The chinese director Wong Kar-Wai is my absolute favorite to appear during the last 20 years. Days of being wild is only his second film ever, made in the early 1990s, but already here he showed his amazing talent with an entirely unique way of putting images together and …

This is an Indian movie in Hindi. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Raveena Tandon, and Sunny Deol. It is about a woman who marries after the tragic loss of her first husband but does not tell her second about the first. Then all the misunderstandings and mysteries begin.
This …

House Party, directed by Reginald Hudlin is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was March 9, 1990 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Christopher Reid as Kid, Christopher Martin as Play, Robin Harris as …

When I rented the movie “The Changeling”, I did so because it was directed by Clint Eastwood, and I really enjoy the movies he directs. The subject matter, a mother whose young son disappears, is gut-wrenching, so I didn’t expect a light or enjoyable experience. It was based on …

Frances Langford had the starring role in a 1944 musical called Career Girl. Her character’s name was Joan Terry, an aspiring singer, which meant, of course, that the movie was full of songs sung by Langford.
What makes Career Girl a bit difficult to watch are a few …

This is a 1999 Sci fi film starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron about an astronaut who leaves on a mission and comes back different. The other astronaut dies of a stroke after returning home, and his wife commits suicide, the surviving astronaut’s wife notices changes in his behavior, …

This movie is a musical based on the love shared between a writer and a cabaret actress. How quaint that most musicals encompass the same thing. This movie, while it did manage to grasp quite a few nominations for Oscars, only managed to scrape through with winning only two …

One might think that documentaries about sexually explicit topics will be full of juicy material. I found this one downright boring. While it was interesting to see porn stars (like Tera Patrick) actually taking part in interviews, some of the dialogue and things they were talking about …

As far as thrillers go, Urban Legend is one of the best movies ever made.
The film centers around a group of college kids who are being hunted down by a serial killer who murders people in styles similar to urban legends (such as a killer in the back seat …

At first, I think, a movie with the thriller ‘Old Star’ like Kevin Costner and Demi Moore as the main stars? It feels like déjavu to 90s years? I rather disparaging. 90s era is an era where films Thriller many good outstanding (Silence of the Lambs, Single White Female, …

Woody Allen has always been my favorite director and he is a great actor too. I recently bought the DVD of Mighty Aphrodite as I read some good reviews about the movie. Lenny is a sports writer and his wife is Amanda. They don’t have any kids and Amanda …

The movie “Doomed to Die” is actually a movie from the nineteen forties starring the popular actor Boris Karloff. How I heard about this movie was when I saw a reference made to it when reading someone’s blog, and decided to check it out for myself, and when I …

Saved from being executed by his mother and set adrift on the river, Moses is rescued by the Egyption queen and is unknowingly raised as a prince of Egypt. After trailing an escaping prisoner, he learns the truth that he is really a Hebrew and he later finds out …

Torque, directed by Joseph Kahn is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Martin Henderson as Cary Ford, Ice Cube as Trey, Monet Mazur as Shane, Adam Scott as FBI Agent McPherson, Matt Schulze as Henry James, Will Yun Lee as Val, Jamie Pressly as …

The Kendrick Brothers (Alex, Shannon and Stephen) have been making Christian-based films for over a decade now and they just keep getting better. They started out with the decidedly low budget “Flywheel” in 2003 and their fifth (and latest) film is 2015’s “War Room,” the best of the lot.

Here’s the …

Eyes Wide Shut, directed by Stanley Kubrick is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug-related material. The original release date was July 16, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Mystery/Thriller and stars …

The 1985 film “Ladyhawke” was not only a strong dose of fantasy that touches everyone’s inner child and magical yearning for something powerful that can’t possibly be real, as well as beautiful love story that was heartwarming to watch. Mathew Broderick, a very young Mathew Broderick, as well as …

A flight crashes, and its passengers are stuck on a deserted island forced to create a world for themselves on the island where they can survive.
I actually had never seen an episode of LOST before I saw this DVD collection. A friend of minewas addicted to the show, and …

Since we are past Thanksgiving and officially in the Holiday season, I allowed my daughter to finally watch some Christmas movies I loaded on the Netflix player. One of them was The Christmas Dinosaur.
The movie turned out to be somewhat farfetched and predictable but was still an enjoyable animated …

This is the case of three flawless diamonds known as the Napoleon Diamonds and a pair of master jewel thieves. As the story goes, they two have managed to steal the first two diamonds, sold them and are now resting comfortably on Paradise Island in the Bahamas supposedly retired. …

A washed up 80’s pop icon and a frustrated writer team up to write the love song for the biggest pop star of the new millennia. Hugh Grant plays Alex Fletcher, the former member of Pop who is dire need of another chance to launch his songwriting career. Drew …

I actually like Blockbuster a lot more than Netflix because you can return the movies to the store instead of mailing them in and waiting to receive new movies. Not only can you return the movies that were mailed to you to the store, but you can also trade …

If you’ve seen the 2009 movie Adventureland’s poster, you probably wouldn’t think it’s a kind of dark coming-of-age story. Well, it is. Anyone expecting laugh-out-loud comedy in the same vein as director Greg Mottola’s previous film, Superbad, would be in for a disappointment. I was glad to find, however, …

I am Legend is a unique movie. Actor Will Smith, the main character, does an excellent job as always. The movie is about the of a military scientist you believes he is the last person on Earth not affected by a horibble mutated virus. Apparently he is immune to …

Although Keira Knightley is a very young lady, she is a super awesome actress whom can really act well. This is a super sad and heart wrenching story that would see you thinking of so many perspectives in life. I love stories like this, but having to find …

