Akeelah and the Bee is a movie about an inner city child who is particuarly good at spelling. A school teacher encourages Akeelah to praticipate in the schools spelling bee and she wins. She trains with him behind her mothers back, and gets good enough that she goes to …

“The Princess and the Warrior” is truly a film that you will not mind reading the subtitles on. As a matter of fact, you may find that you’ve forgotten that this film is in German. Franka Potente stars in this film as a psychiatric nurse …

I remember wanting to see the movie “Enemy” after I had seen the trailer some time ago. It gave me the impression that it could be one of those thrillers that would keep me in suspense all the way through till it ended. However, after I got to watch the …

This is a good movie if you like horror movies and you don’t mind gory things. If you are a person that doesn’t like gory or cannot take it I don’t recommend it. It kept me interested, the acting was good, I wasn’t really bored at all. There were …

Being a former history major, I absolutely love movies based in historical times; especially when they are about legendary characters. Braveheart is a movie that has all the qualities I look for in a historical movie. It?s an accurate portrayal of the hero but still takes some liberties with …

I was home sick yesterday and found myself watching Star Trek Nemesis for the first time in several years.
I has been a long time since I last saw the movie so I had no memory of what it was about. And, compared to other Star Trek movies, I think …

Movies about penguins seem to have come out of nowhere in the recent months. With the obsession over March of the Penguins and the glee over Happy Feet, people are fascinated by penguins and the rituals surrounding them as they grow up.
An approximation of the true nature of how …

Movie name: Next
Directed By: Lee Tamahori
Leading Actor: Nicolas cage
Nicolas cage playing as ” Cris johnson” a magician in Las Vegas has the ability to view his and only his future but just 2 mins before it could happen, but except for the fact of a girl whom he senses long …

The movie Next is what I am reviewing. It stars Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel.
I found this movie so much more then an action-adventure file. There was also drama, and a love story mixed into it.
It starts out with the main character Chris Johnson …

This movie is a twisted tale from director Quentin Tarantino about a stuntman who went on a rampage killing a few women and got off any charges due to lack of evidence, the officials involved ruled that it was an accident as the girls were intoxicated. How it all …

As I often do, I spent some time Friday looking through Netflix’s Instant Watch section for movies I could watch with my two girls.
One of the movies I came across was the VeggieTales movie Pistachio. This proved to be worth watching.
The movie (which is essentially one of their TV …

Synopsis: In the 1980s, a girl is kidnapped and murdered on Staten Island and a homeless man is arrested and convicted for the crime. This documentary, which takes place as the man comes up for trial in another kidnapping, examines the case and asks whether the man really did …

The Lair Of The White Worm is a silly little fantasy, science fiction, horror type film. The Lair Of The White Worm is probably a cult classic, although I don’t think that many people know of this movie. This movie is about people who find a skull that seems …

Note: This review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban contains spoilers.
I first watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on ABC Family in March 2008. Even though it took a little getting used to because it looked so different from the first two films, it has …

I enjoyed this movie very much, not just because it stars the luscious Natasha Richardson, but because the dynamic between Richardson’s character and the character played by Mia Farrow is a delightful tongue-in-cheek account of Anglo-Irish relations that appeals to both my English and Irish ancestors. Their rivalry …

Russian filmmaker Elem Klimov, who is most famous for is incredibly well crafted anti-war statement “Come and See!”, has in Agonia chosen to depict some russian history. The film takes place in the 19th century and involves how the Emperor of Russia is being decieved by the greedy Rasputin. …

I am a big fan of horror movies especially the horror movie entitled “SAW”. This horror movie is a successful. Many people are watching this movie because this is very screaming. I love it. I used to shout when I watch it. This makes me crazy … hahaha that’s …

Once in a while, an unexpectedly decent movie shows up, and for some reason it is not really noticed. This is yet another such movie. A remake of the 1950 British movie with Alec Guinness, this new, 2006 version stars Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, a quiet, hard-working woman …

“Angry Beavers” was a Nickelodeon cartoon which used to air on the channel Nickelodeon in the late nineteen nineties, and the early 2000s. When I first discovered it though, I didn’t watch it because I found the cartoon annoying despite the fact that at the time I had not …

I watched this movie not to long ago. Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts all played in Charlie Wilson’s War. It was about the cold war, Afghanistan and Russia. It was entertaining and kept me interested the whole movie. I think it probably could have ended better. I felt …

Open Season is an animated film that is good for both children and adults. The story revolves around an unlikely pair of friends- Boog, a 900 pound grizzly bear who has been a pet his whole life, and Eliot, a scrawny, one-horned fast-talking mule deer. Boog meets Eliot when …

After the trilogy series, Karate Kid from 1984-1989, The Next Karate Kid (1994) takes on a different path, using a female protagonist, who went out to an adventurous story of a stubborn-turned-docile young adult. Julie Pierce (Hillary Swank), who was already orphaned, lives with her grandmother, whom she had …

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 …

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 …

The Ex is supposedly a comedy. It is about a sneaky former boyfriend who tries to get his ex-girlfriend Sofia back, even though she is now married. Chip, ‘the ex,’ pretends to be a wheelchair-bound cripple, playing on people’s feelings and taking advantage of their pity. He is a …

