“Under the Biltmore Clock” is very good television (1986) movie. It was aired as part of the PBS “American Playhouse” series. The movie is based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story “Myra Meets His Family.” It is the story about Myra, a popular flapper around New York who …

We watched this classic last week and were in awe of the production, acting and story line. Jean Cocteau directed Beauty and the Beast in 1947, so you know the movie is worth viewing. Filmed in black and white, spoken in French (but has English subtitles) with the best …

“Never Street” is my favorite Amos Walker novel yet. I love film noir and every hard-boiled detective owes his roots to film noir. There are no more hard-boiled detectives than Loren D. Estlman’s Amos Walker. With “Never Street” Loren D. Estleman combines the two. “Never Street” is a hard-boiled …

Freedom Writers stars Hilary Swank as the teacher who goes into a system that is doomed and comes out on top. Hilary Swank is awesome as Erin, and she does not disappoint at all in this role. Another thing that I really like about Freedom Writers is that it …

I am reviewing the New Zealond film, The Price of Milk, starring Danielle Cormack and Karl Urban as Lucinda and Rob. This film was made in 2000, and was written and produced by Harry Sinclair.
This movie is a romance/fantasy flick about a farmer, his girlfriend, and the magic …

It is one of the funniest and cutest movie I ever saw. It is a story about a little child, who hardly can stand up, and how he discovers the city, and how he makes the three men’s life miserable, who kidnapped him. The story starts by showing that …

James Cameron’s new mega hollywood blockbuster Avatar is one of those movies you just have to watch. Whether or not you like the genre, any project costing hundreds of millions of dollars is in my mind something to look out for.
I decided to see it in its full glory, …

A classic remake in animation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It’s wonderful use of colours left my eyes watering…and the plot was good. Good guys showed their courage, bad guys showed how evil they can be, and gargoyles showed they had no legs…lol. This is another great animated …

Aliens (1986) is a science-fiction film by director James Cameron and is rated R by the MPAA.
Aliens continues the story of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from Alien, who is awakened after 57 years drifting through space. When she gets back company executives don’t believe her story …

Trocadero is one of the more entertaining movies that I’ve watched recently, and I’ve been watching a ton of motion pictures of late. From 1944, the movie stars Charles Calvert as Tony Rocadero. He was a foreigner who adopted two children he loved dearly, Judy and Johnny. …

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 …

I typically do not like comic book films. But I will admit that this little movie starring Nicholas Cage as the Ghost Rider won me over with little effort. What I liked in particular was the way his transformation into the Ghost Rider was filmed. …

I absolutely adore Man of the House, which is a simple romantic comedy from 1995 which stars Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who was probably the biggest child star of the 90’s, at least on television. In this film, Thomas plays Ben Archer, whose father …

The Return of Jafar is the second movie in a trilogy about this young man named Aladdin. After releasing t he Genie from his lamp and defeating Jafar, Aladdin tries to settle down and start his life with Jasmine. To cramp a cramp in his dreams and …

After waiting for one long year, the third (and last?) part of the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy finally arrived. My daughter and I both attended an opening night show. We thought it was great! The effects, as was the case in the first two movies, …

Two orphaned children, Paul and Maureen, live with their Grandfather in Virginia. Near the farm where their Grandpa raises and sells horses, is an island of wild horses. Paul and Maureen fall in love with one called the Phantom. Their father before he had died had told them all …

Ah, Mr. Brooks…this is a movie I can wrap my mind around and just linger in for awhile. A very nice psychotic drama featuring the ever talented Kevin Costner as the mass murdering serial killer Earl Brooks. I finer film this year under the genre of crime has yet …

The Wizard of Oz is a well-known film to those who have or have not seen it. But have you ever wondered what happens to Dorothy when she returns from Oz? In the 1985 film “Return to Oz” you can find out. A very young Fairuza Balk takes on …

The movie “Frequency” which starred Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel as father and son tandem is a entertainingly family oriented film. It would make you realize the importance of having a father in the home. How tormenting it would be to a child who grows up without the …

If you have seen one zombie movie, you have seen them all. I know that fans of such movies will disagree, but really, what can these movies be about except a bunch of decomposing dead folks walking around threatening the living, and the living trying to get rid of …

In the loop is a political satire that is at times somewhat funny, but other times grossly overdone. The profanity is so extreme that it makes the film seem too unrealistic even for a satire. This film gives character to a hypothetical U S Government, and a hypothetical U K …

This film is a prequel to Red Dragon, Silence Of The Lambs, and Hannibal, based on the book by Thomas Harris. The film starts slow, and never picks up the pace, focusing all on a young Hannibal in his teens living with his aunt. The movie is full of …

Of all the hindi language movies that come out of Bollywood- India’s largest film industry, there are a few that tug at your heart strings. Parineeta meaning the married woman is one such. Based on famed novelist Sarat Chaandra Chattopadhya’s classic literary work by the same name, Parineeta transports …

Serious readers of literature would recognize Bonsai as the quaint novella from Chile that endeared the author Alejandro Zambra to literary critics in the west and transformed him to an eminent writer in his home turf. I had been an avid reader of Literature in Translation —“ foreign …

I am a confessed Harry Potter addict. I even make it a point to get the first editions of the books on the day they come out, and I willingly line up just to be the first one to watch a Harry Potter movie. I submitted a review of …

