Movies Reviews
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice movie
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, released in 2010, starts out a bit surprisingly in my mind by giving what is essentially a recap of the history of Merlin. I understand it because it is the exposition that really explains what the movie is going to be about, which is Balthazar …
Toy Story 3 (in 3-D)
Toy Story 3 is the third installment in the long-running Toy Story series of films by Pixar and Disney. It centers around some of the main toys from the past two movies, such as Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear the space adventurer, as they prepare for the …
Fright Night II (1988)
Once again the vampires have resurfaced and they are out for revenge, in this movie, the sister of the head vampire of the original movie has come to claim the lives of Charley and his friends. Prior to that knowledge, Charley has undergone therapy and is now of the …
Sweet Sixteen movie
A very realistic film about british working class misery. The director Ken Loach, well known for this way of showing his sympathy for the poor and unfortunate people of society, gives a very clear and heartbreaking picture of a young boy who slowly falls into criminality. The actors are …
Arthur and the Invisibles movie
One of the things which really stuck out about the partly animated “Arthur and the Invisibles” was the animation. I can remember thinking it was unlike any I had ever seen and it helped to rekindle my excitement of wanting to go into animation and special effects in the …
Red Planet movie
Years into the future planet earth is almost ruined and the human race needs to flee colonise other planets. The closest match is Mars, but on the way there some astronauts make a mistake that will have terrible effects on the future.
This film came out the same year as …
Death Race (2008)
A brand new action film with an in your face plot line and non stop gore and violence throughout this film! Jason Statham plays a hard working man who is framed for the murder of his wife! He is sent to a prison run by a murderous warden played …
Finding John Christmas,2003 movie
Max, the mystery man from “A Town Without Christmas,” shows up again, this time helping to find a missing person. Kathleen McCallister (Valerie Bertinelli) thinks that she saw in a newspaper a picture of her brother Hank who has been missing for 25 years. She gets in touch with …
Vantage Point (2008)
Vantage Point (2008) is an action film by director Pete Travis and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images.
The president is in Spain to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. But as he stands behind the …
Movie Misty
Two orphaned children, Paul and Maureen, live with their Grandfather in Virginia. Near the farm where their Grandpa raises and sells horses, is an island of wild horses. Paul and Maureen fall in love with one called the Phantom. Their father before he had died had told them all …
Fathers’ Day
Won’t it be great to live with two dads such as Billy Crystal and Robin Williams? In can imagine that you will laugh through life all the way! When I heard that these two great stars decided to join forces for the movie “Fathers’ Day”, I expected to have …
Bloodsport movie
I’m not a hugh Jean-Claude Van Damme fan so when I watched this movie, I was already thinking I wasn’t going to be impressed by it. I was right.
It was an OK movie but you could tell it was made in the late 80s when karate movies were becoming …
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 22
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 22 starts off with Ling trying to rescue Lan Fan after she’s seriously injured by Wrath. He attempts to escape with her while being pursued by Wrath and Gluttony. Meanwhile, Ed and Al are battling Scar while waiting for Ling’s signal. Winry …
Mighty Aphrodite Movie
Mighty Aphrodite is a great, fun movie from writer and director Woody Allen, released in 1994 I believe. It is rich with gags and one-liners all the way through so the script is great, with Woody at his best giving his funny delivery of the lines and also …
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Whenever Hollywood produces a movie about superheroes that is successful at the box office, it isn’t unusual to see them attempt to make a sequel. Usually, the sequel is nowhere near as good as the original.
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a perfect example of this.
When I …
Slumdog Millionaire
I actually didn’t know what to expect of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. I was worried that it would be a bollywood type production, which I was not really interested in seeing. I was also a bit skeptical on just how good a movie starring actors in their first large …
Chuck and Larry
I just got finished having a movie day with my girlfriends. I must say first off that I was not dissatisfied with any of the movies that we watched. The first movie that we watched was I now pronouce you Chuck and Larry. I love Adam Sandler and this …
Twilight (2008 Movie)
Twilight became a fast phenomenon this past year due to the hype caused by the movie that was produced. Stephanie Meyer wrote a classic novel about the love between a vampire and and human that will be a favorite among young people for generations to come. However, …
American Beauty movie
This is a 1999 dark humor film starring Kevin Spacey, as Lester, he is in the middle of a mid life crisis, he can’t stand his wife and his daughter thinks he’s creepy, along with all of this there is an odd neighbor who spies on his daughter with …
Memoirs of a geisha
If there is one book on a cultural setting that I like the most, it would be “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden. Aside from its compelling story, its precise-to-detail description of the flower and willow world in Japan is superb.
“Memoirs of a Geisha” is set in 1930’s …
Bruce Almighty: Movie
Bruce Almighty stars Jim Carey in a comic roll. Jennifer Aniston plays his girlfriend, and Morgan Freeman plays Almighty God himself, who Jim Carrey meets after he curses his life and complains to God about it.
