A documentary about the controversial radicalist Antonio Negri, telling his life story from the 1960s when his ideas came to everyone’s attention and all the way to the present day when he is still as influential as a political thinker. Being as hated among his enemies as he is …

The sequel to the zombie movie Resident Evil, which in its turn was based on a video game. Milla Jovovich returns as the sexy female hero who fights the blod-thirsty creatues with elegance and cleverness. The first film was in my opinion at bad as a film can possibly …

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 …

A corny film usually screened in schools about a teacher on a high school trying to figure out an effective way of making his students understand what it was like living in Germany during World War II and how easily people are corrupted into things they don’t really want …

I am surprised that I haven’t really heard anything about this movie when it was released. It is a good movie that deserves more attention. Peter Falk plays Sam Kleinman, a hard-working husband and an absentee father whose wife Muriel (Olympia Dukakis) finally leaves him after 50 years of …

When people have too much money and nothing to do, they do weird stuff. That’s what happens in this movie: Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), a millionaire, invites five of the world’s best and most famous detectives to what he calls “dinner and a murder.” Their task is to A) …

A Harvard student named Monty is having the most unlucky day of his life when an essay he has written falls down and is taken by a strange homeless man. He refuses to give it back if he can’t be allowed food and roof over his head. Monty sees …

Santa Sangre is the last film by the cinematic artist Alejandro Jodorowsky, and tells the story about a man locked inside an institution for his unstable mental condition. He is plagued by the memories of his childhood where is religiously fanatic father tortured his mother in a most brutal …

Classic old subtile horror movie from the story by Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray has a self-portrait made and wishes in secret for it to age in his place. The wish becomes reality and Dorian remains as young as he ever was, but at the same time he goes evil …

A man named early is lucky to get a new job, the one he always dreamed about. The only problem is he needs to move to another american state to perform the job, something that is a lot more difficult than he had expected.
A crazy physical comedy with the …

Three male friends get bored with their everyday lives and all of a sudden decides to rob a bank. But not too unexpected, something doesn’t fall out as they would have hoped for.
I didn’t find this film uplifting or refreshing in any certain way. Mostly it’s just a copy …

This movie is typical Hollywood fluff, with overdone “passion” and sexing. The storyline is okay; it could have been a decent movie if it was done right. Shakespeare, played by Joseph Fiennes, is struggling with a writing crisis, he thinks he has lost his gift and searches for a …

This is a very light romantic comedy, with a plot so simple, silly, and predictable that I think it would have completely fallen through if it wasn’t for Michael Caine and Maggie Smith, the two wonderful actors who save it.
Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) is a successful publisher and a …

Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck), a successful advertising executive and a hard-edged, arrogant man, is heading back to L.A. from Chicago where he has come on a business trip. In the Chicago airport he meets a young writer Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn). It is Christmas, and Greg, just bumped off …

A young man dies too soon and goes to heaven where he meets the woman of his dreams. The only problem is that she hasn’t been born yet, and what are the odds of them two meeting again when they are both reborn and back to earth while they …

A sort of family style gangster movie satire where all the gangsters are at most 15 years old (is it the true age of every gangster in the real world perhaps?) and the violence and sex have been substituted for other things. Bugsy Malone is the main character of …

A private detective named Harry is hired to find a man who is supposed to be in a hospital somewhere with amnesia. The strange thing is that everyone connected to the man, who would have some information to supply Harry with, all dies for mysterious reasons.
This is not a …

A film about a crew of actors in Poland during the outbreak of World War II and the german occupation. The film is all american production with actors like Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, and that takes away a lot of the credibility to be honest. If they were …

The old version from the early 1980s, taken from the classic novel by Douglas Adams about Arthur Dent and his dear friend Ford Prefect who go together on a cosmic journey through the galaxy and meets the most curious species. I have also seen the new version that came …

Filmed 16 years after the original “Patton,” this movie shows us the last several months of the general’s life. The World War II is over, and Patton gets seriously injured in a car accident. We see the general on his deathbed, with the doctors trying to save him, and …

George C. Scott stars as General George Patton, the American World War II hero and a rather controversial figure. General Patton takes command of the US Third Army after the Americans have suffered defeat in their first battle with the Germans at the Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. The first thing …

I guess the problem with this movie is that it cannot decide what it is: a horror or comedy. It is not scary enough to for the former and not funny enough for the latter. Eddie Murphy is playing the main character (and Eddie is not exactly vampire material, …

When a man and father of several children disappears without a trace, the private detective Klute is hired to investigate the case after the police have given up their searches. Great actors like Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda and Roy Sheider lifts this mediocre story to an interesting and intense …

About the two investigating journalists who discovered the remarkable and shocking Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, something that came on the news in the whole world afterwards.
Even though I think the story here is interesting and that both Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are great as the two …

A silent samurai enters a desolate japanese town where two criminals leagues fight constantly against each other and terrorises the innocent people living there. The samurai, who is an excellent swordsman, becomes their Yojimbo (bodyguard) and takes out the leagues against each other in a very clever way.
This is …

A film by Kurosawa made in the 1950s during the first of his “artistic peaks”, that is said to have inspired George Lucas a lot when he wrote Star Wars. A princess a and a military officer is running away from enemies together. On the way they meet two …

