Mary Poppins she ain’t. But Nanny McPhee does have a mysterious charm all her own. The story is familiar. Unruly children need a nanny to keep them in their place. But their dad, struggling at working for the undertaker while trying to raise all his kids, helped unfortunately by …

Failure to Launch stars Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew McConaughey. I am not a big fan of SJP, but I do like Matthew McConaughey and I really enjoyed this movie. I think the whole street heard me laugh at the laughing lizard - it was …

Daniel Deronda (BBC, 2002), based on a novel by George Eliot, is a treat for period drama fans, especially those with the idealistic side who love a Noble Hero. Daniel (Hugh Dancy) is a handsome young gentleman raised and educated by Sir Hugo Mallinger, a wealthy aristocrat. The society …

I recently watched again the movie Dinosaur from Disney Channel, and as usual I am amazed by it. It is about a dinosaur named Aladar, his family of monkeys and other dinosaur friends. Meteors fell from the sky and destroyed their home, leaving them looking for a new nesting …

I have always loved the Hitman franchise, and after watching the trailer of this movie, my expectations were at apex. It is the reboot of the 2007 film “Hitman”. Unfortunately, i am disappointed from this movie. It made the original movie film look like a masterpiece. The filmmakers tried to …

I am reviewing The Case of the Shoeless Engineer, 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, …

This DVD movie, Taxi is totally a feel good one with many laughs along the way for me.
I think I watched it on movie and also on DVD again. Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon and Gisele Bundchen starred in this movie and I was having a fun time …

Director: Eric Eason. Featuring : Brendan Fraser, Mos Def and Scott Glen.
I definitely understand the message behind the story- you cannot escape your destiny, no matter how hard you try. And probably the secondary one- that the evil and the plotting ones cannot win, it is the innocent who win …

I am reviewing the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast. Belle is an odd girl. She and her father are seen as the odd folks in town. Then there is Gaston, the most handsome, annoying, irritating man in the town. He is after Belle’s heart. Belle will have nothing …

It seems whenever an idea for a movie has some success, there are a bunch of other movies ready to copy that success by keeping roughly the same plot, just a few minor changes.
Fool’s Gold is a good example of this. While not a terrible movie, the idea of …

DNAngel episode 1 begins with a fight inside a building between two angelic beings, Dark and Krad. It flashes back to sometime earlier where two people, a grandfather and a mother, awaken the powers of Dark Mousy inside of Daisuke Niwa, who has an interesting family curse.
I bought …

I recently bought over the internet the complete set of all the Tales From The Crypt episodes. I always liked this TV show and now in one huge jewel case I have all the episodes in 22 comfortable dvd’s. Unfortunately thought the quality isn’t too great, given the fact …

“Sixteen Candles” obviously stands for sixteen candles on a birthday cake, but Samantha (Molly Ringwald) doesn’t get one. Her sister is getting married, so the family, preoccupied with the coming wedding, forgets about Samatha’s birthday. Being a typical teen, Samantha feels like the whole world has turned black. In …

“Apocalypto” was a movie directed by actor Mel Gibson about a young warrior, Jaguar Paw living in the last days of a Mayan Kingdom in South America. I remember when the movie was released and being advertised my friends and I thought it would have been very interesting and …

This movie is a good movie but it just didn’t have something. I think that’s what they call ‘B’ movies. But those ‘B’ movies sure are fun to watch ! I love how this kind of wedding is depicted; all of the family, the traditions, etc. I love how …

The Soviets and Americans are back at it once again as an adaptation to the TV series of the 1960s, also titled “The Man from U.N.C.L.E”. Directed by Guy Ritchie, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E” features a chase to crackdown an organization that is on the verge of launching a nuclear …

Music and Lyrics, written and directed by Marc Lawrence is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some sexual content. The original release date was February 14, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Music/Romance and stars Hugh Grant as Alex …

I’ve seen this movie a couple of times now; it’s decent. I don’t think it’s one of those movies that you think of and then you HAVE to see it, but it’s a pleasant movie to watch if it happens to be on.
Some of the acting is pretty good, …

“I Dreamed of Africa” is the story of a divorced mother of a young son, who marries a man she has known only briefly, and then moves to Africa to pursue a new life. She is met with physical dangers and hardships, some rough emotional patches with her too-often …

When I first saw this show being aired on cable television, it was when I had come home one Friday from high school and was flipping through the channels for something fairly decent to watch. It was that time when I saw a scene with singing cockroaches and a …

Cloverfield is a movie about a small group of friends trying to survive an attack on New York City by a giant monster.This sounds simple and the synopsis itself is, however the brilliance of the movie shines when you consider how the story is told. The whole movie is …

Red is an 2010 action, comedy and crime movie starring one of my favourite actors Morgan Freeman. The movie was directed by Robert Schwentke. I am not a fan of action and crime movies, but I truly love the combination of action and crime with comedy. I watched the …

I was very hesitant to watch the movie “The Secret Life of Bees” first of all, since it had the singers and actresses Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys in it, and since I cannot recall seeing any of them in what I thought were very good movies, …

I think Directors should definitely make more movies with plots that go around in the movie of Shallow Hal. This is a movie about looking at someone’s personal and inner beauty rather than someone that looks good just on the outer layer or physical skin beauty.
Hal is …

