Movies Reviews
Movie “The Spell” (1977)
I love the 1970’s for it’s hilarious horror movies. I doubt I could ever find and watch them all. Hulu and Netflix have been great resources for me for hilarious horror movies from the ’70’s. What they considered horror is not at all what we think …
Cars the Disney Movie
Cars is a fantastic movie. My son watches it about every single day.
The characters (with voices by Owen Wilson and many other celebrities)are very well developed- from Lightning McQueen to Tow Mater- the animation by Pixar is excellent, as usual.
The story is about a car who is a hotshot …
Cyborg (1989)
Cyborg, directed by Albert Pyun is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was April 7, 1989 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Science Fiction and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Gibson Rickenbacker, Deborah Richter as Nady Simmons, …
Taken - The Movie
My husband and I watch this movie Taken last Sunday. Liam Neeson plays the role of a retired government secret agent, Brian Mills who loves his one and only daughter Kim, played by Maggie Grace. He is a lonely man, he lives all by himself. He’s divorced …
Prom Night
I’m a huge fan of thrillers; at least those that can actually give me some chills. So, when I had an opportunity to watch the movie Prom Night, I jumped at the chance.
Overall, I found the movie to be much better than I expected it to be. But, there …
Othello movie
Orson Welles, who of course is mostly known for his cinematic milestone achievement Citizen Kane, had a lot of financial trouble in his career. Hollywood didn’t think his films would make any big money, so he had to look for investors abroad. Most of his films were financed in …
Georgia Rule
This movie Georgia Rule, is a very heartwarming movie about 3 generation ages. One is a grandma, a mother character, and last but not least, a grand-child. These 3 characters are played by Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and my most favorite actress, Felicity Huffman. She is …
Pacific Rim Movie (2013)
If you’re a fan of giant robots or giant monsters, the Pacific Rim movie is definitely a thrill to watch. The movie got hyped all the way to its theatrical release, what with director Guillermo del Toro promising a great homage that should introduce the two genres to the …
Shrek the Third
In my opinion, Shrek the Third is the best movie of the Shrek movies. I liked Shrek 1 and Shrek 2 even more than 1 because of the addition of Puss in Boots. Shrek 3 I like even more than Shrek 2; that isn’t saying a whole …
Unknown (2011 Movie)
The combination of Liam Neeson and so many comparisons to 2008’s “Taken,” I was more excited about 2011’s “Unknown” than I should have been based on the preview. Although I wasn’t really excited about the movie’s premise, I was still hopeful. It was a really big letdown.
There’s no …
Film”Whip It”
This movie was a pleasant surprise. A young outcast, played by Ellen Page has a mother who wishes she were the kind of girl who was happy with being in beauty pageants and being a good young woman, but she wants more. She sees a roller derby …
Lagaan,A Hindi Movie
This movie has been a nominee for Oscars in 2001.The credit goes to the director Ashtosh Gowariker who introduced a real cinema to the world on behalf of India with his Lagaan team. Lagaan is nothing but a tax on land collected by the British, from the farmers …
Hide and Seek
Hide and seek starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning is a gripping thriller that will surprise and entertain. The story is about a widower (De Niro) and his daughter (Fanning) who moves to the country to try to build a new life after his wife commits suicide. …
Movie Underworld
I like to watch the movie “Underworld” in which the Lycans(werewolves) and Vampires are at war.
In this movie Celine played very well by Kate Beckinsale is trying to find out why the Lycans and Vampires are trying to kill a human played by Scott Speedman.
As …
Sin City (2005)
Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino. Featuring: Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson,
Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hartnett, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis and Elijah Wood.
