Movies Reviews
Mystery Men
There are times when you can take a cast of Hollywood stars and make a great film. And, there are times when you can do that and have a flop. The movie Mystery Men falls somewhere in between those two things.
This film, which is about a bunch of wannabe …
John Carpenter’s “Cigarette Burns” film
“Cigarette Burns” is a short film by John Carpenter created for the Showtime series “Masters of Horror.” The movie stars Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead, Boondock Saints) as Kirby, a small theater owner with money problems, who is paid to track down a rare horror film that has …
102 Dalmatians - Live Action Film 2000
Cruella strikes again! Ably played by Glenn Close, Cruella de Vil is released from rehab where she was sent at the end of the original 101 Dalmatians movie which preceded this one. She is supposedly completely cured of her fur-fettish - especially the one involving spots! To show how …
Sherlock Holmes Movie
I thought, by now, I would be reviewing the new Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey Jr. But, I haven’t seen it yet. Instead, I’m talking about another version of Sherlock Holmes that came out recently on DVD.
This cheap ripoff, sometimes billed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, isn’t …
Gremlins movie
This disney movie is about a family father who wants to buy something special for his son as a christmas present. He finds a cute little creature in a strange shop, but the shopkeeper won’t sell it to him. After a long while the father manages to buy the …
Happy Feet
I took my 10yr old grandson to see ‘Happy Feet’ during the Christmas holidays. We couldn’t get in to see the movie we wanted to see so settled for that one. Came out clicking our heels. Well, I did. He’s not a kid who likes the turtles or action …
The Princess Diaries
I didn’t expect this movie to be any good, but I admit I was wrong. Even though the story follows a very familiar template - a plain unpopular girl gets transformed into a gorgeous celebrity - the movie has a lot more than that. Mia, the unpopular teenage girl, …
Bleach The Movie: Memories of Nobody
Bleach: The Movie: Memories of Nobody is a movie based on the popular anime from Japan called “Bleach”. In the movie Ichigo Kurosaki meets a mysterious girl named Senna, who claims she—˜s a Soul Reaper, even though she can’t remember where she came from or what squad she’s …
Eight Men Out
I am reviewing the movie, Eight Men Out, which was released in 1988. This movie centers on the 1919 fall of American Sports, when the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. The film centers around Shoeless Joe Jackson, played by DB Sweeny; Eddie Cicotte, played by David Strathairn; …
Grand Finale: FIFA World Cup 2006 movie
Positives: Comprehensive, narrative, informative and captivating.
Negatives: Too short, concise but could do with a bit more detail, narrow topic focus.
As an avid football enthusiast, it came as no surprise at all that I would look forward to viewing this documentary-type motion picture of a past FIFA World Cup, 2006, …
The Ring (2002) movie
People used to tell me all about this movie, so I knew what to expect but my girlfriend still said I had to watch it cause the creepiness gets to everyone. I can’t lie this movie is very creepy and the ending is just great.
The story is all …
Ten Commandments
This would sound funny but my husband and I have watched this movie so many times now that we both lost count and we are not closing the possibility of watching this movie in the future. It is also our practice watching this movie everytime we use our …
The Village.
A couple years ago, my wife and I thought we would be smart and, rather than spending money renting movies, we would just buy a new movie every couple of weeks so it would be in our DVD collection.
That was until we bought the movie The Village.
This is one …
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I am reviewing the 2008 movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This movie follows the trilogy, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. This movie sees Indiana Jones …
Snitch (2013 Film)
Within the beginning segments of Snitch, it’s noted that it was inspired by real life happenings. This is somewhat true. A person was incorrectly labeled as selling illegal substances after a supposed mate set him up and because of this, the individual was given ten year compulsory imprisonment for …
The Devil’s Diary (movie)
The “Devil’s Diary” is a made for television movie that I caught on Lifetime Halloween weekend. The movie is about a dairy created by the devil which ends up in the hands of teenagers at a local high school.
