful movie. I don’t know whether most of them agree with it or no but I just love the movie. The way the camera rolls over the fights and scenes and comedy was more interesting and …
The New Daughter Movie (2009)
I like Kevin Costner, and I like horror and suspense movies as well, so my mother and I watched this on DVD and during the first parts I thought it was scary, but it depends really on a person because I do scare easily! I found the plot to …
Hancock The Movie
“Hancock” is now officially my new favorite summer movies. I thought “Sex and the City” was good, but this movie blew them out of the water. First off, I do not recommend this movie for small children, or children in general for that matter. While the dialog was hilarious, …
Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a movie about a small group of friends trying to survive an attack on New York City by a giant monster.This sounds simple and the synopsis itself is, however the brilliance of the movie shines when you consider how the story is told. The whole movie is …
Pretty Woman (movie)
Okay, I know that many of you out there just love Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman is a love story and it is sweet. I will agree with that. But it’s a lame plot because really, how many rich men have to buy a prostitute in order to have a …
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is the name which we are hearing all the time these days.This movie has leaved it’s mark on Golden Globe,and currently Slumdog has taken away many awards in BAFTA,and now it got nominated for 3 Oscar awards also.This movie is rocking the world of award ceremonies this …
Tenchi Muyo
“Tenchi Muyo” was one of the first anime series I can remember watching regularly when I was a teenager. It was also one of my favorites. The show would be aired on a programme called “Toonami” which would be broadcast on weekday afternoons on the cable television channel Cartoon …
X-Men: Apocalypse 2016 Superhero Movie
I read and heard a lot of bad reviews about the new X-Men: Apocalypse movie. This was from both dissatisfied movie goers and fans of the comic, thus I just wrote it off as a bad movie initially and put it out of my head. However, when someone I knew …
Movie Freaky Friday
I sometimes think that certain producers lack fantasy in coming up with original movies. “Freaky Friday” represent a movie about twisting identity in a series of three that came and are going to be released from Hollywood. We all remember Tom Hanks famous role in “Big” and he was …
The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Oh, how I waited to see this movie’ And oh, how disappointed I was. Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are getting ready to get married when they are arrested for helping Jack Sparrow, a pirate captain, to get away in Movie 1. They are facing death penalty; however, Turner …
Sunshine (UR, 2007)
I watched this film with a little apprehension. I rented it primarily to see if Danny Boyle’s production would capture all the nuances of his other films that I liked. “28 Days Later”, another movie that starred Cilian Murphy–had this really eerie atmosphere that reeked of high …
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
The second installment, like its predecessor, was done in the style of a whodunit mystery. Unlike the first one, where I felt this was done as a sense of stand alone, in case the movie flopped, this movie was done in that style because, more and more, the Harry …
Blue Collar-film
Blue Collar is a 1978 film starring Richard Pryor,Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto,and Harvey Keitel.Blue Collar follows the lives of three friends who are auto workers,Zeke ,Smokey and Jerry.The auto workers receive little pay and some of them even have trouble with their families.Zeke is having tax troubles …
Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys, directed by Michael Bay is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense violent action and pervasive strong language. The original release date was April 7, 1995 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Crime/Thriller and stars Martin Lawrence as …
What Women Want (2000)
What Women Want, directed by Nancy Meyers is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sexual content and language. The original release date was December 15, 2000 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Fantasy/Romance and stars Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, …
You don’t mess with the zohan
Whenever Adam Sandler makes a movie, you really never know what you’re going to get. He’s had some film classics like The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy and Happy Gilmore. Then, he’s had movies like You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, that are so terrible, you can’t get through a …
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