Movies Reviews
Shop Around the Corner (1940)
In 1940 Loew’s, a production company that ceased operation in the mid 1950s released the black and white feature “Shop Around the Corner” in English lasting 99 minutes. For some strange reason the movie was set in Budapest that somehow doesn’t quite work with Jimmy Stewards folksy, mid-western accent. …
Big Fat Liar
“Big Fat Liar” is the living proof that you can make a great movie without having big actors in it. The main actors of this movie are the young actors, Frankie Muniz and Amanda Bynes who up to 2002, when the movie was produced, they were not very much …
Fast and Furious 4 (2009)
One of the most disappointing movies of the year, Fast and Furious 4 was a flat, uninteresting film. I was dismayed that even the actors came out flat here. It came off like a bad “made for TV” low budget movie. There are no twists or events …
Fight Club movie
When i went to see fight club i thought it was about a club involved in underground fights and money and all.But i was surprised to see that the movie had a bigger message to deliver, it was about the self-esteem, self-trust, and the inner power inside every human …
Lifeforce (1985) movie
Starring: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Aubrey Morris, Michael Gothard, and Nicholas Ball.
Directed by: Tobe Hooper.
Based on the novel “Space Vampires” by Colin Wilson, that pretty much spells out the plot and theme of “Lifeforce” - Hidden in the nucleus of Hailey’s Comet is …
Song for a Raggy Boy (movie)
I’m a lover of both historical and independent films, and so when it was recommended that I watch the movie “Song for a Raggy Boy” I was very delighted to watch it. I thought that it would have been interesting to see a historical movie depicting the pre World …
“Drag Me To Hell” (2009 Film)
If you are in the mood for a scary movie to give you goose bumps and make you want to shut your eyes, then the 2009 film “Drag Me to Hell” is not for you. While the movie was a little creepy, it was also fairly pointless, leaving me …
The X Files: I Want To Believe
It’s been a few years since Mulder and Scully apparently called case closed on their last X-File, but you can’t keep a pair like that down for long.
Finally, after nine hit and miss years of the popular sci-fi drama; the franchise resumes with this latest big screen offering, …
The Natural movie
A young, brave man named Roy wishes nothing than to become the best baseball player in the world. To achieve this he gives everything he has on the training each and everyday, and no matter how many injuries and other hardships he faces, he will get to the top.
Well, …
How to Train Your Dragon Movie
I am a huge lover of lover of dragons and everything about them so I was really hoping that this was going to be a good movie. And it was. I have seen some really bad movies about dragons, but this was one of the best and at the …
Volcano High movie
A South Korean high school movie about a troublemaker who starts on a new school where corruption can be found, both among teachers and students. The rest is very complicated to retell, but it has to do with some supernatural force this young troublemaker has within him, and that …
Another Cinderellla Story
For Christmas I got the movie “Another Cinderella Story”. I rate this movie as a 7. It was pretty good, and the story line was cute because it goes with this decade.
The movie stars Selena Gomez as Mary. Mary’s mother died and so Mary now lives …
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (movie)
Call me easily amused, but I sincerely think that Ace Ventura, Pet Detective is one of the most hillarious movies of all times. Jim Carey is just outstanding in this flick, and basically utilizes every funny bone in his body to put on a powerfully amusing movie. …
Zip.ca Movie Service
I have had a subscription to Zip.ca for about four months. I live in a rural area, so I like not having to rush into town to return movies as there are no due dates for titles as long as your membership is current.
