Disney’s most beloved fairytale was brought back to life this year in a highly-budget live-action film starring Lily James as the titular character, Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother, and Richard Madden as the handsome prince charming! The film was directed by Kenneth Branagh and scored by Patrick Doyle. It …

It was a bit cold and foggy this morning so, since I couldn’t go outside to work in the garden, I ended up watching some movies instead.
One of those movies was a film I had loaded on our Netflix instant watch; The Land Time Forgot. I mainly loaded it …

Steven Spielberg’s oscarwinning depiction of the d-day during World War II when the american army invaded Normandy in France to fight the germans. The opening 15 minutes of the film is incredibly intense and well-directed with possibly the most realistic war scenes ever filmed. After that the film turns …

I just finished watching Sex and the City 2 today. I enjoyed this film more than I thought I would. I did see the first one and liked it as well. I was never a huge fan of the show, I saw 5 or 6 episodes, …

Annie is the early 1980’s movie of Little Orphan Annie.
Aileen Quinn is the young lady who plays the title role.
I really thought this adaptation of the popular comic strip and play was well done.
This musical was produced really well.
Quinn does a wonderful job as the precocious Annie.
Carole …

I’m not really much of a sports movie fan. I don’t really like “Remember the Titans”. I didn’t even watch “Invincible”. I was never interested in watching “Rudy”. The only sports movie I really really loved was “D2: The Mighty Ducks”. Then along came “Shaolin Soccer”. This comedic masterpiece …

This movie has Matthew Mchonuaghey and Kate Hudson. They were once married in the movie and at the beginning of the movie they are getting a divorce. Matthew plays Fin and Kate plays Tess. Fin tries to find gold and runs into a lot of people that want to …

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, …

Who cannot love a young Molly Ringwald as a fashion forward teenager who is trying to survive high school? I know that I can’t, and that is why it’s hard to not absolutely love the 1984 film “Sixteen Candles”. Not only is this movie funny, but it really does …

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 15 starts off with Scar battling the Silver Alchemist, Giolio Comanche, the vengeful Isvalan dispatches him quickly, but is injured while fighting. He returns to his hideout discovering that Yoki has a strange girl with him who introduces herself as May Chang, with her …

While I like some action movies, I generally do not like those that include the actors Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Segal since I have noticed that while these movies are usually jam packed with action scenes, they also usually have the same cliché characters and these action movies …

Sex in the City, The Movie was fabulous. I missed the HBO series because I don’t get HBO. Over two weeks, I rented all five years from Blockbuster.com and couldn’t watch them fast enough. Is it over the top sometimes? Yes. Is there any reality? …

Kareena Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, grand-daughter of legendary showman Raj Kapoor. She hails from the first family of Bollywood, where everyone from her great grandfather to her sister, have been actors in the Hindi Film Industry.
She started her career with J.P. Dutta’s Refugee opposite Amitabh Bachchan’s son, …

Some films do really affect me far better in my second watch than my first. Back then, 4 years ago, when I first saw this movie, it was nothing but a coming-of-age drama with a twisted end, one that I was so eager to watch because my ultimate crush, Emma …

“Placebo Effect” is a Twilight Zone episode featuring Sidney Poitier’s daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, who plays Dr. Leslie Coburn.
In this installment, she treats a hypochondric man who has been coming to her clinic on multiple occasions for various “illnesses.” One day he comes in with …

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 family musical film.It stars the actor Gene Wilder.It is about an eccentric candy factory owner named Willy Wonka.Willy Wonka hasn’t opened his factory in many years.However,recently,he started a contest for kids.In the contest, a kid who gets a …

Ok, considering I waited several weeks before I was able to find a copy of I am Legend at my local video store, I have to say I’m extremely disappointed in this movie. In fact, I’m absolutely glad I rented it rather than buy it.
When I see a movie …

I was watching the movie Forrest Gump again for probably the third or fourth time. While not quite as good as I remember it when I originally saw it, I still think this has to be one of Tom Hanks better pictures.
The great thing about this movie is you …

The Third Man, 1949, is based on a novel by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton), an American author writing cheap westerns, comes to post-World-War-II Vienna. The city, devastated by bombings, is dark, dangerous, with crime running rampant. Martin was invited to Vienna by …

First-time feature film director Andrés Muschietti tries with Mama, an expansion of his earlier short film similarly titled, to paint the horror genre into a warmer, more fantastical light, whilst at the same time keeping overused plot contrivances as a foundation, so that the modern audience might not feel …

While I admire any attempt at diversifying movies so that non white actors have the rare opportunity of playing some of the main roles, that doesn’t mean I thought the 2014 movie “No Good Deed” was any good. As a matter of fact, it had the terrible luck of being …

There’s been a lot of speculation about the lady in black known as the Black Dahlia over the years. No one really knows who killed her, but someone did, cutting up her body in the process. The gruesome and very real story has fascinated crime buffs for …

Little Women is a movie produced by Columbia Pictures. It is about a mother raising four daughters alone while their father is off fighting in the Civil War. It shows how these four s grow up into beautiful young women. Their mother Marmee and Aunt …

