Movies Reviews
Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Movie
Captain Jack Sparrow returned triumphantly in his full 3D glory after some absence from the big screen. The cheerful and joyous captain who still goes by without a ship, is causing a terrible havoc in central London, while trying to rescue his best friend Gibbs from the gallows. This …
John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (the 1982 film)
Initially, I imagined John Carpenter’s 1982 classic “The Thing” to be an ordinary, old and spooky film. Yet, I found it intriguingly scary. I didn’t quite reach the thrill I had wanted but it was still a significant masterpiece.
I also enjoyed the characters and the setting. Both were respectable …
Girls from St. Trinians movie
St. Trinian’s is a “legendary” school for girls that is nothing like any other school you’ve ever seen. The Headmistress (played by brilliant actor Rupert Everett) will not comment on students throwing each other over the balcony, but she will yell to tuck their shirts in. Chemistry is all …
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Miovie (Anime)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is an anime movie about a lone warrior on the planet Midgar named Cloud Strife who has retired from being a hero after his planet was nearly destroyed by Sephiroth. But the inhabitants are becoming sick with a mysterious disease and theRemnants of …
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005 Film)
While the cast of the 2005 film “Yours, Mine & Ours” is respectable and some of my favorite actors are involved in it, the film itself did not do their skills much justice and was a flop. I found the film to be a re-make almost of other films …
The Damned movie
A story that focuses on rich german people during the World War II and how naive they were. Director Luchino Visconti is known for his long epic-style films, and this one is not an exception. The narrative is slow but yet very engaging. Visconti gives his audience a lot …
Happy Feet Movie
Happy Feet is a story about Mumble, a penguin who is set apart from everyone else because he can’t sing. The whole penguin colony in the Antarctic have known singing for the longest time. If fact, they sing in courtship in order to find a mate. Unfortunately, Mumble was …
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Living in fear I your own home is one thing, but when the fear of the people who have been assigned to protect and serve also fall into the same category then that is definite need for worry and distress. An LA couple’s lives has been turned upside down …
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone was a very spooky and great movie. I thought this film had is all and was a movie that really messed with your mind. Christopher Walken did a great job of acting in this movie! Even though the movie is quite old it is a great film …
Death’s Shadow movie
I am reviewing the murder mystery movie, Death’s Shadow, starring Daniel Casey and John Nettles as Detective Sergeant Troy and Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. This movie was created in 1999 and was produced by Brian-True May and Betty Willingale. This movie was adapted for television from the book series …
My Sister’s Keeper (the book and movie)
My Sister’s Keeper is a novel by Jodi Piccoult and a movie recently released on DVD. I try to make a concentrated effort to read a book before watching it on film because it is never as good on film. I have to admit that while reading …
Pineapple Express movie
Pineapple Express is a great movie. It is extremely funny. I could not stop laughing. I have watched the movie more than 20 times and every time it is just as funny as the first.
The movie is about a man named Dale, he witnesses a murder while …
Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro Movie
Ofelia is forced to follow his mother’s pregnancy to live with the stepfather, Captain Vidal. The captain own famous and very unkind like strain of the insurgents arrested successful by the Vidal vassal. When the power is fascism in Spain in the years around 1944, then many rebellion that …
The Holiday movie
The main ingredients of the movie “The Holiday” is a great cast of actresses and a simple, straight forward romantic story. The main topic of this movie is about love the beauty of falling in love and the heart break it brings when we fall out of love. …
Mr. Nobody, movie
This movie follows the life and stories of Nemo Nobody, played by Jared Leto. The visuals and story telling in this movie is some of the best I have ever seen, not to mention the music used at many points in the film fit perfectly with the scenes they are …
Happy Feet
Are you thinking about watching the movie “Happy Feet” with you kids?