Bruce, Jim Carrey’s character, is a popular newscaster who covers funny stories with his …
The Holiday (movie)
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 …
The Famous History of the King Henry VIII
“The Famous History of King Henry VIII” is a BBC production for television. It is filmed in color and runs for 166 minutes. It is produced as a television movie and not as a video taping of a live theatrical performance. “The Famous History of King Henry VIII” is …
RomeoXJuliet Episode 2
RomeoXJuliet Episode 2 begins with Romeo asking Juliet for her name, she’s about to answer when Benvolio tells him his father is asking for him. Juliet runs toward the exit only to be stopped by guards. She cleverly escapes with the help of her protectors, Fransisco and …
Eastern Promises (2007)
Eastern Promises, directed by David Cronenberg is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language and nudity. The original release date for this movie was September 21, 2007 for United Sattes audiences. This movie falls in the genre …
Ghost Rider movie
There’ve been a lot of comic book adaptations in recent years, a vast majority of which have been Marvel films. While DC released two Batman films and a Superman film, Marvel released a slew of hit or miss summer blockbusters. One of these was “Ghost Rider”. …
Murder in Paradise movie
From 1990, Murder in Paradise stars Kevin Kilner as Charlie Raski, a homicide detective in New York who worked on a serial killer case. When he goes to Hawaii and killings start there, he is asked to help and actually ends up being a suspect. He’s not …
Baby Mama
I just recently watched this movie. Overall it was a pretty good movie. In the beginning I thought it wasn’t going to be all that funny. After watching all of it though it was pretty funny. I think that it would have been more on the hilarious part if …
A Shock to the System movie
Graham Marshall (the always wonderful Michael Caine), a calm, quiet business executive, is about to receive a long-awaited promotion. Marshall is ready to celebrate, certain that the promotion is his, when he learns that Benham (Peter Riegert), his younger subordinate has gotten it instead. Benham becomes the head of …
Burn after Reading
Brad Pitt, George Clooney and other good actors play in this movie. So you would think it is a good movie, right? Well it’s not in my opinion. Other than a couple funny moments with Brad Pitt the movie sucked. As soon as I thought it was getting to …
American Pie: The Naked Mile
When the original American Pie was released it instantly became a huge hit. It was followed by American Pie 2 and American Wedding. The series seemed over when American Wedding was released, but many were wrong. American Pie: The Naked Mile, is the 5th in the American Pie series. …
The Stepford Wives movie
Joanne and Walter moves to the little peaceful town called Stepford, and everything seems to be in perfect harmony. Joanne is a little bit worried though, when it seems all women in the town are constantly in their homes and taking care of their husbands.
A very unpleasant film to …
Love Aaj Kal
This is a Hindi movie with English subtitles. I watched it the other day with boyfriend and the movie is acted by Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone. Saif played the character of Jai while Deepika as Meera. And they say when 2 people are in love, …
Click movie
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. It is about a man who has the power to do whatever he wants with time - such as freezing it, fastforwarding and so on. Again, Adam Sandler does a fantastic AND a funny job. It’s …
The Sentinel (2006)
The Sentinel, directed by Clark Johnson is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some intense action violence and a scene of sensuality. The original release date was April 21, 2006 fir United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Michael …
RomeoXJuliet Episode 9
Juliet readies herself to revolt against Lord Montague while Romeo discovers strange leaves that float up from the water at the castle. Meanwhile the rebellion starts and surprises are in store.
This was a great episode; it gave Juliet some character development and revealed a surprising truth about Neo …
Flinstones Movie
The Flinstones is a 1994 movie adaption of the flinstones cartoon from the 1960s.The film plot starts when Barney is adopting a child,Bam Bam. He and his wife Betty were only able to afford the child because Fred Flinstone,their friend loaned them money.Barney really wants to pay back Fred …
License to Wed
License to Wed is a not so good romantic comedy movie. The movie has Robbie Williams, Mandy Moore, and John Krasinski playing the pivotal roles. The movie has a very artificial plot and it is not convincing at any point. Though the main point of the plot is silly …
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999) is a drama film directed by Ang Lee and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a revenge story like most wuxia stories that Ang Lee loved as a child. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) is a martial arts …
Happy Feet
I can’t help but watch animated movies with my kids, because they usually hide the remote control if they play something! Talk about manipulative kids! And so one day, I ended watching the animation “Happy Feet” with them. It’s a story of penguins of rare breed and species, losing …
Bonsai (2012 film)
Serious readers of literature would recognize Bonsai as the quaint novella from Chile that endeared the author Alejandro Zambra to literary critics in the west and transformed him to an eminent writer in his home turf. I had been an avid reader of Literature in Translation —“ foreign …
The Monster That Challenged The World, MGM/UA Midnight Movies DVD
The Monster That Challenged The World was one of many “Giant Monster” movies invading movie theaters in the Fifties, after the success of such hits as Them! which this movie’s story closely follows. This time the menace are a group of giant snails-that’s right, snails-that start to …
Zoo (UR, 2007) documentary
There was a man who once had sex with a horse and died from a ruptured colon. I found this story hard to believe until I realized that there was a documentary on the event. It’s obviously not told by the man, but by another …
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a very cool and creative movie. I also think it’s pretty scary to see how drugs can affect you. I mean I’ve never done hard drugs before and by the looks of what happened in this movie, I never will do …
A very special love movie
Last june 2008, star cinema intr0duced to all filipino movie lovers the best romantic movie of the year. It is entitled “a very special love”. It was starred by sarah geronimo, one of the finest singer actress of the philippines and j0hn ll0yd cruz, a pr0minent act0r. The story …
Oru Yaathra Mozhi movie
Oru yaathra mozhi is a classic movie starring All time Star Sivaji Ganeshan and Superstar Mohanlal. It was one of the best movies that I watched and it definitely touched my heart.
In this movie, Sivaji Ganeshan plays the role of a contractor. The story takes place in a village …
Chicago (2002) movie
If you liked the film Moulin Rouge, which was released around the same period of time in which the movie “Chicago” was released, then you might just like the movie “Chicago”. I was eager to watch it when I saw it advertising since first of all, I didn’t know …
Catch and Release
In the movie “Catch and Release” we see the actress, Jennifer Garner with a sad face most of the time, but believe me this movie is by far not boring. One can describe best “Catch and Release” as a romantic movie about relationships and trust ideal for both women …
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