Edgar Burroughs is one of the most filmed authors of all time; what is unique about that in general is the fact that it is due to only one of his books - “Tarzan”, while always is adapted the first book and never the more fantastic and wacky adventures …

“Persuasion” is a good adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Amanda Root plays Anne Elliot, a young woman who, eight years ago, was persuaded by well-meaning friends and family to give up her love and reject Frederick Wentworth’s marriage proposal. A very decent and promising young man, Frederick did not …

I grew up watching the cult classic Black Christmas so, when I heard there was a remake of the 1974 movie, I found myself wondering if it would ever live up to the original. After all, the original set the standard for most slasher flicks; including Halloween.
After watching it …

This was part two of the dvd two pack that my dad recently purchased so I decided to watch this one too. He said he had seen it before and that he enjoyed it so that sounded good enough for me to check it out.
The plot of this …

There is no other movie like Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” It is definitely at the top of my favorites list. This movie is chocked full of best talent that Hollywood has to offer. With big names like Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman and …

Season five is by far my favorite season of scrubs. It is so hilarious with a couple of sad moments. Carla and Turk and trying to have a baby, and J.D. and Turk are full fledge doctors. They have finally finished their internship. Dr. Cox …

I loved Molly Ringwald as the pitiful Andie in Pretty In Pink. Actually, I never watched the movie but loved the song by the Psychedelic Furs of the same name. There was a bit of buzz about Pretty In Pink, the movie, so I sat down for a viewing. …

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, …

Insidious: Chapter 3 wasn’t on my list of horror movies to watch because I didn’t get the impression that it would be very good especially after watching the trailer. As usual, someone I knew recommended it to me anyway and I decided to try it. It turns out that I …

My son and I go to the movies all the time. Our favorite movie theater is Arundel Mills Malls, Hanover MD. We saw a delightful little movie called Drillbit Taylor directed by Steven Brill. This PG-13 comedy stars Owen Wilson and Leslie Mann.
The plot …

I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, and Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. The movie involves Holmes and Watson capturing a man named Lord Blackwood who is the leader of a cult and …

The Masters of Horror series is incredibly interesting. I like that they have different directors because it gives viewers an idea of how various filmmakers “do” horror. At any rate, “Valerie on the Stairs” is very Twilight Zone-ish in its delivery. In fact, reference to this …

This movie I watch with my girl friends. It really questions friendship between the 3 of us, and we were then stumped afterwards. I know that the 3 of us each questions ourselves as to what we think of one another, and whether we have dirty secrets …

Bridge of Spies is a notable biography directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. I had the choice between Martian and Bridge Of Spies, and I went to watch Bridge of Spies not on the grounds that Martian is an awful movie, but …

A fairytale story about some teenagers finding themselves in the world of Snow White, Cinderella and lots of other fairytale characters when walking through Central Park in New York.
A film clearly intended for young teenagers, but if you look at it in that way I actually have to admit …

I have a lot of respect for 1955’s Guys and Dolls because it pulled off the surprise sensation of the year, musically. I recently reviewed Chicago and commented there how surprised I was at the performances of non-singers and dancers Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Renee Zellweger. …

In this movie, you will find parts of Rocky, parts of School of Rock and Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, and parts of Napoleon Dynamite. At it’s core, you will find Jack Black playing Nacho, an orphan turned monk, desiring to be a world famous wrestler. That type …

I was expecting Josh Hartnett to shine in the DVD movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights. Don’t get me wrong; Josh is a darling and he acted really well but the storyline is a real bummer for me.
It starts off with Josh character, Matt being dumped by his super …

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Homecoming is a horror story from the Masters of Horror Series on the Channel Showtime which I really enjoy. Whats cool about the series is every story is totally different with all new characters as well as the surroundings. This story happens to be Horror/Political Satire. The plot is …

The movie Drop Dead Fred is about a woman named Elizabeth Cronin who just recently had a lot of bad things happen to her.She happens to lose her job,her car adn her husband Charles within a short amount of time.Without a job,she moves back in with her dominating,controlling mother …

The climactic comclusion to the world renouned trilogy of The Lord of the Rings Saga, this is where Aragorn realises his true role and comes to face the reality that he and he alone can rule as king. As the battle rages on and lives and being lost all …

We currently use a DVD / game rental service that is offered by Tesco.com. This service is an Internet based service where we can rental DVD’s or games for different platforms. The service allows us to have two discs at anyone time and costs us fourteen pound …

This movie is about a boy named Greg who was given a notebook by his mom so he can write all the stuff that happens during middle school. The story revolved around what Greg wrote and drew in his diary and how desperate he is to become popular to …

I had watched this last night on HBO and I was really surprised there was such a movie as this one, I haven’t really seen this movie when it was being shown in the theatres and I’m glad I had seen it last night. The show features a …

I like watching indie movies, and so I was excited to see this one even though at the time I wasn’t completely sure what it would be about. Thus, I sat up one night to watch it after hearing a lot of good things about the movie, which I …