The new movie Avatar has been reviewed so many times, with opinions ranging from “masterpiece” to “unoriginal” and “nothing special.” Well, here is my take on it, after watching it in IMAX. The plot may not be very original. My husband said that Avatar reminded him of “Dances with …

The right words to describe the movie “First Daughter” is a Presidential version of “A Princess Diaries”. The true pity is that “First Daughter” has the same story of “Chasing Liberty” and they were both released during the same year 2004. One cannot help but compare …

The movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. This is a movie about a man who ages in reverse and throughout the movie we would see events about growing up and college times that surround the 19th and 20th century. You would be surprise …

Nabari No Ou Episode 2 begins with the arrival of Raimei Shimizu, an acquaintance of Kumohira Sensei. They decide to go to the Fūma Village to see Kotarō, the village chief.
This episode was really good, it gave Miharu character development. It was also a well written. …

I enjoy a good horror film, but unfortunately it is one of those genres that is becoming washed out with tired ideas and weak plots. Despite this, I still try to keep the hope alive and watch new releases of horror films. In this case I stumbled across The possession …

I have watched the movie ‘Poison Ivy’. The director is Katt Shea. The actors are Drew Barrymore, Sara and Tom. Sara plays the role of Sylvie and Drew of Ivy. All the actors have performed well.
Sara is a high school student in California. It is here that she makes …

I’m not usually interested in seeing romance movies or even reading romance books since I generally find them boring and unrealistic. However, when I saw the movie “My Faraway Bride” advertise, just the plot of it alone made me interested in watching it. I’m not even sure if the …

Almost ten years ago there was this movie that starred Robin WIlliams, in a movie that was called Jumanji.
This movie starts off with a Alan ( later played by Robin Williams) as the wealthy son of the local business man. He is small for his age and …

Avatar is my favorite movie that I’ve watched all year. Heck, it might even be my all-time favorite. Critics say that it lacks plot, but I highly disagree. Who cares if it’s cliche? All that matters is that the story is well told.
The movie is about an ex-Marine, Jake …

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen High Society, but the opportunity presented itself again recently, so I gave it a watch. Overall, it’s just a cute and bubbly movie with Grace Kelly putting on airs and Bing Crosby as the down the earth pal who just …

I was quite disturbed by watching the movie, The Ruins. It is a gore story and in fact, filled with too much gore that made the story loses its plot, personally to me. Honestly speaking, I think this story makes Jeepers Creepers seem like nothingness. But …

A dream to see the world becomes reality when a small town girl makes the move from that small town to attend a training session to become a flight attendant after reading a book from the ‘World’s Most Famous Flight Attendant’ Shelly Weston. While going through the course, she …

My daughter loves the newer Scooby Doo episodes. So, when she wanted to rent a movie last weekend, we ended up picking up a movie that featured several episodes “Monstrous Tails.”
And, after watching it with her probably about three dozen times over the past week, I have to say …

This futuristic adventure that entails a mercenary contracted to deliver a young woman from the hills of a monastery to the city of New York takes the viewers on a ride like no other than you have seen before, or is it the other way around, it takes you …

Southland Tales (2007) is a science fiction film by director Richard Kelly and is rated R for language, violence, sexual material and some drug content.
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece that begins with a nuclear bomb being detonated in Texas which send the U.S. into WW3 with N. Korea, …

The Witness is a documentary by James Solomon that follows Bill Genovese in his journey of uncovering the truth behind his sister, Kitty Genovese murder.

Kitty Genovese was murdered 50 years ago at March 1964, somewhere near her apartment. 38 witnesses saw the murder took place but no one went to …

It really is a good movie. For anyone out there that has had a tough week and wants to relax and just laugh; this movie is for you. It’s fun and yeah it doesn’t make you think too hard, but has plenty of little jokes for those who pay …

Movie The Good Guy is a wasted effort. With some intelligent and logical plot creations this movie could have made more interesting and above all digestible for the audience. The story of the movie has intensity in its simple looking plot. It is all about relations and move is …

X men Origins: Wolverine turned out to be better than I expected. I wasn’t expecting much because I thought it would be incomplete and completely stupid to concentrate on one character. But it turned out pretty good and interesting.
It did turn out to be a good movie but definitely …

I must admit that recently I decided to take a nostalgic trip back to the 80’s and watched “Pretty in Pink”. In my opinion, this is one of the best movies for Molly Rigward along with “Sixteen Candles”. According to certain reviews, it also seems to be Molly Rigward …

Around the same time the first Lord of the Rings film, “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” was released in theatres, the movie “Reign of Fire” was also released. I can remember that as soon as I saw “Reign of Fire” being advertised to be released …

I’ve seen this movie just this year when I bought this DVD. My friends advised me to watch the movie because it seemed that they were totally hooked and amazed to the story. Frankly, I am not a vampire fan and this is the first time that I watched …

This is a truly hillarious movie, directed by Matt stone and try parker, makers of south park.
The story about two friends who invent a hybrid sport mixing baseball and basketball.
Lots of humor which will keep you laughing from start to finish, not stupid humor but made for well designed …

Jaws (1975) is a suspense film from director Steven Spielberg and is rated PG by the MPAA
Jaws takes place during the height of beach season in the small Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island. What is usually a time of fun in the sun for all the vacationers to …

