Movies Reviews
‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ movie
After the fourth movie, I was convinced that the “Paranormal Activity” franchise was dead. I liked the first two, but after that, the formula wore thin and they didn’t have anything new to bring to the table.
Enter this “spin-off” that follows another family as they are …
Mystery Train movie
Jim Jarmusch’s first color film since his debut feature Permanent Vacation is a strange story about a couple of people in Memphis, Tennesse. It begins with a japanese couple coming to the city to check out Elvis’ grave. The second story is about a generous and easily fooled italian …
Movie Thunderball
Thunderball with Sean Connery and Claudine Auger.
This is one of the earlier James Bond sequels and therefore features the super handsome Sean Connery in the lead. It does lack some of the refined touched that we came to enjoy in the newer sequels such as …
Man’s Best Friend
It’s probably because I’ve become desensitized a bit over the years but I remember the movie Man’s Best Friend as being much scarier than it was when I watched it last night.
The movie has a good concept, you have a genetically engineered dog rescued from the research lab but …
Harvey Birdman Volume 1 DVD
Harvey Birdman certainly is a breath of fresh air. A breath of fresh old air. Following in the footsteps of the immensely popular Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law renews the idea of taking old Hanna Barbera characters and putting them into a …
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
True to the series, this movie delivers just as much gore and gruesome murders as the previous five movies. However, this movie is not a sequel to the popular series but rather a prequel. As the title suggests, this movie delves into the beginning of the Hewitt family’s murderous …
Movie : My Cousin Vinny
Synopsis: Joe Pesci plays a Brooklyn personal injury attorney who travels to Alabama to defend his cousin and his cousin’s friend from a bogus murder charge. He not only has to overcome a massive pile of evidence against the two defendants, he must also overcome the fact he doesn’t …
Saving Privae Ryan
I remember going to the movies with my husband and father-in-law to see the movie Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks. I actually saw some old men with tears in their eyes having to leave the theater.
The movie starts with this old man bringing his family back …
Killing Them Softly, crime film
Killing them softly is a crime film that takes the genre completely to another level. The characters and cinematography is top notch however, I found the story to be a bit on the weaker side.
Talking about camera-work, this mob film sure is a breath of fresh air. The joint-smoking …
Ghost World
Watching Ghost World is not quite like watching a chick flick. Although you see American Beauty actress Thora Birch and the sweet and innocent look actress, Scarlett Johansson star. This is kind of an exploration type of movie and I feel that each character in the story has …
The Good German
Back to basics. This film was shot entirely in black and white, reminiscient of the old days of film-making, before special effects or computer graphics. Risky, but it proved brilliant. The lack of digital enterntainment required the actors to step up to the plate, and they did so much …
Dark Shadows by Tim Burton (2012)
The last thing I want to watch in a movie is another self-defying Johnny Depp playing just about any grotesque role Hollywood throws at him. Well I wound up watching just that, and the current addition to Depp’s collection of fantasy characters is Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows. …
“Couples Retreat” the Movie
Sadly enough, when I sat down to watch the movie “Couples Retreat”, I really did not have any high expectations. Surely enough, I was right
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“Couples Retreat” is a comedy movie about 4 couples going off to a dreamy tropical island to find ways to “strengthen” the love bonds with …
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
I enjoyed watching this movie directed by John Moore and shown in 2001 and has a runtime of 106 minutes. I find Owen Wilson cute. He plays the role of a combat aviator Lt. Chris Burnett. A soldier by profession but one who does not want to …
Strictly Business (1991)
Strictly Business, directed by Kevin Hooks is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was Novermber 8, 1991 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Tommy Davidson as Bobby, Josehp C. Phillips as Waymon, Anne Marie-Johnson …
Movie Yes Man
Today I saw the newest Jim Carrey movie, Yes Man at the cinema. Like the other Jim Carrey’s movie, it’s a drama comedy movie that can make me laugh and entertein me.
