There seems to be a trend happening in Hi-Def releases. I guess it’s more to entice people to buy movies they already own, but I’ve noticed that studios are releasing Trilogies bundled with very little added special content. Yeah, I guess they’ve been doing this with plain old DVD. …

RomeoXJuliet Episode 14 has William smuggling Juliet and her Capulet loyalists out of Neo Verona to Mantua. Romeo is banished from Neo Verona and set to the Gradisca Mines and told not to come back until he doubles the mines’ production efficiency.
It’s nice to see Juliet …

Alan Moore has been the writer of some of most significant pieces of comic literature, yet his works have failed to be properly brought to the movie screen with success. He was very critical of films like V for Vendetta and Watchmen. He’s repeatedly refused to have …

I have seen this movie when my cousin rented it back in the holidays. It is another chick flick, Sex and The City-ish kind of movie. Well, its my kind of movie. I love watching pretty women who deals with issues of life including marriage, friendship, parenthood and career. This …

Gran Torino might not be the movie to watch if you love action or special effects or are looking for a comedy. But if you like watching good acting and well written story line this is a movie for you.
Clint Eastwood is basically in every scene on this movie …

Synopsis: A museum currator, fed up with love, pulls coins out of a fountain, causing the men who threw the coins to fall in love with her.
What I liked about this movie: When I read the description of this film, I thought for sure this would end up being …

The film is set in an eloquent retirement facility in Britain. The facility is a niche facility since it caters to musicians who are retired. That said the theme of the film evolves around two sub-themes of sorts. One sub-theme is about prior Operatic performers who …

This is an awesome workout DVD. It is actually five workouts ‘ Learn and Burn, 20 Minute Workout, Turbo Sculpt, Ab Jam and Cardio Party. I really like the Learn and Burn, which help you easy into the program and give you a really good understanding of …

An underrated piece from John Carpenter, made between Halloween and Escape from New York. The story, that involves a fog attacking people in a small coast town in America, may be a little bit mundane, but the way Carpenter creates moods and scare his audience here is simply top …

From 1974, Where Have All the People Gone is a movie I’ve remembered well from its original airing on television. Back in the day, this was actually one of those movies that showed up late night all the time. Peter Graves stars as Steven Anders, the father …

Tomb of the Werewolf (2003)
A thorough, total and utter travesty and the only film I have ever seen that was both excruciating to watch and emtionally painful as well.
I’ve been reviewing several of Paul Naschy’s films on here lately. Naschy was Spain’s reigning king of horror in the late …

As movie musicals go, The Unsinkable Molly Brown is unsinkable. It’s a marvelously well done movie with Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell in the leads. As for being biographical on the real Molly Brown, many liberties were taken. We get a wonderful happy ending here, but …

After having his last movie “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” blasted by criticism, the actor Adam Sandler had to come up with a good movie. This answer is in his last movie “Don’t Mess with Zohan” which on the whole seems to have won over the critics …

A film by the finnish director Aki Kaurismaki about a rock band called Leningrad Cowboys who have severe difficulties getting a contract from a record company.
The roomer says Kaurismaki himself is ashamed of this film which he did early in his career. I personally can’t appreciate those of his …

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie Bubble Boy. But, after seeing it today, I can remember why I loved it so much.
What is better than a tale about a boy who is forced to live his life in a bubble because he doesn’t have an immune …

I was rather excited about seeing this movie. I like Nicolas Cage and I like Science Fiction so I had great expectations but got pretty disappointed. I mean, the movie is not that bad but it is less than I was expecting.
The movie starts when a class of elementary …

I watched Step Brothers on DVD the other night and I was laughing so crazy! I do not realize that a movie starring just these two actors, namely Dale, acted out by John C. Reilly and Brennan, acted out by Will Ferrell could really be hand-clapping funny and fun. …

Alfred Hitchcock’s very last film before his death in which a most complicated story is told. Two different criminal couples are up to no good, and for strange reasons their paths get connected. This result in a chaotic meeting where nothing seems to be what one first is led …

Skyfall is the latest and greatest James Bond 007 film, and while I admit I have never seen a James Bond film before, I absolutely loved Skyfall! It is action-packed, funny, and thrilling, and it had the entire theater at the edge of their seats. I absolutely loved Skyfall, …

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan switch bodies and lives as they struggle with acceptance issues. One being a successful career oriented woman and the other being a high school teenager, they can’t seem to get along, so, one day they were in an oriental restaurant and they were …

I was at a friend’s house recently and saw the movie Jezebel on the Turner Classic Movie channel, a channel I don’t get, but would love to.
The movie was filmed in black & white and released in 1938, a year before “Gone with the Wind” which is a similar …

This movie is based on the true events of a lady called Erin Brockovich.
Erin is a single mother of 3 children and is enduring hard times. Cockroaches in the house and nothing to eat except jam out of a tin, Erin is desperate for a job. It is not …

I did not see the movie Happy Feet in the theatre, but my daughter recently received it for her birthday. My kids, ages 7 and 8, enjoyed it but it did not hold their attention and I doubt they will be wanting to watch it a second time. …

Last june 2008, star cinema intr0duced to all filipino movie lovers the best romantic movie of the year. It is entitled “a very special love”. It was starred by sarah geronimo, one of the finest singer actress of the philippines and j0hn ll0yd cruz, a pr0minent act0r. The story …

The animated animals are the focal point of this tale of a little fawn who grows to be a great prince of the forest. Growing with him are Thumper, a rabbit who tends to speak before thinking, and Flower, the shy skunk. Alongside this trio are a score of …