I love animation movie. Pixar is one of the best animation movie maker, together with Walt Disney, they make great movies. The last one I saw, just tonight at the local movies was Wall-e. It was another futuristic story of the ruin earth, which is good. …

On Deadly Ground, directed by Steven Seagal is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was february 18, 1994 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Thriller and stars Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, Michael Caine as Michael Jennings, …

M. Night Shyamalan has become something of a cult favorite of moviegoers in recent years, with such films as “The Sixth Sense” and “The Village”. The afore mentioned films have a twist, or a surprise ending that floors the viewer and leaves him saying “everything makes sense now!” So …

Crazy Over Crazy Little Thing Called Love
A Thai romantic movie that tells us how love could be so crazy, First Love : Crazy Over Crazy Little Thing Called Love is …

Very often, the old original movie is better than a modernized remake; however, in this case I must say that it is not so. I had watched “The Father of the Bride” with Steve Martin first, for many years having no idea that it was a remake. Then I …

I love movies. I love them. They are one my passions in life. “Alien” and “Aliens”, along with “Predator” are incredibly frightening, hardcore movies which I enjoy with every bit of fanboyish delight that they deserve. So it would make sense that if you take …

I honestly think it�s time for me to stop watching horror movies. They just don�t do anything for me any more. The remake of the 80s film The Hitcher proves this.
The problem with The Hitcher is it�s like every other horror film I�ve ever seen. It has two college …

50 first dates is a romantic comedy movie released on 2004 led by Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The story begins with the Henry, marine-life veterinarians who met and have fallen in love at first sight with Lucy, a woman who suffers from a short term memory disease called …

The movie “Salt” has received a lot of much-anticipated hype, especially around my hometown. I have to admit that I was a bit excited to see another good flick featuring Angelina Jolie. I liked her in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, “Tomb Raider”, etc. Therefore, my dad …

Sherlock Holmes investigates the most horrific case ever to take place in London - Jack the Ripper. Clever as he is, he soon finds out the killer has friends of high rank and respectibility among the wealthiest in society. This is the same story as in From Hell and …

“Never Street” is my favorite Amos Walker novel yet. I love film noir and every hard-boiled detective owes his roots to film noir. There are no more hard-boiled detectives than Loren D. Estlman’s Amos Walker. With “Never Street” Loren D. Estleman combines the two. “Never Street” is a hard-boiled …

I do not have issues watching movies about gay people. This is one of those movies that I wanted to see because it stars Jim Carrey and Ewan Macgregor. I Love You Phillip Morris is about a gay man who wanted to lead a normal life with a normal …

This movie was released in 1988 and is a horror movie about a killer obsessed with the occult who gets shot in a toy store takes over the body of a doll named Chucky, he pretends to be a lifeless doll when people are around, and kills unsuspecting victims, …

I consider Jennifer’s Body as a teen horror movie. The film’s story revolves around a young girl’s weird transformation which changed the lives of everyone in their town. Jennifer becomes possessed because of some dark ritual performed on her, giving her inhuman abilities. In turn, she …

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 37 begins as Winry arrives to service Ed’s automail so he can use it up in the mountains and, at Kimblee’s command, search for Scar. Meanwhile, Riza discovers the identity of the Homunculus Pride and Mustang receives Major General Olivier Armstrong’s message.
This episode was …

When the movie Spiderman came out in theaters, I remember it got a lot of attention. I for one wasn’t any less thrilled than everyone else since I grew up reading Marvel comics even though those days I hadn’t read one in a long time.
I had no idea …

If you’re looking for a romantic comedy just like Letters to Juliet, then this movie is even better! This has so much comedic parts actually than romantic parts while the setting is set in the lovely country of Rome. The plot is actually about a girl (Kristen Bell) who …

Amanda Bynes stars in this awesome movie about proving girls can do anything guys can do and even better.
Viola (Bynes) is the lead of her girls soccer team at her high school but when the girls soccer program is cut, Viola asks to try out for the boys’ …

I really don’t believe I’ve seen many Gene Autry movies, but the other day I was bored and there was nothing, and I mean nothing, on TV so I tuned in to a 1953 flick called Winning of the West. What I love about these old movies is …

This movie stars John Travolta and Robin Williams. It came out in 2009. The plot revolves around two men who are best friends and business partners who end up having to baby sit two kids. The kids happen to be Robin Williams’ kids and needless to say he …

As an animation enthusiast I am in love with what companies like Pixar do. In my opinion Cars is one of their greatest creations.
When Cars first hit the theaters it was my must see movie of the year. I am by no means a child on the outside, but …

Remember the movie, My Best Friend’s Wedding..? Yes the movie starring Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz..? I am so totally into that movie when it was first released and later upon, caught it on DVD as well.
My mom labeled me as crazy because I not only …

The way people were hyping the movie made me very excited to see it. I was ready for a movie with wall to wall laughs, and a great story, like a Finding Nemo. What I got was a few laughs and a lackluster story, in my opinion. …

I am reviewing the Disney movie, Homeward Bound 2, Lost in San Fransisco. This movie is a sequel to Homeward Bound 1, the Incredible Journey. Now, usually sequels are bombs and are completely unsuccessful. I don’t think this is the case here. Homeward Bound 2 was not …

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a parody send up of Star Trek and Babylon 5 made by a group of friends using nothing but their own equipment and personal computers. When one realizes that, the special effects in the film (which are top notch) are all the …