Movies Reviews
Columbo: Ashes to Ashes movie
Columbo: Ashes to Ashes was directed by actor Patrick McGoohan, who also guest stars in the program. He’s done this, acting and directing in a Columbo, a few times before. His character this time around is mortician Eric Prince.
Rue McClanahan does a nifty job as gossip columnist …
Them! (1954)
One of the great things about 1950s monster movies is you can always expect some sort of mutant creature created by radiation.
The movie Them! is definitely a perfect example of movies like that.
Overall, Them is an Ok movie. It’s really not that scary or even suspensful. But, what it …
The Art of War (2000)
This is the story of a government operative who is framed for the killings of Vietnam refuges and a Chinese ambassador, now he is on the run from both the FBI and the Chinese gangsters known as the Triad in order to clear his good name. majority of the …
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is a french made movie about the true story of a frenchman who suffers a stroke and is totally paralyzed, except for his left eye. He used this left eye to eventually blink his whole autobiography. Wow. Amazing, right? And to …
Flags Of Our Fathers Movie
Flags of Our Father is a very strong, graphic and realistic war movie covering the battle of Iwo Jima. Having seen other movies such as Private Ryan, I had gone into this movie with the expectation to see lots of battle scenes and the brutality of war. …
Movie: Mama Mia
Synopsis: A young woman is about to get married and, not knowing who her real father is, decides to invite three men her mom was involved with so she can meet her dad for the first time and feel complete.
What I liked about this movie: I am too young …
Notorious movie
I remember only vaguely the so-called hip-hop wars between the East Coast and the West Coast rap artists in the 1980s and early 1990s, because I listened to only some of the music. I do remember the violence between the two groups, and the gang war that resulted in …
Road to Zanzibar movie
Road to Zanzibar is the second of the Road pictures. From 1941, it starred Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour. As in Road to Singapore, the two fellas are mischief makers. We see them first as a carnival act, with Hope about to be shot …
Movie The Car
The Car is a very old but super scary movie. The movie was very good in my opinion. I think that the film really shows the kind of stuff that people really fear. I mean what’s not scary about a car that drive by it’s self and kills people? …
The Unbelievable Truth movie
This is one of my favorite Hal Hartley films. Brave, daring narrative and visual style, an engaging story focused on human dignity and about the coolest soundtrack ever makes this one of Hartley’s prime works, and also places him in the rare group of interesting american filmmakers the last …
Spiderman 3
I’ve mentioned this once, but when it comes to Superhero movies, you usually will have a hit with the first attempt at it but the sequels will never live up to the original. In the case of Spiderman 3, the third installment is definitely terrible compared to the previous …
Girl Positive (movie)
As I mentioned previously I love watching some Lifetime movies even though a lot of them aren’t necessarily up to par when it comes to acting, writing and directing. Even the storylines at time don’t even add up. However, when I watched the movie “Girl, Positive”, it was definitely …
Movie We own the night
“We own the night” is simply great film with all the right things to become a sensation. This film was directed by James Gray who was also the director of the “The yards”.
The story of this film takes us to Brooklyn in 1988 where two brothers lead two complete …
Seeker:The Dark Is Rising
I went to see this movie this afternoon and was told it was a five star movie. At first, the movie started out kind of confusing to me. The boy, who is the “hero”, was with a family that I wasn’t even sure was his own. Plus, were they …
Pink Panther,2006 movie
I went to see the new “Pink Panther” with Steve Martin yesterday. My opinion is that it’s a worth-to-see-once kind of movie. I had some good laughs, but there were some jokes that annoyed me (below-the-waist humor; thankfully, there wasn’t too much of it).
Steve Martin is a good comedy …
Blockbuster Total Access
Blockbuster is a name we all know. We always had a handful of issues with them. Late fees at odd times of the day and the most expensive movie rentals in town. But times have changed and most movie rental places charge too much these days. We had used …
Diary of the Dead movie
After his belated return to his roots with Land of the Dead a few years prior, Romero turns prolific once more with Diary of the Dead; an interesting take on the genre with a hand held, documentary tactic employed perhaps most famously with Cloverfield.
It’s an interesting idea, and …
Wild Child Movie
This movie is called Wild Child, and it features Emma Roberts with a completely different role from what she usually does, it’s not unlike Hotel for Dogs or Nancy Drew, but this movie features her as Poppy, a very rich teenage Malibu queen who’s rebelling because her mom died …
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Rick Moranis plays the character of an inventory that creates a gigantic machine that is able to shrink anything down to a very microscopic size; his initial tests of the device all resulted in failure as all the test subjects exploded instead of shrinking. It just so happened that …
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best horror movies ever, but personally i prefer the older version and not the recent. The older version had so much more power to it, it expressed fear in a much more direct way, the blood was much more realistic and splattered …
Apocalypse Now movie
This classic war story and loose depiction of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, was made by the Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola in the late 1970s under hardcircumstances. The result of all work is nothing less than a masterpiece with brilliant performances by Martin Sheen and, more than …
High School Musical
This movie was very popular, especially among the preteen girl crowd. I can see why - they definitely chose actors/actresses that would appeal to that age group, including the boy who plays Troy (main character).
The movie itself is sort of silly in the way a lot of kids movies …
Silk
Silk is one of those shows that I watch and I get goosebumps. It feels like the man in the story is suffering and that he has to suffer just because of a passion. Perhaps if this happens in my community, we would think that the woman has …
Slumdog Millionaire
I just watched Slumdog Millionaire, it was my first time seeing it. It was a blu-ray rental and I have to say it is a movie that is superb and deserved all of the Golden Globes, Oscars and Bafta awards that it won.
