Cary Grant starred in another winner in 1958 with a movie called Houseboat. The premise in this one is that Grant, as Tom Winters, is a widower, struggling to raise three young children. He really can’t do much to please them until he gets some unsolicited help …

I love movies, I like sitting in my den with the fire place on and watching a good movie. I don’t even care if they are old ones. Another of the actresses that I enjoy is Drew Barrymore, I watched a movie with her in it over …

Pathfinder with Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood, and Russell Means.
The location was somewhere in North America 500 years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. The brutal Viking warriors came from Scandinavia looking for slaves. It is a simple story, but I found it to …

Scooby-Doo, directed by Raja Gosnell is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for some rude humor, language and some scary action. The original release date for this movie was June 14, 2002 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Comedy/Family/fantasy/Mystery and stars …

This weak my husband brought the CD of the movie titled Good boy Bad boy. This is a movie pasteurised in the national language of our country India that is in Hindi. The movie has got excellent comedy and the story of this movie is totally …

I really liked the movie What about Bob?. I think Bill Murray was very funny as the character of Bob. Bob is a guy who has mental problems and has to go see a shrink. He also is very paranoid and scared of everything. I think it’s very funny …

This is the movie about an autistic little boy who manages to crack a cryptographic code designed by the Federal Government. His life is now in danger, but based on his sickness, and age, there is nothing he can do to fend off the people who are now on …

“Big Fish” is a very unique film starring Ewan McGregor. When I say unique, I really mean unique. It is a very hard film to describe without spoiling the plot.
Pros: Tim Burton certainly used all of his creative juices in directing this film. The film includes …

I saw “Vajra Sky Over Tibet” yesterday afternoon here in Bellingham at the Pickford Theatre, our local independent, artistic theatre. The movie is a documentary that bills itself as a pilgrimage to Tibet. I described it to a friend as a spiritual and political travelogue.
This is a very good, …

Ra-ra-ra-rainman. If you’ve never seen the perfectly flawless perfomance of an autistic man and his brother’s developing relationship, then you’re missing out on one of the great films of the 1990s. It’s iconic. Hords of gamblers went looking for autistic family members to take to Vegas with them. Well, …

There’s No Business Like Show Business is a really neat musical that I always enjoy watching. It came from Twentieth Century-Fox in 1954 and stars Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey as the performing Donahues. They end up having children, each of whom joins them on …

I’m a big fan of horror movies. I love being scared and wondering what is going to happen next. So of course I had to rent the DVD “The Hills Have Eyes. The overall concept of the movie sounds scary, all american family get lost in …

One of the first movies I ended up watching on Christmas Eve was George C. Scott’s version of Ebeneezer Scrooge in the 80s remake of A Christmas Carol. And, in my opinion, this remains one of the better tellings of the classic story.
Scott is perfect as Scrooge. He’s the …

I am such a big fan of sci-fi movies and super hero type ones. I watched every movie, every sequels, trilogies. Everything! name it i watched it. This DVD was the recent one I bought, I was so busy i have no time to purchase the most recent ones. …

This movie is exactly what the name suggests — Insidious. If you find yourself sorting through new movies and find nothing that deserves any consideration, I would encourage you to give Insidious another look. If you are looking for a star studded cast, Shymalan-esque plot twists, or …

Based on the novel by Jane Austen. I have not read the book, so I don’t know how it compares to the book, but it is a wonderful movie filled with twists and turns, heartbreak, and of course, like all her novels, a happy ending. I plan on picking …

This movie, for those of you out of the loop, is about Bob Dylan. The name is taken from an obscure Bob Dylan song that the director, Todd Haynes, went on an epic journey to find a studio recording of, only to find one in Neil Young’s basement.
It stars …

The Usual Suspect (1995) is a drama film by director Bryan Singer and is rated R by the MPAA for violence and a substantial amount of strong language.
The Usual Suspects focuses on five career criminals (Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Stephen Baldwin) who meet …

Toy Story is a milestone movie for many reasons. The biggest being that that this was the first ever fully computer generated movie. Also, this was the movie that started Pixar’s incredible run of amazing movies which are still coming out today, Wall-E being the latest. …

No offense to F. Scott Fitzgerald, but The Great Gatsby bored me as a book, and it left me cold as a movie, too. I just never got into it. The only reason I went to see the film was because Robert Redford starred as Jay Gatsby. …

I consider Jennifer’s Body as a teen horror movie. The film’s story revolves around a young girl’s weird transformation which changed the lives of everyone in their town. Jennifer becomes possessed because of some dark ritual performed on her, giving her inhuman abilities. In turn, she …

We got Garfield, Tale of Two Kitties last week and were very impressed. It was a great family movie that had a great mix of action and comedy. I only wish I could have gotten my energetic 2-year-old to watch more of it.
I found myself laughing every few seconds …

Everything seemed incredible.Yet,the movie is said to be a true life story.Leonardo De caprio was the perfect actor for the role displaying so much skills and versatility that I aws almost desiring to be just like him.
Beginning life just with the fake checks given to him by his father,his …

A veteran killing machine of the United States armed services is sent home when all the warfare has basically come to a halt in the world. With no more killing being requested Major Payne is without work and must find alternate means of employment. He tries other areas of …