I rented the musical “Nine” because of it’s stars– in particular, Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz, two of my favorites. I had seen Kidman in Moulin Rouge so I knew she could pull off a musical. I was a bit disappointed in the film. Now I have to admit, …

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 low-budgeted film about an Indian orphan who dreamed big and search his destiny. This movie dominated the Oscar awards 2009 and because of that I was very intrigued why such low-budgeted/Indian-inspired film successfully captured the Academy judges.
I finally had the time to watch this …

I am reviewing the 2008 movie, The Great Debators, starring Denzel Washington. This movie takes place during the Great Depression. It focuses on an all African American college. At this college there is a dedicated, rebellious professor, played by Denzel Washington. He teaches history, and runs …

The movie Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya directed by David Dhawan is fun filled comedy movie. I watched it at home on television on its World Premiere. It was great fun watching the film. The leading roles in the film are played by superstar Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen, Sohail Khan, …

Secret Window is a movie where Johnny Depp stars as a writer who goes to live in the country by himself because he has gone through a recent divorce. Mort, the character that Johnny Depp plays, is a weird person. I’m not talking about weird like an artist, I …

In a previous movie review I had made mention of the fact that sitting down every now and then with the wife for a girlie movie can in rare cases result in finding genuinely good movies that are worthy of a bit of a aider recognition.
Well, last night …

“What Just Happened” is what I like to call a sleeper film. Much like fantasy football there are sleeper picks which are people that perform much better then thought. This film is the definition of that. “What Just Happened” didn’t have much promotion, actually I …

This is the movie of a United States Navy pilot who was shot down in enemy territory while on a combat mission, based in the year 1965, this movie tell how the pilot managed to survive the crash only to be captured by the soldiers who shot him down …

The Good Girl shows Jennifer Anniston at her finest, I think. Jennifer Anniston plays Justine, a married woman working at a small town, dumpy store the equivalent of a Wal Mart. Justine does cosmetics, and makes other women beautiful. Justine doesn’t feel so beautiful, however, and it is apparent …

Between 1998 and 2000 the Upright Citizens Brigade were one of the funniest sketch shows on TV. In fact the only sketch show that comes to mind that could match (and often times beat) the UCB for creativity or humor was HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David.
Unfortunately …

Disneys The Emperors New Groove is a great film to watch and is a little more funky than the other Disney Classic Movies.
David Spade stars as the Emperor - a self important selfish character who annoys one person to many and gets his come upance when he sacks his …

I am now going to review a horrible movie called Garbage Pail Kids.Before, I get into reviewing,let me give a little explanation why it was made. A big thing in the 80s was a fad involving a series of trading cards targeted to kids called the garbage pail kids.These …

Starring: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Pat Morita, Edward Albert, and Barbara Carrera.
Directed by: Irwin Allen.
Although this was made in 1980, when you hear somebody mention that ‘volcano movie’ from the 70s, they are referring to …

A professional killer named Arthur Bishop is perhaps the most feared man in the world for his remarkably vicious ways of killing people. One day he is put in a situation where he will teach a new upcoming hitman. This doesn’t really turn out as Bishop had hoped for.
The …

I completely forgot about the movie “Turbulence” until very recently when I saw it being broadcast on a cable televison channel again. Since the name sounded familiar I decided to even watch half of it in order to refresh my memory on the movie. The result was that I …

2 Weeks Notice with Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant is a movie in which the two stars play the exact same characters (with different names) that they have in a multitude of other movies that I have seen. While You Were Sleeping and Bridget Jones’ Diary come to mind. …

Synopsis: This animated Disney movie re-tells the story of Rapunzel with a few twists. Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) is a young woman with magical hair that has been locked in a tower all 18 years of her life. She is rescued from the tower by a thief who …

Just from reading the synopsis on Netflix, Ice Twisters looked as if it was going to be a lower budget copy-cat disaster movie with a weather theme. That’s exactly what it was. But, to be fair, it was enjoyable, more so than I would have expected. When the film …

We’ve all seen millions of zombie movies. Zombie movies are flooding the horror genre. Either original ones come out or terrible remakes. The director Jim Mickle went with a different approach with his plague movie. Instead of zombies taking over a city we have disease carrying rats!
Former boxer …

Just Like Heaven opened in theaters September 2005. The story is about a doctor named Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon). She got hit by a truck but is she dead? David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) is looking for an apartment and looks at Elizabeht’s apartment. He gets the apartmet and he …

We watched Russel Crowe the other night in a movie that came out a few years ago called Master and Commander.
Russel Crowe is another actor that I find does an extremely good job when he portrays charactors and acts. In this movie takes place during the Napoleonic …

Truman with Jim Carrey and Ed Harris.
This was a different kind of movie that had me expecting the slapstick humor of which Jim Carrey built his career, but I was sadly disappointed.
There are few effective comedic actors in the industry and Carrey is one of them. …

I watched the movie “Knowing” online a little after it was released in theatres since at the time I had no money to see it. Sometimes when I watch movies online, the movie does not appear to be half as good as it seems when I watch it on …

Naruto today is one of the most watched animes in the world today. The anime revolves around a lonely boy named Naruto who is trying to become the superior ruler of his village also known as the Hokaga. The story starts out to be very compelling but as the …

I recently watched this movie with my best friend. AND I LOVED IT!. There was so much, raw emotion in this movie. Kevin Bacon did an awsome job. If you like happy endings this movie isnt for you. I think thats why I loved it so much, It was …