Movies Reviews
Ballad of a Soldier movie
Ballad of a Soldier is a russian film about the life of a young russian man and his the futility of war. It was made in a time when the artistic freedom in soviet union had increased, and a lot of interesting cinema appeared as a result. It’s something …
The Face of Another movie
The experimental japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara came out with this interesting study of human sacrifice in the year of 1965. It is about a man who’s face has been entirely burnt off in an accident. People treat him like some sort of monster and can’t really see what’s behind …
The Joy Luck Club (Movie)
I was forced to watch this movie as part of a requirement of a social work module of mine that had to deal with some sociocultural issues, and so, against my will, I went to my school library and borrowed this movie to watch it. The movie, my friend …
Movie The Strangers
I love thriller, horror and drama movies but for the life of me I cannot classify this movie. I had a problem with the first scene. When the movie started Kristen, the main female character, was crying but I never really understood why she was crying. I had to …
Pterodactyl (2005) movie
I wanted to see this movie for a long time as I like dinosaur movies and it turned out to be rather decent! Yes, it’s not exactly another Jurassic Park but the movie has a solid enough plot and the pterodactyls looked pretty good. The only real hitch is …
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Ferris decides to take a day off from school, but it would not be any fun without the help of his best friend Cameron, who is home sick, and his girlfriend Sloane, who is at school. So what does Ferris do? He convinces Cameron to get his lazy butt …
Bride of Chucky (Child Play 4) movie
Starring;
Jennifer Tilly (Tiffany), Brad Dourif (Chucky-voice), Katherine Heigl (Jade), Nick Stabile (Jesse), Alexis Arquette (Damien), Gordon Michael Woolvett (David), John Ritter (Chief Kincard)
My goodness, Chucky should be placed next to Freddy Krueger! The faces of nightmares and bad dreams you could just imagine stumbling upon …
The Crow movie
The Dark Gothic film that claimed the life of Brandon Lee. One of my favorite movies of all time, as not everyday you see a corpse rising from the grave to right to wrongs done to him. Not a zombie type role either…but undead and kicking butt from corner …
Gangs of New York (2002)
Gangs of New York is a crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese. Film was released in 2002 and story is based on the events that took place in New York in the middle of Ninetieth century. At that time many gang wars are storming between British People and immigrants. …
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
“Star Trek: Generations” is, in my opinion, the best of the Star Trek movies. I love the way it blended the cast of the original series with that of Star Trek: The Next Generation, even though they were 78 years apart in time. The way they did this was …
Ratatouille
Ratatouille is a great movie for the whole family. It kept me and my sister who is 7 years old interested throughout the whole movie. The only thing that I would say is that the movie drag out a little bit, they could have made it shorter. It was …
Million Dollar Baby (2004 movie)
This movie takes us on a tour of a female boxer who tries to make it to the big money bouts by way of Clint Eastwood as her Coach/Trainer. As a boxer, she has the moves, the speed, the knockout power to put down anyone in her weight class, …
Movie The Last Mimizie
Want to see a wonderful childrens movie, that you can sit through and enjoy yourseld without feeling guilty that you are watching a PG-13 movie. Try to get to see the movie entitltedd the Last Mimzie.
In this movie the begining scenes are on a hilltop and there …
Love Actually movie
I normally hate watching romance films, but since my friend fooled me that the actor Orlando Bloom was in the movie I ended up watching the movie to the end and feeling very annoyed and disappointed after as he obviously never appeared. The only thing which comforted me a …
Movie: The Outsiders
Synopsis: Two rival gangs, one made up of rich kids and the other made up of poor kids wage an all out war on each other in Oklahoma.
