Movies Reviews
“Monty Python and the Meaning of Life” (1983 Film)
While this group of British comics are well known for their unique sense of humor, having been portrayed in “Monty Pythons Flying Circus” and in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, their second movie, “Monty Python and the Meaning of Life” made in 1983 is filled with much more …
Bride of Chucky (1998)
Once again, Chucky returns from the dead with hopes of finding the perfect host to transfer his soul not this time, this time Chucky is full aware that is soul is permanently trapped in the body of the doll and makes no illusions about it. He is in search …
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 …
Universal Soldier (1992)
Universal Soldier, directed by roland Emmerich is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux aka GR44 and Dolph Lundgren as Andrew Scott aka GR13.
Military personnel and elite killing machines per se are Luc and Andrew, unfortunately, they were both …
Code Name: The Cleaner
These kind of movies, when done well, are excellent movies to see. When done poorly, they are a disaster. There is no middle ground with these kind of movies. With Code Name: The Cleaner, we have a fast-paced, twisting plot that kept me guessing around every corner, as Cedric …
Movie The Uninvited
“The Uninvited” is billed as a horror flick, but it’s actually a mystery/ghost story with a twist ending.
Anna is a troubled teen who is plagued by the memory of a horrible fire that killed her mother. She returns home after a stay in a mental hospital, and is immediately …
Seventh Son, Movie
Boasting an impressive cast, and based on the book, A Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delaney, there were high hopes amongst many for this film. Early trailers showed some promise, but the delays in production, followed by a weak showing at the box office, hint at the real quality, or lack …
Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo movie
Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo was a real shocker when it came out in 1991. I remember reading the buzz about it. Would they really kill off Columbo’s unseen but much loved wife? The made for TV movie actually starts with Mrs. Columbo’s funeral. …
Confessions of a Shopoholic
When I first saw the movie “Confessions of a Shopoholic” advertising to be released in theatres, I did not pay it any attention since it seemed like a silly little comedy; but when I did get to watch it some time ago, I realised that it was actually a …
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The 40 Year Old Virgin, played by Steve Carell stars as Andy Stitzer. Andy is a 40-year old electronics store worker who has never had sex.
He is very well organized, and spend his time collecting toys, playing video games, reading comic books and riding his bike.
This situation remais just …
The Proposal movie
I am reviewing the 2009 movie, The Proposal, starting Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, and Betty White.
The plot to this movie is quite simple. Sandra Bullock plays a mean, severely unlikeable boss, who, when threatened with deportation, blackmails her assistant into pretending that they are married. There’s only …
Brother’s Justice Movie (2010)
Here is a movie that you would think would never be done in Hollywood, but it did get made. Not only did Brother’s Justice did actually get made, it also managed to score itself a full cast of A list actors such as: Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Seth Green, …
Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
Another scary movie I have watched with my boyfriend is Messengers 2: The Scarecrow. The movie starts out with a young woman, running in a corn field; her face distressed and scared. She was the killed; the movie not showing who had killed her.
The movie then transitions to a …
Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious
Synopsis: This sequel to the movie The Fast and The Furious sees Paul Walker’s character (now no longer a cop) helping out the customs department in an effort to bust a drug dealer with the help of one of his friends.
What I liked about this movie: Much like the …
Gangs of New York
WHen the movie Gangs of New Yrok was supposed to be released in theatres, I was eager to watch it not only because I have always loved many historical films but it would have been the the first time in a long time that I had seen the actor …
I am Omega
I had never heard of the movie I am Omega until it aired on TV yesterday morning. Since I didn’t have much else to do (my wife is extremely pregnant, limiting our movement on weekends), I ended up sitting down to watch it.
It turned out to be better than …
The Prince of Egypt (1998 movie)
Saved from being executed by his mother and set adrift on the river, Moses is rescued by the Egyption queen and is unknowingly raised as a prince of Egypt. After trailing an escaping prisoner, he learns the truth that he is really a Hebrew and he later finds out …
Horton Hears a Who (2008)
Horton Hears a Who is an animated movie based on a classic book by Dr. Suess. The main characters in the movie are voiced by Steve Carrell, Jim Carrey, and Carol Burnett. Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey) is an elephant who lives in harmony with the other animals in …
Open Water 2 : Adrift
This movie is the sequel from the Open Water 1, but I never see Open Water 1. when i watched this movie, I feel so pity if that movie is based on true story. I feel that how fool they are, gone to the sea without preparing well, and …
Proof (2005)
Director: David Auburn. Featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The movie is based on a Pulitzer prize stage play about a daughter of a mentally challenged yet brilliant mathematician. Yet despite the mathematics the real issue of the story is the things that are intangible, the faith despite the …
Scary Movie 4
After seeing Scary Movie 4 this past weekend, I was glad to finally see a movie series that gets better with time. Since dumping the Wayan Brothers prior to the third movie, the plots in the Scary Movie series have gotten more mature and focus more on movie spoofs …
The Exorcist, movie
I still find the “Exorcist” scary, and it won’t matter how old I get, how many times I see it, or who I’m with when I watch it, It will always petrify me. The story holds up well among similar films, and time has been kind to the movie …
Rush Hour 3
Rush Hour 3 was everything I had hoped for after seeing Rush Hour 1 & 2. The second sequel was filled with action and humor, and follows a plot that will keep one interested the whole way through.