The story is about a man named Car (Jim Carrey)l, who always say ‘no’ in his life and …
Movie Mission Impossible
Starring: Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Jon Voight (Jim Phelps), Emmanuelle Beart (Claire Phelps), Henry Czerny (Eugene Kittridge), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), Vanessa Redgrave (Max), Jean Reno (Franz Krieger)
I think it would be fun, as the title led me to believe that this was a modern version of the …
The Rock movie
The Rock is one of the best action movie that I ever saw. It’s starred by Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage.
The movie is tell about terrorism and army fight. No wonder if the movie is so great because it’s directed by Michael Bay.
the story begin when there’s some tour …
Bruno
If you liked Sacha Baron Cohen’s most famous movie, Borat, you will find Bruno funny. Yes, this latest controversial and extremely politically incorrect comedy is over-the-top in the poor taste department. I do admit to finding the reactions of the people he encounters to be hilarious, and in …
The Hot Chick Movie
This is a really funny and crazy movie that I would want to watch from time to time! It features Rachel McAdams and Anna Faris as close buddies, they’re really sort of a mean clique because of Rachel as their leader, but when they’re all together they’re really sweet …
Stomp the Yard (starring Columbus Short)
Before you guys go into thinking that Stomp the Yard is not worth it, think again. Sure, this movie does has its bad moments, but one word or term that I’ve come to learn would be “stepping”. This is like a lingo known as dancing or step up …
The Little Mermaid
My daughter has dozens of original Disney films in our library for her to watch. One of my favorites of these has to be the classic movie “The Little Mermaid.”
Now, I’ve read the original story (and several other versions) and the movie does clean things up a little bit. …
Spartacus (1960) Movie
Spartacus (1960) tells the tale of the legendary slave named Spartacus and how he was a gladiator who escaped with others to lead a slave rebellion against the Roman Empire in order to escape to freedom.
While not historically accurate to the true story of Spartacus, this film is still …
Shawshank Redemention
We own a DVD of the movie based on Stepehn Kings short story called the The Shawshank Redemption. The Shawshank Redemption takes place in the 1940’s, with Andrew Dufrense played by Tim Robbins having been wrongly accused of murdering his wife and her lover. He was sent to Shawshank …
Dirty Dancing - 20th Anniversary DVD set
Dirty Dancing was an awesome, feel good movie that remains a phenomena to this day. This special 20th Anniversary edition has a lot of exciting extras. Some can be found on other DVD releases of the standout movie, but others are unique to this collection.
The DVD set …
Shooting Dogs movie
A couple days ago, I watched the docudrama “Shooting Dogs” on the cable television channel, Showtime. It is a British film about a BBC reporter’s experience of being trapped in the African country, Rwanda, during the nineteen ninety four genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutu tribe.
Many people, …
Kill Your Darlings (2013 Biographical Drama Movie)
It seems I waited an age to watch the movie Kill Your Darlings. I ignored it a bunch of times while it was being aired on cable television channels because I always had this notion that it wouldn’t be very interesting. It was only after watching it last night, that …
Mickey Blue Eyes
I think I must have watched “Mickey Blue Eyes” endless times and I still keep watching it. What I like about it most is that it presents a very different perspective on how to portrait the mafia on the big screen. One can have no difficulty believing the mafia …
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
You can watch this movie over and over again and still not know which of the two are the dumbest of the lot. On one hand you have Lloyd; he is a limo driver who gets himself involved into a situation that does not concern him when he intercepts …
John Carter (movie)
One of the movies that just did not interest me at all when I saw the trailer first was the movie John Carter. I still don’t understand why it didn’t either, since I remember thinking that the movie looked like something I would have sat an enjoyed. However, it …
Aliens (1986)
Ripley returns to fight off an army of aliens, but this time she’s backed up by a whole host of gun toting hombres.
