Movies Reviews
Tropic Thunder
I was on a quest this summer to find the best comedy, and they saved the best for last, in my opinion. Tropic Thunder is the funniest movie of summer 2008. Better than Zohan, Get Smart, Pineapple Express, AND Step Brothers, which is saying a lot giving …
I’m Not There movie
This movie, for those of you out of the loop, is about Bob Dylan. The name is taken from an obscure Bob Dylan song that the director, Todd Haynes, went on an epic journey to find a studio recording of, only to find one in Neil Young’s basement.
It stars …
Omar (drama movie)
I had my doubts about watching the movie Omar even though it was recommended to me. I didn’t know much about it except that it was set somewhere in the Middle East, and I was truly tired of watching depressing films and news of people struggling to be themselves and …
Jumper (2008)
When I learned that the movie, Jumper, is showing on the big screen, I was quick to rush to the cinema the next day to stand in line to watch it. I wasn’t surprised when I saw a long queue on the first theatre I went to, so I …
Legends of the Fall (1994) movie
Legends of the Fall was directed by Edward Zwick. It stars Brad Pitt and Aiden Quinn as two brothers, with Anthony Hopkins as their father.
The movie traces the life histories of the two boys and show the family as torn apart by war, grief, and conflict over a …
American Dreamz
I watched this movie on HBO y�day. This is a nice entertainer based on the mega hit reality show American Ideal. Its nice Everyone is trying to participate and with the Idol show, and they try hard and make every possible effort to ensure their win. By hook or …
Highlander movie
A secret society of highlanders in Scotland in the middle ages become immortal with the force of nature. Some of these become evil, others good. McLeod is the hero, and he have to fight the evil Kurgan who wants to kill all the other highlanders, which only a highlander …
Double Team (1997)
A retired Government Agent is called back to duty when news of his last mission is put back on the open trail. With his extensive knowledge of the background of this terrorist that he failed to capture in his final mission, the Government once again has to come knocking …
Without A Paddle movie
Without a Paddle is a movie which follows the lives of four friends who grow up together. As kids they planned a trip and were very anxious to get together and go on a treasure hunt. As all kids do at that age, their imaginations ran wild at the …
Dishonored Lady movie
I’m really not sure if I’ve ever seen Hedy Lamarr in a movie. I’ve grown up knowing about her and having heard some tales of the legendary Hollywood actress, but I honestly can’t recall seeing her in the movies. Thus, I was intrigued to see what she …
Up In The Air Movie
I thought this movie was going to be really exciting since Anna Kendrick and George Clooney was here, the movie all about George Clooney being “alone” and “isolated” because of this job that requires him to fly all around the country, he then meets Vera Farmiga who’s just as …
Movie Aladdin
Disney continued its long sucessful line of animated classics with Aladdin.
Aladdin weaves the tale of a poor boy in Arabia named, needless to say, Aladdin. Aladdin is a theif, needing to survive on the harsh streets, added by the skills of his monkey friend, Abu. Having rescued a beautiful …
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel movie
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel was released in 2009 and continued the success of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore as musical superstars.
Jason Lee plays Dave Seville, who suffers an Alvin type of accident and ends up in traction at the hospital. He sends the Chipmunks to live with …
Columbo: Ashes to Ashes movie
Columbo: Ashes to Ashes was directed by actor Patrick McGoohan, who also guest stars in the program. He’s done this, acting and directing in a Columbo, a few times before. His character this time around is mortician Eric Prince.
Rue McClanahan does a nifty job as gossip columnist …
Robin Hood: Men in Tights movie
I love Mel Brooks movies and I have to say Robin Hood: Men in Tights has to be his very best film.
Cary Elwes puts on a very good performance as Robin Hood and, even though this is a parody, may actually be the best Robin Hood I’ve ever seen …
The Heiress movie
This is a beautiful, although sad, movie. The story takes place in 1849 New York. Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) is the daughter of Dr. Sloper (Ralph Richardson), a very wealthy man and a cruel, tyrannical father. Catherine’s mother had died in childbirth - Catherine’s birth. Not only Dr. Sloper …
Bad Boys 2 movie
Something about the thought of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence playing cops makes me want to laugh, and watching the 2003 movie Bad Boys 2 I do plenty of that. Whether it’s the two characters demonstrating their “tandem dance routine”, complaining about the pool in Lawrence’s character’s back yard, …
Batman Returns
I got a chance to re-watch the movie Batman Returns last night and have to say, I can now understand why that installment of Batman movies went downhill in a hurry.