There aren’t many movies that I’m willing to spend the price of admission on. Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull is one of the few I am.
Quite simply, this movie is awesome. If I could afford it, I would go back again and again. I don’t …

I watched the DVD of Two Weeks Notice starring Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant the other day and there could not have been a better duo for their roles than them. It’s basically a movie story about serving your troublesome boss and after some time feeling that you have …

I thought that Scary Movie 4 would be another foolish kind of slapstick movie but when I watched, I was really so laughing like crazy with my bunch of friends.
It was so, so funny and the fact that the Director and writers had come out with such a …

This stunning movie is already considered a classic. Garnering five 1991 Academy Awards, it comes to no surprise that many of us still find it spellbinding.
Clarice Starling is training to be a FBI agent. When a psychopath is murdering women, Starling (Jodie Foster) was sent to interview a prisoner, …

We saw an ad on tv that said that you could rent movies from home for only $8.99 a month . The ad also said that you could get a free month’s membership just for signing up . We decided to give a try , and I’m glad that …

One of Ingmar Bergman’s less known films from the late 50s includes most of his regular acting squad with Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephsson in the frontline in a story about a magician and his helpers travelling around the country to entertain rich people. When he …

The 1998 movie American History X is on my list of some of my favourite dramas to date, because of what it was about and the way that the story was presented. I know I’m not alone in this respect since it was given a high rating on sites like …

This is an interesting film to watch for the first time as you just want to see the outcome. To want to watch this movie more than once is strictly an individual experience, as I found that it does not have what it takes to hold me glued to …

My children love Happy Feet. They watched it so much it stopped working so I had to buy them a new one. My son really loves the extra features where they teach the children how to tap dance, my son is only one years old but its …

I heard about this movie from my dad, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it because my dad couldn’t stop talking about it! He said that it was a really good movie… and he was right.
I’m not a huge action movie fan. I’m more of a comedy and romance …

Very rare of me to watch foreign films (films that are not in the English language) so when I do, I always make it sure that I’m going to have a good time with it. Today I choose to watch a 2013 Polish film called “Ida” because first, it won …

A modern day futuristic movie about a young boy who goes missing only to return eight years later to a world that he know nothing about. In addition to his return, even though eight years has passed since he went missing; the boy has not aged a day since …

Wanted the movie is a good action flick and mixed with humor. Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy star as the main characters in this movie.
Angelina known as Fox is has a duty to train James, in this movie named Wesley, to become a good and polished assassin just …

This is one of the best cartoons I’ve seen so far. The trailer didn’t look so promising so I never watched this in the theaters. I seldom want to pay for cartoons anyway. Luckily, one of my relatives bought me a DVD version which they said was on sale. …

The movie, Golmaal released on 14th July 2006. It is a really hilarious movie. It has a punch line Fun Unlimited, and well this movie is really fun unlimited, of course without brains. There is no proper plot is this film but the film works for its funny witty …

“Harriet the Spy” was one of my favourite children’s movies when I was younger. Just recently in fact, I found out that it was the same actress who starred in the movies “Ice Princess” and “Eurotrip” who played the role of Harriet in the movie.
The movie is a …

I love vampire movies but will also admit that most of them are like every other one I’ve ever seen. That’s why I’m a big fan of the movie Blade.
Like most vampire films, Blade focuses on a vampire hunter. Only, this is one of the very few vampire hunters …

I think Big Fish was a pretty good movie, yet it was a sad story. I really thought the stories told in the movie Big Fish were just great. This movie has a different type of setting. Big Fish is about an old man who is dying of cancer and …

At one point I wondered why there aren’t more eccentric characters in one film. The answer is that they not occur. It seems that you can not cram a young English teacher with bizarre sexual inclinations, an old bearded playwright gigolo and a mechanic with a high voice who …

The Matrix Reloaded is the second installment in the Matrix trilogy. To be honest, I do not think I enjoyed it as much as the first one. It seems like some of the excitement died out, or maybe there was just so much fuzz about the start …

The title ‘Strictly Sexual’ invariably attracts the attention of youngsters and middle-aged people. I also chose to watch this movie, mainly because I am interested in what the movie is about, given the seductive name. However, after I watched it, ‘Strictly Sexual’ is just an ordinary movie with a …

Spirit is a cartoon movie about a wild stallion produced by Dream Works. It starts off when the stallion is first born and shows him growing up with the rest of the herd. From the time he was born this stallion had an attitude and a spirit that could …

An alien space ship lands in Washington to everyones’ amazement. The military assumes the aliens provide a threat and fires on the creature coming out unprovoked. The alien (who is coming from Mars) manages to flee the military and tries to convince people he is coming in peace and …

I thought I had seen just about all the slasher films that were going to be good in 2008. I will confess that the 8 Films to Die For series has left me cold on a few occasions. However this film had me intrigued from the very …

Nearly everyone in the Western world knows about the comedy team of Monty Python. This British comedy troupe, featuring John Cleese and others, if famous for its unusual and offbeat humor. Monty Python came out with the movie Meaning of Life a number of years ago. Like …