Movies Reviews
Soul Food (1997)
A very entertaining and vivid look into the stereo typical African American family as it shows how family ties are brought together and strengthened through the use of food. I have always heard the saying that goes ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’. Now whether …
No Country For Old Men movie
This 2007 movie stars Tommy Lee Jones and is about a drug deal gone wrong, it sucks you in, there is a psychopath who kills people left and right looking for his drug money, eventually leading him to a cowboy who found the money, after about an hour I …
It Might Get Loud Doocumentary
“It Might Get Loud” is a rockumentary about the history of electric guitar divided in three eras, from the perspective of three
influential Rock’n’Roll guitarists. Namely Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White.
Directors Dave Guggenheim and Jimmy Page drive us into the lifes and backgrounds of the three artists’ relationships …
Unleashed movie
This movie is about a man named Danny(played by Jet Li) who was taken in and trained as a dog. His “master,” the man who murdered his mother and then took him in, uses his talent for his personal business. Once Danny’s collar is removed, he is …
Funny Games (1997 Psychological Thriller Movie)
Someone I know convinced me to watch the 1997 movie Funny Games, because according to them it was one of the best psychological thrillers they had seen in a while. I have to admit that I was a little hesitant at first because I kept thinking how I would have …
Accidental Hero
“Accidental Hero” is a great movie with a good story involving three great talented actors, Dustin Hoffman, Gena Davis and Andy Garcia. We have seen Hoffman in a lot of different characters; however I believe that there is something very special about his acting part in this movie. …
The Christmas Dinosaur
Since we are past Thanksgiving and officially in the Holiday season, I allowed my daughter to finally watch some Christmas movies I loaded on the Netflix player. One of them was The Christmas Dinosaur.
The movie turned out to be somewhat farfetched and predictable but was still an enjoyable animated …
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
“Charlie Wilson’s War” opened in my local theatre this weekend. I went to a matinee and enjoyed it very much. The movie tells the story of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and his efforts to finance covert operations in Afghanistan to help defeat the Soviets who had invaded. The movie …
Dead Like Me: Nighthawks
Dead Like Me: Nighthawks is a flashback show, and that confuses me. It’s really too early for a flashback show, but maybe Showtime was trying to get people up to speed on what was happening in the story. Usually, a clip show like this one is an …
Whisky Galore! movie
Based on a true story of a shipwreck outside the coast of Scotland in 1941, a ship filled with 250 000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could until the authorities stopped them. Still today bottles are found very now and then, both in …
Spider-man 2 (2004)
The second installation of the Spider-man epic gives us another taste of the web slingers adventures. This time he battles a scientist going by the name Dr. Octopus (Doc Oc) a scientist who accidentally gets fused with his own creation while undergoing an experient. Dr. Otto Octavius played by …
War Horse (2011 film)
It’s the time of the year when film companies campaign for their best movies before the Oscars. I looked everywhere in the weekend papers as well as online finding the distracting line ‘for your consideration.’ Although I was not the intended target for those ads, I considered …
The Matador
From the title you would think that this movie is Latino, or at least taking place south of the U.S. border. Here the idea of the matador is more of a metaphor, a symbol, that you’ll understand after watching the film. Pierce Brosnan is hilarious in this film. He …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Rising Malevolence
I’ve been watching Star Wars for as long as I can remember, but I’ve never been a fan of prequels. The problem is that I know where the story is going.
Star Wars is worse than most, and the clone wars even more so. I know how General Grievous dies, …
The Kingdom
Have you guys ever watched The Kingdom before, starring Jamie Foxx and his acting is really good in this story. I was quite mesmerized by the war effects that is in this movie but at times, I felt that the movie has a boring plot and I felt like …
28 Weeks Later The Movie
Another zombie movie that has its mind boggling puzzle on how it started because nobody explained what really happened as the movie started when the virus has been contained and has spread through out the land.
