Movies Reviews
Movie House of Wax
I was a bit bored last night but wasn’t quite ready for bed so i decided to sit down and watch the 1953 film House of Wax with Vincent Price.
I watched this movie when I was younger and remember it as a pretty creepy film; especially the scene where …
Transformers2 - “The Return Of The Falllen”
The recent worldwide release of Transformers2 - “The Return Of The Fallen” has resulted in a Transformers craze being instigated.
Within several short weeks of its release, it has already been regarded as “The Best Movie Of The Year Of 2009″ by many critics. So, just what contributes to the …
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
After seeing a preview of the new film Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, I quickly assumed this was a ‘wait for dvd’ movie. Thanks to a lack of good movies in February, I decided to take a chance on this film. To my surprise this film was actually …
High Society movie
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 …
Pumpkin Scissors Episode 4
Pumpkin Scissors Episode 4 begins with Section 3 trying to figure out how advanced technology was used in the Viscount’s military tank and they go to ask an expert about it. When the military tries to take apart the tank, they are attacked by men who are trying …
The Vanishing (1993)
When Jeff’s girlfriend vanishes when they made a routine stop at a gas station, he is compelled to find out what happened to her. It was three years later that he returned to the same location with his new girlfriend, and still the disappearance of his previous girlfriend still …
Big Bad Wolves (thriller movie)
I think that the theme of Vigilantism never truly loses its charm no matter how many times movies are made on the subject. This is why I was quite interested in watching the movie “Big Bad Wolves”. I’d never seen an Israeli film before and I was curious to know …
Discovering the real world of Harry Potter
I felt a little silly when I first began to read the harry Potter books. These are books for children I told myself so why did I find it so entertaining. I’ve read other books for children since I became an adult of course, but those had already moved …
Zodiac
My aunt treated me to the movies the other night, and we decided to watch Zodiac. It was just released in my country, and I have a great time watching this movie. Here is my review.
The movie is about a killing spree that sort of terrorized San …
Fly Away Home (1996)
A young girl loses her mother in a fatal car accident and now she must go and live with her father. Living all her life in New Zealand, Amy, after losing her mother is basically forced to go and live with her father who lives all the way across …
The Good Dinosaur (2015 Film)
I have a really weird fascination for Pixar films. In the country where I live, Pixar films tend to show late compared to their release dates stateside. That is why I had to wait for a month or two to catch them in cinemas rather than watch a downloaded a …
“Jumper” (2008 film)
The 2008 film “Jumper” starring Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christenson, looked to be a great action movie that would catch the viewers attention. The actors in the film are known for many other roles in which they really shined, and I had anticipated that the same would be said …
Spiderman 3
I’ve mentioned this once, but when it comes to Superhero movies, you usually will have a hit with the first attempt at it but the sequels will never live up to the original. In the case of Spiderman 3, the third installment is definitely terrible compared to the previous …
Maneater (2008)
This is one of the natural horror (creature) movies in the “Maneater Series”. This particular one is about a man-eating tiger. I love these sorts of movies and try to watch every one that I can find. This is one of the good ones, too. It has a solid …
Revolutionary Road Movie (2008)
I was excited to see another movie that stars the tandem of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. This time it was in the movie “Revolutionary Road”. This was based on a novel written by Robert Yates.
The setting is 1960s, and the young couple Frank and April Wheeler are not …
Movie: Next (2007)
What would you do if you could see into the future, even though only for two minutes? Chris, an LA performer, uses his gift to win money at casinos - not much and not very often, in order to stay undiscovered. However, the government knows about him, and secret …
Henry and June movie
“Henry and June” was the name of a movie which was released in the nineteen nineties. When I first got cable television I used to see the movie going on regularly especially in the summer; however I didn’t pay much attention to it since I thought that it would …
Contraband, movie (1980)
Many film fans likely know Lucio Fulci as a director of some of Italy’s goriest horror movies. Oddly enough, he started out directing comedies before hitting it big as a horror director, breaking out with 1979’s Zombie. On a few occasions, Fulci made films in other genres …
The Ghost and the Darkness (DVD)
‘The Ghost and The Darkness’ is based on an amazing true story. In 1896, an Irish engineer named John Patterson, played by Val Kilmer, was sent by the British government to build a railway in East Africa. Leaving behind his pregnant wife, Patterson came to Tsavo; East Africa determined …
Home of the brave movie
The story about four American armies on duty in Iraq. Cutoff from the last period of their duty to brought medical equipment to one of village in Iraq was followed by many tragic cases. Mental conflict experienced after returns to US is not easy to be passed. It is …
My Bloody Valentine Movie
My Blood Valentine was a horror movie made during the 1980s when there was a rash of R rated horror movies coming out. The movie follows a group of young people in a small mining town. Years before a serial killer killed a bunch of people on Valentine’s Day …
A Storm in Summer,2000 movie
This movie is a real gem. Peter Falk plays Abel Shaddick, an angry old man who seems to hate everyone and everything. However, Falk manages to make his character interesting rather than totally unlikable: we want to know the reason of his anger, and as we suspect that the …
Splice (Movie) 2009
I was really intrigued with this movie “Splice” that I finally decided to see it for myself. I have been putting off seeing it for the longest time because my husband did not want to watch it. I finally had the time of day to see it finally.