The first Batman, starring Michael Keaton, is still one of my favorite movies. This sequel to that movie wasn’t …
Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 14
Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 14 was a funny episode in its own way. It talks about falling in love at first sight. It would be hard to believe though that anyone would truly fall in love at first sight with a holodeck character though. However maybe in …
Total Drama Island
When I first saw the cartoon “Total Drama Island” advertising on Cartoon Network, I could only think that it was quite an interesting plot and setting for a cartoon. I had never actually seen a reality show cartoon except for the “Drawn Together” series which aired for some time …
Hancock
Hancock, a movie about a superhero thought to be the last of his kind is a quite enjoyable movie if you’re in to the whole superhero thing. Starring Will Smith, this movie introduces John Hancock a lonely, depressed, miserable drunk who saves his city at any cost. At any …
Galaxy Quest movie
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. Well, Galaxy Quest imitates Star Trek with zest and now Galaxy Quest itself has been imitated on various shows. That’s how well this movie comedy performed.
This entire movie is like a great big Trek satire, starting with the …
Rush Hour (movie)
Rush Hour is a movie that my son insists on watching. It is one of those kung fu type movies with a bit of a change to it. It ivnvoles 2 police officers from different cultures and back grounds. Detective Inspector Lee a Hong Kong Detective(Jackie Chan) …
Movie The Hunchback of the Morgue (1972)
The Hunchback of the Morgue (1972)
Easily the best non-werewolf film Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy has ever made!
And it is also his most over the top monster-mayhem spectacle!
Paul plays Goto, a misunderstood hunchback used as a tool of violence by a power mad, crazed scientist. Can Goto overcome this …
Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood Movie
Iwo Jima, during World War II took place, in the United States troops there dead or live, fight against Japanese troops. However, this movie is not addressing the war. Sketch opened with a conversation between James, son of John Bradley, a soldier who wave the flag at Iwo Jima, …
Movie: “Starman” (1984)
In the beautiful science fiction film “Starman”, Jeff Bridges plays an alien who comes to Earth in response to an invitation on the space probe Voyager II. It was a message of peace; but in typically human fashion, the military shoots down the alien craft, and the visitor is …
Scy Fy’s “Stonehenge Apocalypse” made-for-tv movie
The made-for-TV, Scy-fy produced film in question is much like the title suggests: campy, amusing and predictable. The plot is predictable enough and involves a conspiracy theorist, an attractive female scientist who becomes convinced by his vision in a pairing popular since Mulder and Scully, and ancient civilizations as …
In Time Movie (2011)
If only there was enough time- time to work on the concept of the movie that is! While In Time is not built on an original concept, there were still enough interesting ideas that could have made it at least a good sci-fi movie. However, the lack of planning …
Batman The Dark Knight 2008 Movie
Nowadays, saying the name Batman actually brings up enjoyable memories. Memories of the older movies that I enjoyed and the newer movies that reinvented it. Forgetting about the failures in-between. The Dark Knight was released in 2008 and featured Batman’s worst enemy. The Joker himself. But with all the …
Movie Mad Money
“Mad Money” is simply a great movie with mixture of comic and dramatic moments. The main actors in this movie are Diane Keaton, Ted Danson, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes and all of them do their part well, however Keaton gives that extra bit more and it shows.