I usually am a little apprehensive about “no-name” horror films. But I gave this one a shot. I am glad that I did because this movie was more interesting than I thought it would be. The plot is fairly simple: a group of …

Babes in Toyland was released in 1934, in black and white color. This is a classic musical movie with its cuteness and its real singing talent. I was introduced to this movie as a child and had the hardest time trying to find it as an adult because I …

I watched National Treasure 2 - Book Of Secrets on DVD the other day when my friend came over and we were trying to finish off some work projects.
I thought that this part 2 is going to be not fascinating at all but I was wrong. It …

“A Good Woman” (2004) is a 93 minute color movie, in English based on Oscar Wilde’s comedy “Lady Windermere’s Fan.” It is a comedy of manners where one woman, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt), sacrifices herself to save another Meg Windermere (Scarlett Johansson). In the movie Mrs. Erlynne is an …

54 is a movie all about Studio 54, the New York nightclub that was a smash hit in the 1970s. 54 is not a documentary and is more fantastic than real so don’t watch this movie if you are expecting to find out what really happened behind the doors …

The last movie for my girlfriends and I to watch on our movie day was Shrek 3. I had heard from several people that this was the best Shrek that the directors had come out with so far. I have to totally disagree with that statement. The movie was …

Tears of the Sun, directed by Antione Fugua is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong war violence, some brutality and language. The original release date was March 7, 2003 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Drama/Thriller and stars Bruce …

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts is a lighthearted comedy that I always enjoy watching. Released in 1956, the movie stars Tom Ewell and Sheree North as a married couple who end up with their signals crossed. She ends up active in the military while he’s enduring a bad …

I didn’t know too much about the movie The Heartbreak Kid when I first rented it. But, I figured it had Ben Stiller in it so it couldn’t be too bad.
As far as Stiller’s movies go, this is OK but not one of his better ones.
The biggest reason I …

Jagte Raho was an experimental film by Raj Kapur made in the early fifties the story was about a simple man who comes to a metro city from this village and such as for water in the night so that he came satisfy his thrust and he is accidentally …

This adorable family classic brings the haunted house to a whole new level. Beautifully animated, it was nominated for an Academy Award and produced by the brilliant Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg.
DJ Walters (Mitchel Musso) has a morbid fascination with the creepy house across the street, and its owner, …

I was excited to see this movie because my husband and I are car fanatics and this is the only movie where the sequels were good, so we were expecting quite a major comeback especially since almost the lineup is complete except for Michelle Rodriguez as Letty which I …

As I was looking through the TV channels one boring Sunday afternoon, I came across “Scream”. This movie was one of the best movies that came out in 1996. I remember that a lot of my friends back in High School were really too hyped up about this movie …

To be perfectly honest, I was not expecting the fourth Ice Age movie to be any good at all. The movie actually pleasantly surprised me by exceeding my expectations. Needless to say, Manny, Sid, Diego, and Scrat are just as funny as they were the first three times.
The …

A surprisingly funny and charming movie, “Ghost Town” tells the story of Bertram Pincus, an unpleasant dentist reminiscent of Ebenezer Scrooge. His attitude toward life: bah, humbug. When he dies briefly on the operating table, he wakes up with the unwanted ability to see ghosts. It doesn’t take long …

A werewolf movie from the 1980s that has been very popular among horror fans. The story is about some people getting killed in a small american town for mysterious reasons. A reported goes there to investigate, and ends up facing the whole population - all as blood-thirsty werewolfs. This …

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is the sequel to the very popular Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. In my opinion, a disappointing sequel. In my eyes, it is the death of a sequel when the makers of the …

House of 1000 Corpses (2003) is a horror film by director Rob Zombie and is rated R by the MPAA for strong sadistic violence/gore, sexuality and language.
House of 1000 corpses follows a group of young people who are traveling across the country visiting off-beat road-side attractions to write a …

Doris Day and Rock Hudson team up again for Lover Come Back from 1961. It’s a really fun and daffy romantic comedy that I enjoy a lot, though Pillow Talk is my favorite of their three motion pictures together.
In Lover Come Back, both Day and Hudson play ad …

I watched Step Brothers on DVD the other night and I was laughing so crazy! I do not realize that a movie starring just these two actors, namely Dale, acted out by John C. Reilly and Brennan, acted out by Will Ferrell could really be hand-clapping funny and fun. …

Some time ago, I re-watched the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and thought it was one of the most boring alien invasion movies ever made. Despite that, I decided to give the 2008 Keanu Reeves remake a try this past weekend.
Unfortunately, while better, it wasn’t overly great …

The first part in Kobayashi’s gigantic trilogy on World War II. Tatsuya Nakadai does one of the cinematic history’s most impressive acting in all of the three films as Kaji, a man who goes through huge personality change. He begins as a promising young military officer in charge of …

Given the name of the film and the crew behind it, one wouldn’t be wrong to think that this was somehow related to the found footage giant monster movie, “Cloverfield”.
You can tell that it isn’t a direct sequel, but I did figure it was some kind of spin-off. …

This movie was fantastic, it had me chuckling the whole way through. From the same team that gave us Shaun of the Dead, this takes the life of Police Officer Nicholas Angel and delights with a send up of American police movies and the British country whodunits. …