The Nut Job is an 2014 adventure, comedy and animation movie, co-written and directed by “Peter Lepeniotis” who has transformed his short animation movie released in 2005 “The Surly Squirrel” to a full animation feature film titled “The Nut Job”, he previously had worked as an animator in …

I had seen A Greater Yes advertised and really wanted to see it. It was produced by Pure Flix, a production company I really like, and is Dove Family approved. So I was hopeful about this movie. When I read the cover, I was a bit …

My husband and I saw this movie last weekend. We went to a Sunday matinee and the theatre was PACKED! The theatre was full of mostly girls, but my husband didn’t mind too much. This is definitely a chick flick.
The cast was great. I especially loved Ginnifer Goodwin and …

I just saw the movie Monsters last night and I don’t really quite know how to categorize it. I cannot put it in bad movie file, but then I cannot recommend to watch it. I can’t even quite tell if I can enjoyed it. The feeling this movie has …

Everytime I take a few minutes to watch a Veggie Tale movie with my daughter, I become more and more impressed with the series and want to go out and buy more for her.
Jonah, A VeggieTales Movie is a great example of this. Apparently, this is the first full-length …

Big Daddy is a nice comedy movie with some emotional scenes. This Adam Sandler starred movie has some heart touching scenes to it’s credit. Sonny is a job less and irresponsible guy. Though his friends and the people from his college have moved ahead in life and are doing …

The Cohen brothers’ latest film is an anthology of life in the Wild West full of action but mainly messages with the main theme of death.Starring Tim Blake Nelson Willie Watson,Clancy Brown, Danny McCarthy, Thomas Wingate etc.

The film is a series of six independent stories that mentally transport the …

I recently took my daughter to a preview of the Kit Kittredge Movie. It was the package deal offered by American Girl in Manhattan. For $44, we saw the movie and had dinner at the American Girl Cafe. Also included were, a tee shirt for my …

Skyfall is the latest and greatest James Bond 007 film, and while I admit I have never seen a James Bond film before, I absolutely loved Skyfall! It is action-packed, funny, and thrilling, and it had the entire theater at the edge of their seats. I absolutely loved Skyfall, …

A very realistic film about british working class misery. The director Ken Loach, well known for this way of showing his sympathy for the poor and unfortunate people of society, gives a very clear and heartbreaking picture of a young boy who slowly falls into criminality. The actors are …

I really tried hard to at least give this film a chance. I liked that it was set in Louisiana. I liked that the directors chose to focus on the solstice aspect. I even resigned myself to the fact that there would be several college kids …

A classical tale of boy meets girl or in this case boy dog meets girl dog. Showing the early years of Lady’s life, growing up in a respectable part of town, living the blue collar life. On the other side of the fence, we see the freelance life of …

Mars Attacks, directed by Tim Burton is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for science fiction fantasy violence and brief sexuality. The original release date was December 13, 1996 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Fantasy/Science Fiction/Thriller and stars Jack Nicholson …

Just My Luck, directed by Donald Petrie is rated PG-13 bythe Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was May 12, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Fantasy/Romance and stars Lindsay Lohan as Ashley Albright and Chris Pine as Jake Hardin.
Ashley …

If you have read my review of An Extremely Goofy Movie then you already know that I liked this movie. I realize that its a bit sad but the characters are just so endearing that its impossible not to love them.
In this movie Max discovers the wonderful world …

I am reviewing the movie, Grace is Gone, starring John Crusack. So there’s this ordinary, down to earth guy. He works at a store. His wife is a soldier who got called away to Iraq. They have two little girls. The guy is forced to raise his two …

I was a teen when I’d first seen Back to the Future, and I was stunned, just like many other viewers, I’m sure. Time travel was not a new movie theme even back then, but I don’t think anyone had done it this way before: sending the character not …

The wind will carry us is a film by Abbas Kiarostami, who is known for films like Close-Up and maybe most of all - one of my own personal favorites - Taste of cherry. His style is very slow, but in his case it’s always a positive thing, because …

Overboard is a family oriented comedy about a woman who has amnesia and the man who takes advantage of her. Goldie Hawn stars as Joanna, the millionaires. Kurt Russell plays Dean, a single parent with four boys. Overboard is a pretty simple movie with a simpler story line but …

Marooned isn’t a big favorite of mine, but there’s something about it that when I start watching it, it’s hard to turn off. I normally love space-age movies, but sometimes they seem a bit off. While that’s the case here, the acting in some cases is so …

High School Musical 2 is finally out. Everyone has been looking forward to the sequel to big hit High School Musical 1. I was looking forward to it as well. Even though I am not a very big fan of the first movie, I want to know what new …

Rock Rock Rock! from 1956 is one of those movie musicals that is more like an excuse to show off the music of the day. The plot is thin and barely there, put in the back seat to the various songs that are sung.
Below are some thoughts on …

Being a big fan of Tom Cruise, I decided to visit multiplex to watch Valkyrie on the very first day of its visit. However, the film disappoints me by its approach and the way screenplay has been managed by the director.
The biggest disappointment for me was the acting of …

Let us take this movie apart segment by segment. Act one: Joe does not like his job, his boss of his life. Act two: Joe visits his doctor on many occasions and they can find nothing wrong with him. Act three: Joe sees a new doctor who informs him …