A film set in the 1950s America about a young girl who is raised by her grandmother because both her parents have severe diseases. When the grandmother dies the girl gets to live with her aunt instead, but she lives many miles away from her parents, and there is …

Miss Congeniality 2 is a decent sequel, perhaps not so good as the first movie but still a funny movie to watch. After going undercover to the Miss United States beauty pageant as one of the participants, agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) finds it difficult to continue her work …

A mediocre, predictable thriller with quite a few plotholes and not the best acting. Ruby (Leelee Sobieski), a 16 year old girl, and her brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan) are orphaned when their parents die in a car accident. A wealthy couple adopts them, supposedly according to the dead parents …

One of the master Kurosawa’s last films, which he completed in a time when he perhaps was a little to aged to perform at his best. Still I really like this tragic story about an old woman who takes care of her grandchildren when their parents travel abroad for …

A film by the finnish director Aki Kaurismaki about a rock band called Leningrad Cowboys who have severe difficulties getting a contract from a record company.
The roomer says Kaurismaki himself is ashamed of this film which he did early in his career. I personally can’t appreciate those of his …

A team of unmarried men in a small irish village get tired of always being alone and puts an advertisement in the newspaper to make women come to their annual dance. Quite unexpectedly, women show up.
When I decided to have a look at this movie, I had read that …

To crazy gentlemen owns a hotel, a place which could well rate as the worst in the whole world. Situated next to a nuclear reactor, only having five guests in total and a drunk cook.
Rather hysterical film with a high tempo. Unfortunately it uses a “style” of jokes and …

The police Detective Adam Dagliesh is called out to investigate a series of strange murders. He gets closer and closer to the horrible and tragic truth and is finally able to catch the killer, or is he?
One in the endless row of detective stories that seldom or never show …

A bicycle delivery rider (Queen Latifah) moves on to bigger and better things as a NYC Taxicab Driver with a suped-up menace of a car. A ditsy cop tries to make a good impression and fails myserably. To two are paired up accidentally to solve a bank robbing crime …

I’m still wondering if this is a remake of the classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, for it does not have the flair of the original (that’s of course, if it is a remake). Ashton Kutcher (Simon Green) co-stars with Bernie Mac (Percy Jones) in this family comedy that …

This movie tells the true-life story of one one the world favorite entertainers. From her childhood days into adulthood, the rise and ultimate fall of a great person who will be forever loved and missed. Jennifer Lopez did a great job of portaying the beautiful and talented goddess who …

An animated film about three brothers who fight against a great bear with an unfortunate outcome. The youngest of these brothers is put into a peculiar situation and needs to find a certain mountain to survive.
Extraordinary animated movie considering the mere visual area, but it really doesn’t have anything …

One of the most famous films with the comedy couple Laurel & Hardy.
The latter is heartbroken when is girlfriend leaves him for another, so he goes looking for her new love and takes Laurel with him.
These two gentleman were sometimes brilliant humourists, but there were also times when their …

A film by the uneven filmmaker Ridley Scott about the explorer Chrisopher Columbus who discovered America. In my own humble opinion an extremely boring film with no sense of cinema what so ever. Ridley Scott proved his talent several times in his early career with brilliant visual films like …

A young High School girl named Bianca has a big problem; a certain rule within her family forbids her to date boys as long as her older sister doesn’t have a relationship. The problem is that her sister hates all boys, and the only solution to the problem as …

Wesley goes to High School, just any ordinary school where nothing exciting ever happens. One day there is a new biology teacher who involves Wesley in a strange experiment that makes all girls attracted to him.
This is a rather stupid and a bit sick High School comedy that doesn’t …

Graham Marshall (the always wonderful Michael Caine), a calm, quiet business executive, is about to receive a long-awaited promotion. Marshall is ready to celebrate, certain that the promotion is his, when he learns that Benham (Peter Riegert), his younger subordinate has gotten it instead. Benham becomes the head of …

I rented this movie because of Michael Caine, and, as usual, he does a good job as Dr. Larch who runs a children’s home/hospital in Maine. One of the boys, Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) grows up in the orphanage to be a young man and is has been trained …

This is another depressing movie, of the kind I dislike. I mean, life can be depressing enough, so why take its darkest things onto the screen and drag them on and on? Not that I’m totally opposed to movies showing negative reality, but come on, sometimes enough is enough.
Anyway. …

Rick (Brad Pitt) is a young man born with a very rare and serious skin condition that makes exposure to sun, or any kind of light, dangerous for him. So Rick lives in the dark, with all the windows shut tight, and does not venture out unless he wears …

This movie is about Death itself, coming to earth in a human form to learn about what it is like to be alive. As its host, Death chooses a young man, Joe Black (Brad Pitt) who is hit by a car. Joe (now Death) goes to the man whose …

This movie is hilarious. Starring Allison Hannigan, this movie is like the Scary Movie series in that it makes fun of other movies but this time it’s parodies mostly revolve around romantic comedies and some others. These include Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Hitch, Wedding Planner, …

Finnish war movie based on real events during World War II. A couple of finnish soldier and their struggle inte the so called “winter war” against the russians. Fictional material is combined with authentic scenes of the war. Even though this is a low budget film with amateur actors, …

The legendary gambler named Ko Chun loses his memory and returns to the mental state of a child. When he later meets the small time crook Knife he is used on different casinos when his exceptional skill is discovered. But sooner or later the memory of Ko Chun will …