“Mad Money” …
The Color Purple
The Color Purple (1985) was a great film which was both melancholy and sentimental that was taken from the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning book which was written by Alice Walker. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Alice Walkeras well. This story centered …
The Hitcher DVD
This is a remake of the classic that starred, C. Thomas Howell, from way back when. The original was the kind of thriller that you could watch over and over again. This remake was plain ridiculous. The action seemed a lot less than the original, the acting far …
Blitz (crime drama movie)
I’m truly at a loss as to why I keep torturing myself and watching movies with Jason Statham in it; since I almost always know what to expect. However, for some reason I decided to watch this one yet again, and once again I was disappointed. The ratings for it, …
I Am Legend
I must admit, I have never been much of a Will Smith fan…until this movie. With so few human interaction scenes (for most of the movie, he is with a dog), he pulled off the lonely, depressed person very well. The storyline is amazing and, at the …
Movie Alvin and the Chipmunks
Growing up we would hear about this crazy cartoon called Alvin and the Chipmunks. There were cartoons on television, there were records made with these three adorable little creatures and the nation just could not get enough of them
This past Christmas season there was a movie called Alvin …
Little Voice
LV (stands for “Little Voice”) is a young woman who obviously suffers from social phobia. She is so shy, especially of strangers, that she hardly ever speaks. Her father is dead, and her mother acts like a teenager who has just discovered flirting and sex: that’s all she does, …
Strigoi, movie (2009)
Its safe to say that vampires aren’t what they used to be. The dark forces of evil that they are in books, like Bram Stoker’s Dracula and films like The Lost Boys, have been brushed aside for more romanticized versions in True Blood and Twilight. Fortunately, there …
He’s Just Not That Into You movie
For Valentines Day this year, my girlfriend really wanted to see the new movie, “He’s Just Not That Into You” and, it being Valentines Day and all, I obliged. Believe it or not though, I really enjoyed the film, as did everyone in the theatre! Well, at …
Crank Jason Statham
I was already a fan of Jason Statham because I fell in love with his gorgeous accent. I can’t resist a man with an accent. This film is definitely fast paced. You do not have time to sit and wonder what happens next. It keeps moving and moving and …
A Love Song For Bobby Long (R, 2004) movie
I really wanted to like this movie starring Scarlett Johansson. She’s a pretty good actress. And for her to be so young, she is really good at depicting different types of characters with great depth. This story surrounds the living situation Purslane Will (Johansson) she …
The Pink Panther 2
This movie begins with sequences of various international treasures being stolen by a thief leaving behind cards naming himself “The Tornado”. The Shroud of Turin, Japan’s Imperial Sword, Britain’s Magna Carter, and France’s treasured Pink Panther diamond are among the casualties. Inspector Jacques Clouseau is asked to …
Movie: Charade
Charade is one of my favorite movies ever and has two of the best actors ever: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. I mean with the two of them, how can you go wrong? The movie is fantastic and of course the acting is great! The movie centers around Audrey …
The 40-Year Old Virgin (UR, 2005) movie
I underrated the quality of this film. As usual, I passed this over in movie theatres because I felt that perhaps it would be just too silly. And this time I was right—but it was silly in a fabulous way. I love how the humor is …
Bambi (movie)
The animated animals are the focal point of this tale of a little fawn who grows to be a great prince of the forest. Growing with him are Thumper, a rabbit who tends to speak before thinking, and Flower, the shy skunk. Alongside this trio are a score of …
Superbad movie
Every year there is one movie that the adults who like to laugh at childish acts love. This is that movie. The main two characters are hilarious, from the moment the movie starts. And McLovin! His interactions with the police make the movie. The relationship that they build is …
The Karate Kid 2010
I had watched the original Karate Kid movies a few tens of times over my life and I really loved them. It was hard for me going to watch the new Karate Kid movie (The Karate Kid 2010), mainly because I was expecting a re-run of the original movie …
Meatballs
This movie was a perfect vehicle for Bill Murray, in the same sense as Caddyshack and What About Bob? Were. The only difference between those two films and Meatballs is that Meatballs had him in a more serious role, surrounded by goofballs who take up where Murray would have …
Misery movie
Another film from a novel by Stephen King, this one considered as one of the most successful. The story is about a writer who’s involved in a car accident and seeks refuge at a woman’s house. She turns out to be a complete psychopath who is obsessed with this …
Enchanted the Movie
Enchanted was a totally Cinderella story, until the end. It was a good modern day fairy tale, and I ended up really liking it a lot. I thought that it would be a little fake at first, but still wanted to watch it. It turned out really great, and …
Aquamarine
I watched Aquamarine with my ex boyfriend years back and up till now, if there are any of my young cousins coming, this would be one of their most favorite DVD to watch.
The mermaid is so gorgeous in this movie and acted by Sara Paxton. I really …
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