One of the movies that I have watched over the course of the year, is “The Hunger Games”, starring actors Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. The thing that really compelled me to go and see the movie was the books, as I found the whole series enthralling. The trailer …

What do you know?
It actually lived up to the hype. I was having second thoughts whether or not I should watch this movie but since I was with a friend who wanted to see it, I was forced.
Any boy was I thankful.
The movie started with The Joker robbing the …

OK, either I’m starting to get really old or the movie Twilight wasn’t anything that lived up to all the hype and the obsession the fans are giving it. I watched it last night and thought it was the longest, most boring vampire film I’ve ever seen. And, believe …

Have you ever meet two sisters or brothers who seem to be completely different from each other, that you ask yourself how could they be related? It did actually happened to me, and I am sure that if you search your memory you will remember of a similar situation. …

I had not gone to the movies for some time and I have watch a lot of Tyler perries Movies but I must say that I was very disappointed when I went to see this one. I felt that there was so much that was missing form this …

I have always liked Hugh Grant’s self deprecating, “am I sure this is where I should be?” persona that he brings to the characters he plays. That is not to say that he is a character actor, he seems to play the same person in every film, but …

A film by Bernardo Bertolucci who is mostly known for his giant epic Novecento. This is one of his latest films and tells the story of Siddaharta who goes through a spiritual journey to finally become Buddha. It seems to me Bertolucci isn’t any longer the talented filmmaker he …

I really don’t believe I’ve seen many Gene Autry movies, but the other day I was bored and there was nothing, and I mean nothing, on TV so I tuned in to a 1953 flick called Winning of the West. What I love about these old movies is …

“Batman Begins” is an epic 2005 film by Christopher Nolan, and starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, and Gary Oldman. This is a spectacular movie that did much to erase the memory of the horrible Batman movies of the 1990s.
Pros: Nolan obviously loves the …

Hot Rod is surprisingly hilarious! I thought this would be a dull humor flick, but I found myself laughing through 90% of the movie. Its a comedy about a 20 something year old guy living with his mom and stepdad aspiring to be a stunt man. …

In the bad and disappointing comedy series hall of fame, walks Gulliver’s Travels. The film retains in a certain extent the classic story of Gulliver in the land of dwarfs.
I do not know why certain changes were made in the script (probably have tried to adapt to today) so …

Synopsis: Evil super villain MegaMind finally succeeds in destoying his archnemesis Metroman and, after conquering the city and discovering he just didn’t feel complete without having a good guy to fight, attempts to create one of his own; only to have his new creation turn evil.
What I liked about …

Here is another dvd from my friend’s horror movie dvd collection. He likes old movies from the seventies mostly, and lent me this dvd which he said he was told had some good horror films on it. However, when I watched it I didn’t like the movies at all. …

The great performance (600 million dollars) of the first feature movie about the Smurfs (2011) made the continuation of their adventures an inevitability. And it is already a fact - three-dimensional, dynamic and colorful as usual. In the center of the story is Gargamel, who is a superstar in …

I have a family member who happens to love Christmas movies. Personally, I find them pretty repeditive and lame. I’ve seen so many of them that I’m frankly a little sick of the typical Christmas movie.
Recently we saw that our local library had a Christmas movie that …

This is the most stupidest Adam Sandler’s movie I have ever seen in my whole life and the most stupid movie I’ve seen so far this year. I was quite disappointed after watching the movie with my husband who is a big Adam Sandler fan. Good thing we did …

Normally, I don’t appreciate it when classic stories are being messed with, modernized, turned into musicals, etc. However, this attempt to Americanize the beloved Christmas story by Charles Dickens somehow turned out all right. Based, of course, on “A Christmas Carol,” this movie transforms the Victorian London into America’s …

I recently watched a sequal to the home alone franchise.The first two home alone movies starred Macauly Culkin.After that,the rest of the home alone movies didnt star macauly and deteriorated in quality.Hoem Alone 4 is the worst of the them.The acting in it is pertty bad.The lead child is …

Transformers (2007) is an action movie by director Michael Bay and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, brief sexual humor, and language.
Transmormers is a movie based on the popular 80’s cartoon. The movie tells the story of a teenager named Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) who …

In Dead Like Me: Be Still My Heart, George becomes closer with Trip Hesberg and attends the funeral for his father, who George had reaped. Emily Holmes does a nice job as Trip’s sister, Ashley. She’s not fond of George being there and actually ends up involuntarily …

Sphere is a science-fiction thriller which was released in 1997, starring Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L Jackson. I remember seeing things about it when it came out and had a rough idea what it was about, but never actually watched it till now. The strong cast are …

My very favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, stars in this holiday movie, “Christmas in Wonderland”. I just saw it for the first time when it aired on TV, and I have mixed feelings about it.
Patrick was great, as always. He’s heavy in the first 15 minutes of the …

WHen I saw the movie “Be Cool” come out in 2005, I had a hard time understanding it even though it was only bits and pieces at different times that I watched. Thus, when I heard that it was actually a sequel to the movie “Get Shorty” which I …

