A film by Bernardo Bertolucci who is mostly known for his giant epic Novecento. This is one of his latest films and tells the story of Siddaharta who goes through a spiritual journey to finally become Buddha. It seems to me Bertolucci isn’t any longer the talented filmmaker he …

When I got the movie The House Bunny, I’ll admit I didn’t know what to expect from it. On one hand, it looked like it would be a cute, funny movie. On the other, it looked like it might be pushing the limits a bit and could simply be …

The best way to describe “Point Break” is two great young acting talents, Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze team up in a movie in opposite roles with a lot of action, nail beating moments and great scenography. Apart from having a great story, the interesting aspect about this movie …

I watched “I’m with Lucy” today on Lifetime movie network. It was better than I thought. At first I wasn’t going to watch it when it came on. I was kind of tired of watching television, but once I saw it on for a few minutes I got interested …

Watching Leonardo Dicaprio acting in Body of Lies, I could feel the tension brewing in his character and I watched this before when it was released in my country sometime last year.
There is something mysterious and foreboding whenever spy movies or movies that are filled with CIA Agents give me. …

I read so much good reviews about this romantic movie that ended up with very high expectations while watching. While I must admit that Tom Hanks is simply great, this movie cannot be classified with a great romantic ending.It seems that even the director of this movie Spielberg was …

When I saw the preview to King Kong, I knew it was a must seen movie . I was right. I didn’t care to watch the old King Kong, because I don’t like older movies. However, the new one, even though created in modern times, shows the world …

This Valley of the Wolves, Iraq is a movie of a different perspective. It is a foreign film, and has artistic elements to it. My friend brought me to watch this, and it lasts for about 2 hours and 2 minutes.
This movie is not about taking sides, …

Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Michael Ironside, Jake Busey and Dina Meyer star in this sci-fi/thriller/action/drama type movie. Filmed looking like a commercial, it takes us to a far away planet where bugs rule. War is waged and alot of beings die…this is a very bloody movie, and that …

Sally Field is an amazing American actress. She began her career in The Flying Nun, an old television series about a young nun who could fly (this was due to her habit, not wings!). Sally Field has also starred in such wonderful films as Norma Rae, Sybil, Places In …

This film is based on a true story set in Harlem in the late 1960’s. Frank is a driver for Bumpy Johnson, one of the cities top criminal leaders. When Bumpy dies, Frank takes over the empire and expands it by selling his own brand of heroin, Blue Magic, …

I first watched this series with my friends in a theater, and I laughed so hard that the next day my voice was hoarse. I couldn’t talk regularly for three days after that!
The actual animation is amazing. They use different techniques from various periods in film history, including sound …

Cabin in the Sky is a 1943 all African American musical based on a Broadway musical production that premiered in 1940.The main plot concerns a young man Little Joe. He is killed over gambling debts .he is given 6 months by the general of heaven to redeem himself …

This movie, Regarding Henry, is one I enjoy watching a great deal. It stars Harrison Ford as a very unlikable lawyer who cares more about image and his dining room table than he does for his wife and daughter. Annette Bening is the wife, and Mikki Allen …

I was very skeptical about watching Casino Royale for I was never interested in any of the previous James Bond movies. I figured they are very predictable, where the hero beats everyone up, always winning and ends up with the beautiful girl. I’m so glad I gave Casino Royale …

Torture was directed by Nolan H. Lebovitz. It stars Cole Hauser, Laurence Fishburne, and James Cromwell. It came out on video in 2008. It is a crime and suspense movie.
The plot is about an undercover FBI agent (Cole Hauser) and what he is forced to do in the line …

You won’t see Hollywood make this type of a movie today, oh no. It’s got “religion” in it, you see, the characters go to church and read their Bible, and all that is taken seriously, no one makes fun of them for it. God-fearing people are actually presented as …

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is what we have all been waiting for; the second of two films in a vastly growing franchise that we have all grown to love Or not.
The original film was fantastic. It’s sequel, Dead Man�s Chest had potential but seemed, quite …

An abundant of people denounce against movies since they judge that films are just made for entertainment and they spoil a child’s mind. I oppose this thought since many films today are educational which teach us history from over hundreds of years ago. Good Night, and Good Luck is …

In continuation from Desperado, El Mariachi (Antonio Bandaras) has once again lost his love as Carolina (Selma Hayek) is killed. This time the gun fight action is lame and played out as the director has lost his flare and direction. The movie is laced with crappy acting, crappy staging, …

Don’t we all just love penguins? I know I do. I was really excited when the movie came out, i really had big expectations about it since it only heard good things about it. And the day finally came, I went to the cinema (which nowadays I do rarely) …

Home Alone is a movie about an 8 year old kid, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) left alone at home during the Christmas Holidays. His huge family, in their rush to leave for the airport seemingly forget about Kevin. At first Kevin enjoys the free time by himself, but when two …

I just watched The Other Boleyn Girl movie on DVD lately as I failed to catch this on theaters when it was shown here in our place. Well, it was having a good audio on DVD and the whole scenes were good to view as there were no interruption.
But …

Overboard is a family oriented comedy about a woman who has amnesia and the man who takes advantage of her. Goldie Hawn stars as Joanna, the millionaires. Kurt Russell plays Dean, a single parent with four boys. Overboard is a pretty simple movie with a simpler story line but …