Popular Casts : John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christophe Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah and Zac Efron.
First time I read the casts, I feel so afraid that I will be disappointed, because as my personal experience, movie with too many great actors and actresses always become a disaster …

I always get a bit nervous when I rent a movie I have never heard about before; especially one that advertises itself as a thriller. After all, you never know what you’re going to get and it’s even harder to guess if you don’t have any previews to work …

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson aren’t really big Hollywood stars that’s why when a friend asked me to go to the movies with her and watch How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, I wasn’t really very excited. I don’t like Matthew that much (his blond looks isn’t …

A writer who love all kinds of games invites his wife’s lover to his house in a struggle between life and death. This is a most clever film with the brilliant actors Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier in the leading roles. All twists in the plot reminds a little …

It is amazing how many times one movie can be remade. Pride and Prejudice happens to be one of those movies. In essence the movie is about different classes of people, pride of Elizabeth Bennett, and Mr. Darcy, also the prejudice between the classes of people and between …

This is a 1999 Sci fi film starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron about an astronaut who leaves on a mission and comes back different. The other astronaut dies of a stroke after returning home, and his wife commits suicide, the surviving astronaut’s wife notices changes in his behavior, …

My dear readers, I like enjoying thrill movies especially like ghosts movies. The joke here is that , i am very much afraid in seeing the ghost movies. But i was very much keen towards the movie to watch
alone esepcially. I normally used to see movies with my friends. …

“Material Girls” is the movie where we see Hilary Duff together with her sister, Haylie for the first time on big screen. I must admit that they make a cute duo as they try to put their heads together while their lives fall apart!
The story of “Material Girls” is …

I had high expectations when I rented Sherlock Holmes on DVD the other day, mainly because of my high regard for Robert Downey Jr.’s amazing acting skills and his recent choice of movies to star in. I also like Guy Ritchie’s movies, so when we sat down to watch …

There are very few people who don’t know about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”. For all those who didn’t have any chance to watch it on stage, now they have the privilege to watch it at home on DVD. The value added of watching this …

I love Ella Enchanted. There’s a beautiful cast for this movie and they consist of Minnie Driver, Hugh Dancy, Anne Hathaway especially and many more.
Anne plays the character of Ella and this movie is something like Enchanted. In fact, this movie was made first prior to …

I thought The Hand That Rocks the Cradle was pretty good. This movie had some scary parts and was very suspenseful. I have to say that I really did like the storyline. The story is about a woman who stays with a family and takes care of the kids in …

Becoming Jane is a movie about Jane Austen, the author of six deep and thoughtful romance novels that have all been made into movies, most of them more than once. The movie cannot be really called Jane’s biography, although there are some historical names mentioned. It so happens that …

Alien, directed by Ridley Scott is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for science-fiction violence/gore and language. The original release date was May 25, 1979 for United States audience. This movie fallsin the genre of Horror/Science Fiction/Thriller and stars Tom Skerritt as Dalles, Sigourney Weaver as …

Nightmare Detective is part of the Dimension Extreme films and I’ve been slowly working my way through these movies a little at a time. The series is a little similar to the After Dark Horror Fest in that all the movies probably wouldn’t get much of a release without …

I watched choke last night and I was extremely disappointed. I had
read the book before which I thought was very good and the movie just
didn’t stand up by comparaison. Maybe my high hopes for the movie are
what made me feel extra disappointed. I feel like they just took the
kinda …

Prophecy is a Japanese movie based on a manga series by Tetsuya Tsutsui, starring Toda Erika and Ikuta Toma.

A man who wore a mask made of newspaper (known as Shinbunshi) had been making prophecies of his own crimes online. The prophecies are usually about how he plans to punish someone …

When was the last time you received a chain letter either by email or text, and actually followed the directions and passed it on to someone. In my case never because I never believed in the hype of what chain letters can or cannot do. In the movie Chain …

I watched the documentary special series called “Planet Earth”.
The shows were about the different geographical bodies of our planet and the animals which live in them.
I really liked the series. I thought each episode had something interesting to offer. Some of the still shots and photography was stunning.
There …

The Departed hosts an all star cast of Hollywood’s best and most famous actors. Showcasing the corruption that has turned a police department completely upside down. If you have not watched this amazing movie before, trust me when I tell you, that you will not be disappointed! Suspense galore …

I’ve been watching Star Wars for as long as I can remember, but I’ve never been a fan of prequels. The problem is that I know where the story is going.
Star Wars is worse than most, and the clone wars even more so. I know how General Grievous dies, …

When I read the short outline of this movie, I thought I was reading a news article. I just saw Miral earlier, and it was probably the only culturally significant movie I’ve seen of this year. To summarize, Miral is one way to understand the political conflict …

The Plan: A jewel heist planned by George, second in command, Ken, a Con Artist name Wanda for which the money is based on, and the weapons expert, Otto. These individuals come together and masterminded a wonder theft, but afterwards, they had a difference of opinion as to how …

This documentary is both educational and entertaining. It is fun to learn more about these cute, flightless, birds.
The penguins followed in this film are Emperor penguins, which are the only penguins which live year round on Antarctica. They have to survive very cold weather and the chicks which are …