The tagline of this film pretty much sums the plot up; “this time its war”, and for the most part, that’s what this film is; a war …
I Walk the Line (2005)
“I Walk the Line” is a 2005 biopic of the life of musician Johnny Cash and his relationship with June Carter. The 136 movie is in color and English. I tend to like shorter movies, but the extra time in this movie is spent in music so it …
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
When a group of egotistical men have no choice but to accept a female reporter into their group of four, they do not take too kindly to it and challenge it at every chance they get to do so. To add insult to injury, the female that is supposed …
Beowulf & Grendel
As you can most likely guess from the title, this is a review of the movie Beowulf & Grendel. This movie is a couple of years old, however I decided to try it out after seeing the absolutely disastrous Beowulf movie which just recently came out in theaters. …
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Stella is a career driven workaholic and a single mother, however, she is persuaded by her good friend that she needs a vacation and together they book a flight to Jamaica. There, she meets a local and a steamy affair starts between the two. It continued throughout the entirety …
Movie: Ghost Town
I was flipping channels yesterday and came across the film Ghost Town. At first, I thought it was the recent comedy by the same name. But, after tuning into it, I found it was actually a SyFy Channel original movie about a bunch of college students being terrorized in …
Romeo Must Die movie
One of those Hollywod mixtures between asian martial-arts and plain old-fashioned action that features Jet Li in the role of a cop in seek of revenge for his brother’s death. Every time someone is shot in this film, we see the audience penetrate the human flesh on some kind …
Evil Dead Movie
My dear readers, I like enjoying thrill movies especially like ghosts movies. The joke here is that , i am very much afraid in seeing the ghost movies. But i was very much keen towards the movie to watch
alone esepcially. I normally used to see movies with my friends. …
Minority Report
If you prevent an event from happening, does it change whether or not it will happen? And if so, if you prevent a murder from happening, would it have happened, and furthermore, would the potential subject be guilty of the crime that did not even take place? …
The Princess Diaries movie
I saw The Princess Diaries in the theater when it came out in 2001, and I have seen it a couple times since then. Anne Hathaway (the main character) is one of my favorite actresses (due, in part, to this movie). It is about a girl who …
Twilight movie
Twilight is a romantic vampire movie about two young people falling in love and one is a human being and other one is a vampire. The author is Stephanie Meyer who dream about the story and then put it in print over a period of 3 years. The author …
Roman Polanski’s “Oliver Twist,” 2005
I went to see Roman Polanski’s 2005 release of “Oliver Twist” a couple of days ago. I was not disappointed, but I wasn’t very impressed, either. One of the good points is that the story is not in any way “Hollywoodized,” it is told in a straight, true-to-the-source way. …
Voyage of the Yes movie
Voyage of the Yes was something of a coming of age or discovering oneself type of movie. Airing on TV in 1973, the movie is about two young men who travel from California to Hawaii by sailboat.
Desi Arnaz Jr. and Mike Evans starred in the production, with Arnaz …
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, directed by Adam McKay is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for crude and sexual humor, language, drug references and brief comic violence. The original release date was August 4, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in …
2 Fast 2 Furious
This movie is the sequel from previous movie, the Fast and the Furious. It’s still always about racing car involved catching the bad guy.
In this movie, Brian (Paul Walker) is no longer become police because in the Fast and the Furious movie, he let Dom go, that’s why he …
“Play Misty for Me” movie
“Play Misty for Me” is a 1971 movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie is Eastwood’s first efforts to direct and the story goes that he agreed to direct without payment just to get himself established. If you look at his subsequent Oscar-winning career it’s clear that …
Norbit movie
This film is must watching film, I laugh from the beginning to the end of the film.
The story:
Norbit (Eddie Murphy) is a timid, nebbishy fellow, raised by Mr Wong (Eddie Murphy again) in a combination orphanage / Chinese restaurant in Boiling Springs.
As a child, Norbit love Kate, a fellow …
Ever After (1998)
Ever After, directed by Andy Tennant is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for brief language and mild thematic elements. The original release date was July 31, 1998 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Romance and stars Drew Barrymore as Danielle …
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Spy Comedy Movie)
Before I was able to watch the 2015 movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I admit that I didn’t have much of an idea what it was going to be about. The only thing I knew about it was that it was supposed to be based on a spy series that …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Before you read my review you should know I’m a HUGE fan of Star Wars. I grew up on the original trilogy and enjoyed the recent prequels despite failing to capture the same magic that made the originals the classics they are today. The Clone Wars, I …
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