A classic film by frenchman Jean Renoir. His most famous work alongside The Rules of the Game and The Human Beast. It is an anti-war kind of story set in the first world war. The former master director and actor Erich von Stroheim makes an unforgettable performance as a …

I just finished reading Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol to my daughter and she said she would love to see a movie about it. Wanting to find a movie that gave justice to the book yet wasn’t too scary for her, I finally settled on Mickey’s Christmas Carol.
The thing …

Here is another favorite film of mine and of many others I know. Everyone must have seen the wild actics of this strange family and the new comer to the household. I even got me a whistle. “The hills are alive” hmmm, are they really, “with the sound of …

I am reviewing the Nora Roberts movie, Montana Sky. So there’s this woman. Her father dies. She lives and works on his ranch. She finds out she has two other sisters, who come to the funeral. In the will’s reading, it says that the three of them must live …

I had seen Paul Mooney’s other comedy DVD and was quite pleased. Ordinarily, I like Mooney’s brand of sarcastic humor, and his blatant and frank opinions about the state of society. However, this DVD, which delves deeply into issues concerning white people (and their differences from other …

The show follows Dr Samantha Waters and her hunt for the serial killer known as Jack-of-All-Trades. The first season introduces the Violent Crimes Unit, its leader Bayley Malone (played but brilliant and talented Robert Davi) is Dr Waters close friend. He was there when Jack killed Sam’s husband. Each …

I recently discovered a better movie theater to take my family to, the MJR Marketplace Cinemas in Sterling Heights. It was built on the same location as the old National Amusements Showcase Cinemas which was torn down a few years ago.
The layout of the theater is excellent, the flow …

Yesterday I watched this movie. First, Iwanna watch this movie because I think it’s kind of great action about superheroes who fight for peace and it will be more and more action like kind of the other superheroes movie. But after I watched it, the movie is dominantly by …

‘Beyond the sea’ is an English movie directed by Kevin Spacey. The actors are Kevin, Kate and John. Now the main character in this movie is Darin. When Darin was young, he was frail and unhealthy. He was suffering from high fever. But later, he becomes successful in life …

A parody of both Star Wars and Cops. On the desert planet of Tatooine, a team of stormtroopers is having a tough time keeping up law and order. It doesn’t sound like a great idea and it certainly doesn’t look like it either. Parodies tend to exaggerate too much …

The Science of Sleep, starring Gael Garcia Bernal (of “Y Tu Mama Tambien”) is a very strange film directed by Michel Gondry (who also directed “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”). The film follows a young man who happens to fancy his neightbor Stephanie.
The beauty of this film …

I’m sure everyone has heard of the movie, ‘The Interview’ starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. I’ve seen the movie name in the news many times in the past few months because of North Korea’s displeasure with the movie revolving around the assassination of Kim Jong Un and more …

Angoor - Movie Review : Angoor (meaning rapes) has been directed by great filmmaker Gulzar. It is based on Shakespere’s Comedy of Errors. The story is about two persons, a master and his servant, who have their twins in the same city, and are mistaken as themselves. The …

The Marine, directed by John Bonito is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of violent action, sensuality and language. The original release date was October 13, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Drama/Thriller and stars John Cena …

I guess what I am going to be trying to do right now is to justify the grade I am about to give this movie. I am going to give this movie the grade of eight out of ten, and assert that it is a very good film. I …

I really loved this movie. I found it to be very moving & inspiring.
Freedom Writers is based on a true story about inner city kids growing up in Long beach California. They are trying to survive Drive-by Shootings, abuse, Racial Tension & Violence, after the worst riots in 1992 …

Synopsis: Four men travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. The next morning, three of them wake up in their trashed hotel room and discover the groom is missing. They need to re-construct what happened the night before and find him before his wedding in a little over …

In honor of the late Brittany Murphy, my wife and I took the time to watch some of her movies that were available through Netflix Instant Watch; mostly because I didn’t want to bother sending for DVDs and waiting for them through the mail.
One of these movies was entitled …

The Real Blair Witch is a television documentary that has little to do with the 1999 movie —˜The Blair Witch Project’ other than it involves some film footage that is debatable as to whether it is real or not. In 2002 a group of high school friends in …

AAA is one of the most entertaining comedy in the history of bollywod. It is a total laugh riot right from the word go. The story is about two men, who want to trap a rich woman, so that they can get all her money, and the whole plot …

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Richard Mulligan, Eileen Brennan, Keanu Reeves, Jill Schoelen, Googy Gress, Pat Morita, and Walter Buschhoff.
Directed by: Clive Donner.
Lisa Piper (Drew Barrymore), an eleven year old who looks after her family, cooks meals, and has no time for playing with toys, is suddenly transported to Toyland during …

The Hurt Locker is a film that I expected with great interest not only because of the quantity of praise given to it but also because it was the first film in a long while that was addressing the Iraq war. Kathryn Bigelow, world’s first female …

It is that time of year again when college basketball seems to be the buzz around town. You start to watch the games on TV and strat picking your choices for the Amrch Madness that is coming up. It is also the time that you see movies …

Synopsis: Two rival gangs, one made up of rich kids and the other made up of poor kids wage an all out war on each other in Oklahoma.
What I liked about this movie: I love movies that feature a well-known actor or actress before they were famous; mostly because …

Kramer versus Kramer is not a recent movie and it is all for some years on dvd available but in my opinion it is a movie that you can see every year without boring you.
The proof that this movie is a good one is because of the 5 oscars: …