Flags of Our Father is a very strong, graphic and realistic war movie covering the battle of Iwo Jima. Having seen other movies such as Private Ryan, I had gone into this movie with the expectation to see lots of battle scenes and the brutality of war. …

Thought provoking, stylistic, and entertaining all highlight the 2008 blocbuster The Dark Knight. This film not only provided the audience members with an action fest, it offered some heavy philosophical talking points long after the credits roled. How do you defeat an …

Girl, Interrupted is a very good attempt by the makers of the movie. The movie which is inspired by the book with the same title, deals with a teenage girl’s experiences at a rehabilitation center during her 18 month stay there. Though the movie doesn’t have a universal appeal, …

Blood Diamond, directed by Edward Zwick is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong violence and language. The original release date was December 8, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Drama/Thriller and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer, Djimon …

The Griswald family receives the first prize in a contest, which is a trip to Europe where they believe they will have a lovely vacation together. For different reasons, this vacation doesn’t turn out exactly as expected.
Chevy Chase is indeed a talented comedian who is hilarious at times, but …

Primeval, directed by Michael Katleman is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong graphic violence, brutality, terror and language. The original release date was January 12, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Horror/Thriller and stars Dominic Purcell as Tim …

I got the movie “Red Tails” thinking that it was something else that I would be watching. The movie that I had intended on watching had a slightly similar plot and characters. Nevertheless, I watched this one and it turns out that I liked it a little better even …

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 …

I saw previews for Employee of the Month a few months ago but never made an effort to rent it. It just didn’t look that good.
But, when it became available on Showtime, I decided to at least give it a chance. I wasn’t disappointed.
Like most movies that take place …

I had no desires from this movie before its release. I thought it was like the other childish movies in the market. When it got such astonishing ratings from critics, I couldn’t help myself from not watching it. However, subsequent to watching it, I would say I wasn’t right about …

This movie is so breath-taking…animation, story, characters, direction…it’s a spectacular piece of work. A family is movie to a suburban area (Mother, Father, Daughter) where on their journey they mistakenly take a wrong turn and end up in a fantasy world. This is where the daughter’s adventures begin as …

I am reviewing the Disney movie, Robin Hood. Everyone knows the story of Robin Hood, but what would happen if it was taken from a fox’s perspective? That’s what the whole Disney version does. Robin Hood is a fox and his friend, Big John, is a huge bear. The …

The Witches of Eastwick is a movie adopted from the novel of John Updike. The story was about three divorced women from a fictional place called Rhode Island of Eastwick. These three women are looking for a right man to fulfill their desires. Jane Spofford played by Susan Sarandon …

Happy Feet the Movie came on our Direct TV Pay-Per-View. It was so cute. My grandchildren loved the movie. There seem to be quite a few movies coming out about Penguins, but this one was really cute. It had a great lesson in it. …

I’m sure everyone has heard of the movie, ‘The Interview’ starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. I’ve seen the movie name in the news many times in the past few months because of North Korea’s displeasure with the movie revolving around the assassination of Kim Jong Un and more …

Sleepy Hollow, directed by Tim Burton is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for graphic horror violence and gore, and for a scene of sexuality. The original release date for this movie was November 19, 1999 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre …

“Baby Mama” is a silly, uninteresting piece of uninspired film-making starring Tina Fey as a woman desperate to have a baby. She has always put her career first, but now the 37-year old Kate longs for a baby even though she is not married, and apparently does not have …

Hiding Out is one of those 1980s movies that you know I will rant about. Hiding Out is no exception!!! So Andrew is a stock broker who makes some very bad deals and suddenly needs to run away and never be seen again, or he will be killed. So …

The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a film about Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computers and Bill Gates (who doesn’t know about Bill Gates?)co-founder of Microsoft. This film historically traces the development of these two computer companies from the time these two gentlemen are college (the early …

This is the story of a teenager whose family including him has been plagued with a curse of bad luck that spanned generations. This boy finds himself before the courts when he is accused of stealing a pair of sneakers that were donated by a famous athlete. He was …

Before I was able to watch the 2015 movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I admit that I didn’t have much of an idea what it was going to be about. The only thing I knew about it was that it was supposed to be based on a spy series that …

The Foresaken is one of the many horror movies that were rushed into production following the success of Scream. The makers grabbed a handful of attractive actors, and slapped together a movie without giving it a lot of though.
On the surface this is a typical teen vampire movie, …

I finally gave in and watched the movie The Messengers with my wife yesterday afternoon. And, even though I’ve never seen the film, I felt like I did.
The problem with The Messengers is, for a horror film, it’s really not all that scary. And, it’s because they used the …

One thing I admire about some movies, they capture the inner thoughts and sensibilities of people. And this is one of those movies. It centers to the jealousy of a palace composer, Antonio Salieri (played by F. Murray Abraham) against one of the world�s greatest composers and …

District 9 is a movie I bought after seeing it in theaters. I love science fiction-type films, and since this one contains aliens, it was right up my alley.
District 9 is a section set aside for the insect-like aliens that also inhabit Earth. It’s basically a slum, …