When I was subjected to ad after ad after preview and preview of the movie “Happy Feet,” the scene was always set with music and an adorable penguin tapping his feet. My two-year old daughter want to …
Spiderman-3
Recently I had been to watch the movie Spiderman part 3 that is marvellous. Wow the fight seens and, the costume is very good. I liked the movie a lot. I never miss the spider man movies. I have seen all the parts of …
Planet 51 (2009)
Planet 51 is an animated movie that attempts to turn the tables on the “alien invasion” genre. In this movie, the human is the alien. Astronaut Chuck Baker lands on a remote planet and is shocked to find it full of green aliens. Dwayne Johnson voices this character, and …
Fear Dot Com
Starring: Stephen Dorff (Mike Reilly), Natasha McElhone (Teri Houston) Stephen Rea (the Doctor)
Real-time torture broadcasted through the Internet terrifying if you have just accessed the website Fear.dot.com; and given a limited period to solve the problem or die! This movie should be exciting, given …
Point Break (1991)
Point Break, directed by Kathryn Bigelow is rated R bythe Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was July 12, 1991 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Crime/Drama/Sport/Thriller and stars Patrick Swayze as Bodhi, Keanu Reeves as FBI Agent Johnny Utah, Gary …
9 to 5 by Dolly Pardon
9 to 5 is the first song that I personally remember hearing Dolly Pardon perform on TV. I saw the movie a few years latter when it came out and just about died laughing. It has a way of demonstrating the male stereo type of so many bosses. It …
Pineapple Express (2008)
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny R. McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr., Nora Dunn, Joe Lo Truglio, Bill Hader, James Remar, Bobby Lee, Ken Jeong, and Justin Long.
Directed by: David Gordon Green.
It’s hard to find a good comedy nowadays. Look …
The Rocketeer
With all the movies about comic book action heroes that have been coming out lately, one that has been out for some time might be easily forgotten.
But, even after being on video shelves all these years, the movie The Rocketeer is still one of my favorites.
Bill Campbell does an …
Jack and Jill (movie)
The first time I had heard of the movie “Jack and Jill” was when I had seen the trailer posted on youtube a little before the movie was released. I wasn’t particularly interested in it then, especially since a couple of people who had watched it in the theatres …
Netflix DVD Rental Online
Netflix beats the heck out of any local video store - it is destined to become the WalMart of the video rental world! I love it and all my friends to whom I’ve recommended the service have thanked me! Here’s the deal: for less than the …
Matilda (1996)
Matilda is a special little girl who is befriended by her first grade teacher and develops a very special bond, a bond that helps her over come the harsh treatment that she so often gets from both at home with her miserable family and the school’s principal. During her …
Clueless
Clueless, a hit movie about teenagers more than a decade ago, was one of my favorite movies as a teenager. This movie was shown at a perfect timing for me as a teenager myself during the 90’s. Its main character, Cher, played by Alicia Siverstone, could be a good …
Madea’s Family Reunion movie
I love Tyler Perry movies and was really anxious to see “Madea’s Family Reunion”, yet another movie with his unforgettable Madea character dispensing out advice that is somewhere between being wacky and wise. Tyler Perry wrote, directed and starred in this film about members of Madea’s family planning both …
Foxfire
Foxfire is a loose, modernized adaptation of the novel “Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang” by Joyce Carol Oates. This 1996 hardcore features one of the earliest performances by Angelina Jolie, and also features the talents of Hedy Burress, model Jenny Shimizu, and Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley fame.
Foxfire …
Dan in Real Life film
Dan ( Steve Carell) is a widower with 3 daughters who juggles a writing job and fatherhood. During an extended family get together at his parents house he runs into ‘ Marie’ ( Juliette Binoche) in the town’s bookstore. She is funny, quirky, easy going, lively and empathetic,and the …
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 In-Laws (2003)
This movie is yet another disgrace of a movie, even though it stars some very decent actors, the movie just did not live up to the hype that was created around it and once again, we have a hit and miss coming out of the studios of the fames …
Australia (2008, Baz Luhrmann) movie
Not nearly as bad as it looks from the trailers.
