Movies Reviews
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, …
Instinct (1999)
Instinct, directed by Jon Turteltaub is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for some intense violent behavior. The original release date was June 4, 1999 for United States audience. Thismovie falls in the genre of Drama/Thriller and stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Ethan Powell, Cuba Gooding …
Nabari No Ou Episode 2
Nabari No Ou Episode 2 begins with the arrival of Raimei Shimizu, an acquaintance of Kumohira Sensei. They decide to go to the FÅ«ma Village to see Kotarō, the village chief.
This episode was really good, it gave Miharu character development. It was also a well written. …
The Evil Dead (1981)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich, and Theresa Tilly.
Directed by: Sam Raimi.
Launching Sam Raimi’s career, The Evil Dead is a weird mixture of gore, horror, and comedy; not exactly in the same vein as something such as RoboCop, that’s an entirely different animal of a film. …
Perkins’ 14 movie
I watched this movie with a few expectations. But suprisingly, they were not met. Even though the movie was scary, I didn’t expect it to unfold as awkwardly as it did. The premise of the film is that a man whose parents were murdered ended up …
The Fountain movie
My husband and I get movies sent to us by Netflix. One day a movie called The Fountain showed up. We sat down and began to watch it. We stopped about half way through it and watched the rest the next day. It was so …
Child’s Play 2
Child’s Play 2 is the second in the series of Child’s Play movies featuring the demonic killer doll “Chucky”. I remember watching it a little after I had watched the first “Child’s Play” movie and being as impressed as I was by the prequel. At the time I hid …
Bounce
It seems that Ben Afflick liked to work a lot with his lovers. “Bounce” is the drama movie he made with his then girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow. He also did two movies - “Jersey Girl” and “Gigli” - with his later on lover, Jennifer Lopez. To add to this, he …
The Hangover 2 (Movie)
The Hangover 2 is the sequel to the original Hangover and released in the summer of 2011. What I will say right away is that the original Hangover and this release are incredibly similar in many ways and the second film follows many of the patterns of the first …
Delta Farce
This movie wasn’t all that good. There were a couple of funny parts in the movie but nothing was really funny. Nothing in the film made me laugh. Overall it was alright but I didn’t really like it. I didn’t care for it. I wouldn’t recommend it to hardly …
Pulp Fiction movie
When Pulp Fiction was released, I had not seen a good movie like this in a while. Pulp Fiction held my attention from the moment the movie started and I waited with my breath held to see what would happen next until the end of the movie. John Travolta …
Left Behind The Movie
Left Behind The Movie is the first in what I consider to be a mini series about the apocalypses. It gives us the writers view point of how he see’s the event happening. Kirk Cameron does a phenomenal job playing the part of the reporter in the movie. It …
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Based on the popular Hasbro toy, G.I. Joe is an elite team of military operatives who take on different international crises around the world. This time, they are dealing with a dangerous arms dealer with warheads powered by nanotechnology capable of taking down a city in seconds. …
Jungle 2 Jungle
This movie stars Tim Allen as Michael Cromwell. It is a hilarious movie about a man who is a stock broker in New York who goes to the Amazon to sign divorce papers from his wife. What he does not expect is to find out he has a 13 …
Zero for Conduct
Jean Vigo was one of the most beloved filmmakers of the early sound years, but unfortunately his career was way too short with only two full feature films. Vigo suffered from poor health from a very young age and died from tuberculosis in 1934, only 29 years of age. …
Cloud Atlas movie
To be completely honest before I had watched this movie the trailer was so disappointing that I wasn’t really looking forward to it. I just happened to want to watch a movie and came across it. However this was one of those movies that just really got to me. …
Strange Wilderness (starring Steve Zahn)
I went to watch Strange Wilderness before with my best friend and we were just choosing it at random. The cast is pretty unknown to us except for Steve Zahn, which I couldn’t quite put a name to him. And if you are trying to find Bigfoot, you …
Monster House movie
They certainly make some weird movies these days… A dead woman?s spirit possesses a house; the house comes alive on Halloween, with its windows serving as eyes, door as mouth, and a long red carpet as tongue. It swallows people, especially kids. The woman, you see, was morbidly obese, …
“The score” movie
As always fantastic Robert De Niro and Edward Norton characteristic invite us to watch the gripping game between two experienced thieves. Which one gets the goods on forever providing a prosperous life?
Of course, I must admit that movies with similar plot is really a lot. Despite this, “game” remains …
The Hot Chick Movie
This movie is one of Rob Schneider’s movie and I have seen this a couple of times on HBO already but I still want to watch it every time it’s being shown. It also features Anna Faris and Rachel McAdams when they were still not famous and I really …
Winner Tamil Movie
Winner a tamil film that was released in 2002 is a fantastic comedy film. The film directed by Sundar.C. Sundar.C is well known for his comedy films in Tamil. The movie had casted by Prashant, Kiran, Vadivel, Nambiar, etc. The camera of the movie handled …
Sergeantt York Movie
Gary Cooper plays a farmer who against his will is sent to take part in World War I. While there he becomes a war hero, despite his former pacifism sympathies.
This is one of the clearest examples of pure american propaganda. The whole point of the film is to proclaim …
Boogie Nights (1997)
Boggie Nights (1997) is a drama directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and is rated R by the MPAA.
