Movies Reviews
Inkheart movie
The moment I heard what “Inkheart” was about, I knew I had to see that movie. For someone who loves books, the concept of book characters coming out from the pages into our world is fascinating.
“Inkheart” is based on a novel by Conrelia Funke. Those who have read the …
Never Been Kissed Movie
“Never Been Kissed” is a movie made towards the beginning of Drew Barrymore’s career. I knew she was my favorite actress when I saw “The Wedding Singer”, and this movie made me love her even more. I can’t remember the first time I saw it, but I know that …
64: Part 1 (Rokuyon: Zenpen) (Japanese Movie)
64 Rokuyon Zenpen based on the award-winning novel by the same name by Hideo Yokoyama.
The film starts with the kidnapping of a young girl during the Showa Era Year 64 (1989) in Gunma Prefecture, Inspector Mikami and his team is put in charge of the case. The victim’s father …
NETFLIX
Netflix is a great service that allows customers to rent movies with no late fees. For a low price under $20, customers may rent 3 at a time movies and keep them as long as they like without paying late fees. Customers may choose from a selection …
X-Men Evolution cartoon
“X-Men Evolution” was one of the best X-men Cartoons I can remember. On the other hand though it was the second X-men cartoon I can remember watching. It came out I think a little after the second X-men live action movie, and I liked it because the drawings were …
Space Camp
I was flipping channels the other day and came across the film Space Camp on one of our movie channels. I have to tell you, it was the first time in years I had seen the movie and it really isn’t as good as I remember it being.
I think …
Forbidden Kingdom
I’m a big fan of action films and martial arts movies. I was very excited when I learned that Jackie Chan and Jet Li, two of Asia’s most popular martial arts actors, are going to star in one movie. I really waited for this movie to be shown and …
Kazaam (1996)
A young boy accidentally stumbles across an ancient Boom Box and manages to release a strange person who calls himself Kazaam, it would seem that this person is a genie but the boy had no knowledge of such things until Kazaam himself tried to explain it to him. At …
John Q: Movie
John Q has been a favourite of mine for years; it is a great demonstration of how you can combine family drama and a little bit of action thrown in too.
I think the plot is brilliant and, before things kick off, gives you a very emotional opinion of the …
Knocked Up (2007)
A one night stand between two drunk consenting adults lead them to an unwanted pregnancy that the woman intends to keep no matter what. When she realized that she was actually with child, she called up the guy she had the one night stand with and asked him to …
Saturn 3 (1980) movie
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel.
Directed by: Stanley Donen.
In the future, the Earth is running low on food supply and a couple scientist team (Douglas and Fawcett) lives on one of Saturn’s moons to grow food for their dying planet. A technology expert (Keitel) disturbs their lonely …
Superman 2 (1981)
This second installation in the Superman saga focuses on the accidental release of the Kryptonian criminals from the Phantom Zone imprisonment for trying to establish a dictatorship on the planet Krypton. Their release from the Phantom Zone was caused when Superman threw an elevator into the upper atmosphere that …
Lucky You (2007)
Lucky You (2007)
Director: Curtis Hanson. Featuring: Eric Bana. Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall and Debra Messing.
The story is set in Las Vegas where the characters of the story occupy their days gambling, making bets and improve their game. But despite their actions, it is really a story about love: all …
Disclosure (1994)
This movie is one part dealing with sexual harassment in the work place and the other part is dealing with fraud and top executives who will stop at nothing to cover their tracks. In the first instance of this movie, the viewers are taken on a journey through the …
Passengers (starring Anne Hathaway)
Passengers (starring Anne Hathaway) is such a very powerful and emotional movie that will take you on a roller-coaster ride. Anne Hathaway’s character is a psychologist, trying her best to provide assistance and giving advices to the other survivors.