What I liked about this movie: I love movies that feature a well-known actor or actress before they were famous; mostly because …
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The mission is to capture and extract a member of a terrorist group and fly him into the arms of the United States armed forces intelligence for interrogation. The extraction attempt went array when the helicopter was shot down by the terrorists using the aid of RPG’s. Now the …
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
“Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle” was supposed to be the sequel to the previous Charlie’s Angles movie “Charlie’s Angels” which was released in the year 2000. I found I liked the sequel much less than I liked the previous movie for very many reasons. One of those reasons was that …
Pineapple Express
Have you guys ever watched Pineapple Express before..? Well, I have and it is a nice comedy that I love watching pretty much. Don’t know why movies that star kind of dumb actors work really well. An example would be Jim Carey. In this case, the …
Hitch (2005)
Hitch is a movie that came out in 2005 starring Will Smith as the main actor of the film. In this film he plays the role of someone that hooks up men with girls, but in a subtle way and he only does it for true love!
The movie …
Braveheart movie
Being a former history major, I absolutely love movies based in historical times; especially when they are about legendary characters. Braveheart is a movie that has all the qualities I look for in a historical movie. It?s an accurate portrayal of the hero but still takes some liberties with …
Blood Diamond (2006)
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 …
Serendipity
I think that the best way to describe the movie “Serendipity” is John Cusack’s success movie as an attempt to return to his origins. We can remember that in the being of his career Cusack was involved in the successful movie project “The Sure Thing”. “Serendipity” is Cusack’s version …
Trail of the Panda movie
I love movies involving animals and in this Trail of the Panda, it is the tale of this panda and this boy. The boy in this movie is an orphan and due to an unforeseen circumstance, he and panda becomes close friends. I wonder how the Director of …
Let’s Go To Prison DVD Movie
Another DVD movie that I have watched would be Let’s Go To Prison. This movie stars Dax Shepard, a career criminal. This movie is about his revenge on a judge that has put him away to jail. His revenge is because of the fact that he …
Pyasa film
Pyasa, meaning a thirsty man, is one of the few realistic films that were successful at commercial level as well. Directed by Guru Dutt in early fifties, this is a story about a poet, who struggles to successes in this entire life, and is a failure in every thing …
Dead Like Me: The Ledger
Dead Like Me: The Ledger has a bit of a change for Roxy, who leaves behind the world of meter maids and joins the police force. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes in the future, but the first thing I noticed about it was that she …
Dumbo
As Ward Kimball, on of Disney’s long-time animators and one of the Nine Old Men said about Dumbo, it ‘had great simplicity and cartoon heart.’ I think it is these two elements which talk to me whenever I see this movie. Before hearing Kimball’s comment, I never thought of …
Children of Men Movie
Children of Men is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. When I first read the plot of the movie it didn’t seem like a solid movie, but after watching it for just 2 minutes I have changed my mind. This is what a good action should …
Blow (2001)
Blow, directed by Ted Demme is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for pervasive drug content and language, some violence and sexuality. The original release date for this movie was April 6, 2001 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Biography/Crime/Drama and …
Juno — the movie
Juno was a movie released a few years ago. It followed the story of a pregnant teenager, from the time she found out she was pregnant via a pregnancy test she bought in a local drugstore, through her decision to put the baby up for adoption, and then …
Stranger Than Fiction
The movie Stranger Than Fiction had an awesome trailor at the movie theater and seemed so diffrent from most any other movie I had seen. So I rented it on demand yesterday. It was a huge disappointment! The movie is very slow paced and nothing exciting really happens it …
The Monster Squad, comedy horror film by Fred Dekker
When I was a little kid, playing with my wrestling action figures with my brother, I would always wonder if there really were monsters. Normal children at this age most likely didn’t think about this but I did. Some times when I would do this my brother would pin …
Transporter 2
What little characterization from the first movie is tossed aside as Frank…whatever his last name was is now in Miami acting as chauffeur for a politician and his family. It’s clearly a temp job, but he does get along well enough with the kid, testing the boy’s intellect …
The Dilemma (Movie)
The Dilemma is newly out of cinemas (Depends where you live) here in South Africa. The trailer was very ammusing, and i thought the movie would be hilarious.
I rented the movie on Box Office (Exclusive to Dstv, a south african TV company) for a fairly cheap price. I eagerly …
World War Z, movie
I wasn’t expecting a lot from this film. And I have to say that this film met my every expectation of it being a predictable and humorless blockbuster. Zombies chomped their teeth when you expected them to, cars crashed when you expected them to, and Brad Pitt played the …
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Jurassic Park III (2001) is an action film from director Joe Johnston and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sci-fi terror and violence.
Sice the events of the first Jurasic Park, Paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) swore that he would never return to Jurassic Park. But when he …
Movie: Rambo
Well, I finally got a chance to watch the movie Rambo this past weekend.
When I started it, I honestly wasn’t expecting too much. There are way too many movies that try to remind us of 1980s films and I figured this would be one of those attempts (like Rock …
The Amazing Spider Man 2 movie
When the first series of Spiderman movies came out in the early 2000’s, my husband and I were quick to go see them. However, after the first two it became more of a run on series rather than a well thought out movie series. It was my exhaustion …
Twilight Movie
I rented the Twilight movie finally yesterday to watch it and see what all the hype was about. I have read the book so I knew the plot line already. I was mostly watching to see how they took the story to the big screen.
The first thing …
Make It Happen
I watched a movie with a friend, he was so excited about Make it Happen, a movie similar and is actually from the same creators of “Step Up”. Well the movie is really simple, I feel it does need a little more depth in it, I have totally wasted …
A Haunting: Seasons 1&2 (DVD
I have been dying to get my hands on the DVD set of “A Haunting” a television program that comes on one of those cable channels. Anyway, this program features real stories of hauntings occurring all over the U.S. But before you go thinking that it …
Pirates of the Caribbean II
My personal bias will come through here, as Johnny Depp has never disappointed me. He doesn’t fail in this movie either, playing the charismatic, hilarious, brilliant Captain Jack Sparrow. The opening scene with him as the leader of a group of savages is enough to cast this movie among …
30 Days of Night Movie
From the Director of Hard Candy, comes a not so average vampire flick. Produced by Sam Raimi who brought you the Evil Dead series. This movie isn’t life changing, but it absolutely deserves a watch!
This film captured my interest for the sheer fact it was a vampire movie! Over …
National Lampoon’s Bag Boy
OK, as far as movies are concerned, National Lampoon’s BagBoy had to have one of dumbest plots ever. You have a high school graduate whose only talent is bagging groceries so he seeks to enter the international baggers competition in an effort to finally make himself a winner. It …
The Guardian, Andrew Davis Movie
Legend of Hero Savior in Ocean
“To have other people can live,” said the motto of the U.S. Coast Guard, the story can be enjoyed in the recent film director Andrew Davis, The Guardian. In wholesaler Oscar stars Kevin Costner and the young actor Ashton Kutcher, “The Guardian” recounts …
The Haunted Mansion
This 2003 release was obviously meant to be a “spooky comedy” of sorts, with ghosts and zombies who come alive in their tomb in a most inconvenient time. Perhaps some kids liked it, and perhaps it was okay to watch once for some adults. But to me, it was …
P2
When I came across the movie P2 on one of our movie channels last night, I confess I only decided to watch it because it was getting late and there really wasn’t much else on. When I put it on, I figured it wasn’t going to be a good …
The Game Plan (2007)
The Game Plan, directed by Andy Fickman is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for some mild thematic elements. The original release date was September 28, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Family/Sport and stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as …
Dora the Explorer DVD We’re a Team
I recently purchased one of the newer Dora the Explorer DVD’s “We’re a Team” for my daughter. Overall, I think it was a great purchase.
In the We’re A Team episode, Dora and her friends are trying to complete a race course in under 20 minutes and must use their …
Flightplan
Flight Plan is a 2005 movie about a Kyle Prat who is played by Jodie Foster. She worked for Elgin Air in Berlin, Germany as an engineer. Her husband dies when he falls off a roof. She thinks someone is watching her and her daughter Julia so …
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