The movie begins with high school friends Dominique (Alexz Johnson) and …
Letters to Juliet movie
“Letters to Juliet” follows the story of an American girl, Sophie, accompanying her fiancé, Victor, on a romantic pre-honeymoon trip to Italy. Sophie is a fact checker at “The New Yorker”; she yearns to become a writer, but she has not yet had the courage to get any …
The Witches of Eastwick movie
The Witches of Eastwick is a movie adopted from the novel of John Updike. The story was about three divorced women from a fictional place called Rhode Island of Eastwick. These three women are looking for a right man to fulfill their desires. Jane Spofford played by Susan Sarandon …
“The English Patient” starring Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas
The 1996 movie “The English Patient” won nine Oscars and was nominated for three more. The movie won as Best Picture and Juliette Binoche won best supporting actor for Binoche. Kristin Scott Thomas lost as best actress to Frances Mcdormand and her campy portrayal of a pregnant police officer in …
The Saw movies
Oh how I loathe these movies. My fiance takes me to them every time they come out on the big screen and I just HATE them. I don’t think there’s really any acting in it. Anyone can ‘act’ in a horror movie. I mean anyone. I just don’t get …
Dead Like Me: The Escape Artist
What I liked most about Dead Like Me: The Escape Artist is one of the scenes at the end. Barbara Barrie appears again as Joy’s mother. The two don’t get along very well, but yet at the end, they share a calm moment. The really good …
The Chipmunks Christmas Special-movie
Chipmunk Christmas Special is a 1981 cartoon special featuring the chipmunk cartoon characters.It is about a sick boy who is in critical condition.The doctor says he dosen’t know if he would survive.The main characters,the cipmunks have a recording session with Dave.Dave tells Alvin that he would be able to …
The Movie “The Freedom Writers”
I had the opportunity to see this movie for the first time a few years ago while in college. My teacher for my education classes had a view of herself as a similiar teacher and we watched this movie one day when she forgot her lesson books.
This was …
Devil in the Flesh
I have heard of the movie Devil in the Flesh before. But, I didn’t get a chance to watch it until yesterday, when it was on one of our movie channels.
It was an OK movie but I have to admit, I was expecting it to be better.
Rose McGowan does …
Bridesmaids (movie)
One fairly interesting movie that I watched in the early part of 2012 was the movie Bridesmaids. It starred a quite a few of Saturday Night Live’s most recent cast including one of my favourites who has been in other movies that I like, Maya Rudolf. I’m not the …
The Good Guy Movie
I saw The Good Guy at the recommendation of a close friend who absolutely loved it. She did preface it with the fact that she did not really know why she loved it so much but something about it really stuck with her. Also, it helped that she had …
Addams Family 2: Addams Family Values. A Movie
Who doesn’t remember the Addam’s family movie? It was just one of those movie that Igrew up on. I watched this movie a few nights ago for this first time in several years and I was amazed on how much my view of this movie had truly changed. …
Movie: “Penelope” (2006)
Penelope (Christina Ricci) is rich and comes from the best of blueblood families; but, due to a long-ago witch’s curse, she was born with the nose of a pig. The curse can only be broken if one of her own learns to love her just as she is. Her …
The Rum Diary (2011 film)
This turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. As a fan of Hunter S. Thompson, upon whose 1961 novel this film is based, and the movie’s lead, Johnny Depp, I was expecting something far zanier and more entertaining (the obvious touchstone being 1998’s “Fear and Loathing in Las …
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011 science fiction movie)
I actually delayed watching this movie for years for two reasons. The first was that I honestly didn’t think that it would be very good. I mean, how could a film about the other set of primates be that interesting? The second reason was that I’m slightly afraid of those …
Guardians of the Galaxy (science fiction movie)
Before the movie was released I knew nothing about the Marvel comic or even the animated series. Therefore, it was totally new to me when I saw the trailer for the very first time and didn’t know what to expect. After watching it though, I’m definitely surprised by how good …
Raise Your Voice Movie
Raise Your Voice is not about the voice but about having back your life. Hillary Duff lead the movie as Teri who wants a lot from music but became disappointed with life by blaming herself about her older brother died in a car accident. To have a second chance …
Untraceable movie
Untraceable came out earlier in the year and was supposed to be a movie of the Thriller genre. I did not see the preview or trailer for this movie but I actually saw it on a whim. The poster for it made it seem like it’d be more of …
The Merchant of Venice Movie
We have watched the movie Merchant of Venice when we were assigned to do a role play for our presentation when we were in college.