The movie focuses on the reserved Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), who is …
CNN Tribute America Remebers
The CNN Tribute America Remembers is a DVD that a friend of mine gave me shortly after 911 happened. My friend figured I would appreciate it because I was in the National Guard at the time. When 911 happened I had just gotten back from a three week trip …
A Mouse in the House movie
One of the earliest animated features about Tom and Jerry, the cat and the mouse. In this film Tom and another cat named Butch is having a contest. The one who first catches the little mouse Jerry get to stay inside the house. Of course it doesn’t take Einstein …
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 …
House Of Voices
Speaking of horror and haunting movies, this one title, House Of Voices sits in the list of mine as being pretty boring and bland. I’ve watched it with my friends and if I’m not mistaken, this movie was before 2005 or 2006.
The story is about this particular woman who …
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee starring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and a bunch of talented kid actors, was refreshing and entertaining to watch. Firth plays Cedric Brown, a father of seven and a widower who needs to find a wife - urgent! - or his austere Aunt Adelaide will withdraw her financial …
The Legend of Zorro 2005 (movie)
As someone who loved the original, The Legend of Zorro was a hugely disappointing sequel. The scenery was still beautiful and I still liked the main actors, and the humor still made me laugh, but the magic was lost. The dignity of the first was abandoned in …
Arthur and the Minimoys
When I was in a movie house, I was able to see the trailer of Arthur and the Minimoys. I found it and interesting story so I bought a copy of the movie. I like the movie so much since it is an adventure film. Though its a fiction …
The Dilemma (Movie)
The Dilemma is newly out of cinemas (Depends where you live) here in South Africa. The trailer was very ammusing, and i thought the movie would be hilarious.
I rented the movie on Box Office (Exclusive to Dstv, a south african TV company) for a fairly cheap price. I eagerly …
The Last Holiday
This is indeed a feel-good movie story, starring Queen Latifah as well as L.L. Cool J and some other casts.
The storyline is about Georgia Byrd, starred by Queen whom only has 3 weeks to live and she decides to spend her hard-earned money and go on a shopping …
B*A*P*S (1997)
Nisi, played by Halle Berry, and Mickey, played by Natalie Desselle-Reid, star in this comedy about two African America women trying to make a name for themselves by opening the world’s first hair salon/soul food joint in the market. A plan that they need a lot of capital to …
Tripping the Rift Season 1 DVD
Tripping the Rift is an unusual show. It has a fairly solid basis as a science fiction spoof: sure it has been done before but there is so much material to be found that there is still much to be done and new fodder is always being developed …
Toy Story 3: the movie
Toy Story 3 is Pixar Studios latest animated feature. Is the third installment of the Toy Story series. This series chronicles the secret life of toys owned by a young boy named Andy. The same toys are featured in each movie. The group is …
Bride of Frankenstein movie
James Whale’s classic sequel to Frankenstein. Here we see Boris Karloff yet again as the monster who is misunderstood as a savage killer, depending on his looks and unability to speak. At the same time the real monster, an insane colleague to dr Frankenstein, plans to create a bride …
Troll (1986 Film)
The 1986 film “Troll” is in one word, eerie. Now, being used to the creepy and spooky bump in the night films of the modern day, movie lovers may wonder what a 1986 movie may hold in the eerie department compared to a movie of today. But it’s the …
Clerks 2 Movie
I have been a huge Kevin Smith fan for quite some time, so I was very excited when the movie Clerks 2 was released and headed out to the theater to be one of the first to see it. Overall, I really enjoyed the film. If you have never …
Daniel Craig’s take on James Bond
Right when I had gotten used to Pierce Brosnan as Bond they took him away from me. This after they took away Timothy Dalton, who I thought brilliant, after a mere two films. Even though I disliked many of the Brosnan Bond films, I loved Goldeneye and even found …
Mr. Wrong movie
On Friday evening my family and I were waiting for my mother to get to my grandmother’s house after she was finished at the hair dresser, so what I did to kill time was watch a little television. That was how I saw the movie “Mr. Wrong” on the …
Shutter Island (2010 film)
Martin Scorsese won me with The Departed and continued his amazing streak of great movies with Shutter Island-a psychological thriller motion picture for which I thought that I literraly watched in one breath although throughout the film I was usually out of one.
Tedy Daniels …
Defiance
I don’t usually like war movies, but sometimes I watch them mostly because my mother likes them. That was how I watched the movie Defiance. At first, I thought it was going to be very boring too like many of the other war films I’ve seen with the graphic …
The Vanished Detective
I am reviewing The Case of the Vanished Detective, 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, …
Battle Warrior Movie
Warning to all you Tony Jaa fans out there, don’t waste your time with this movie! I ended up making the mistake of buying this movie. The packaging of the 2 disc collector’s edition is pretty slick. It has Tony’s face on the front with his …
Flesh and Bone
Flesh and Bone with Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
The title picked up my attention, but I guess it was just a trick to get me to watch a boring mundane movie. I suppose it was meant to be flesh and …
Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” movie
Imagine… Back before engines or high speed communication, where battle is done with metal blades and crude and cruel superstitions serve as the voice of both law and medical science, you give a decade of your life traveling far from home to fight the enemies of your religion. After so …
A Charlie Brown Christmas
My favorite Christmas-themed movie is A Charlie Brown Christmas. I am a huge fan of Peanuts and all the characters in it. I think A Charlie Brown Christmas is so cute, and it is a classic Christmas movie. One of the best parts is that it …
Children of Men on DVD
I saw Children of Men twice in the movie theaters and I bough the DVD. This movie stars Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. It takes place in the not too distant future where people have become sterile. Clive Owen gets caught up in a situation to save …
The Fireman movie
A house owner has joined a deal with the firesquad executive which will enable him to get insurance money if the fire department lets his house burn to the ground. In the middle of this situation stands The Tramp, played by Charlie Chaplin of course, who knows nothing about …
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