I avoided watching this for ages because the trailers made it look awful - cheesy, bloated, frankly as interesting and featureful as the Outback. It had one of those trailers which seems to give away the plot of the entire …
Movie The Guardian
The Guardian, Directed by Andew Davis and is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The movie stars Kevin Costner as Ben Randall and Ashton Kutcher as Jake Fischer.
This story is about the training of coast guard rescue swimmers from recruit stage to graduation and into their …
Unearthed, horror film by Matthew Leutwyler
Matthew Leutwyler hopes to strike it big again with Unearthed. The movie Leutwyler wrote, Dead & Breakfast, was a classic. Instead of following the same formula Leutyyler went with a different approach, one in which that will bore horror movie goers for years to come.
Unearthed feels like a …
Shadowlands Movie
This sad and touching movie is based on the true story of C.S.Lewis and his wife, Joy. C.S.Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), a life long bachelor, meets Joy (Debra Winger) when he is about fifty. They meet through letters: Joy is one of C.S.Lewis’ many readers, and she wrote to him …
Little Miss Sunshine Movie
The Little Miss Sunshine padgent is the best beauty padgent of them all, and the one wish of young Olive. Wanting to compete is the competition very badly, her family decides to drive olive to the padgent in their VW bus. Put a family in a bus to go …
Harvey,1950 movie
“Harvey” is a charming story of Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart), a 42 year old bachelor, a kind, pleasant man and a perfect gentleman who has a rather unusual best friend - a six feet tall white rabbit Harvey visible only to him (initially). Elwood’s numerous friends are fine …
Film “The Carriers” (2009)
The opening scene of carriers is a group of young people driving down the road drinking. We find out they are following some sort of code of rules they made up but not why. They soon come upon a car that is stopped and begging for gas. …
The Bat silent movie
As I mentioned before I like watching classic movies, especially classic horror and suspense films. about a year or two ago I decided to try watching some silent films too just out of curiosity to see what they were like and fun, and one of the movies I watched …
Movie: From Within
Synopsis: A small, religious community sees its world flipped upside down when community members begin killing themselves one by one. Is it some sort of suicide pact or does a family once accused of practicing witchcraft have something to do with it?
What I liked about this movie: This movie, …
Waking Life (R, 2002)
This movie really seemed strange when I first read about it on Netflix. But then a friend rented it and I was so excited about the animation, and how the conversations just flowed from scene to scene. I would advise most people to refrain from engaging …
Old School (starring Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell)
Bear with me, because I have to type these 3 names because they are amazing. I watched Old School (starring Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell) the other day and it was super hilarious. There can never be a movie close to it, except for movies starring …
Obsessed Movie
I love Beyonce. I love her as a singer, I loverd her as an entertainer and a performer, and I love her as an actress. She wasn’t so bad here, I actually thought she was way too much of a natural and this movie is perfect for her since …
The Proposal Movie (2009)
This movie features the top most favorite actor and actress in my list, Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, and they are a natural when it came to making this movie and they are just really superb actors and actresses that this movie didn’t even make me feel as …
Ratatouille
When I saw Disney had come out with a new animated movie about a rat who is aspiring to be a French chef, I will have to say I had my doubts. It sounded like a cute concept but the thought of a rodent handling food people eat just …
Planet Terror
Planet Terror from Grindhouse is certanly a movie worth watching. personally i liked it much more than the romero version of zombies, even though you can’t really consider those creatures zombies in Planet Terror.
I personally found the ‘iraqi’ scientist, the same actor that plays that dude in ‘Lost’, …
Pulp Fiction (1994 film)
Quentin Tarantino is an unnatural director making movies with distinctively entertaining and yet thoughtful direction with unique presentation of a one of a kind story. I discover the very best of this style of his, not that there is anything bad in it, in Pulp Fiction.
Jules …
Women Are Like That movie
Women Are Like That is a film from 1938 that starred Kay Francis and Pat O’Brien. In spite of O’Brien’s presence, I found this film to be one big boring waste of time. I actually watched it and other movies one day on TCM. They were …
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