The story started when Bassario asked his friend Antonio who was a merchant to lend him money for him to be able to court the …
Scarface (1983)
Scarface (1983) is a drama film directed by Brian De Palma and is rated R by the MPAA.
Scarface is the rags to riches tale of Tony Montana (Al Pacino), a cuban deportee rise form a dishwasher to the head of Miami’s cocaine industry. His intelligence, guts, and imbition …
Training Day movie
Training day is a 2001 film starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawk as Jake, a rookie on his first day as a cop in the LAPD, his new partner Alonzo (Washington) pulls the car over and stops a drug dealer confiscating his PCP pipe, then a little later tells …
Patch Adams (movie)
I just love the movie, Patch Adams. This is the greatest movie! Robin Williams is Patch Adams, the doctor who is destined for greatness even though he doesn’t realize all the wonderful things he is going to do. What Patch Adams knows is that he methods are unconventional and …
The Hound of the Baskervilles
I am reviewing The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes movie produced by Granada in the late 80’s. This movie stars Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. Holmes is hired by Dr. Mortimer, a man who is concerned for his friend, Sir …
Exam movie
This is a review of an older film, called Exam , modest, but not necessarily weak. A British film that I watched with pleasure.
Exam tells the story of eight talented candidates who are facing the last task that they need to complete to be admitted as employees of a …
New Jerusalem - A dramatic movie
The film’s storyline is about two men: lonely and somewhere in their 30s. The one man is undergoing a human crisis. The character is an Irishman named Sean Murphy (played by: Colm O’Leary.) O’Leary served with the United States National Guard while in Afghanistan. …
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Movie
I have been a fan of Peter Jackson’s movies ever since the first “Lord of the Rings” movie came out - “The Fellowship of the ring”. And I think that with “The Hobbit” trilogy that he is now making I was again able to return to the amazing fantasy …
Transporter 3
I been watching the Transporter series for quite a while already. I was clearly impressed on how cool was the “Frank Martin” character.
In this third series, it involves Frank transporting a kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Clearly for a start, I had difficulties catching up on …
Point Break DVD - Pure Adrenaline Edition
Point Break was the movie Patrick Swayze did right after Ghost. He wanted something totally different from the leading man persona he’d been in that film, and boy did he get it. In Point Break, Swayze stars as Bodhi, a surfer guru, who comes in contact with …
The Hangover II Movie (2011)
I just saw the movie the Hangover 2. It is the sequel to the first movie, The Hangover, which stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms. Essentially this movie is about a Bachelor’s party in Thailand gone wrong. As with the last Hangover movie, this time, the …
Just my luck movie
I love watching romantic comedy movies and I watched the movie ‘Just my luck’ starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine in the lead roles. I really like the both of these actors’ work and in this movie too they didn’t disappoint me. The movie is a nice romantic comedy …
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
“Notes on a Scandal” (2006) is a BBC Films movie, filmed on locations throughout England in English. The color movie lasts 92 minutes and is based on the novel by Zoe Heller. A tagline for the movie is “One Woman’s Mistake is Another’s Opportunity.” Another tagline is “loneliness can …
The Last Shot (2004)
Let us talk about a movie that falls under the category of a complete ‘miss’. This movie stars some of the best actors in Hollywood like Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Tony Shaloub, Ray Liotta, Toni Collette and even Eric Roberts, but even though it had these people in the …
The Pursuit of Happiness
I had put off watching the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness” for a very long while as I thought that it was going to be a tragedy. I do not like movies with sad ending as even though they do not make me cry, they tend to disturb me …
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