I pay under $30 a …
Movie The Proposal
Featuring two of my favorite actors, Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, this movie leaves much to be desired. The story follows a publisher, Margaret Tate who is Bullock’s character to hatch a hare-brained scheme to marry her assistant to renew her visa. Her assistant, Andrew Tate played …
Fever Pitch (movie)
A few years ago the Boston Redsox came back from utter defeat to win against their arch rival the New York Yankees. They later went on to win the World Series and the entire state went wild. The following year in 2005 a movie was released called …
Cinderella Man movie
It took me quite some time before I was actually able to watch the movie “Cinderella Man” being that it was not the type of movie which I usually liked watching at the time, and I thought that it would probably be another boring sports drama film which I …
Movie An American Crime
This was a very sad but good movie. It was based on a true story. To think that the things really happened in the story to a young girl is sickening and terrifying. If you can take this types of movies I highly recommend watching it, it was an …
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York movie
The movie “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” was the sequel and successor to one of the biggest hit movies of the 20th century, “Home Alone”. Of course, like many other sequels with very successful prequels, this movie didn’t do well as the first. Nevertheless, it was still …
Vantage Point (Movie)
Vantage Point was a lot better than I was expecting. I had read some less than stellar reviews about the movie both online and in print, and I also had a lot of friends who were disappointed by it. Since I’m a big fan of Dennis Quaid though I …
Win Win (2011) movie
Win Win (2011) is a sports comedy-drama directed by Thomas McCarthy and starring Paul Giamatti, Alex Shaffer, and Amy Ryan. The plot revolves around both the lives of a New Jersey Attorney, Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), and a high school wrestler, Kyle Timmons (Alex Shaffer). Flaherty is struggling to …
21 Grams
The movie 21 Grams stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio De Toro. It focuses on their three characters and how their lives are interlinked.
Naomi Watts is fantastic as a recovered addict who lost her husband and kids to a car accident and is now struggling with sobriety. …
Go movie
I didn’t hear about the movie “Go” until some time ago when I was still in high school. At first I thought it was just going to be a silly movie so I didn;t watch it at the time, but about a year and a half later I was …
I, Robot (starring Will Smith)
I watched I, Robot when it was first released years back and it is something that unexpectedly, this movie is super amazing. I love anything with Will Smith in it and he truly sizzles. Will Smith plays a detective by the name of Del and he is super …
The Ghost and Mrs.Muir,1947 movie
Can one fall in love with a ghost? Here is one of those stories that claim such a romance is possible. Mrs. Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), a recently widowed young lady, wants to cut the ties with her meddling in-laws, so she decides to move from London to the …
The Christmas Dinosaur
Since we are past Thanksgiving and officially in the Holiday season, I allowed my daughter to finally watch some Christmas movies I loaded on the Netflix player. One of them was The Christmas Dinosaur.
The movie turned out to be somewhat farfetched and predictable but was still an enjoyable animated …
Arashi No Yoru Ni
Based on the picture books of Yūichi Kimura, Arashi no Yoru Ni (One Stormy Night) weaves the touching tale of how two enemies find one another, and against all odds, become one another’s, soulmates. During the title event, Mei, a goat, seeks shelter in a barn. Once there he …
Movie Vantage point
This movie was released in India yesterday, this is a fast paced movie with a thrilling script, the story is about the conspiracy of
kidnapping the US president, the story deals with different point of view and interpretation of a situation of conspiracy by different people. Movie has …
Tropic Thunder (R, 2008) movie
I was a little surprised by how much I actually liked this film. I really thought that Robert Downey, Jr. in “black-face” would cause some issues for the director, producer, and actors. But it seems that perhaps people are seeing about this film what I …
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror is a movie about a family that moves into an older home and things start to happen. Of course, when the couple are looking at real estate, they are told that the huge, beautiful home on the water that they are looking at is within their …
The exterminating angel movie
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is probably the one film most people remember the director Luis Bunuel for, but actually, The exterminating angel tells a very similar story and was made about ten years earlier by Bunuel. It tells the story of a group of rich people who …
The Good Lie (drama film)
Actually found out about the movie “The Good Lie” by accident. I didn’t know it existed until I saw a trailer for the movie right in passing before it was set to air on HBO. Therefore, I recorded it and I was able to watch it in the comfort of …
500 Days of Summer (2009 film)
I had first been interested in the 2009 film, 500 Days of Summer, because one of its main actors (Zooey Deschannel) has always impressed me in other films that she has done. However, her character Summer did little less then annoy and disappoint me. I constantly felt sorry for …
Hot Shots movie
This show was made back in the 1990’s when these “stupid” comedies making fun of other shows were very popular. Yet today it still hold very funny. It was mainly making fun of Top Gun as well as other popular movies back then yet those movies have died and retired …
Original Sin movie
The police Detective Adam Dagliesh is called out to investigate a series of strange murders. He gets closer and closer to the horrible and tragic truth and is finally able to catch the killer, or is he?