I just don’t understand why they needed to repopulate when in fact nothing in …
Jo Jita Wahi Sikandar Film
Jo Jita wahi Skiandar was directed by Mansur Khan the early nineties. The story about fight between two colleges and the story has climax of cycle race. The story start with Amir Khan elder brother being the cycle race champion and his accept to win college trophy that is …
Brown Sugar movie
Backwhen I was still in high school, the movie “Brown Sugar” seemed ot be a big thing amongst some of my peers. At the time I didn’t know what many people where talking about either since I neither heard about it nor saw it advertise. Poeple were even talking …
Panic in Echo Park movie
Panic in Echo Park, a movie released in 1977, starred Dorian Harewood who many people know from the sequel to Roots. That’s what brought him to my attention and has continued to get me to notice him. He’s a very good actor and has done some fine …
Whiteout (2009) movie
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt, and Alex O’Loughlin.
Directed by: Dominic Sena.
Oh goodness, what did they make now? Based on the 1998 comic book (of the same name) from Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber, “Whiteout” is an arctic-set murder thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as a heroine. Beckinsale …
Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie
Last weekend, I went to the movie house together with my sister. We watched “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. I didn’t really expect much from this movie. I just wanted some entertainment on a lazy Saturday afternoon. Anyway, I thought this film was another of those sci-fi …
I Spit on Your Grave 2, Movie 2013
I spit on your grave 2 is directed by Steven R. Monroe, based on the original 1978 film where a woman is repeatedly raped and tortured and then escapes and gains revenge. This film has been thought out to every last detail and although some of the scenes …
Movie Freaky Friday
I sometimes think that certain producers lack fantasy in coming up with original movies. “Freaky Friday” represent a movie about twisting identity in a series of three that came and are going to be released from Hollywood. We all remember Tom Hanks famous role in “Big” and he was …
Con Air
Con Air was released in 1997 by Touchstone pictures.The movie stars Nicholas Cage as Cameron Poe, a newly discharged Army Ranger, who returns home to Mobile Alabama to meet his pregnant wife.Cameron Poe gets in a bar fight while defending his wife and accidentally kills a man.He goes to …
The Shadow (1994)
The Shadow, directed by Russell Mulcahy is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for fantasy action violence. The original release date was July 1, 1994 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Actin/Adventure/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery and stars Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston aka The …
Glory Road, James Gartner Movie
El Paso, Texas, at around year 1966. That time, a basketball coach named Don Haskins recently asked to train basketball team Texas Western Miners. In train and prepare the players in college basketball this team, Haskins strategies that make it very tough time, namely combining the players with black …
My Blue Heaven
This past weekend was the first time I had a chance to sit down and watch the movie My Blue Heaven. It was an OK film but it wasn’t as good as I expected it to be and almost a waste of my time this past weekend.
I’m usually a …
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Be Kind Rewind (2008) is a comedy directed by Michael Gondry and is rated PG-13 for some sequal refrences.
Be Kind Rewind focuses on two characters: trouble-making Jerry (Jack Black) , and well-meaning Mike (Mos Def). Mike works in an old, out-of-date movie rental store that only sells VHS, …
Bruce Almighty: Movie
Bruce Almighty stars Jim Carey in a comic roll. Jennifer Aniston plays his girlfriend, and Morgan Freeman plays Almighty God himself, who Jim Carrey meets after he curses his life and complains to God about it.
Bruce, Jim Carrey’s character, is a popular newscaster who covers funny stories with his …
The Rock (1996)
I don’t mind watching movies that I like a number of times. This one has been played in our house and in some relative’ houses but I just kept hopping in. Not only because this is Sean Connery’s movie but also it’s Nicolas Cage’s and Ed Harris’ …
The Holiday movie
I watched this movie about an year ago and fall in love with it. It’s basically a story about two women, one Amanda (Cameron Diaz) a successful american and Iris( Kate Winslet) a british chick. Both have failed in finding the right men and accidently they meet and exchange …
Open Season (movie)
Our family went to see Open Season today and were pleasantly surprised. The cast of animated characters all had fun personalities and meshed well together. We found it charming, funny and thought it gave a satisfying ending.
Debra Messing, Martin Lawrence, Billy Connolly and Ashton Kutcher supplied some of the …
Iron will
Iron will is about a boy named will who gives it his all in a dog sledding race because his needs the money to survive. His dad is dead so he also is the man of the house and that means if he wants to do something he …
Warlock (1989)
Julian Sands is a warlock being accused of practicing witch-craft and is condemned to be hung and burnt. On the day before his execution, he escapes and teleports to modern day from the past. Kinda like from the day of the pilgrims to present day.