My wife read my oldest daughter the Dr. Seuss book the Lorax the other day. The next morning, she remembered she owned the short 1970s movie based on the book and asked if we could watch it with her as an early family movie night. After some reluctance, we …

“Captain Blood” is based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini. Peter Blood (Errol Flynn), an honest British doctor, is accused of treason for treating the wounds of the rebels. To him, a wounded man is a wounded man, no matter what side he is on, and it is the …

I am reviewing the movie, Man Without a Face, which came out in 1993. It stars Mel Gibson as Justin McLeod, an outsider who lives in isolation, who has nothing but the past and the company of his dog. Nick Stahl plays the part of a young, troubled boy …

Clearly intended as an indirect sequel to Scarface, Brian De Palma’s Carlito’s Way shows Al Pacino as the old drug dealer Carlito Brigante who gets out of prison and wants to start an honest life. But he is deceived and drawn into criminality again by his friend and lawyer …

A kind of parody that makes fun of science fiction series, Star Trek in front of all. About a Captain named Pirk who travels back in time the save the human kind. The people he meets find him difficult to believe in and obviously thinks he is come kind …

Mr. Adam’s Bomb from 1949 was a really weird film that catered to an offbeat story line that frankly bored me and barely had a comprehendible plot. It opens in an entertaining way, with a man named Johnson doing the jitterbug with the maid. It is probably …

This movie is the remake of the movie “The Gambler” released in 1974 featuring James Caan. I watched this film only because of Mark Wahlberg, but I have to say that it was his one of the worst movie ever. It looks great on the paper because of its brilliant …

I watched San Andreas in IMAX 3D. I’m glad I made that decision because I was able to fully appreciate the visuals. The movie is a natural disaster movie and seeing it in IMAX 3D made it incredibly real. This movie isn’t only about earthquakes as many people might feel …

Mel plays a man named Nick Marshall and he has the power to read womens minds. He can hear everything that they are thinking. But he uses his power for the wrong. (The same way any guy would use such powers). It is romantic, funny, and …

Into the Woods is a musical, fantasy movie by Disney. This movie took the classic fairy tales ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘Cinderella’ and had them crossover in a way that each story required the other. All these stories unfold throughout the lives of a …

I was not expecting much from this movie. Not much at all. I am not a great fan of Wolverine and a few other mutants, my favorites being Magneto and Charles Xavier. Thankfully, this movie focused on them. I found this a good thing and bad thing. While I …

This simple story of two dogs getting together is made all the more unique because it is told from the point of view of the dogs. I found this fact to be charming. There have been many stories done in this manner, but I think Lady and the Tramp …

A movie that deals with a serious subject in the future of how the human race is unable to reproduce itself anymore. The world is in chaos, every country is in war with themselves except for England where refugees flee to escape the apocalypse. A man is involved in …

Marvel, Marvel, Marvel. The only time a Marvel movie turned out right was when the first Avengers movie came out and even then- way too much action. Avengers: Age of Ultron is one of those movies where the visuals draw you in but the story spits you out. If you …

I heard of the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring long before I watched it, but I just figured that it would be one of those overblown movies that would only be popular because it had a Hollywood sex symbol playing one of the main roles. However, after forcing myself …

This movie is a definate triumph that all ages will enjoy. We are introduced to the man of steel, Superman,who has been gone from our planet for the past five years and is returning just in time to face his lifelong enemy Lex Luthor as he once again plans …

This show follows a group of smokers from a run of the mill office building in London. Each episode is shown in real time, the thirty minutes we see told continuously. The action never veers away from the smoking room itself, instead characters come and go.
It’s a simple …

While his wife (Annette Bening) is out sleeping with her competition in the real estate business, middle aged business man Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) gets fired from his job, blackmails his former boss, smokes pot, works out, lusts after a teenage girl and eventually gets murdered by his homophobic …

Chappie is an excellent follow-up to District 9 and Elysium and is one of the better transhuminism films that are out today. It delivers complex ideas about molding the human mind and also attempts to imagine the possibilities of artificial intelligence.

First of all, this movie will tug at your …

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 …

I love Asian movies ever since I watched some of the Chinese comedy and the Korean horrors! I guess you can never really say that only Hollywood makes the best movies in the world. Shutter is one of the horror films I love. Believe me as I say that …

I wanted to see the remake of the film The Wolfman when it came out at the theater. But, as is often the case lately, I didn’t have the money and had to wait for it on DVD.
In hindsight, I’m glad I didn’t fork out the money.
This movie was …

We finally got around to watching the new GI Joe movie last night and I wasn’t really sure what to expect. The previews looked interesting but the movie looked like it would have way too much going on at once and would be confusing.
It turned out to be a …

I admit that I don’t like watching Nicholas Cage movies. There is nothing wrong with his acting skills; however for me he represent an actor with a lot of contrast. I really enjoyed watching his movie “The Rock”; however I really hated to watch his movie “City of Angels”. …

I am reviewing the movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It is the last movie in the trilogy. It stars Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. It follows Raiders of the Lost Arc, and the Temple of Doom. When Indiana Jones’ father turns up missing, he is …

For the longest time, A League of their Own was one of my favorite films, but it eventually took a back-burner seat to many of modern-day films. Yet, it has remained a past favorite that I still enjoyable to watch every now and then. I will be the first to …