2016 has been a dull year for me in movies so far. I have been to cinema for most time once an anticipated movie gets shown, but there are certain movies that I have missed in favor of the other. For example, I watched The Jungle Book instead of 10 …

I must admit that I enjoy watching the director, Nora Ephron movies. She gave us great romantic comedies, such “When Harry meet Sally”, “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You Have Got Mail”. I feel that she lost her magic touch in this movie and it is no wonder that the …

Hideous Kinky is about a young, English woman who takes her two daughters to Morocco in search of learning to live life anew. Kate Winslet plays Kinky, the mother. Kinky and her two girls live all over and the girls endure their mother’s relationships, poverty and sometimes poor decisions. …

As the days become smaller until the Oscars ceremony this coming February 28, I have become so anxious to watch every movie that is nominated.
The Big Short is currently one of the frontrunners of the race, and it is very hard to miss a frontrunner, otherwise you would blame yourself …

All is normal and well in a small village known as the Shire where the Hobbits dwell. Once a year, they are visited by a Gandalf the grey, a wizard with mischievous but innocent intent that the children love. It comes to the knowledge of the wizard that Bilbo …

Left Behind is a great set/series of movies. The Left Behind movies detail what it will be like once Jesus Christ returns to collect His chosen people. This movie details what happens to those left behind. I have read all of the Left Behind books but I have to …

Apt Pupil is a chilling and frightening movie based on a novella by Stephen King. The novella, a long short story or mini novel, appeared in the book Differing Seasons. Although the screenwriters of the movie changed the ending, it was very faithful to the original story.
In …

A very “cool” 3D movie from Disney which depicts the survival of prehistoric animals from the changing Earth as it underwent the process of continental drifting, Ice Age is the most fun movie that I have seen (again) lately. As with all other movies that blew my mind, I …

The Terminal, directed by Steven Spielberg is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for brief language and drug references. The original release date was June 18, 2004 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Drama/Romance and stars Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski, …

Happy Feet is a 3D animation movie. I can say it’s a musical movie. Lots of songs in there. If you like musicals, watch it. If you don’t, you could try but I’m not sure if you’re gonna like it.
Happy Feet is about a penguin that can’t sing. He …

Secretary was a weird movie. I had heard rave reviews from some people about this movie, sos I thought that there was no harm in checking it out. Well, I was not harmed by watching Secretary but I found it to be way over the top from what I …

The Holiday is a strange movie but loveable if you like love stories. It is about two women who switch houses, cars and everything basically for a couple of weeks over Christmas. They find that they have many things in common from being unlucky in love to similar …

A favourite in small film festivals, and winner of several awards, the movie Boy A lives up to all the hype. The story is powerful, and the actor who plays the lead role, Andrew Garfield, is brilliant, especially considering this is his first big film. This is one of …

I tried to avoid watching this movie for a long time. I heard how they had mangled Deadpool who is one of my favorite comic book characters into an unrecognizable mess, and consequently I decided that I wouldn’t encourage this sort of thing by giving any of my …

Iwo Jima, during World War II took place, in the United States troops there dead or live, fight against Japanese troops. However, this movie is not addressing the war. Sketch opened with a conversation between James, son of John Bradley, a soldier who wave the flag at Iwo Jima, …

I am not reviewing the terrible 2002 remake of this movie with Nicole Kidman, but the 1975 original, directed by Bryan Forbes. I watched this movie as a kid and found it really sinister and it played on my mind afterwards. Now I have just seen it …

The Earth is melting! Manny, Diego, and Sid return in this funny sequel, Ice Age: Meltdown. Due to global warming the ice caps are melting. Manny, Sid, and Diego with the rest of their herd start migrating to the other end of the valley to the safety of a …

In my opinion, this is Jim Carrey’s best movie. This is one that never fails to crack me up. When Jim Carrey’s character who is a workaholic lawyer is forced to tell the truth for a whole day after his son makes a birthday wish that his …

Are you the type of person who takes joy in basking in the sunlight at your local beach? If you are then this movie is just the thing you need to watch that will scare the dickens out of you each time you go to that favorite beach of …

Synopsis: Larry Talbot returns to England after his older brother’s untimely death. While visiting some Gypsie fortune tellers, he is bitten by a wearwolf and suddenly has to cope with being one himself.
What I liked about this movie: They have attempted to re-make this film and have failed. Lon …

This is by far one of Leonardo di Caprio’s best films along with “The Departed”. I particularly liked the way “Blood Diamonds” was filmed and, as a mother of a small kid, I was very much impressed with scenes were kids were ordered to kill their enemies. I just …

I am reviewing the movie, Second Hand Lions, starring Haley Joel Osmont, Michael Caine, and Robert Duvall. Haley Joel’s character is sent to live with his crazy uncles, after his mother trails after another man. He is sent to live with the closest relatives around, and it just …

I loved this film for several reasons. First of all when I watch a horror or suspense movie, there needs to be something scary in the first 20 minutes or it loses me. It can be psychological terror, but there needs to be something to draw …

Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Grodin, Angela Dorian, Emmaline Henry, and Hanna Landy.
Directed by: Roman Polanski
A married couple, Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, move into an apartment building where the neighbors are extremely friendly (and elderly, I might add). Rosemary’s husband …

