I admit that it’s hard for me to describe the impressions that I have of this “Harry Potter” film in words, because “The Order of the Phoenix ” grabbed me from the start and did not let me go until the very finale , continually stunning me with its …

Ugh. Poor John Carpenter. Has the legendary director of HALLOWEEN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK really hit rock bottom?
Masters of Horror is the new Showtime Cable anthology series that features a different horror genre icons directing each episode.
Carpenter’s episode “Cigarette Burns” deals with a collector paying a down on …

Werner Herzog is behind the documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. The film is one of Herzog’s latest documentaries. Like most documentaries, the scenes in the documentary are constructed around other well-received footage. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is supplied …

I picked up the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine as a movie that I figured would be halfway entertaining but would lack when compared to other X-Men films. It turns out it was one of the better movies I’ve seen.
Hugh Jackman is great as Wolverine, a mutant with the ability …

Family Guy is one of the best new cartoons to come out! Wow these are so many great characters in this how. I could go on about just Stewie in this review. That is how great he is. Petter Griffin is just funny. I mean even the way he looks …

This is a wonderful animated file to me. Created by Hayao Miyazaki, a famous japanese animation artist. It is a story of a young girl who was thrown into a world where both good and evil exist. Thoughtout the film, she gets trained to be brave, learns about …

The most pervasive sin in our society isn’t lust, far from it in fact which is why it’s so easy for us to see, but far more dangerous to our society are greed and gluttony, and driving to that point in a humorous and profound way is What Would …

Red Eye is a suspense thriller movie that is about a man, Jackson, who is on a path to kill a government official. Jackson wants Lisa to help him kill this person. That sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? The part about this movie that I did not get is …

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder was the second movie made with these characters. As a sleuthing private eye concept, it really wasn’t bad. I saw that because like the first movie, I didn’t have the urge to change the channel. It was an okay backdrop …

Joe Frazier was a tough fighter: He is responsible for taking out Muhammad Ali.
Frazier at first liked Ali—”even placed him on a pedestal of sorts. Later he loathed Ali—”wishing to devastate him. Suffice it to say, Ali has a preserved reputation where Frazier’s reputation …

I am reviewing the 2008 movie, Untraceable, starring Diane Lane and Colin Hanks. So there is this killer. He has a site called kill with me. He traps people and then sets up scenarios to kill them. He tapes everything and puts it online. The more people who …

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 …

RomeoXJuliet Episode 4 begins with Juliet discovering Romeo is Montague’s son. She is distraught by this and returns home to brood about what she’s going to do. Meanwhile Romeo realizes that he sympathizes with the Red Whirlwind and conveys this to Benvolio, who warns him not to …

The choice of actor Zack Efron to do the movie ‘17 Again’ really caught me by surprise. After finish working on the last movie of ‘High School Musical’, Efron declared that he wanted to work on movies with far more challenging roles. In all honestly, I found that there …

Panic Room, directed by David Fincher is rated R bythe Motioon Picture Association of America for violence and language. The original release date was March 29, 2002 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Mystery/Thriller and stars Jodie Foster as Meg Altman, Kristen Stewart as …

We saw a baseball movie the other night about Roger Maris and the immortal Mickey Mantle who took on Babe’s Ruths homerun record.
This movie wascalled 61, and the two yankee players Mickey Mantle the new favorite of the yankee fans and the new comer on the field the …

See how the ten years of friends turns out again and again with this fabulous DVD collection.
The DVDs have every single episode from season 10 of the popular television show so you can re-live the fantastic hijinks of Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Monica and Joey.
This DVD collection makes a …

TMNT is the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and is fully animated. The characters in this movie are played/voiced by Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Patrick Stewart, Nolan North, Mikey Kelley, James Arnold Taylor and Mitchell Whitfield among others. This movie revolves around the turtle brothers growing …

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie, the second of the four movies of the Hunger Games, was released on November of 2013. It was starred by Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. This production was under its new director, Francis Lawrence.
As a fan of the Hunger Games trilogy, …

Paul W.S. Anderson brings us one of his best cinematic efforts with Event Horizon, an original science fiction horror.
Sam Neill leads the cast as Dr. Weir, a scientist who in the not so distant future creates a revolutionary device which allows for swift interstellar travel. His creation; the ship …

Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert), a willful heiress of a millionaire in New York, impulsively marries King Westley, a handsome but empty-headed fellow. Her father is furious, he knows that Westley is nothing but a fortune hunter. Realizing that simply talking to his daughter won’t help, Alexander Andrews resorts to …

A couple years ago, when my oldest daughter was just two or three, the film Curious George came out on DVD and I remember her loving it so much, she watched it several times in one week.
Our youngest daughter is starting to get interested in TV and movies now …

A few days ago I saw Sherlock Holmes in the cinema.
Sherlock Holmes in the old books and the stories were really a thinking man, and not so violent!
But in this movie he is. I have not read the books, so I can not say anything about it.
The movie was …

I initially ignored the movie “What’s Your Number” because I heard a few bad reviews about it, and I realised that it didn’t get a very good rating. This was even though I’ve always thought that the comedy actress Anna Faris was very funny.
I decided to watch it recently …