There is no city more corrupt than Sin City ( the actual name is Basin city). In Sin City everyone must stand …
Love Comes Softly movie
This movie is based on a romance novel by Janette Oke. The story takes place in the 1800’s. A young couple, Marty and Aaron Claridge, are traveling West, hoping to find some good land. They come across a beautiful valley and decide to settle there. Before they can even …
Paranormal Activity movie
Paranormal Activity is a US movie that centers around a boyfriend and a girlfriend who seems to be continuously disturbed by an unseen entity. I watched this film with three of my friends and we were all expecting it to be a good watch. But unfortunately, watching it turned …
My Baby’s Daddy (2004)
Childhood friends and business men, their lives take a change when their respective significant others all have children at the same time, now the men must take time off from the regular jobs to now be stay at home dads while the women go out and be the bread …
Failure to Launch dvd
Failure to Launch stars Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew McConaughey. I am not a big fan of SJP, but I do like Matthew McConaughey and I really enjoyed this movie. I think the whole street heard me laugh at the laughing lizard - it was …
Passenger 57
Passenger 57 is an action flick starring Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne released back in 1992 when audiences could tolerate terrorists and airline hijackers - unlike the post 9/11 world we live in today.
So anyway, Wesley Snipes plays John Cutter the good guy - a former cop turned airline …
Sahara movie
Great movie. Amazing cast starring Mathew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penelope Cruz. The two treasure hunters (McConaughey and Zahn) meet Cruz’ character who is on a mission to find the source of an epidemic. They soon find out that their goals have a common factor and …
“American Pastime” Movie
I’m a big fan of jazz, baseball, and history so when I heard about the 2007 movie “American Pastime” that is based on a real story, deals with the internment of the West Coast Japanese during World War II, and deals with baseball and jazz, I was hooked. What …
It Happened One Night film
It Happened One Night, from 1934, is a classic romance film starring the great Clark Gable and the wonderful Claudette Colbert. Colbert is running from a wedding she doesn’t want when she meets Gable, and once they do meet, it’s fireworks. The sassy and confident Colbert plays heiress …
The Fireman movie
A house owner has joined a deal with the firesquad executive which will enable him to get insurance money if the fire department lets his house burn to the ground. In the middle of this situation stands The Tramp, played by Charlie Chaplin of course, who knows nothing about …
Red 2 (movie)
I’m going to be completely honest and say that I had absolutely no intention of watching the movie Red 2 since I felt that it wasn’t going to be as good as the first movie. My feelings about it strengthened when I saw the trailer for it and noticed …
Air Force One movie
I am reviewing the movie, Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford. Air Force one is, of course, the plane that the president uses to fly to places. Harrison Ford plays the President of the United States in this movie. The subject of terrorists is evident in his …
Evil movie
A swedish film from the self-biographical novel by Jan Guillou. It is the story of a young rebellious man who goes to a college. There he learns that the older students from the “finer families” are the bosses and that the younger students have to obey their rules to …
A Million Ways to Die in the West (movie)
Since I haven’t been seeing any new episodes of Family Guy or American Dad I’ve been wondering what the creator Seth McFarlane has been up to and whether or not he had any new projects working on. My question was answered when I saw the trailer for the comedy “A …
The Shop on Main Street
The greatness of East European cinema I guess need no further introduction. The Shop on Main Street is in my own humble opinion the greatest of all masterpieces coming out that area, directed by rather unkown Hungarians Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.