In hot pursuit to recapture …
Letters to Juliet movie
Letters to Juliet, a 2010 movie release, was surprisingly enchanting and entertaining. I really enjoyed it. There were moments where it slowed down a bit too much for me, and in reality, I think it could have been about ten to fifteen minutes shorter and been a …
Song for a Raggy Boy (movie)
I’m a lover of both historical and independent films, and so when it was recommended that I watch the movie “Song for a Raggy Boy” I was very delighted to watch it. I thought that it would have been interesting to see a historical movie depicting the pre World …
Avatar movie
Last December 2009 I was convinced by some of my friends to watch Avatar movie of James Cameron but I was not really impressed when they told me it was more like a story of an alien thing so I declined. But when January 2010 comes, my close friend …
Movie: Aliens in the Attic
When the film Aliens in the Attic first came out, my wife and I gave serious consideration to seeing it in the theater with our oldest daughter. We decided against this because we figured it wouldn’t be as good as the previews.
We finally did watch the movie this past …
Evidence of Blood movie
Evidence of Blood came out in 1998 and like the true, old south, it moves slowly. No, it doesn’t move, it crawls. Everything is told in a deliberate, snail-like drawl that is agonizingly slow. I’m all for murder mysteries, but I need something to keep me …
A Man Apart
A Man Apart is a movie directed by F. Gary Gray. It’s about a man (Vin Diesel) who is a DEA agent who sets out to look for the person that killed his wife (the biggest movie clich ever) but in the middle of his cold hearted revenge, he …
Nim’s Island
I recently rented this movie for my little sister and I to watch. It was surprisingly pretty good. Nim is this little girl that lives on an island with her dad and no one else knows about the island. Jodie foster plays in the movie (I forget her name …
Movie Waterworld
Waterworld, directed by Kevin Reynolds is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Kevin Costner as Mariner and Dennis Hopper as Deacon.
Contrary to popular critisms, I love this movie, it can do no wrong in my book. It does not matter that if it failed …
Reign Over Me (2007)
Director: Mike Binder. Featuring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows and Donald Sutherland.
I thought it was a really good movie, although definitely not easy to watch. When I saw the trailer, I thought it was going to be more on a comedy side. The fact …
Secrets of an Actress movie
I actually enjoyed the opening credits of 1938’s Secrets of an Actress movie, which began by having a woman’s hand unlocking and opening a diary. She turns each page of the diary until the credits reach the end. It was different and unique.
The story itself is one …
Coraline movie
My husband and I watched Coraline as a part of our Valentines Day date! I know it is not your romantic kinda movie but I will tell you, we both enjoyed it. It is being played in 3D that made it even more fun and interesting! It is the …
The Rundown (starring Dwayne Johnson)
I love watching The Rundown very much. The movie stars Seann William Scott and the ever hunky Dwayne Johnson. I watched it on TV yesterday and it was action pack, double duo fun. Was talking to my mom that it’s an unlikely duo of Dwayne and Seann. …
Barbershop (2002)
This is a movie about a family business being handed down from generation to generation, in this case, it was handed down to Calvin, played by Ice Cube, but unlike his father before him, he did not want the hassle of running the business on the grounds that it …
Movie The Sure Thing
I admit I really enjoy watching John Cusack’s movies. He manages to be great in whatever character he interprets. “The Sure Thing” represents one of his early movies so one gets to see Cusack in much younger version together with cute actress, Daphne Zuniga of “Melrose Place” TV series.
“The …
High School Musical 3: Epic Ending
Disney truly has outdone itself this time with “High School Musical 3.” It is a fitting finish to the entire franchise that spawned such fervor in the preteen/high-schooler-wannabe population, and I am very pleased with the ending. The theaters were packed with people of all ages to see the …
The Monster That Challenged The World, MGM/UA Midnight Movies DVD
The Monster That Challenged The World was one of many “Giant Monster” movies invading movie theaters in the Fifties, after the success of such hits as Them! which this movie’s story closely follows. This time the menace are a group of giant snails-that’s right, snails-that start to …
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