Columbo: Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health is one of the 1991 movies of the Columbo movies, and it’s one I like a lot. It guest starred George Hamilton as security guru turned reality show host, Wade Anders. In essence, think of him as John …

I had always heard the movie “A Night at the Roxbury” being mentioned in the media. However, I never had a chance to watch it. In fact, even if I did see it being broadcast on television I might not have watched it because it had a few actors …

In the early sixties, Disney released The Parent Trap, a delightful comedy where Hayley Mills played identical twins, Sharon and Susan, who had been separated at birth when their parents divorced. Each parent took one of the twins. It wasn’t until the twins accidentally met at camp …

True to the series, this movie delivers just as much gore and gruesome murders as the previous five movies. However, this movie is not a sequel to the popular series but rather a prequel. As the title suggests, this movie delves into the beginning of the Hewitt family’s murderous …

When I saw the movie “Season of the Witch” advertising early this year on cable, I definitely wanted to watch it, and I became even more interested in seeing it after I saw that the actor Robert Sheenan from “Misfits” had a major role in it.
The movie, which was …

Maigret’s Dean Man is a detective mystery thriller directed by Jon East. It starred Rowan Atkinson as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.

The plot follows Maigret in his search for the reason behind the murder of an unidentified man who had actually called him for help from a phone in a bar. …

Have you ever think what life is like for gangsters in the witness protection program? Movies have featured such characters more than once, but other than a bit of snippet at the end of Martin Scorsese’s cult film Goodfellas, I can’t think of any movies that could tell you more …

The Tiny Times is a romance drama movie series based on novels by Guo Jing Ming. It’s made up of 4 movies (Tiny Time 1-4). The movies are all directed by the author himself.

The series is glamorous and beautiful. And I mean the costumes, locations and casts, not the …

Who can forget the wonderful musical, West Side Story? No one that I know. This is Romeo and Juliet brought to us on the streets of New York. It’s vibrant and colorful, and yet it’s just as tragic as the Shakespearean love birds previously mentioned.
Natalie Wood …

Striking Distance, directed by Rowdy Herrington is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was September 17, 1993 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Mystery/Thriller and stars Bruce Willis as Detective Tom Hardy, Sarah Jessica Parker as Jo …

I actually enjoyed this movie. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it but I remember it. I love Adam Sandler. In this movie he gets a remote and uses that remote to get ahead. There are some twists which I won’t give away. It is an enjoyable movie for …

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, is the second movie in the historic Star Wars saga. The movie follows young Luke Skywalker who is continuing his jedi training from master Yoda. Friends Han Solo and Princess Leia are being pursued by Darth Vader as a …

This is a story about a famous actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) and a travel bookshop owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant) who by chance met and fell in love. It seems impossible for them to be together because of their social status, but love found a way.
You would …

Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen is a brilliant masterpiece. If you like the first one, you will love the second. The director did an awesome job with this movie. I love how there is more action in this movie rather than the first one. This movie starts you …

Holy! mother of god! I’m so addicted to this.
If you want a unique kind of art, storyline and not the typical anime character better watch this one.
Its so nice to watch a different kind of anime especially with its graphic art, if I’m not mistaken its called nouveau art. …

Disney’s 1975 film, Escape to Witch Mountain, is a delight even now, decades later, as I write this review. The cast is terrific, and the story definitely entertains. It’s done with traditional family style and adventure, and even more so, there was a lot of heart, and …

Bloodrayne is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time and considering how many movies I watch a year, that’s saying a lot. The only reason I watched the movie is because it had Billy Zane in it and I’ve been a fan of his since …

After the giant company’s Umbrella Corp. produce T-Virus leak to the surface of the earth and cause a human zombie, it is now facing extinction of mankind. Earth to become barren, big-city roads become dry and life for those who still are with the survivors wander from one town …

After the successful fight with the movie drama colossal, Hero (2003), film director Zhang Yimou again raise an epic historical drama adapted Chinese classical works through the colossal latest film, Curse Of The Golden Flower (2006), which narrate about family life in the palace China Tang Dynasty government, in the …

This movie is the remake of the movie “The Gambler” released in 1974 featuring James Caan. I watched this film only because of Mark Wahlberg, but I have to say that it was his one of the worst movie ever. It looks great on the paper because of its brilliant …

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 …

This is a great no brainer movie. Full of great action scenes and funny ironic comic relief that anyone who watches will relate to. With the help of special effects and great cinematography you are taken into an adventure that in convincing and applicable to the time for which …

Bill wakes up in an isolation cell in a mental institution. He can’t remember exactly what he is doing there, only fragments seem to be remembered. A nurse tells him he’s been involved in a car crash, but Bill won’t take that as an answer. Why would they put …

The movie “Orphan” from 2009 was a must see for me after hearing about all the controversy surrounding it. I have heard that some were concerned that it would discourage prospective parents from adopting. I would assume, after seeing the film, that these people were basing their fears on …

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a hilarious romantic comedy. Single and thirty, Toula, as a nice Greek girl, should be married already with a slew of Greek babies. Her mother cannot for the life of her understand why Toula isn’t married yet, settled down with a …