The first big live-action movie musical for Disney Studios was a film called “The Happiest Millionaire”. As a young girl, I’d heard about this movie, and I was dying to see it. When it opened in town, it was only at the drive-in, and my parents didn’t …

My wife and I were trying to get our youngest to sleep Saturday night and, after finding nothing on TV, decided to watch a movie we had recorded on the DVR a few months ago; Blessed.
This movie was supposed to be a horror film about a woman who is …

There are some actors and actresses that I avoid when deciding what movies to go to the theater and watch or what movies to rent. I usually avoid anything with Jude Law, Jack Black, and Cameron Diaz. So imagine my surprise when I actually rented a movie staring all …

I am reviewing the movie, Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell plays a sex-addicted, skating champ named Chazz Michael Michaels. He is banned from competing in men’s skating when he gets into a fight with his nemesis, Jimmy MacElroy, who is a co-gold medallist. They are …

Peter Bogdanovich is one of the few actual film critics that later went into the director’s profession and was successful. The Last Picture Show is his most critically acclaimed film and is an original story about the teenagers of a small american town and their relationships to each other. …

I was fortunate to know ahead of time that this wasn’t really a “Batman” movie. Yes, the title would lead you to believe that, but this is really more of a Suicide Squad movie. Batman is in it, but he’s more of a supporting character.
Now, the …

“The Santa Clause” is a 1994 Christmas movie starring Tim Allen. In 2002, it was released on DVD with some bonus features in addition to the movie. Scott Calvin, played by Tim Allen, a man that’s successful in business but not so successful at being a father, finds himself …

Once again, this game made into a movie takes the viewers on a wild ride through the waste land of the future that has managed to spawn zombie like creatures. The main character as you will see as you watch this movie as it takes us through a slight …

I came to this movie with low expectations. I remembered reading unfavorable reviews of it when it was out in theaters. But I actually think it’s a good movie if you’re able to accept it for what it is - a fantasy movie about vampires and werewolves. …

It’s like a mystery/suspense/thriller type movie with the mob theme thrown in. I honestly did not expect the movie to be as great as I though it was. The first 15 minutes or so, it will look like a cheap, predictable cliche mob flick, but it gets a lot …

Just a few days ago, one of my friends and I went to see the movie “Warm Bodies”, which seemed like one of the few interesting movies going on despite what some people had said about it in reviews on the internet. The few reviews and comments about it …

Play it Again Sam is a 1972 movie directed by Herbert Ross, not Woody Allen himself, but it is written by and starring Woody Allen, as the highly neurotic film —˜Alan’. Although he did not direct this film, the humor is wonderfully neurotic Woody Allen at its best. …

Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army, is a great summertime “popcorn” movie bursting at the seams with nonstop action and bizare, creative characters.
Ron Perlman was better in this sequel than he was in the original movie. Perlman brings a real level of humanity …

Independence Day, Wild. Wild West, Men in Black, I Robot, I legend. Main ingredient Will Smith plus flat imagination, lots of special effects. I fell asleep, I felt ripped off. There were dramatic moderately high points in the movie. The scripts were not original, Smith …

Iron Man (2008) is an action film by Jon Favreau that’s rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.
Iron Man is based on the famous comic book about a man named Tony Stark, who is both a billionare playboy, and a genius …

Scientists are contracted to take a two rich thrill seekers to the island where history comes to life, but unawares to the scientists is that they have an ulterior motive for wanting to go to the island, it would seem that they are searching for their son and they …

Come Back, Little Sheba is a classic black and white film made in 1952. When I first heard about this movie, I really thought Come Back, Little Sheba was about little more than a lost dog and his heartbroken owner. Come Back, Little Sheba is beautifully done, even though …

I first saw the horror movie “Stigmata” a little after I got cable television which would have been in about te year 2001 or 2002. Thus I was still a bit young at the time, and I only saw a part of the movie because I thought it was …

I avoided the Chronicles of Narnia for a long time because I thought it was one of those really trippy kid flicks that would end up being either really boring or so far-fetched that I’d just grow disinterested. It turns out that this movie really is far fetched. …

Murder in Swingtime is a movie short that features Les Hite and His Orchestra along with vocalist, June Richmond.
The interesting thing is that as you go along, you are led to believe that there is going to be a murder. There is a lot of hype about this. …

The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, which is a short story by legendary novelist Stephen King is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language and prison violence. The original release date was September 23, 1994 for United States audience. This movie falls in the …

I expected it to be a good and interesting movie. I like cop stories and I like Andy Garcia. But heck! What an absolutely dragging movie! For a cop movie in Hollywood, there was just too much talking. I could barely keep my eyes open.
Richard Gere’s character was too …

While heading the design credit for ‘Vacancy’, director Nimród Antal debut in the United States, it will remind Thriller classic Alfred Hitchkock in 1960, ‘Psycho’. Moreover, with music accompanied by a score likewise, the plus location with the ‘incident’ by remote motel run by men psychopathic, it would certainly …

Three male friends get bored with their everyday lives and all of a sudden decides to rob a bank. But not too unexpected, something doesn’t fall out as they would have hoped for.
I didn’t find this film uplifting or refreshing in any certain way. Mostly it’s just a copy …

So I’m sure many of you have either read the book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” either in your own time, or to your children. I myself, being only a recent “adult” can quite easily and fondly remember the days of curling up next to mom and …