Raising Arizona, starring Nicholas Cage, is a movie directed by the Coen brothers, who also directed such classics as O Brother Where Art Thou, Burn After Reading, and Fargo. Raising Arizona was one of their first movies. I’m a big fan of the Coen brothers, and Raising …

CURSED (Theatrical version)
This cinematic hairball was released in two versions on DVD: R-Rated and unrated.
I’m not sure what the difference is between the two because I saw this mess in theaters and have absolutely no desire to muddle through it again, in any version.
Wes Craven’s first werewolf film is …

Who could remember what life was like before Captain Jack Sparrow? It seems to me he’s always been around. And I’m grateful to Johnny Depp for bucking the authority at Disney and creating the lead character in this movie his way. I think Depp captures the personality and era …

I’ve seen this movie a couple of times now; it’s decent. I don’t think it’s one of those movies that you think of and then you HAVE to see it, but it’s a pleasant movie to watch if it happens to be on.
Some of the acting is pretty good, …

I recently watched the movie Constantine starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, and it was very intense. Constantine(Keanu Reeves) are cursed with a gift of recognising half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human camouflage. After a failed attempt to end his life he is marked as …

‘Life of Pi’ the movie has garnered many positive reviews mainly through the ears and mouths of my friends. In the midst of my important year, my ‘A’ levels year, I decided to watch this movie due to me being a movie freak and me being tired of studying. …

Outbreak is a thriller of a drama from 1995 that stars Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo as a divorced couple, both of who are biologists and researchers. Hoffman is researching an Ebola-like virus that killed everyone in an African town in the late sixties. Twenty-five years later, …

The Notebook movie is real horrible and I never could quite get why people liked it so much. The book was ok but the movie was horrid. First off the actress they got to play the main role was awesome and she played the character well but the main …

The Mummy, directed by Stephen Sommers is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for pervasive adventure violence and some partial nudity. The original release date was May 7, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller and stars Brendan Fraser as …

This 2008 release is a very disappointing movie. I’ve seen the trailer a few times so I thought it would be a good horror movie. However, I found the introduction long and dragging. There were several “quiet” scenes where the characters were just being sad and depressed and not …

Goldie Hawn stars in Wildcats as a football coach, something that is definitely unusual and which presents her with a lot of challenges. She knows football, but her knowledge doesn’t buy her the trust and belief of anyone, including her team. She has to work hard to …

Synopsis: Five men who were best friends in grade school reunite with their families for a fouth of July weekend after their elementary school basketball coach dies.
What I liked about this movie: I was expecting this film to have a lot of crude humor but the jokes were actually …

The Guru, directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer is rated R bythe Motion Picture Association of America for strong sexual content including dialogue, and for language. The original release date of this movie was February 14, 2003 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance …

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel was released in 2009 and continued the success of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore as musical superstars.
Jason Lee plays Dave Seville, who suffers an Alvin type of accident and ends up in traction at the hospital. He sends the Chipmunks to live with …

I bought this movie because Nicolas Cage is one of my favorite actors and because the plot summary at the back of the DVD interested me. However, I was off for a disappointment when I watched it because it was boring, confusing, contains too much profanity and sexual situations. …

Quantum of Solace is the 22 Bond movie series and this time it’s played by Daniel Graig. The movie is full of action, fights, drama, thrill, and suspense. You will love the action part though. The Daniel here is not like the previous James Bond. He’s different and somewhat …

The Armenian visionary filmmaker Sergei Parajanov is one of my favorite directors through all time. The Legend of Suram Fortress is one of his last films. The narrative is very complex and the visual style is like nothing else. The story is about an old armenian myth that took …

Since I am kind of thrifty, I am always looking to find ways to save money. We like to watch a lot of movies around our house, and we have found the Redbox DVD rentals quite handy. They only cost a dollar a night to rent a movie, and …

The Girl Next Door (2004) is a comedy directed by Luke Greenfield and is rated R by the MPAA
The Girl Next Door is about a high school senior named Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) thats been a good student and straight-laced so long that he feels like hes never really …

I just finished watching the DVD of the Film “Sister Helen.” I had never heard of the 2002 movie but saw it on the shelf at my local library. Since I could check it for free, I figured I had nothing to lose and checked it out.
I am very …

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service with George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas.
I had never seen this film, but I always wondered why this was Lazenby’s only movie as James Bond. Well I now know why. This rough looking big eared Scot was not …

If you guys have watched Paycheck (starring Ben Affleck) before, you will be surprised to know that it is a very good movie, but with a science-fiction genre. I really categorize this movie as fiction because I can never imagine this movie to be other than that at all. …

This is a movie where you have the legendary characters of old coming together to quell the upsurge of multiple acts of violence that has occurred. The league comprises of the following superhuman and mere mortals alike and they are: Allan Quatermain, en Englishman who has evaded the …

Perhaps the most important of all experimental films ever made. This was directed by Maya Deren and is and shows one event taking place repeatedly, but each time there is a difference in the way it occurs, only a minor one barely noticable. No matter what you think about …