One in the endless row of detective stories that seldom or never show …
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
There aren’t many movies that I’m willing to spend the price of admission on. Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull is one of the few I am.
Quite simply, this movie is awesome. If I could afford it, I would go back again and again. I don’t …
Gone With The Wind
Gone With The Wind is a classic, there is no question about that. It is a well-made and well-acted movie that tells a good story. However, I must say that I find it almost unwatchable at times because I absolutely hate Scarlett O’Hara. Don’t get me wrong: Vivien Leigh …
The Shoes of the Fisherman
It was my sister who pointed me towards The Shoes of the Fisherman several years ago, and now I think I like it more than she does. Actually, I love this movie. It’s not about the religion, it’s about the principle and what could be if the powers …
Sleepy Hollow: the movie
Sleepy Hollow is a movie starring Kiera Knightley and Johnny Depp — two very good actors. Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, a young inspector who is sent to a small out-of-the-way town to solve a series of murders. A mysterious figure called the headless horseman is killing …
Baise Moi (movie)
“Baise Moi” is a French movie I watched with English subtitles after a friend recommended it to me. I’d rather not reveal what the title translates to in English here, since it would be extremely inappropriate, however, if the curiosity is too great one can simply go to Google …
Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem
I love movies. I love them. They are one my passions in life. “Alien” and “Aliens”, along with “Predator” are incredibly frightening, hardcore movies which I enjoy with every bit of fanboyish delight that they deserve. So it would make sense that if you take …
“Mrs. Brown” (1997)
“Mrs. Brown” is a 1997 BBC Scotland production about Queen Victoria and John Brown, a trusted servant of the Queen’s late husband, Prince Albert. The 103-minute, English, color movie was filmed on location at Ardverikie estate in the Scottish Highlands, Duns Castle in Scotland, and Bedfordshire, England.
The …
School for Scoundrels
Before watching SFS, I was absolutely thrilled that my two favorite actors, John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and Billy Bob Thorton (Bad Santa), had finally come together to make a movie that was sure to be hilarious. And that’s just what it was. I was on the floor laughing after …
The Village.
A couple years ago, my wife and I thought we would be smart and, rather than spending money renting movies, we would just buy a new movie every couple of weeks so it would be in our DVD collection.
That was until we bought the movie The Village.
This is one …
A League Of Their Own (movie)
A League Of Their Own is a movie about women’s baseball. Evidently when World War II was going on, the women were left to fend for themselves, literally, in more ways than one. I knew that during the war, women were leaders in the work force because all the …
The Burbs, movies
Modern suburbia, a world where the paper boy flys by, neighbors pick flowers and the flad is raised every morning at dawn. Even if it isn’t your neighborhood, you’ll be able to sympathize with the one that Tom Hanks inhabits in this great family comedy with mild scares and …
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 …
Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)
Weekend at Bernie’s, directed by Ted Kotcheff is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was July 5, 1989 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Comedy and stars Andrew McCarthy as Larry Wilson, Jonathan Silverman as Richard Parker …
The Perfect Storm movie
Yet another one of those human disaster films, this time directed by the once so talented Wolfgang Petersen who made Das Boot back in the early 1980s. Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney are the fishers who experience the worst storm in history out in the middle of the ocean, …
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