The movie follows a young boy …
Ratatouille
Ratatouille is a a film produced by PIXAR, it was actually a computer animated released year 2007 directed by BRAD BIRD. The characters of this are PATTON OSWALT who was the voice over of REMY, he was the rat who had arrived at Paris and dreamt to be a …
300 DVD Movie
I love so much watching the movie 300 when it first came to the cinema a couple of months back. And although I do not like violence, especially wars, I do feel that the Spartan warriors have a very artistic and creative style of fighting right to the …
Mr. and Mrs Smith
“Mr and Mrs Smith” is the movie that made the actors; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie meet together on screen. It seems that they were so great together that after this movie, Pitt left his wife, the actress Jennifer Aniston to start living with Jolie and have a family.
In …
Annabelle (2014 Film)
I was prompted to watch Annabelle, after watching the conjuring and seeing the brief glimpses of the character in the movie, I was instantly interested.
When going in to watch this movie, I already had my ideas and expectations pretty much set. As with any horror movie, I was going in …
Fullmetal Alcehmist: Brotherhood Episode 44
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 44 begins with Al and Hoehenheim in Liore having a discussion about Al’s body and the country wide Transmutation circle. Meanwhile Darius the chimera who helped Ed after he was injured goes to the bank to get money to pay for Ed’s medical bills. …
Boudu Saved From Drowning
Boudu Saved From Drowning is Jean Renoir’s 1931 classic comedy about a bum (Michel Simon) who’s saved from suicide by a bookstore owner(Charles Granval). The bookstore owner then takes bum into his home to teach him the finer things in life, only to have the bum reject his …
The Replacements (2000)
Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman star in this football movie about a former College Quarterback who is given a chance in the NFL (with other “replacement” players, when a strike is underway. This movie hits the spot for most movie fans, but it could have been better. I am …
Profession: Reporter movie
Profession: Reporter is the impressive thriller by Michelangelo Antonioni. Jack Nicholson stars as the journalist who gets drawn into a mysterious league of corruption on a high political level.
Antonioni here uses the same style of mysticism as in is masterpiece Blow Up, but not on the same level. Jack …
The Blind Side
The first thing that comes to mind when you mention ‘The Blind Side’ is the movie for which the actress Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for best female interpretation. This is true, however the film is much more than that. The story of this movie is so touching that …
Alice in Wonderland, 2010 Fantasy film
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is the director’s biggest film to date. Yeah sure you could say that some of his other films are better and I would agree, but this one was a cash cow. Disney knew this so in 3 short months the movie went from being …
Netflix
Netflix is a company that provides DVDs to its members. A member subscribes to the service, and then pick DVDs from the database of movies that Netflix has. The company then sends the movies to the member through the mail. This is the basic concept of Netflix.
All …
The Equalizer (2014 Film)
The Equalizer is an Action film I had the opportunity to view. I was lead to go see it after viewing a trailer for it one evening. As with many of the trailers on TV, I was intrigued almost instantly. I am not the biggest fan of Denzel Washington, …
Little Man-movie
Little Man is a 2006 comedy film starring Marlon and Shawn Wayans.It is about twi thieves, a really short man named Calvin and his partner Percy.Calvin is played by Marlon Wayans.They need to rob a diamond for a gangster who is going to pay them a large sum of …
Alfie
Alfie was a movie I had seen being aired on various cable television channels for some time. However, I didn’t pay it much attention until about a year or two after I had first seen it as it appeared as if it would be boring to me since …
The Barefoot Executive comedy
The Barefoot Executive is a Disney comedy from 1971 that starred a young Kurt Russell as an employee of a TV network who wants to move up with the company. He ends up connecting with his girlfriend’s chimpanzee who has the uncanny ability to pick winning TV shows. …
xXx: State of the Union movie
If you have ever seen the first xXx (Triple X) movie, you cannot deny that it really did not need a sequel. This one stars Ice Cube as the new, more intense xXx. C’mon…this movie is substandard and really disappointing, not to mention, very distressing to watch. There is …
Bruce Almighty (movie)
Bruce Almighty (played by Jim Carrey) is about a man who wants to prove to the world that he is the best ever. Bruce wants to be an anchorman on a television station, but is passed up by someone else. Bruce’s girlfriend is supportive and totally in love with …
Despicable Me Movie
Rarely am I interested in movies, so it always comes as a surprise for me if I’m interested in watching a movie for a second or even third time. Despicable Me was such a great movie that I now have it on a regular weekend rotation. This movie, starring …
Cemetery Gates (movie)
Normally I enjoy most creature and scary animal movies, but I found this one a large disappointment. When I first heard about Cemetery Gates I was quite eager to see it as I had never seen a horror movie about a Tasmanian devil. So when I did see it, …
Bad Boys 2, movie
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence did it so well the first time, that I couldn’t wait to see them reprise their roles as Drug Agents working for the Miami P.D. However, this film was lacking the story and power of the first, but it still had enough chemistry between …
I Can Do Bad All By Myself (PG13, 2009)
I have watched a few Tyler Perry films and decided to give “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” a chance. I really like Taraji Henson as an actress, and have always been a fan of hunky Adam Rodriguez. The story is centered on a group of …
African Cats 2011 Disneynature Movie
Disneynature. When I first heard about the addition to the Disney name, I was unsure of it. Yet after seeing African Cats which was released in 2011, I fell in love with the studio. I couldn’t wait to see the other documentaries that were made under the studio’s name. …
Avatar
I went to watch Avatar last night with my girlfriend at our local cinema’s new screen with 3D. It cost us £8 each to get in which is more expensive than normal at that cinema but the extra was because it was a 3D performance. On our way in …
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