Universal International Studios struck a gold mine when they launched Ma and Pa Kettle in 1949. It would be the first of nine pictures focused on these country characters. However, Ma and Pa actually first began in another movie, one I enjoy a lot, called The Egg …

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 …

A resurrection of old monster movies from the 1950s. In this film Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward plays the two men who discover something strange in a desolate american town. Out of the ground comes some kind of ancient creature that threaten to destroy the whole village and eat …

I was told that this movie was incredibly good. I knew that there was some kind of twist in the plot. But I will admit that when I was told this, I interpreted it to mean that there would be some sort of surprise ending. …

Cast: Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Cathy), Patrick Renna (Bill), David Clayton Rogers (Steve), Alex Solowitz (Jim), Andrea Bogart (Jen), Jennifer Tiisdale (Liz), Dave Warden (Jonah)
This has got to be one of the most inane movies I’ve ever seen. So maddening that I was hoping the murderer would do …

The main actress of the movie “Australia”, Nicole Kidman described it as “the Australian version of Gone with the Wind”. I like to think that “Australia” is a cross version between two modern movies - “Titanic” and “Peal Harbour” - because the movie concept seems to thread on the …

I used Netflix for 2 years. I started the free trial and ended up keeping the service. I loved the convenience of not spending gas to drive to the video store and spending a considerable amount of time picking out a good movie to watch. I especially liked that …

It is a very rare situation that I cannot finish watching a movie. Especially a British one, and especially related to British classic authors. However, this is what happened with this one; I had surprised myself by being unable to finish even the first episode.
It is hard to say …

Shallow Hal is probably one of the funniest movies I have ever seen in my life. Jack Black stars as Hal the shallow guy who only cares about a woman’s body. I gotta say the movie made me laugh. The past where he said tells him to get a woman …

Starsky & Hutch, directed by Todd Phillips is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for drug content, sexual situations, partial nudity, language and some violence. The original release date was March 5, 2004 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Crime and …

“Eating Out” has to be hands down one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I’ve seen a great many movies in my very short lifetime. I discovered this movie when I was reading an article about something else on a popular website. I looked it up on …

The movie “Happy Accidents” should be a mix of old time romance and fantasy so that to attract both women and men to the cinema. The end result of this movie is that to achieve a lousy movie that doesn’t seem to go any where. What is incredible about …

Do you like the story plot or characters of Death Note?
How about mechanical robots similar to that of Gundam?
Or are you interested in Clamp works?
Well, if you happened to be one of those above, you are going to love this animation show called Code Geass : Lelouch of the …

The WaterBoy is a great Adam Sandler film! I loved this movie the very day I saw it in the theater. It is a great movie and one of the best ever made in my view. I think this movie will last through the ages and will make families laugh …

To be honest I was quite skeptical towards the fifth film in the X-Men series. I found it hard to see James Mcavoy as a young Charles Xavier and the absence of Wolverine also did not help much. What little I saw of the trailer , however , suggested …

From Squaresoft, the creators of the hit video game series Final Fantasy bring to the big screen, a spectacular visual treat. Four years in the making.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within veers off from the video game (FF7, FF8 and FF9). None of the characters in this film has supernatural …

I went to see “The Return” today and I can tell you this movie surprises me. When I first went into the movie theatre, I thought this movie was just another ghost movie. However, I went to watch it anyway because Sarah Michelle Gellar is on of my favorite …

Hell’s House from 1932 is not going to go down as a favorite film of mine. There wasn’t all that much outstanding about it. In fact, it was all pretty average. The one, or should I say two things that it had going for it was …

“Viva Las Vegas” is one of my favorite Elvis Presley films. I’ve wanted it on DVD for a long time, so last week was able to acquire the Deluxe Edition.
The DVD container comes with a slide on jacket of Elvis and Ann-Margret. The back of the jacket …

I was looking for movies my oldest daughter could watch on our Netflix player and came across an older one “Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island.”
This film is essentially a spoof of the old Fantasy Island show that used to be on TV (which my daughter is too young to …

War of the Worlds directed by Steven Spielburg opened in theaters June 2005. The story is about the world being taken over by allians. Ray Farrier (Tom Cruise) is a dad of two. Rachel (Dakota Fanning) is a parinoied kid. Robbie (Justin Chatwin) is a brave teenager. Mary Ann …

It’s very rare when I spend the money to go see a movie at the movie theater. After seeing Pirates of the Carribean-Dead Man’s Chest, I was glad I did.
Set shortly after the original Pirates, the movie covered continuing adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann …

Puppet Master 2 is one of my favorite movies of all times. I love the feeling and spooky feel of this film. The sotry is very well written and the acting by the puppet master in this film is truly very scary and very dark. I thought the theme song …

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing is one of the Perry Mason movies that I remember for a very unusual moment, and that’s when Perry Mason examines the murdered victim during the trial. It’s absolutely a brilliant scene that is unique and intriguing to watch.
It’s all …