Boogie Nights takes place in Los Angeles in 1977, when adult film director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) meets Eddie Adams (Mark Whalberg), a young, well-endowed diskwasher at a night club. Jack …
Heat
“Heat” is an incredible drama/action movie with two brilliant movie stars sparking energy all the way Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. This is the first time Pacino and De Niro worked together after “The Godfather II”. What is also interesting about this movie is that it …
Case of the Royal Murder
I am reviewing The Case of the Royal Murder, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series 39 Thrilling Episodes. This series was produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France in the fifties. Ronald Howard, the son of actor Leslie Howard, …
Gone Baby Gone
Wow. Where to begin with this film. I admit I was a bit nervous about Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, but all of those trepidations were washed away within the first ten minutes of the movie. The story opens with the kidnapping of a little girl and the …
Transformers
It has been long time that I was able to watch such a wonderful movie. I don’t know whether most of them agree with it or no but I just love the movie. The way the camera rolls over the fights and scenes and comedy was more interesting and …
V for Vendetta (2005)
V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Natalie Portman as Evey, Hugo Weaving as V, Stephen Rea as Inspector Finch, Stephen Fry as Deitrich and John Hurt as Adam Sulter.
A lady gets dressed up and goes out …
The Godfather Movie
A film I consider to be one of the best films ever made is “The Godfather,” made in 1972 and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
As close as any film will ever come to being a true masterpiece, “The Godfather” set a new standard of excellence that has only been …
Mr. Deeds
Mr. Deeds is one of the movies I watched a few hours before New Year’ eve as a way to pass time. The movie stars Adam Sandler who plays the role of Longfellow Deeds, a small town guy who went to New York for the first time to collect …
The Lake House, Alejandro Agresti Movie
Can two people be the pair met, despite their time separated by two different? That is the question of the film. It is a lonely doctor, Kate Forster. Failing to make the spears she decided to move from the lake house for this, he lives. Kate prefers to live …
Driving Miss Daisy (movie)
One of those movies that I had always heard people talking about but I never got to watch was “Driving Miss Daisy”, and so of course I always knew I had to see it whenever I had the chance to. I didn’t actually know what it was supposed to …
Cosplay Complex anime
“Cosplay Complex,” an anime series about girls who compete in cosplay (dressing up), is raunchy is every sense of the word. Even though
it’s classified solely as comedy anime, it did not make me laugh at loud once. This extreme lack of humor is probably why there are only three
episodes. …
Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief : A Movie
Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief movie adaptation is one of the most interesting movie I have watched to date. I am a mythology fan and being able to see mythology merge with the modern world is a superb treat for me.
The Characters :
The creation of Percy JAckson’s character …
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015 Comedy Drama Movie)
Despite a few bad reviews, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is one of the best coming of age films I’ve watched in a very long time. I had an inkling that it would end up being a tearjerker from the title, but to my surprise it was in …
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
I would have to say the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” was a really good movie. When I first seen the movie I almost cried at how moving it was. It was like a real life situation and the struggles that normal people go through in life. The movie …
Tschick (German Movie)
Tschick is a movie directed by director Fatih Akin based on a best-selling Young Adult novel Tschick (translated as Why We Took the Car in English). It’s a shame I cannot find a trailer for the movie with English subtitles even though the film is released with English subtitles. So …
Coming Soon (Movie)
Coming Soon is a Thai movie that was released in Thailand in 2008 but is only now being released in the Philippines. It is directed by Sopon Sakdapisit and stars Worrakarn “Punch” Rotjanawatchra and Chantawit Tanasaewee.
I watched it last weekend with my dad and my boyfriend and we …
Never Street (Loren D. Estleman’s Amos Walker)
“Never Street” is my favorite Amos Walker novel yet. I love film noir and every hard-boiled detective owes his roots to film noir. There are no more hard-boiled detectives than Loren D. Estlman’s Amos Walker. With “Never Street” Loren D. Estleman combines the two. “Never Street” is a hard-boiled …
Facing the Giants film
It was just by chance that I saw the movie ‘Facing the Giants.’ On a Monday off from work I traveled to a theater nearly forty minutes away to see this movie that wasn’t playing in my local town. To my surprise this movie,for which I …
Redbox Rental Service
I love Redbox. It’s a vending machine that dispenses movies, even Blu-rays, with 19 locations within 10 miles of my home. At first DVDs were $1 per movie per night. Now they are $1.20 plus tax. However I think it’s still a great deal. I usually grab a movie …
Body of Lies
Watching Leonardo Dicaprio acting in Body of Lies, I could feel the tension brewing in his character and I watched this before when it was released in my country sometime last year.
There is something mysterious and foreboding whenever spy movies or movies that are filled with CIA Agents give me. …
Serving Sara (movie)
“Serving Sara” is the movie where Liz Hurley and Matthew Perry interpret crazy roles. It is a true pity that this movie failed to impress the critics and went straight to video! I must also add that this movie is also the worst movie for Perry who had successful …
The Untouchables movie
A film set in the 1920s America when Al Capone ruled the criminal world. Elliott Ness, an FBI agent, sets out to stop the mob boss, and finds help from a patrol officer and an upcoming young FBI agent. Together they dig deeper and deeper into the swamp of …
The Lovely Bones (movie)
Ever since I discovered what I really want to do, the director Peter Jackson has become one of my favourites mostly for his detailed work and the way he perceives things; and hence I generally go out of my way to see movies he is associated with in …
Resident Evil: Apocalypse movie
The sequel to the zombie movie Resident Evil, which in its turn was based on a video game. Milla Jovovich returns as the sexy female hero who fights the blod-thirsty creatues with elegance and cleverness. The first film was in my opinion at bad as a film can possibly …
Film The Bank Job
The Bank Job is a retread of the tried and tested, ‘caper film with likable London criminals’ formula, in the same vain as the Italian Job, but with more banking, and no Michael Caine.
Now, although it has no new ideas there are good things about this film, not the …
Wadjda (movie)
One of the reasons why I love Starz Cinema so much is because it sometimes brings my fix of foreign movies that I’m positive I will never see on any other channel that I have. Up to very recently, one of those was a movie made by Saudi Arabian …
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