I am reviewing The Case of the Thistle Killer, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series 39 Thrilling Episodes. This series was produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France in the fifties. Ronald Howard, the son of actor Leslie Howard, …

Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick is rated R bythe Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was June 26, 1987 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Drama/Thriller/War and stars Matthew Modine as Private Joker, Vincent D’Onofrio as Private Pyle, R. …

I first time I heard of Roman Polanski’s The Tenant was from my mother who had ventured into a movie theater many years ago with a friend who had an affinity for avant-garde fair.
The Tenant still lived in infamy to this day and I grew up from childhood to …

I enjoy Tim Burton movies, especially the stop motion animation ones such as Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas. So I was very eager to see Coraline. I had high hopes and high expectations. It turns out that I was not disappointed.
Coroline is a movie based on …

A movie made in the likeness of a toy brand.
There was a bit of talk both in news headlines and the film industry when the trailers for the new transformers movie were released. I didn\’t exactly expect an adult theme or plot until I saw the first trailer. …

I had seen A Greater Yes advertised and really wanted to see it. It was produced by Pure Flix, a production company I really like, and is Dove Family approved. So I was hopeful about this movie. When I read the cover, I was a bit …

Liam Neeson comes onto the screen as an action star, but, unlike some of his other roles, he is sans light saber and no longer wearing that great kilt from “Rob Roy.” Instead of a more iconic role, we get Neeson as a retired CIA agent who worked in …

Synopsis: An overweight mall cop needs to stop a group of criminals from robbing the mall he is sworn to protect.
What I liked about this movie: Kevin James is actually pretty funny as Blart, a mall cop who is considered a loser by everyone from the people he works …

A sort of family style gangster movie satire where all the gangsters are at most 15 years old (is it the true age of every gangster in the real world perhaps?) and the violence and sex have been substituted for other things. Bugsy Malone is the main character of …

After years of hearing just how bad “Shrek the Third” was I decided that it was time to try the movie myself. I can certainly see why so many people disliked it but it was nowhere near as bad as I had expected.
One of the major problems with this …

Today I went to see My wife’s murder a wonderful and sensitive movie.Its a story of a man whose wife dies accidently during a fight between the two and he gets scared as he feels that no one is going to trust him and what will happen of his …

My son is at an age where he is starting to appreciate more than just animated movies. So, over the course of the Halloween season, he was introduced to some of our favorite ghost and mystery comedies.
One of the films we watched was Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway …

Karen Davis, now can only lie in the hospital two years ago after trying to destroy ghost Kayako, and his son Toshio. Recognizing his daughter this situation, then the mother, sister Karen asks, Aubrey Karen to bring home to the United States. However, just to see the sisters, Karen …

There are not many mother-daughter stories anymore, and that is why I really love watching Gilmore Girls. This is The Complete First Season, and I have watch re-runs of it so many times, both on TV cable and on DVD.
There is just too much good acting, wonderful characters, …

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 36 begins with Hohenheim ripping Philosophers’ Stones out of his chest and using them, later he has a conversation with Trisha and then he gets a family photo taken of him and Trisha. He keeps telling her that he’s a monster because of his …

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen High Society, but the opportunity presented itself again recently, so I gave it a watch. Overall, it’s just a cute and bubbly movie with Grace Kelly putting on airs and Bing Crosby as the down the earth pal who just …

Has Mel Gibson ever made a worse film?
Trying to cash in on Mel’s tremendous success in BRAVEHEART, Roland (THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW among other travesties) Emmerlich cast Mel in a really badly written American Revolution historical picture.
Originally conceived as a WW2 movie, it mutated into the junk that …

If you like Hannibal Lechter, you will love this film. In a really in depth look at how Hannibal grew to become so vile, cunning, and deadly, this movie begins with his childhood. The film then follows him quickly through adolescence, and up to young adulthood. …

This is a sequel to Daddy Dare care where they have expanded the business from a simple care area and now they have bought a camp in order to be able to take care of more children at once. Business is slow and the attendance is low which causes …

Its a classic. Its amazing. I cant think of anything better than watching Patrick Swayze wiggle his hips and balance on a log.
I have seen this film thousands of times, I know the script off by heart and I know the soundtrack inside out.
This movie is the best chick …

Rob Zombie’s journey from musician to filmmaker has certainly been interesting. The goth-rocker’s journey from ‘Dragula’ to ‘Devil’s Reject’ has been an odd mix of trashy screams and atmospheric horror, Rob Zombie’s films have always been something else. And ’something else’ is probably the best way to …

When I heard they were making a movie about how Hannibal Lecter became a cannibal, I was both excited but skeptical. The plot in Hannibal Rising sounded promising but I didn’t think it was a Hannibal movie without Anthony Hopkins playing the starring role.
Overall though, after watching the film, …

Oh, how I love National Treasure!! These movies actually got me into studying history again - and history is fascinating! Especially at the beginnings of when the United States was formed. How exciting!! Of course I am a wierdo who will sit and read Civil War facts and Gold …