There are quite lots of movies out there having pranks gone wrong, and the story plot of Boo is something like that.
The illustration cover DVD also looked kind of tempting the first time I saw and I had a feeling it was going to be a good story …

“Iron Man 3″ is directed by Shane Black and stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley.
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist who isn’t as happy as he should be. Ever since the traumatizing …

Another silent montage film by the perhaps most appreciated director that worked with the style, next to Eisenstein - Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Looking through all of his work, I have to say Pudovkin’s films have aged a lot better than Eisenstein. While Eisenstein did all he could to make the films …

The film was absolutely fabulous. I was worried, I won’t lie, that Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) would not have the acting chops to do this movie given that he’s had so little screen time in the past. I was worried that the “please” on top of the …

A film about the british secret service agent yet again. This time the audience are lead to believe the hero dies in the first scene of the film, but evidently James Bond can not be killed. Sean Connery is clearly getting tired of the role by this time and …

There were only three more movies for Columbo after 1997’s A Trace of Murder in which Peter Falk’s wife, Shera Danese, again received first billing of the guest stars. She’s Cathleen Calvert, the wife of a rich man and the dependent of a strong pre-nuptial agreement. To …

Oh wow, this movie blew me away. It is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It is one I would actually buy on DVD if my fiance didn’t have that Blockbuster promotion thing. I love the costumes, the set designs, everything. The ending …

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke, Michael Delano, and Drew Snyder.
Directed by: Mark L. Lester.
Ex-Colonel John Matrix (Schwarzenegger) once led an elite Special Forces unit in the army but he retired so that he could live …

The romance comedy that was first on TV in the year 2009 called “The Breakup Artist” may not be considered one to go down in history, it is a very cute and adorably funny film that can really be entertaining. With the great group of actors and actresses that …

Hard Target, directed by John Woo is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was August 20, 1993 for United States. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Thriller and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, Chuck Pfarrer as …

I rarely watch American Dad. It’s a funny show, but the jokes are a little too crude to be watching with my daughter in the same room.
I did watch last night’s Christmas Special though and was entertained.
I think the reason I liked it so much is the fact they …

This is a sequel to “Finding John Christmas” and “A Town Without Christmas.” Max the angel (Peter Falk) comes into a small town department store. There he meets Sally, a manager. Sally has a problem: her younger brother has been bounced around different foster homes, and she does not …

Sgt. Bilko with Steve Martin, Dan Akroyd, Phil Hartman, and Glenne Headly.
I remember the old black and white TV show with Phil Silvers in the role of Sgt. Bilko. It was one of my favorites and had a great supporting cast. Trying to stretch …

“Kung Fu Panda” is a 2008 animated film about Po, a fat noodle-selling Panda in China who loves kung fu and dreams of a more exciting life. It is a Dreamworks film, which means it has some decent animation but falls far short of a Pixar movie.
Pros: …

Yet another great comedic masterpiece from the legendary comedian known as Mel Brooks, his style of in your face comedy is like no one else’s the you will ever encounter, his style is that of grace and timing without pushing for a laugh. In this movie, the main character …

Karen Davis, now can only lie in the hospital two years ago after trying to destroy ghost Kayako, and his son Toshio. Recognizing his daughter this situation, then the mother, sister Karen asks, Aubrey Karen to bring home to the United States. However, just to see the sisters, Karen …

Sally Field is an amazing American actress. She began her career in The Flying Nun, an old television series about a young nun who could fly (this was due to her habit, not wings!). Sally Field has also starred in such wonderful films as Norma Rae, Sybil, Places In …

G, directed by Christopher Scott Cherot is rated R by the Motion Picture Assocaition of America for language, some sexuality and brief violence. The original release date was October 28, 2005 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Romance and stars Richard T. Jones as …

I had to do some last second shopping yesterday afternoon before the stores were closed for Christmas. While there, I noticed a movie in one of the bargain bins; Veggie Tales: The Star of Christmas. Since it was only $5, I figured it would be a great last second …

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 …

When Intimate Agony aired originally back in 1983, it was quite the controversial film. It received a lot of attention at the time, not just for the subject matter, but for the primary stars. The two were the daytime divas of the day, Anthony Geary and Judith …

I took my mother out to see this movie for her birthday back when it came out. I’m not exactly sure when it came out but I believe it was around 2005 or so. I was actually the one who wanted to see, not my mother, but she agreed …

James Cagney has center stage in this 1950 salute to America’s West Point Academy, where the Army’s finest are schooled and trained. In this movie, Cagney plays Elwin Bixby, a Broadway director, who helps the cadets put on a show. Of course, it’s not quite that simple. …

Look, I’ll be willing to admit the movie Saw and it’s sequel, Saw II were much better than I expected them to be and would recommend them to anyone. But, after a while, you can have only so many sequels before a franchise gets beaten to death. Unfortunately for …

This is a remake of the classic that starred, C. Thomas Howell, from way back when. The original was the kind of thriller that you could watch over and over again. This remake was plain ridiculous. The action seemed a lot less than the original, the acting far …