Movies Reviews
Babes In Toyland (1961)
Disney’s first big screen live-action musical was “Babes in Toyland” starring Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands, Ray Rolger, and Ed Wynn (among others). I had seen it as a small kid and enjoyed it. I just now watched it again as a twenty six year old kid and I kinda …
Ninja Scroll (Movie 1993)
If you are a fan of Japanese Animation, you will find alot of entertainment with watching this film. Impossible characters with inhuman strengths and powers are the ingredients that make this movie a delicious adventure. A ninja for hire is tricked by an old man into fighting lest he …
The Nice Guys (2016 Buddy-Comedy Film)
I am not really a huge fan of buddy-comedy movies. I particularly didn’t enjoy 21 Jump Street that I didn’t bother to check out its sequel. However, I am in a real marathon since falling in love with films recently. I have seen most of the “must-see” movies this year …
“Up in the Air” (2009 Film)
“Up in the Air” the 2009 film starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick proved to be not only a touching tale of finding the meaning of how to spend your life, but a depressing realization that sometimes it doesn’t work out as planned when you give yourself …
The Last Samurai film
“Nations like men sometimes have their own destiny”. Each tradition owns a unique beauty and in Edward Zwick’s best epic film the main emotional strings sing under the aerie tranquility of the spirit of Japan.
Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is hired to take out the forces of …
Little Miss Sunshine
Typically I wait until after the Oscars have passed to start diving into the nominated (and winning) films. Little Miss Sunshine is a movie packed with an inviting cast and some pretty hilarious dialogue. Following a family on their quest to enter their daughter in the …
Ghost Hunters Season 2 Part 1 DVD set
I bought the Ghost Hunters Season 2 Part 1 DVD set from Target and after watching it I had to go online and look because I thought I should return it. The set looks really cheaply made and the transfer to DVD was so poor that I thought there …
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead is a British romantic comedy/horror film featuring Simon Pegg as the bumbling slacker Shaun who is forced to save his family and friends from a town full of bloodthirsty zombies. While this movie sports lots of zombie gore, it is almost cartoonish or Monty …
Film The Tenant
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 …
Fiesta movie
Fiesta is a small musical film from 1941 that features Ann Ayars as Cholita and Jorge ‘George’ Negrete as José. The opening song is inviting and very upbeat; I enjoyed it greatly.
The spirited movie begins with a 3 day fiesta being held with the goal of honoring the return …
Definately Maybe movie
I watched this movie a couple of days ago. It was better than I thought it was going to be. For people who like love movies and like these types of movies I think they will like it. Honestly for me I thought it could have been a lot …
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 movie)
Looking at the lives of the Musketeers years after their glory. Aramis (Jeremy Irons) is now a priest, Porthos (Gerard Depardieu) is the fat owner of a brothel, Athos (John Malkovich) is a humble father, and D’Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne) is the captain of the royal guards. In service to …
Splinter (2008)
MPAA Rating - Rated R for violence/gore and language.
Stars: Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner.
The film Splinter was recently released in theaters, and Comcast subscribers have the ability to watch it On-Demand in the comfort of their homes. That is what I did.
Splinter is the story of a couple, …
Mama Mia
Mama Mia, is a musical comedy about a girl who wishes to have her father walk her down the aisle during her wedding day. She secretly reads her mom’s journal to find that she had three different lovers around the time of her birth. She decides to invite all …
Rear Window
An interesting premise and layout. Guy breaks his leg and is laid up in his apartment with nothing better to do than take a peek into the lives of all his neighbors across the courtyard. It is a sordid group: musicians rehearsing, a lonely lady looking for love, another …
Mean Girls
Ugh. I hate the title for this movie even more than I hate the movie itself. And what surprises me is the amount of parents that let their kids watch something with the title ‘Mean Girls’. It’s not such an awful movie; I guess. It’s your typical high school …
The Wedding Crashers
The Wedding Crashers it a great movie! This movie was just great. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaugn did a great job of acting in this movie. I really liked the basic storyline. The Wedding Crashers is very funny because these two guys go around looking for girls at weddings they …
Fever Pitch (movie)
A few years ago the Boston Redsox came back from utter defeat to win against their arch rival the New York Yankees. They later went on to win the World Series and the entire state went wild. The following year in 2005 a movie was released called …
Enron
If you are like me, the story of Enron and its executives were just little snipets of information you heard on the evening news. Yes, someplace out in Texas many people were losing their jobs, but it didn’t touch me personally, so why should I pay attention?