Yankee Doody Dandy is the story of show business patriot, George M. Cohan, and no one is more closely identified with Cohan than James Cagney who played the role of the Vaudeville star. While the 1942 musical from Warner Brothers has a solid cast which includes Joan Leslie …

Judgment Night, directed by Stephen Hopkins is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was October 15, 1993 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Thriller and stars Emilio Estevez as Frank Wyatt, Cuba Gooding Jr. as Mike Peterson, …

Fool’s Gold is a genreless movie fresh to the theaters. Well, they say it has a genre, but once you watch the movie, the genre becomes rather unapparent. The movie is about a bickering married couple (Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson) on the edge of divorcing who team up …

I saw this movie “21” just recently. It stars ,the guy from Across the Universe; and Kevin Spacey as the math professor in charge of the Math club.
This was a controversial …

Control (2007)is a true rendition on the live of the late singer, Ian Curtis from Joy Division. He was a singer and his tale was told in this black and white movie. I’ve always wondered what it’s like for singers and the likes to suffer from depression …

For Richer or Poorer is about a couple Brad and Carolina Sexton who are living high off the hog one day and sleeping in a cow pasture the next. As it turns out their accountant rips them off and leaves them holding the bag owing the IRS three million …

I said I was not going to do it but I did it. I broke down and saw the movie This is It. I am certain most die -hard Michael Jackson fans have already seen this “movie” in the theater or on DVD but I was not …

For the longest time, A League of their Own was one of my favorite films, but it eventually took a back-burner seat to many of modern-day films. Yet, it has remained a past favorite that I still enjoyable to watch every now and then. I will be the first to …

This movie was definitely one of those that I will have to watch twice to figure out where they got one over on me. I enjoyed the movie and was really happy to see Marc Blucas, the former Riley on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but the ending was …

Feelings are outlawed as mankind’s greatest weakness in the futuristic action/adventure flick starring Christian Bale as Cleric John Preston. From the very first action scene, you could tell that this movie was going to be very exciting, and, it did not disappoint on that regard. Finding, fighting and eradicating …

9 to 5 is the first song that I personally remember hearing Dolly Pardon perform on TV. I saw the movie a few years latter when it came out and just about died laughing. It has a way of demonstrating the male stereo type of so many bosses. It …

Three Kings, directed by David O. Russell is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for graphic war violence, language and some sexuality. The original release date was October 1, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Comedy/Drama/History/War and stars George Clooney …

It is so difficult to say who is the ideal on screen partner for Hugh Grant. We have seen him act with such great female stars such as Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Renee Zellwegar, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Julianne Moore and Andie MacDowell. I believe he is ideal on screen partner …

The movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. This is a movie about a man who ages in reverse and throughout the movie we would see events about growing up and college times that surround the 19th and 20th century. You would be surprise …

Alright, before you get too skeptical about the DVD title movie, Sex and Death 101, let me tell you that this movie is actually pretty harmless, minus all the ‘racy’ scenes, which I’m not interested at all. I just love the comedic storyline and here is it.
Simon Baker …

This movie is such an odd combination of movies. I really love it and I adore 70’s horror films but it is so hard to pin down.
The plot of the movie is a teenager starts dating her best friend’s boyfriend’s friend. They start falling in love and she …

In this animated movie, we are taken into the world of Asgard during the sleep cycle of Odin; this is the time period when Asgard is vulnerable to attacks and the only time where all the warriors are on guard to fight the armies sent to destroy Asgard. Knowing …

I cannot recall how many times I’ve seen this movie but I don’t mind. I like this anyway. Well, of course I don’t buy the idea that two people could exchange faces considering the differences in their genetic make up and it’s not solved by simple facial …

Extraordinary measures is different from other movies you typically see because it is a true story and was based on a non fiction book about how a father raised money for research to find a cure for his sons. When watching this film I had wondered if it …

Last Vegas is a comedy film I was eager to see after viewing the trailer for it one evening. I wasn’t hesitant in watching it due to all the veteran actors that would be starring in the film. I just knew that a film with Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, …

Trying to capitalize on the popularity of Star Wars, this installment sees James Bond, played by the witty Roger Moore, take a trip into outer space to stop the evil machinations of Drax, who has dreams of a utopian society on Earth that can only be achieved by killing …

Disney and Pixar’s Cars, directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft is rated G by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars the voices of Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen, Paul Newman as Doc Hudson, Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera, Chech Marin as Ramine, Larry ‘the cable guy’ …

This “All the King’s Men” is not the one based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer winning novel. It is not a novel about politics in Louisiana. It is a movie about, well, all the king’s men. In this version there really is a king, King George V and the …

I haved loved past street dance movies like You Got Served and Stomp the Yard, so when I saw this particular one showing in the movies already, I decided to watch it. The movie itself is called Street Dance 3D but here there wasn’t a movie house that played …

The Bells of St. Mary’s is the sequel to Going My Way and stars Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley out to save another part of the Church. This time, it’s not a parish that needs him, but a school which is in crisis. His skeptical foe this …