However, there is something mysterious going on and the …
Good Luck Chuck
I just finished watching the ‘unrated’ version of the DVD for this movie, and I must say, it’s totally hilarious. The building up of the movie about Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) being hex by the girl that he refused to make out with when they were young until him …
Maid In Manhattan
I don’t know whether to label this story, Maid In Manhattan as being realistic or not because it is very much rare that a rich man would fall in love with someone of a lower status than him, though it’s not impossible. And a maid at that. But …
Inkheart movie
When I first saw the movie “Inkheart” advertising to be released in theatres I somehow assumed that it was supposed to be a fantasy film which starred the actor Brendan Fraiser. Therefore at one point I was even planning on saving some money to watch it while it was …
House of 9
When I watched House of 9 a couple of days ago, I had hoped I would get a psychological thriller. What I got was a dragged out drama with much more talk than action.
The plot of the movie should have been a good one. Nine people are kidnapped and …
Pitch Black movie
A space ship with humans is travelling through space. It crashes on an unknown planet, and the passengers starts exploring the environment. The planet is already inhabited by another species, a most unfriendly one who don’t like aliens.
I have always been very fascinated by this subject. Other space, other …
Ichabod movie
I am reviewing the Disney movie, Ichabod. So there’s this school teacher. His name is Ichabod Crane. He comes to a town and is the new person around. He is odd looking. His behavior is strange. He’s thin and scrawny, but seems to have a way with the …
Better Than Chocolate movie
Over the weekend I caught a really good movie on HBO. It is called “Better Than Chocolate.” The movie caught my attention because it is about lesbians. I haven’t seen vary many movies made from the other perspective so I decided …
The Pallisers 1974 movie
This TV series is based on the novels by Anthony Trollope. Glencora (Susan Hampshire), a beautiful young orphan with a large fortune, is being courted by the handsome Burgo Fitzgerald (Barry Justice). Much to the displeasure of her two aunts, Glencora seems to like the young man. Fitzgerald is …
Just Like Heaven, Mark Waters Movie
Elizabeth Masterson is a surgeon who is workaholic. It feels life is more expendable in the hospital where he worked than socializing with other people. But, until now is reasonable, if Elizabeth is still single. Until a traffic accident when a change lives. Elizabeth now can only lay coma, …
Black Christmas Movie
This movie was very disappointing for me. for a scary movie it failed to impress me really sort of boring. after breaking out of a mental hospital to go home for christmas. The killer goes on killing spree at a collage sorority house full of girls, because the girls …
SawIII, Lynn Bousman Movie
Cruelty and moral irony complete circle with the ‘Saw III’. As a conclusion, ‘Saw III’ will answer the various questions that arise after witnessing two previous films. John Kramer aka Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) in conditions that are dying because of concern by the illness. However, he still has a …
Red Dawn (1984)
There is some controversy about this movie and the date it was released, to the effect that it was the very first movie to have a Motion Picture Association rating of PG-13 due to the excessive violence that the movie offered. Now I say to you my good viewing …
Home Alone 3 (1997)
The third installation to the Home Alone franchise offers brand new characters to try and pickup where the first two made their mark. This one, without using the big names like episode one and two, introduces a new child who plans to put a damper on criminals coming into …
Snitch (2013 Film)
Snitch is a movie about a man, who goes under cover to catch drug dealers, in order to free his son from prison. He lives a well rounded life, the boss of his own business and has a happy family. Everything is going alright, until he gets a call …
Harold and kumar go to white castle
One day I watched this movie because I was really bored and it was on television. It wasn’t that good at all. I think I might have laughed once or twice. Most of the time I like movies about this or that are like this. This movie though made …
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
When I started watching Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, I was doing so expecting to write a review about how lousy the movie was. I figured it would be full of crude humor and I would get bored with it within minutes.