As with many powerful movies of the mid-twentieth …
The Babysitters (R, 2007)
I know that there are literally tons of movies out there in which a young, impressionable 9or not so impressionable) teen gets involved with a married husband and father. This movie puts a little spin on that typical story, with the young babysitter following through on her “talents” by …
Bloodsport (1988)
Bloodsport, directed by Newt Arnold is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was February 26, 1988 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Sport and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux, Donald Gibb as …
Little Red Riding Hood (1997)
One night, a few years back, I had a case of insomnia. I turned the TV on to the Sundance Channel only to find the short films playing. I was channel surfing and noticed Christina Ricci’s face in black and white. I knew it had to have been older …
The Duchess
This is one historical movie that I found very fascinating even though it was a drama. It stars Kierra Knightly (Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean) and she does an expert job of playing the lead role of the Duchess. To make matters even more interesting, the story …
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an Oscar winning actress and daughter of Actor John Vougth who she no longer has any contact with. Angelina became famous because of her role in “Girl Interupted” in which she plays a female who has wrongly been confined to a psych house.The plot developes when …
The Secret Life of Bees movie
I was very hesitant to watch the movie “The Secret Life of Bees” first of all, since it had the singers and actresses Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys in it, and since I cannot recall seeing any of them in what I thought were very good movies, …
Double Impact (1991)
Double Impact, directed by Sheldon Lettich is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was August 9, 1991 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Alex and Chad Wagner, …
Movie Joe Torre
Joe Torre is the Manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers
How does a coach lead his team to 12 straight Playoff appearances and several World Series Championships and get fired? Well he could work for the tyrannical George Steinbrenner of the NY Yankees. What did …
The Hills Have Eyes 2
It’s not often I come across a horror film that actually scares me to the point I want to make sure all the doors and windows are locked. The Hills Have Eyes 2 managed to accomplish this.
The 2007 remake turned out to be one of the scarier movies I’ve …
War
War, starring Jet Li is a movie about gangs based in San Francisco, California. The movie starts with FBI agents trying to capture the Rogue, Jet Li.
This movie has many action scenes and some of the fights can be a little gruesome. What more can you ask in an …
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (UR, 2007) movie
I waited until this movie came out on DVD to rent the Director’s Cut. I am so glad that I did. I knew that this movie would be funny simply because Judd Apatow (”The 40 Year-Old Virgin”) was at the helm. Additionally, there is no …
Argo (2012 Oscar-Winning Thriller Film)
Ever since watching Alfonso Cuaron’s highly-acclaimed suspense space film “Gravity” in cinemas, I have searched my way into watching more suspense/thriller films. I love the rush feeling of my heartbeat as I see protagonists trying to survive.
Argo was that kind of film. The first time I watched the movie (2 …
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
This movie is set in the fifties. The ending is really surprising although the rest of the movie follows along just as you would expect you to. I thought the predictability of the movie was a real drag. It’s like I could have written the script …
The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea animation movie
This is a sequel to The Little Mermaid, an obvious attempt to cash in on the popularity of the first movie. Ariel, a former mermaid turned into a human, lives with her human husband, Eric, in his palace. They have a daughter, Melody. When baby Melody is taken to …
Men In Black II
The sequel to Men In Black suffers from the same disease that plagues most sequels, it fails to live up to the expectations that viewers had after the masterpiece of the first movie. One of the saving graces of this sequel is that the main characters come back, even …
The Bucket List
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are spectacular in this movie about two dying men who go on an adventure to fulfill their life-long ambitions. The previews for this movie were a bit misleading. I though that this would be full of laughs, but the serious aspects were a …
Misery (1990)
Misery, directed by Rob Reiner is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was November 30, 1990 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Horror/Thriller and stars James Caan as Paul Sheldon and Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes.
Paul Sheldon …
Gigli (2003)
When will these couples learn that starring in a movie together only brings trouble, then gain, they live their lives in the publics eye anyway, so this is like second nature to them. This movie, starring Jennifer Lopez as a mobster and lesbian and Ben Affleck as a whiney …
Cold Mountain (2003)
This is the story of a man who is thrown in the middle of the American Civil War and the trials that he must go through. On the flip side of that situation is his journey, a journey that he makes back to the arms of the woman that …
The Bishop’s Wife
One of the most loved and cherished of the holiday classics is The Bishop’s Wife from 1947. Starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young, it’s an enchanting story of a bishop, his wife, and a Christmas visitor. It’s magical and everything good that a movie for …
Hairspray (2007)
This movie is absolutely amazing.
Firstly, the casting of the characters was simply perfect. There’s no denying the newly-discovered Nikki Blonsky IS Tracy Turnblad. She can act, and she can sing (BOYYY, can she sing!). John Travolta is hilarious as Edna Turnblad, and he can really move in that fat …
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