However, after …
Insidious (movie)
“Insidious” is one of those movies that I’ve found myself beginning several times, but never actually settling down to watch it. Most of the times I shied away from it because of the bad reviews quite a few viewers had given it, calling it a waste of time and …
Yoga Hosers, horror comedy
I’m a fan of Kevin Smith’s work. I enjoyed the “View Askewniverse” movies as well as “Red State”. I’ve also enjoyed his podcast “Fatman on Batman”. I have yet to see “Tusk” but I was able to check out it’s sequel/spin-off “Yoga Hosers”.
The fact that this follows …
Christmas in Wonderland
My very favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, stars in this holiday movie, “Christmas in Wonderland”. I just saw it for the first time when it aired on TV, and I have mixed feelings about it.
Patrick was great, as always. He’s heavy in the first 15 minutes of the …
The Proposal movie
Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock have never even made it to my list of favorite actors. Nor have their movies ever made such an impression on me. I had to force myself to watch The Proposal because I literally had nothing better to do and I totally missed watching …
Movie: Dreamscape
I hadn’t seen the movie Dreamscape in a while so, when I saw I could watch it on instant watch last night, I figured I would take the time to watch it again.
After doing so, I was glad I took the time to re-watch a film I couldn’t remember …
Australia (2008, Baz Luhrmann) movie
Not nearly as bad as it looks from the trailers.
I avoided watching this for ages because the trailers made it look awful - cheesy, bloated, frankly as interesting and featureful as the Outback. It had one of those trailers which seems to give away the plot of the entire …
The Incredible Hulk (2008 version)
“The Incredible Hulk” is a great movie but unfortunately it was released during the same period as another great blockbuster “Iron Man” and so member of the general public tend to do comparisims. Although “The Incredible Hulk” has got all the right ingredients for a …
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Double Jeopardy, directed by Bruce Beresford is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language, a scene of sexuality and some violence. The original release date was September 24, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller and stars Tommy Lee …
The Shepard Border Patrol
I admit that I haven’t watched a lot of Jean Claude Van Damme’s movies. If I have to see a bunch of men jumping, kicking and screaming, I choose to see it through a comic aspect, so I go for a Jackie Chen movie. I broke my rule for …
Sleepwalkers movie
This movie was apparently based on a novel that Stephen King wrote but never got published. Seeing this movie, I can see why King decided not to publish the book because this movie is bad, very bad.
The “sleepwalkers” are cat-like vampire creatures that suck the life force out …
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013 movie)
Oz The Great and Powerful tries so hard to be epic. It has a very entertaining feeling. There are aspects of the movie that are brilliant and there were things that I thought needed some work. Sometimes I thought the pacing of the film was a little off and …
The Christmas Wish movie
The Christmas Wish is a delightful holiday movie with a very nice cast that includes the marvelous Debbie Reynolds. In the movie, Reynolds’ husband has just died and her son comes home to help with the business. The son is played with care by Neil Patrick Harris.
Harris’ …
Predator 2 movie
This second installation takes place not in the wild jungle but in the corporate jungle. All that you feared before now comes knocking at your door and breaking through your walls. There is no safe haven from the unseen menace. It sees you and when it does, you can …
Black Cat Episode 2
Black Cat Episode 2 begins with a man attacking a girl; the policeman finds him and gets attacked by the man who says he’ll burn the skin off his face. Sven, desperately in need of cash aids a girl in distress and decides to help her find her …
My Sassy Girl
What I really like about the movie “My Sassy Girl” is that at the beginning it gives you an impression that it just an average romantic movie; however in the last half hour of this movie things change completely. This movie moves from creating to a happy-go-lucky atmosphere to …
Underworld 3
I went to the Cinema to watch “Underworld 3: The Rise Of the Lycans”
I know that this movie is the prequel to “Underworld”. In this movie which begins with Victor killing Lucian’s parents and takes Lucian in as a child yet makes him a slave to guard them.