When we rented the movie Bratz, we figured it would be something our daughter would enjoy since she collects the toys. Turns out, she didn’t even watch five minutes of this live-action film and my wife and I were left with the feeling we’ve seen it before.
The movie focuses …

I went to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with my boyfriend and some of our friends. I was a bit skeptical at first as I was not interested in it as the trailer was somewhat weird. It revolves around Benjamin a boy born as an old man. …

I’ve been wanting to see the movie Underdog but never got around to doing that until very recently. I have to say it was worth watching.
My daughter and I were waiting for my wife to get home from work when this came on one of the cable channels. My …

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for rude and sexual humor, and language. The original release date for this movie was June 18, 2004 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of …

I was listening to music the other day when I came across a truly amazing theme from a movie. It was from the movie “Requiem for a Dream.” I was blown away by the music and I said to myself at that moment that I needed to …

Starring: John Cussack (Mike Enslin), Samuel L Jackson (Gerald Olin), Mary McCormack (Lily Enslin), Jasmine Jessica Anthony (Katie Enslin)
The movie had captivated my interest from the very beginning especially with so much buildup about a room, that I was ‘dying’ with curiosity just to have a …

This 1993 movie, Cool Runnings, was another huge surprise to me. I just happen to watch it one day on cable when a fluke of going up and down the channels landed on it. I became hooked on it, and now it’s a movie I enjoy watching …

This movie was meant to be a psychological thriller but it was not. Sure there was a twist in it, but I did not feel much thrill or suspense in watching it at all. To be really honest it was boring and slow.
The main character, Ben, commits …

Axe is one of the most confusing horror movies that I’ve seen in a long time. It’s better known as Lisa, Lisa and many people know it because the lead actress had several urban legends surrounding her and what happened to her after filming of the movie finished. Lisa …

The 2009 film starring Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Chris Evans called, “Push” is a film I thought I would really not enjoy. It seemed like so many other action movies out there, where the characters dodge bullets in slow motion and everyone looks like the world on the …

Deep Impact is, yes, one of those catastrophy-blockbusters dealing with the subject of an asteroid hitting the Earth, and the way humanity tries to deal with it. All in all, it is a mediocre film, but in a way it did catch my attention. I think there’s much more …

Film festival bring out both the best and the worst of man’s creativity. It can bring out movies that everyone knows and loves, but sometimes, there are movies that aren’t that well known, at least outside of certain countries. Such was the fate of “In Bruges” a classic black …

Murder in Swingtime is a movie short that features Les Hite and His Orchestra along with vocalist, June Richmond.
The interesting thing is that as you go along, you are led to believe that there is going to be a murder. There is a lot of hype about this. …

“We own the night” is simply great film with all the right things to become a sensation. This film was directed by James Gray who was also the director of the “The yards”.
The story of this film takes us to Brooklyn in 1988 where two brothers lead two complete …

My Blood Valentine was a horror movie made during the 1980s when there was a rash of R rated horror movies coming out. The movie follows a group of young people in a small mining town. Years before a serial killer killed a bunch of people on Valentine’s Day …

After watching The Witch last month, my anticipation in watching horror films grew more and more, not because I thought The Witch was a good film but because I realized, not all horrors are scary anyway. The Witch was very lackluster in providing the thrills, “relying on just the visuals …

This darker, more comic book feeling Batman was released in 1989 and was actually the first Batman movie I had ever seen. It was only after seeing this movie that I really wanted to know more about Batman and his character, which started my love for DC and Marvel …

The best way to describe this movie is a cute teenager movie with a humoristic twist. ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ is about 14 year old Georgia Nicholson (Georgia Groome) who simply isn’t happy with her life. She dreams of having a boyfriend and thinks that she found the …

Some call this movie Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, but as I’ve said before, to me, it’s just plain Return of the Jedi. Once commonly thought of as just another sequel, once George Lucas actually wrote his other scripts, it became a rung in …

The Ringer is a drama comedy movie starring by Johny Knoxville and Katherine Heigl. First time I saw the movie is just uncoincidence and I don’t know exactly what movie it is. After I watch a little longer I can see that this is pretty interesting to watch.
The movie …

I saw this in the theater with one of my friends when it came out and I totally forgot about it. I was watching television the other day and it was on. So I told my younger sister about it and she watched it. She enjoyed it. I watched …

Philadelphia is a movie about a man who discovers that he has AIDS. Tom Hanks plays Andrew, a high powered attorney who gets fired when he reveals that he is sick. That is the first part of the movie and it stinks that this happened to Andrew. That is …

Julia Roberts stars in this movie where for women, it’s about getting married and not necessarily school. It is an interesting portrait of the paths that different women take, such as marriage, working for a living, no marriage, birth control, etc. If some parts had been cut down …

Money Train, directed by Joseph Ruben is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Wesley Snipes as John, Woody Harrelson as Charlie, Jennifer Lopez as Grace Santiago and Robert Blake as Donald Patterson.
John and Charlie are brothers from a foster home, not biological brothers mind …

Nowadays, at a time when directors molest us with technical fireworks, and writers write such spins that are so twisted that in the head turns, the movie “127 hours” is a gem. History of simple, painful and true like a biblical parable. Danny Boyle once again showed class.
What does this …

‘The Tenant’ is a classic study of insanity. Made and released in 1976, directed by Roman Polanski, it tells the story of a young lonely man, named Trelkovsky an immigrant from Poland, who moves in to a new apartment in an old residential building. It turns out that the …