This turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. As a fan of Hunter S. Thompson, upon whose 1961 novel this film is based, and the movie’s lead, Johnny Depp, I was expecting something far zanier and more entertaining (the obvious touchstone being 1998’s “Fear and Loathing in Las …

Real Women Have Curves is a sweet film about a teenage girl coming into her true self. Ana is about to go off to college but her possessive, uncultured mother wants Ana to stay and work in her sister’s business. The sister’s business is a miserable place where a …

Fullmetal Alchemist: Episode 17 begins with Maria Ross being questioned in the murder of Maes Hughes and being put in jail. Everyone wonders what’s going on and Ed and Al go to ask Colonel Mustang what’s going on. Barry the Chopper breaks Ross and Ling out of …

While the title Monkeybone, might sound the perfect movie for the younger audience and something that adults would not find humorous—¦..you might be right. While I am not saying that adults would not appreciate this film as well, I think that the humor behind it might be best suited …

I watched the movie “Kippur” as part of my “trying to understand the Middle East” efforts. I’m not sure what affects watching the movie had on that, but it reinforced my belief that governments are inefficient and self-serving and that war is the supreme human lunacy.
Israeli Director Amos …

Some films do really affect me far better in my second watch than my first. Back then, 4 years ago, when I first saw this movie, it was nothing but a coming-of-age drama with a twisted end, one that I was so eager to watch because my ultimate crush, Emma …

Synopsis: After his daughter is cut by the local youth football team in town, a father decides to form his own football team using the misfit players his brother (the other team’s coach) didn’t want. This leads to a playoff game between the two teams.
What I liked about this …

I found “The Couple” to be an engaging, entertaining movie. The October 2006 movie is just the latest in what has almost become a genre in filmmaking: the efforts to prevent Jews from going to a concentration camp and to rescue them from Nazi Germany.
I like the story of …

Are you a big fan of Sex and the City? Which character from Sex and the City that you like most? Besides Carrie Bradshaw, the main lead, I always give my two thumbs up for Samantha Jones for her confidence, independence and her bravery in sexual life.
Samantha Jones is …

The Godfather: Part Two continues the story of the Corleone family as they try to move to more legitimate businesses. At the same time, it includes flashbacks to Vito Corleone’s trip to America and his early years in the country. The movie makes it clear that the paths that …

Fear and Desire is one of Stanley Kubrick’s first full feature films, and it tells an anti-war story about an american squadron during World War II getting involved in the most horrific events. The film shows the absolutely darkest side of a war situation and does it without maing …

Today (30/08/13) I had went to watch The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones with my best-friend at Hoyts Cinema, NZ. And boy was I glad I had paid $17 of my allowance to watch it! :D
The Movie in my opinion was a great watch. The characters they had to …

THis is one of the most amazing movies of all time. If you are a guy, you must see this movie. It is everything a good movie should be. There is a great love story, plot line, action scenes, humor, and most importantly,,, Mel Gibson in his prime. It …

“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 …

I first saw the horror movie “Stigmata” a little after I got cable television which would have been in about te year 2001 or 2002. Thus I was still a bit young at the time, and I only saw a part of the movie because I thought it was …

Ofelia is forced to follow his mother’s pregnancy to live with the stepfather, Captain Vidal. The captain own famous and very unkind like strain of the insurgents arrested successful by the Vidal vassal. When the power is fascism in Spain in the years around 1944, then many rebellion that …

This review is for a movie called Firehouse, which is not to be confused with Richard Dean Anderson’s Firehouse movie of 25 years later. However, whereas in 1997 it was women having to deal with being accepted, in this 1973 version, it’s African Americans struggling to break in …

I found this DVD, THE CAVE, to be entertaining, but, actually, rather strange. It has to do with: first, a group of soldiers, during WW11 finding a cave full of historical treasures, in Europe. Something happens to this group of soldiers, then, there is a flash to the present …

First thing I want to say this, before I say anything else. What happened here?! I will explain exactly what I mean, but that was the first thing I actually said when I watched this movie from beginning to end and …

In 1995, a teen flick came out and I remembered watching it a lot of times with my girlfriends. It was when the movie Clueless came out.
Clueless stars Alicia Silverstone as Cher, Stacey Dash as Deeone, the late Brittany Murphy (Tai) and the stepbrother Paul Rudd as Josh.
This …

Ong-bak, directed by Prachya Pinkaew is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for sequences of strong violence, language, some drug use and sexuality. The original release date was October 23, 2003 for Singapore audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Crime/Thriller and stars Tony Jaa …

Pet Shop of Horrors Episode 4 begins with a Congressman named Roger Stanford going to Count D.’s Pet Shop after his assistant Kelly Vincent found Roger’s Grandfather’s journal that mentioned Count D.s shop after he said he bought something called a Kirin that can give the owner anything they …

I’ve just finished watching Shrek 2 for the first time - yes, I know, took me a while to get to it. Especially since I enjoyed Shrek 1 and looked forward to see the sequel.
Overall, I was not disappointed. The movie has the same refreshing humor with non-traditional twists …