Victor …
Yours, Mine and Ours(movie)
Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a Navy widow who has 8 children, with the youngest one still a toddler. Helen works at a hospital, doing her best to raise the kids and trying to get over her grief. Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) is in a similar situation. Also a …
The Crow Movie
One of the best movies ever made was “The Crow”. The story line is great and the characters are believable.
Eric Draven and his bride to be, Shelly, are brutally murdered on Halloween. On the one year anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the dead with a …
In Bruges (2008)
In Bruges (2008) is a comedy by director Martin McDonagh and is rated R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use.
In Bruges is the story of two hitmen, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brenden Gleeson), that are sent to Bruges, a historic medival city in Belgium, …
Without A Clue Movie
This movie creates a funny twist to the famous Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson duo, with Dr. Watson being the mastermind and the genius and Holmes nothing but a fictional character created by him and represented by a hired actor, Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine). While Kincaid gets all the …
The Patriot Movie
The filmmaker Roland Emmerich have for quite a long time been renowned for his peculiar way of waving with the american flag in his films, and The Patriot is, not very unexpected, the same thing.
Mel Gibson is an american family father in america in the late 18th century. A …
Once
The movie Once is something that my boyfriend and I love watching. It is a musical drama, and is Irish too. The musical has a courtship like, and has an R rating.
The story is about a street musician, and a kindred spirit, featuring a younger girl, who …
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
NYPD’s Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is teamed up with Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) to try and take down the military minded madness simply known as Simon (Jeremy Irons). Simon enters the scene when news of bomb threats are announced, a decoy that he uses to throw focus …
Fargo (1996) Movie
Based on the synopsis of this film by Joel and Ethan Cohen, I would not have bothered with Fargo, but a friend whose opinion I trusted recommended I watch it and it is now one of my favorites. Set in wintry Minnesota, William H. Macy plays a dodgy …
G (2002)
G, directed by Christopher Scott Cherot is rated R by the Motion Picture Assocaition of America for language, some sexuality and brief violence. The original release date was October 28, 2005 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Romance and stars Richard T. Jones as …
Commando (1985) movie
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke, Michael Delano, and Drew Snyder.
Directed by: Mark L. Lester.
Ex-Colonel John Matrix (Schwarzenegger) once led an elite Special Forces unit in the army but he retired so that he could live …
Paycheck (2003)
This has got to be one of the only films that I have seen Ben Affleck play a character that was good in any sense. In this movie, he plays the role of an engineer who assists large corporations develop strategies to counter and rise above their competition, in …
Corpse Bride (movie)
Corpse Bride is a 2005 animation, fantasy and musical movie directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. I decided to watch this movie after I watched Coraline, which was one of the best animation movies that entertained me really well. The reason why I linked this movie to Coraline …
10 (movie)
The movie 10 catapulted Bo Derek into a household name. Bo is steamy hot in this film, although the acting leaves much to be desired. I like 10 because it’s cool to see an icon when she was young and very, very beautiful. Bo Derek can’t act worth a …
The Movie Madagascar
Madagascar was a movie that I could not wait to see. The trailers looked hilarious and it seemed to have good animation. I, as usual, waited for the movie to be available for rent before I saw it. I was really glad that I did not go and …
The Great Escape (1963)
The Great Escape, directed by John Strupes is Unrated by the Motion Picture Asociation of America. The original release date was July 4, 1963 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Drama/Histor/Thriller and stars Steve McQueen as Captain Hilts, James Garner as Flight Lt. Hendley, …
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