Next Door is one weird film. If you like foreign cinema, you will like this movie. If you like foreign cinema with eroticism and suspense, then you will LOVE this movie. I will confess that I wasn’t sure exactly what was going on at first. …

Lantana with Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, and Barbara Hershey.
This film was supposed to be a murder mystery but turned out to be a social discussion on the crises facing married couples to make the relationship last. Quite frankly, I fail to understand the movie, but …

Dragonheart, directed by Rob Cohen is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for action/violence. The original release date was May 31, 1996 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Drama/Fantasy and stars Dennis Quaid as Bowen, David Thewlis as King Einon, Pete …

Ted Crawford, an aerospace engineer, finds out that his wife is cheating on him with a detective. Crawford shots his wife in the head. It so happens that the first person to arrive to the crime scene is the very detective who was the wife’s lover. Crawford openly tells …

Early film by Kenji Mizoguchi, even if it isn’t silent. Tells the story of geisha women in 17th century Japan. The whole narrative and style of the film is founded in realism and I believe it has been somewhat influential on later filmmakers. However, the film is no more …

Julian Sands is a warlock being accused of practicing witch-craft and is condemned to be hung and burnt. On the day before his execution, he escapes and teleports to modern day from the past. Kinda like from the day of the pilgrims to present day.
In hot pursuit to recapture …

Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a lonely, unhappily married woman, seeks escape in movies. One particular film, “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” becomes her favorite. She comes to see it so often that one of the characters in the movie, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), notices her and, driven by curiosity, leaves …

The Godfather series was great when it first came out in the early 1970’s and it is still a grat movie. I bought the triology for my son last year at Christmas and he is thrity years younger than me and he likes the movie.
The Godfather PArt …

From 2008, the movie Mamma Mia! garnered a lot of buzz when it was released. I didn’t see it myself until just recently, however. Part of me wonders if the movie suffers from my ‘too much hype’ syndrome. Back when American Graffitti came out, I didn’t …

I don’t think I realized how much of a dark comedy this was going to be. As a matter of fact, I didn’t know that it would be funny at all. The movie centers around a family comprised of a pill-popping, boozing, promiscuous mother (Carrie Anne …

“Dirty Deeds” is a comedy some kids will like, but if you prefer smart humor, don’t bother. West Valley High School has a funny tradition: every year during the homecoming week one of the students takes up the challenge of committing “10 Dirty Deeds” - 10 pranks that progress …

The Dead Zone is an old movie from 1983 but I have only just seen it and it was better than I expected. Although I loved reading Stephen King novels when I was younger they unfortunately do not often translate very well into celluloid, but The Dead Zone …

Again, we have yet another slasher film that attempts to “defy” stereotypes that have existed in the past. Ok, well—perhaps the writers and directors weren’t really trying to defy anything. In fact, this type of movie has been done over and over and over and …

I saw this movie, and you have got to believe this I was in some kind of hallucination or translation while I was watching it. The movie really pulled me into it and I was almost like lost in it. It was as if you have entered some kind …

I am reviewing The Greek Interpreter, a Sherlock HOlmes episode from the boxed set, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was produced by Granada television in 1983. This episode is one of the best. This episode finds Holmes talking about his family for the first time to …

Legend of the Savior United States National Indigenous
Hollywood films in the produce many films with genre epic. Perhaps, this is due to see the success achieved some epic film, such as the trilogy Lord of The Rings (2001-2003) original works of the New Zealand director, Peter Jackson. However, …

In the beginning of this animated tale, we are thrown in the midst of a battle between warrior women against the forces of darkness commanded by the god of war. Led by the Amazon queen Hippolyta, the warrior women laid waste to the vast armies of Ares, but it …

I was used to watching Lindsay Lohan movies even when she was still young. I bought a copy of this movie because I wanted to see if it was a good one or not since the tandem of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis is a little fresh. I …

I like Abbott & Costello movies, even though they do get repetitive after a while. And, suprisingly, I’ve never seen the film Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man; until last night that is.
As far as their movies are concerned, this one wouldn’t be among their best. However, it …

I usually try to find cartoons to load on our Netflix player for our daughter to watch after school. Yesterday morning, I found one I have seen parts of; The Jetsons Movie and I put in on there for her.
She had just started watching it last night when I …

I decided to watch this black comedy because one of my friends at school simply would not stop talking about it, I mean I’d never seen one of my friends so transfixed on a movie before. However, after seeing it myself I certainly understood his enthusiasm. This movie is …

I am reviewing The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids, 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 …

This is the story of a family divided that must work through the hard times and find their way back to each other for strength and support as only a good family can offer. This movie revolves around many different characters and the struggles that they are faced with …

Office Space, directed by Mike Judge is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language and brief sexuality. The original release date was February 19, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Crime/Romance and stars Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons, Jennifer …

I would give Woody Allen’s ‘Husbands and Wives’ ten out of ten for being completely perfect, but you will hate it if you have to have a Hollywood ending. This is kind of awkward viewing. It has a rather serious, dramatic feel to it and the humour …

I rented this movie as a fan of the horror genre and also an interest in Edgar Allen Poe. It turned out that I did not read the description as carefully as perhaps I should have, but what took place was entertaining none the less. This movie …