Yuva meaning youth. The movie Yuva is based on politics and youth. It depicts the role of politics in a youth’s life. The film is directed by Mani Ratnam, one of the best directors in India. I went to watch this film first day first show (Lol). I liked …

Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, is an enjoyable family oriented comedy. It won’t win any Oscars, but it’s one you feel fairly safe watching with your kids. There is some very mild bad language, but it’s pretty tame even for its PG rating. My one biggest complaint (Spoiler alert) …

RomeoXJuliet Episode 22 begins with Juliet heading to Lord Montague’s castle while Tybalt and Romeo go there as well to confront him. Meanwhile Mercutio tries to decide what he’s supposed to do after he failed to carry out Lord Montague’s order.
This was a great episode, it had excellent …

“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 …

In 1977 the director Ridley Scott managed to terrify movie fans all around the world with his masterpiece “Alien”, crossing the genres of horror and science fiction. Over the years the film has become a classic and caused countless sequels in the form of more films, books and comics. …

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 36 begins with Hohenheim ripping Philosophers’ Stones out of his chest and using them, later he has a conversation with Trisha and then he gets a family photo taken of him and Trisha. He keeps telling her that he’s a monster because of his …

Released in December 2008 in time for the Christmas season, The Dark Knight has broken DVD sales charts, just as the film itself broke box office records upon its theatrical release.
I recently purchased the 2 disc special edition, which features the theatrical release and commentary on disc 1 …

Brian De Palma’s cult declared horror movie about two twin sisters. One of them is evil and the other is good. The evil one gets jealous of her sister one day when she brings home a boyfriend, so the evil twin decides to kill him. There is apparently a …

Jagte Raho was an experimental film by Raj Kapur made in the early fifties the story was about a simple man who comes to a metro city from this village and such as for water in the night so that he came satisfy his thrust and he is accidentally …

I am reviewing the 2007 movie, Juno. Anyone who has seen this knows what a fantastic movie it is. So it’s about a sixteen-year-old girl named Juno who gets pregnant by her best friend, Paul Bleaker. Juno decides to give her baby up for adoption, and comes …

Two of my favorite actors in the same movie! The Bucket List stars Jack Nicholson as Edward and Morgan Freeman as Carter. Edward and Carter meet while in the hospital because both men are dying of cancer. Now the plot sounds pretty trite, but it is Jack Nicholson and …

Before the movie was released I knew nothing about the Marvel comic or even the animated series. Therefore, it was totally new to me when I saw the trailer for the very first time and didn’t know what to expect. After watching it though, I’m definitely surprised by how good …

In this the second installation of the Lara Croft saga, Lara is employed by the agents of MI6 to locate Pandora’s Box that is suggested to contain one of the world’s deadliest plagues, and she must do this before and evil scientist locates it and uses it for his …

If you think there is always a second chance in life, you may reconsider your optimism after watching this movie. I definitely did. Second chance seems to be a privilege granted not to every society, and losing the right to it before even turning eighteen seems to be unjustified …

I, Robot is a movie based on the Issac Asimov short stories which are also titled I, Robot. It is about detective Del Spooner, played by Will Smith, who lives in a world where robots assist humans in there everyday life and become more humanlike everyday. The robots are …

I absolutely loved this movie. I saw previews for it and thought “it looks alright.. I guess I’ll see it because i want to go to the movies.” So I went to see it and it was so funny. It was better than I had expected. The previews don’t …

An assumed alien from a planet named K-PAX is committed to an asylum to be treated and cared for with all hopes of returning this human being to a normal state. The doctor in charge, after initial interviews comes to believe this person that he is actually not of …

Set on an american warship in the pacific, this film is about a someone who tries by all means to get away from the war which the ship is about to take part in, but the captain is not about to let this happen. Unusual as this was directed …

Hi everyone reading this review. It`s a review about the movie Forest Of The Gods. I know you maybe not even heard about this. And its probably because it`s Lithuanian movie. But i think it`s really worth to mention and to check it out if you havent seen it. …

If you ever want to spend 90 minutes of your life feeling like you are wasting your time, you should watch the movie Satan’s Playground.
I was glad I got this movie on Instant Watch because it meant I didn’t waste my money on it.
The movie was one of the …

I always like Uma thurman movie, like this one, Kill Bill volume 1. She’s always good in acting especially in action movie. Kill Bill volume 1 is based from a book from an unofficial casebook by D.K Holm as author.
This movie is full of violence from the beginning till …

I’m normally a Will Smith fan and I think the fact he stars in the movie Wild Wild West is the reason I find myself enjoying it; even when many others think it’s a weak film.
I used to watch the television show with my grandfather so I know quite …

I was dying to see this movie in theaters when it came out. After having seen the DVD, I am glad that I waited. The hype surrounding this film gave people the impression that ALL the events were true. I had been reading …

I saw ‘Watchmen’ at a local IMAX theatre and the film really scores a 100% rating for presentation. It’s slick, glossy and packed with imaginative set pieces and special effects. The story on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired. I never read the graphic novel by …