I was right about the crude humor. …
Blood Diamond
‘Blood Diamond’ is a movie directed by Edward Zwick. Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsoun are the main actors. They have performed well in the movie. Diamonds are a status of wealth, but if you watch this movie, you will come to know that in the places where diamonds are …
The Number 23 movie
Starring:
Jim Carrey (Walter Sparrow/Fingerling), Virginia Madsen (Agatha Sparrow/Fabrizia), Logan Lerman (Robin Sparrow), Danny Huston (Issac French/Dr Miles),
I was not sure what to expect from this movie, though the synopsis described the obsession of a man with a book. I had taken this DVD up, as I …
The Beach (2000)
An American bag packer is informed about a mysterious island, an island that he has heard many stories about but he doesn’t believe it is real, that was until he was given a map to its location by a former inhabitant of the very same mysteries island. He meets …
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. Mothra is a definite improvement over King Kong vs. Godzilla, although it is still not necessarily on my top ten list of favorite Godzilla movies. I find the Godzilla suit to be a definite improvement over the Godzilla suit from the previous suit because this Godzilla looks …
Rocky Balboa
As You all know there is a few films about Rocky (Silvester Stalone), but I think this is a last one. All of those films about Rocky are some kind the same. but every time I watch one of them it always touch my heart so is this film.
Years …
Eating Out (movie)
“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 …
Hideaway movie
Based on a Dean Koontz novel, Hideaway weaves the supernatural tale of what happens to one ordinary man when he returns to life after many minutes spent on the other side. It also shows the horrific repercusions of such a trip.
Hatch (Jeff Goldblum) is a nice guy, with a …
The Other (PG, 1972) movie
“The Other” is a very old film that a friend of mine told me about. It involves a little boy with a “twin” living in Sweden. What I liked about the movie is its “Wicker Man” (original) feel. The foreign land does that for the viewer. …
Definately Maybe movie
I watched this movie a couple of days ago. It was better than I thought it was going to be. For people who like love movies and like these types of movies I think they will like it. Honestly for me I thought it could have been a lot …
The island
Starring Ethan Hawke
Lincoln Six-echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Licoln hopes to be chosen to go the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But a small butterfly leads Lincoln …
Death Note Movie
Death Note (2006) is one of the best foreign movies I’ve ever seen. Based on the popular Manga of the same name, and directed by Shusuke Kaneko, Death Note hails from Japan and tells a complex, interesting story about the faults of mankind.
Despite some pretty bad “heart attack” …
Movie The Weatherman
We watched a movie the other night with Nicholas Gage in it. Although I like Nicholas Cage as an actor this was not one of his better movies.
I did not like the defeative attitude of the chaacchter that he played. He was a weatherman who …
Smokey Mountain Christmas Movie
A Smokey Mountain Christmas is a movie from the 80s that stars Dolly Parton. It is just a cute, feel good Christmas movie. It kind of has a Snow White and the seven dwarves feel to it. Dolly stars as a popular country singer who wants to get away …
The Prestige
The inevitable comparisons between The Prestige and The Illusionist come, but their similarities end with the fact that they are about turn-of-the-last-century stage magicians. The Illusionist was a love story. The Prestige is a story of rivalry and revenge. The Prestige is decidedly darker, stepping down into the supernatural, …
DVD WONDERLAND
John C. Holmes was the single most famous adult film star in history. In the early 1980’s, long after his porn career had ended, he found himself faces murder charges in the deaths of several lowlifes on Wonderland Ave in Los Angeles. This is that story.
Val Kilmer plays …
Ghostrider
Nicholas Cage seems to make like ten movies a year. Okay, maybe not that many, but he definitely puts out like two per year. Three years ago he came out with Lord of War and The Weatherman back to back. I liked Lord of War but not so much …
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2
I myself am not a die-hard Twilight Fan but I have seen the movies and liked them for the most part. However, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 was not as good as I thought that it would be. I had expected the finale to be similar in grandeur to …
Movie The Guardian
The Guardian, Directed by Andew Davis and is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The movie stars Kevin Costner as Ben Randall and Ashton Kutcher as Jake Fischer.
This story is about the training of coast guard rescue swimmers from recruit stage to graduation and into their …
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