My Husband and I liked and own the first 300 movie (called The 300). For those who have never seen it, it tells the tale of the battle of 300 lone Spartan soldiers against a huge army and the powerful Xerxes. We watch the original 300 fairly frequently and …

Recently, I tried out Blockbuster’s Online Rentals, and it was an interesting experience.
The sign up process was simple enough, and I found the website to be fairly easy to use. I was on the 3-movies at a time program, and I began by making a very long list …

Director Tim Burton has produced a funny, quirky abdication to writer Roald Dahl’s famous story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This movie has only just come out in cinemas in Australia, in time for the school holidays.
The story is about a young, generous boy named Charlie Bucket. He lived …

One of my all time favourite child hood movies is Beauty and The Beast, so when it came out as a blu-ray edition over The Christmas period I jumped at the chance to be able to purchase it.
With the package came three separate DVD’s. The movie in …

Sex in the City, The Movie was fabulous. I missed the HBO series because I don’t get HBO. Over two weeks, I rented all five years from Blockbuster.com and couldn’t watch them fast enough. Is it over the top sometimes? Yes. Is there any reality? …

This movie is the American version of the original Japanese version’s The Eye, and I honestly think it was poorly done. The effects were much scarier and of course, the original movie was different from this one as it had omitted parts that were much scarier than by watching …

Jack Woods (Randy Quaid), an American businessman, comes to Ireland on company business. Shortly after his arrival he happens to save a life of a leprechaun, Seamus Muldoon (Colm Meaney). Soon Jack finds himself involved in the problems of a world populated by leprechaun and fairies. The two races …

When I came across the movie Wedding Daze on television, I thought it was the comedy starring Jason Biggs. Instead, it was a Hallmark Original movie that, for a comedy, was actually very dumb.
It’s really disappointing that an actor like John Laroquette, who made his mark as a womanizer …

This is the incredibly heartbreaking film by Emir Kusturica that won the golden palm in Cannes. Kusturica portraits a gypsy family that is slightly bizarre in the way they act, at least from my own point of view. However, the eldest son of the family falls in love with …

Tristan is a knight in the Dark Ages of Britain when it was still ruled by tribes instead of under one king. When his families castle is attacked during a meeting of the tribes leaders, his parents are killed and he is taken in by his fathers friend Lord …

This movie is a spoof of the Frank Miller’s telling of the tale of the Spartans, the movie known as 300. Basically everything from start to finish about this movie is similar to 300 with the exception of that it’s a pun of the movie. In addition, almost everything …

Even though I watched the movie “The Sixth Sense” when I was about eleven or twelve years old, I can still remember it as though it were just yesterday, since at the time is scared me a little and I thought the twist in the plot was unusual. It …

I finally watched She’s Out of My League last night. I’ve seen the movie trailer and behind the scenes stuff at HBO a couple of months ago and I liked it. It’s one of the romantic comedy movies that you see, have a few laughs and then totally …

This is the story of a man who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and winds up being caught up in happenings that could very well be to his detriment. After being charged with a crime and on his way to prison to …

Michael J. Fox stars as Brantley Foster in The Secret of My Success. The film came out in 1987 and to me, Fox still looked so young. Even in Family Ties, he seemed very young to me. Here he’s leaving the farm to go make it …

Twister, directed by Jan De Bont is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense depiction of very bad weather. The original release date was May 10, 1996 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Drama/Thriller and stars Helen Hunt as Dr. …

My Fair Lady is definitely one of the best Audrey Hepburn films to date. I’m not enthralled by the designer, Ralph Lauren and his bygone collection inspired from this musical film. But it aroused my interest to watch it anyway. All its posters in Technicolor suggested …

A series of events, that have no real reason other than to lead up to what this movie is about, leave the tunnel that connects Manhattan to New Jersey in a weakened and near destroyed state. With people trapped inside the tunnel, and water is coming in tempting to …

Starring:
Jim Carrey (Walter Sparrow/Fingerling), Virginia Madsen (Agatha Sparrow/Fabrizia), Logan Lerman (Robin Sparrow), Danny Huston (Issac French/Dr Miles),
I was not sure what to expect from this movie, though the synopsis described the obsession of a man with a book. I had taken this DVD up, as I …

Con Air was released in 1997 by Touchstone pictures.The movie stars Nicholas Cage as Cameron Poe, a newly discharged Army Ranger, who returns home to Mobile Alabama to meet his pregnant wife.Cameron Poe gets in a bar fight while defending his wife and accidentally kills a man.He goes to …

I been watching the Transporter series for quite a while already. I was clearly impressed on how cool was the “Frank Martin” character.
In this third series, it involves Frank transporting a kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Clearly for a start, I had difficulties catching up on …