I remember hearing about the film Devil from a friend who refused to take the elevator one day. I hadn’t heard of it and was amused that a single film could scare a person into not wanting to ride an elevator, but instead take the stairs. As a person who …

In this follow up to the original film, Mick and his new bride take up residence in the New York area and are living their lives in a some what peaceful situation, Mick is trying to acquaint himself with the running of city life and his wife Sue is …

Synopsis: Thirteen years ago, Kurt was sent to a psychiatric detention ward after his mother was brutally beaten to death. The night he is supposed to be transferred to a different facility, he escapes and his father (the sheriff) must track him down before the body count gets too …

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 …

Kung Fu Panda is a movie about a panda (no surprises there) named Po who aspires to become a kung fu warrior.
Not surprisingly enough, the new blockbuster from DreamWorks, was an enormous sucess. The usual deal from DreamWorks, high quality animation (great details), funky characters, occational gags… …

Rabbit Hole is the best drama that I’ve seen this year. The film has to offer that quality of that the drama watchers want and they will love it. A very sensitive issue is exposed in a way that makes your bones shake, and the professionalism of the …

Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot is a gentle little final film for one of cinema’s greatest filmmaker’s ever. It is thrilling but it is not one of his trips into the world of stark horror that he delved into with Psycho or the Birds.
And this suits him just …

I really did not know what to think of the movie The Happening. The trailer looked promising, the actors were supposedly good, and the writer and director is M. Night Shyamalan. He was the one who gave us the Sixth Sense, the Village, and now, this.
The Happening stars Mark …

I first time I heard of Roman Polanski’s The Tenant was from my mother who had ventured into a movie theater many years ago with a friend who had an affinity for avant-garde fair.
The Tenant still lived in infamy to this day and I grew up from childhood to …

Vigilante Force is a movie from 1976 that featured Jan-Michael Vincent and Kris Kristofferson. It opens with sex and violence, two huge turn offs for me. I’ve seen it in passing a couple of times, when I was more into Kristofferson in his post-A Star is Born …

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 …

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 …

Pinocchio holds a special place for me. When I was a young boy, my stepfather and I had a �quiet� relationship. One of the motivations to get my sisters and I to do our chores was a reward. That reward was we got to pick between eating out or …

The movie Erin Brockovich is a very inspiring movie. She was a single mom of three that proved that she could make it. I was really impressed how she fought for the people in the town against a big company.
Even though the film is loosely based on a true …

I have been a fan of Walt Disney. It fascinates me to imagine and dream about fantasy. I grabbed a copy of Bedtime Stories and i eagerly played it on my dvd.
By anticipation we thought, and as the title suggests that its the typical story telling time …

I am reviewing the animated film, Pebble & the Penguin. This animated film came out in the nineties. It revolves around a ritual known as the Full Moon Mating Ceremony. This requires male birds to present pebbles to females, much like humans. The film focuses around a shy …

There are not many mother-daughter stories anymore, and that is why I really love watching Gilmore Girls. This is The Complete First Season, and I have watch re-runs of it so many times, both on TV cable and on DVD.
There is just too much good acting, wonderful characters, …

It is very difficult for a sequel to make the audience feel the same excitement as the first movie, and this sequel didn’t quite live up to that… However, it didn’t fail either. The second Transformers movie did a bad job, and a good job of giving us …

Based on true life events, this movie tells the story of a mentally challenged young man. How he came into this light to be made a movie of is quite interesting and this movie will shine a lot of light into what exactly happed before, during and after the …

The Fan, directed by Tony Scott is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong language throughout and some intense violence. The original release date for the movie was August 16, 1996 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Sport/Thriller and stars …

Fat Slags is a comedy movie based on a comic book series about two obese women in jumpsuits who regulary smoke and engage in sexual acts with various men.I havent read the comic book but decided to see how good the movie based off of it was.The movie starts …

Even if you’ve never the Warriors, I’m sure you remember this line. “Warriors, come out and play.” Right? WIth the guy clinking the bottles together. I love it! It’s based in a near future new york where gangs have taken over. Though based in the future, it’s not quite …

I Love Lucy is an all nite marathon,so if you are a Lucy die hard fan like me, you will enjoy this origanal 7 disc set. My son always gives me Lucy stuff for every occasion, because he knows I love her!
I gotta tell ya, Lucy is my all …

‘Hotaru no Haka’, the tale of a pair of siblings in Japan during World War II moved the hearts of viewers when it was released in 1988. This anime has become a classic, well-loved and remembered by many.
In 2005, the ‘live’ version of ‘Hotaru no Haka’, more commonly known …

My son is at an age where he is starting to appreciate more than just animated movies. So, over the course of the Halloween season, he was introduced to some of our favorite ghost and mystery comedies.
One of the films we watched was Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway …