Movies Reviews
Strawberry Shortcake DVD
As a parent of a 3-year-old girl, I am often concerned by the lack of quality children’s programming on television today. You can still find a few educational shows or cartoons. But, most of the things on TV, including some shows that advertise themselves as for kids, are a …
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
Nowadays, the marriage issue centers upon gay marriages, with Supreme Court cases hearing issues from state cases on the legality of same sex marriages. Back in 1967, when Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner was released, the marriage issue had been centered upon interracial relationships. It was not by accident. …
Bratz Kidz Sleepover Adventure
My daughter absolutely loves the Bratz. It doesn’t matter if it’s a doll or the latest movie, she needs to have it.
When Bratz Kids Sleepover Adventure came out on DVD, I was a good parent and kept my promise to rent it for her. Big mistake.
The movie has …
Purple Rain (1984)
Starring the musician Prince in his acting debut, this movie centers around a young musician played by Prince who tries his very best not to follow in the footsteps of his abusive father. Prince, while trying to hold down a relationship with his girlfriend, holding his musical band together …
Entrapment movie
As much as I thought I would enjoy the movie Entrapment, I will start out by saying it took me more than a month to actually watch it from beginning to end mostly because I couldn’t stand to be bored for more than a few minutes at a time.
Sean …
Martin Chuzzlewit, 1994
Martin Chuzzlewit, 1994. This movie is based on a novel by Charles Dickens and it does it justice. There are two Martin Chuzzlewits in this story, the grandfather and the grandson. First we meet the grandfather (Paul Scofield), a wealthy old man haunted by a crowd of relatives trying …
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) Movie
I was really excited to see the movie The Cabin the Woods because I saw its review in IMDB and it had 7.3 rating. I was interested to see it because it was a horror film and I really want to see horror films so I did decide to …
She’s The Man
My friend often talks abut how good this movie is but it took a little while before I saw the movie myself. At first, I thought that it was just one of those flirty high school movies because at the start of the film it was more of those …
Trading Places
Trading Places with Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Take a one dollar bet between the rich aristocratic Duke brothers over whether or not they can turn their successful Harvard Grad protege into a penniless bum and an amoral con man into a financial genius, …
27 Dresses
Watching feel good and light story movies does make someone feel better, and often times feel good about themselves. I think 27 Dresses did that to me. Katherine Heigl is wonderful in her role and being the “always” bridesmaids suits her. With all the glamour and stuffs she has …
Groundhog Day movie
Bill Murray stars in this crazy movie about a cynical and snobbish TV reporter whose life is turned upside down when he’s forced to cover the story of Groundhog Day in Pennsylvania. Phil, Murray’s character, believes the story is beneath him. He just wants to get the …
Lion (2016 Drama Film)
Some movies are really made to catch awards attention. They often fail because the process becomes terribly inorganic, instead of telling a good story, they somehow focus in smaller details in the film - and while on paper it sounds good, the end material is always somewhat disappointing. Take for …
My Fair Lady movie
One of the most classical musicals of all time is the marvelous My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. I can’t even imagine anyone but Harrison in this movie. I’m so used to his style of talk-singing that it all seems very logical and natural …
The Age of Adaline (2015) - Movie
I found out about The Age of Adaline while scrolling through an article cataloguing new 2015 movie releases. I never saw the trailer but I decided to see this movie because I recognized the actress on the movie poster. I know Blake Lively from the TV show Gossip Girl and …
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman is rated R bythe Motion Picture Association of America for language and some sexual content. The original release date was Aoril 14, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Drama and stars Aaron Eckhart as Nack …
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger movie
I would not want to tell you what happens in the film, perhaps only roughly. Same thing happened when I saw Closer, we concluded that the story is too good to tell everybody what happens.
The story is fairly complex because it follows the fates of several couples, old age …
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a classic mafia film directed by Martin Scorsese, it was originally meant to be titled Wise Guy, the same title as the nonfiction book the film is based on written by Nicholas Pileggi. The film stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta. Liotta plays as …
New Jack City (1991)
New Jack City, directed by Mario Van Peebles is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was March 8, 1991 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown, Ice-T …
The Lake House
The actors, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves team up once again together to make this exception movie “The Lake House”, after 12 years from working together on the movie “Speed”.
We are used to seeing Sandra Bullock in romantic and sentimental movies and Keanu Reeves in futuristic movies. “The Lake …
The Faculty (1998 movie)
Once again, aliens come to ou little rock to take it’s occupants for it’s own. There is always some unknown terror wanting to get rid of life on this little planet we call Earth. This time around, it’s some freaking looking creature that takes the form of a teenager …
Bourne Ultimatum
The third part of Robert Ludlum’s highly acclaimed Jason Bourne films, Bourne Ultimatum is entertainment at its best. Directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, and David Strathairn, the movie picks up where it left off with Bourne still desperate to find out who …
The Love Guru Movie
Movies starring Mike Myers; you either love it or hate it. I have mixed feelings for the movie, The Love Guru. Set in America genre, Pitka, acted by Mike of course who is from India and raised by some gurus make his way to United States for …
The Wedding PLanner Movie
Recently my husband and I are really into watching films and especially good romantic comedy’s. So last Sunday as we normally do we walked round our local car boot and we saw a DVD called the wedding planner. We had first seen this film when it came …
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 …
Wild Hogs
This is a buddy film on steroids. Four middle-aged men with various problems on the home front, try to lose themselves by climbing aboard their motorcycles and tooling about. But when problems increase, Woody Stevens (John Travolta) suggests a road trip, a ride to California, to blow off steam, …
The Interpreter
I define “The Interpreter” as one of the best thriller’s of our time coming out from Hollywood. Without any doubt the director, Sydney Pollack has managed to include another successful movie to his chain of great movies, such as “Havana”, “The Firm”, “Out of Africa”, “Tootsie” and “Absence of …
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
This is one of those post apocalypse science fiction movies, set in the year 2024 after World War Four. The world we see is a bleak wasteland, mostly desert and rock. People dig in the sand for old cans of food and there is one tiny town where the …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Shadow of Malevolence
I’ve been enjoying the Clone Wars cartoon not so much because it is Star Wars but because it’s hard to find anything which feels like epic Science Fiction, and Shadow of Malevolence, the third episode in the season, manages to get that feel of a big universe better than …
I Love You, Man movie
I don’t know most of the names of the characters in this movie I have just watched sometime this week, I Love You, Man. I do know that the guy whom plays the main character is the same guy acting alongside Phoebe in Friends. I only know him …
Pulp Fiction movie
When Pulp Fiction was released, I had not seen a good movie like this in a while. Pulp Fiction held my attention from the moment the movie started and I waited with my breath held to see what would happen next until the end of the movie. John Travolta …
He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)
I don’t go to a lot of movies in the theatre, but I thought this one might be fun. It’s based on the book of the same name, and you can see this in the small vignettes in between scenes of the movie - occasionally you leave the action …
Knocked Up film
Judd Apatow brings us his sophomore directorial effort Knocked Up, another comedy in the same spirit as his first film, The 40 Year Old Virgin, which starred Steve Carrell of NBC’s The Office.
This fish-out-of-water story features Seth Rogen as Ben Stone, an immature guy who does nothing but smoke …
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
If you’ve not seen this film yet - where have you been? Remedy this dire mistake immediately.
Here’s the premise: A young boy is ill in bed, and his Grandpa starts to read him a book. The boy is less than impressed to start:
“Hold it. What is this? Are you …
Mary Poppins Movie
First of all let me tell you a bit about the movie for anyone who has not seen it. Mary Poppins is set in London around 1910. It is a fantastic musical family film. The film is about a family in London who require a nanny for …
Wizard of Oz Movie
Follow the yellow Brick Road! Who hasn’t seen the movie the wizard of oz and fallen in love, this is a really fantastic film about a girl dorothy who goes to oz and is trying to get home. She meets lots of people along the way and with the …
House of Usher movie 2008
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 …
Movie Family Stone
I watched this movie on cable about a week ago. I wanted to see it when it first came out and I totally forgot all about it. So when it was on the other night I watched it. It started out really good but toward the middle and the …
Practical Magic Movie
A bewitching story of self acceptance.
Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) are two sisters who come from a long line of witches who find love and heartbreak as they grow up trying to come to terms with how different they are from their neighbors and the futile struggle …
Movieweb
This is a website that has a lot of different information about movies. My favorite thing about this website is that they have movie trailers/previews you can watch and you can add the previews to sites you want such as a blog or your social networking page. I also …
The Shoes of the Fisherman
It was my sister who pointed me towards The Shoes of the Fisherman several years ago, and now I think I like it more than she does. Actually, I love this movie. It’s not about the religion, it’s about the principle and what could be if the powers …
War Horse (2011 film)
It’s the time of the year when film companies campaign for their best movies before the Oscars. I looked everywhere in the weekend papers as well as online finding the distracting line ‘for your consideration.’ Although I was not the intended target for those ads, I considered …
John Tucker Must Die
“John Tucker Must Die” is a cute romantic comedy targeting teenagers. The interesting aspect of this movie is that it includes a lot of Hollywood rising stars such as Brittany Snow, Jesse Metcalfe, Penn Badgley, Sophia Bush, Ashanti and Arielle Kebbel. These actors are mostly know for their involvement …
Ghost Busters movie
My wife and I have been spending a great deal of time watching the show Ghost Hunters. So, as a change of pace, I decided to watch what I like to refer to as the original Ghost Hunters; the movie Ghost Busters.
This film, though a bit dated, is still …
Movie Freaky Friday
I sometimes think that certain producers lack fantasy in coming up with original movies. “Freaky Friday” represent a movie about twisting identity in a series of three that came and are going to be released from Hollywood. We all remember Tom Hanks famous role in “Big” and he was …
The Host, movie
Whoever thought having the protagonist of a movie spend most of her time talking inside her own head for the better part of 2 hours and get away with it, was painstakingly wrong.
In The Host, another Stephenie Meyer adaptation for the big screen, we start out with Saoirse Ronan …
GIRLHOUSE, movie (2014)
Kylie Atkins is a student who is urgently seeking money for college tuition. Consequently, she takes a job at a firm to show her crotch on the Internet and arrives at a luxurious mansion.In her new place, she gets an admirer, nicknamed “Loverboy” from the web, who first had friendly …
Christopher’s Christmas Mission movie
A swedish animated comedy about the spirit of christmas. It’s originally titled “Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton” and tells the tale of young Karl-Bertil who’s a big fan of Robin Hood, and feels he wants to do something good to people around christmas time. At his work in the …
Blade Runner (1982) movie
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, and Daryl Hannah.
Directed by: Ridley Scott.
Los Angeles, CA - November 2019. Genetically manufactured beings who resemble humans, known as replicants, aun amok and come in handy for dangerous jobs and tasks. After a replicant uprising, Earth …
Blood Diamond movie
Before I watched the movie “Blood Diamond” I don’t think I had ever heard about the war over diamonds coming from the African country Sierre Leon. In fact, I think people always seemed to be a bit more focused on genocide in other African countries. One thing that the …
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