Splice is …
Because I Said So
Because I Said So is a Romantic comedy where the mother tries to find her daughter a “mate” by putting up a personal ad on the internet. While it has it’s funny moments and of course all things work out in the end it is a slow movie. It …
Aliens
Aliens is probably one of the movies that can scare me till this day. The monsters in this movie are pretty terrifying. I think that this movie may have been where they got the idea for the game Doom. Because this movie was very freaky. I think the music and …
“Bride Of The Monster” (1955 Film)
Bride Of The Monster was the third feature film written and directed by the infamous Edward D. Wood Jr. It was his first official Sci-Fi film (Glen or Glenda was a docudrama and Jail Bait was a crime film). Other than his well known Plan 9 From Outer Space, …
Superman 4 (1987)
This is where I believe the Superman saga got way too watered down and began feeling less like a superman movie and more like a superman flop. They have juiced it out to the point where they are now scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for some thing …
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
This is a truly awesome and frightening movie, the plot always moving at a great speed. I saw it for the first time recently on DVD and found myself totally engrossed by the storyline. This is a disaster picture, of course, and it’s set on a very large scale. …
Rambo (2008) movie
There is nothing new in the story, once again Rambo is tired of killing enemies, he has given up everything and living a peaceful life of a hermit.
Once again some people come to him and beg him to help them get over the enemies and release innocent people, and …
Baby Boom (1987)
A career driven woman whose life is very hectic soon loses all that she holds dear when she inherits a baby that was left from a deceased cousin of hers, the entrance of the little bundle of joy turned her world upside down as the lifestyle that she has …
Hoodlum (1997)
Hoodlum, directed by Bill Duke is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for graphic ganster violence, strong language, a scene of sexuality and some nudity. The original release date was August 27, 1997 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Drama and …
The Other Boleyn Girl on DVD
I just watched The Other Boleyn Girl movie on DVD lately as I failed to catch this on theaters when it was shown here in our place. Well, it was having a good audio on DVD and the whole scenes were good to view as there were no interruption.
But …
Curse of the golden flower, Zhang Yimou Movie
After the successful fight with the movie drama colossal, Hero (2003), film director Zhang Yimou again raise an epic historical drama adapted Chinese classical works through the colossal latest film, Curse Of The Golden Flower (2006), which narrate about family life in the palace China Tang Dynasty government, in the …
Arlington Road movie
Arlington Road is a 1999 suspense film directed by Mark Pellington and starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, and Joan Cusack. The film is about a College History Professor who lost his wife, an FBI agent killed on duty, he has been struggling with this, and struggling to raise his …
Grease 2 movie
I like to watch “Grease 2″ I actually like this movie better than the original Grease.
This movie stars Michelle Pfieffer as Stephanie, who is the leader of the Pink Ladies and Maxwell Caulfield, who is the one trying to fit in to impress Stephanie.
In “Grease 2″ Didi Conn returns …
Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie
When I watch the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I am absolutely amazed with the quality of the film, considering it was made almost 3 decades ago.
It’s hard to believe that’s Donald Sutherland in the starring role of Matthew Bennell and I was impressed with the …
Lakeview Terrace
I just got done watching the movie Lakeview Terrace and wanted to publish some of my thoughts regarding this movie.
First, Samuel L. Jackson is a heck of an actor. He does a great job in this movie portraying a guy you can’t stand one minute and absolutely can understand …
Movie Peter Pan
“Peter Pan” is the classic 1950s Disney animated movie about the boy who never grew up and his adventures in Never Land. As a child, I loved this movie. However, I recently watched it with my daughter and so I viewed through the eyes of an adult …
What Women Want (2000)
What Women Want, directed by Nancy Meyers is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sexual content and language. The original release date was December 15, 2000 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Fantasy/Romance and stars Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, …
Ninja Assassin
Although I was not the least bit interested in it when I saw it advertising to be released in theatres, I both heard and read so many good reviews about it from friends and from people online, that I couldn’t help but feel eager to watch the movie once …
Unrest (R, 2006) movie
This horror film is part of an 8-film Horrorfest (festival) and I must admit that it was part corny/part “good”. A group of medical students working on a set of cadavers discover that one of them is not actually “dead.” Of course there is a stream …
Paradise now
Terrorism has spread the world over. There is not a single place in the world where terrorism is unknown. To counter it, many steps have been taken, but all the steps to counter terrorism have not proved very affective, the world is reminded of the same by instances …
Castaway
Tom Hanks is one of my favorite movie stars. I usulaly like watching him perform with Meg Ryan, I saw him in a movie called Castaway where is co star was a volley ball named Wilson.
In this movie ToM Hanks plays a Federal Express executive who is set …
Hackers movie
“Hackers” was one of my favorite movies which the famous actress Angelina Jolie starred in. I first watched it one Saturday evening a couple years ago on the SciFi cable channel and enjoyed it thoroughly. In fact, right now I’m thinking of watching it again.
I would not call …
Cast A Deadly Spell, movie (1991)
There are times when some of the best movies I’ve seen were ones I stumbled across haphazardly. I first became aware of this particular film after seeing a t-shirt for it on the horror site, Rotten Cotton. A trailer for the film was viewable next to the …
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Director: Justin Chadwick. Featuring : Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana.
The movie is looking into the human drama of the story of Henry the IV and his second wife. Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman portray the Boleyn sisters who both had relationship with the …
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhod Episode 23
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 23 shows what happened to Ling Yao and Lan Fan and how they got away from King Bradley while Ed and Al go after Scar after Ed makes sure Winry is escorted to safety by the military personal. Roy Mustang sends Riza to assist …
A Bridge Too Far movie
A Bridge Too Far featured an all-star cast and told the story of an attempt to end World War II by capturing a series of bridges. Known as Operation Market-Garden, it had a lot of hopes but was doomed to fail almost from the beginning.
The problem with A …
The Movie Hercules
I can remember when this movie came out. It was supposed to be really funny and a great movie for kids of all ages. Well, not only was it not all that funny, but it was centered more towatds boys between 8-10 years old.
I was definetely not impressed …
Little Buddha movie
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 …
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