Silent Night, Deadly Night is a Christmas themed horror movie from the 1980s. The movie tells the story of a young boy who watches his parents get killed by a man dressed up as Santa Claus. When he gets older, he seems to have his life on track and …

I think this movie fell into the sophomore trap—”it wasn’t as good as its predecessor. There is a story though, which is good. Actually, there are many stories going on but they are not too heavy to get the viewer confused. Not much thinking required actually, which after all …

Pathfinder, directed by Marcus Nispel is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong brutal violence throughout. The original rlease date for this movie was April 13, 2007 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Drama/History/Thriller/War and stars Karl Urban as ghost, …

Normally, whenever a movie is a surprise hit, someone can’t wait to make a sequel to it and, more often than not, that sequel doesn’t even come close to the original.
This was the case of Harold & Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay.
The first movie, Harold & Kumar Go to Whitecastle …

From 1953, Latin Lovers was a fun romantic comedy about a woman with a whole lot of money she didn’t really care about. Played by Lana Turner, Nora Taylor would rather be in love than deal with her $37 million dollars. Persuing her is confident Paul Chevron, …

Normally I enjoy most creature and scary animal movies, but I found this one a large disappointment. When I first heard about Cemetery Gates I was quite eager to see it as I had never seen a horror movie about a Tasmanian devil. So when I did see it, …

My wife and I have been spending a great deal of time watching the show Ghost Hunters. So, as a change of pace, I decided to watch what I like to refer to as the original Ghost Hunters; the movie Ghost Busters.
This film, though a bit dated, is still …

Petshop of Horrors is a Japanese anime about a man named Detective Leon, he is investigating a man who owns a pet shop in Chinatown, and his name is Count D. He sells rare and exotic animals to his costumers. People seem to end up dead under …

The film that touched the world is how Steven Spielberg would describe his work, and for a good cause. People all over the world has been utterly spellbound by the story of a stranded alien who befriends a human toddler. I cannot remember how many times I …

A simple camping trip that went well soon ends up in the toilets, while on their way back home from the camping trip, the Hendersons accidentally ran over a strange but large creature. When they stopped to take a closer look at what they hit, they could not make …

This movie is perfect for kids because it’s in 3D and it features dragons of all sizes and shapes, it also shows how to “train” and “educate” your dragon, be it as dangerous as they are in real life but this is cartoons, so the kids loved watching it. …

Jungle Fever is a 1991 drama movie starring Wesley Snipes.It is essentially a film about interracial relationships.The interracial relationship explored is a black architect named Flipper having a relationship with an Italian woman Angela.he commits adultery from his wife with Angie.The movie also goes into some detail with Flipper’s …

Since I’ve watched all the previous installments of Fast And Furious, I knew what to expect from the fourth part. And I was not disappointed. The best thing about this part is Vin Diesel and Paul Walker back together. This could easily be the follow up for the …

I took my toddler and my teenage daughter to see Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. We all enjoyed this movie, and my three year old actually set and wathced the whole thing. That is a true testament of a movie that is colorful and exciting to watch. The …

Eden Lake is one of those films that you’re really going to get into right away. It starts off like any other film, with the obligatory couple going off to enjoy the wilderness alone and really have a great time. This couple heads to Eden Lake …

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, …

Harold and Kumar went to White Castle for a snack in 2004. The comedy would become one of the biggest hits in the stoner community. Four years later Harold and Kumar are heading to a whole new place and this time they won’t be eating any mini burgers at …

Hilary Swank does a wonderful job as an angst-filled teenager who is in desperate need of Mr. Miagee’s teaching and guidance.
I was always a big fan of The Karate Kid, all three of them in fact. But, I’m a girl, and Danny was a boy. So, as …

“Desperado” is the funny action movie that made the actors, Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek very famous in Hollywood. Hayek was hardly known in Hollywood before this movie. It seems that the director, Quentin Tarantino so much liked this movie that he personally asked to be given a small …

I actually haven’t heard of nor seen a trailer of the movie Awake. I have learned about it through my friend who had watched it and after he giving me an overview of its story, I instantly want to watch it.
Awake is about Clay Beresford played by Hayden Christensen, …

I had expected a lot from this movie since it featured my list of favorite actors like John Travolta and Martin Lawrence, as well as Tim Allen and William Macy as the four main cast in the movie. Marisa Tomei and Ray Liotta are also in the movie and …

Problem Child, taken from the pages of a comic book and tv series and tossed unto the silver screen with hopes of getting a hugh payday. This movie was a disaster from the very first time time it was even considered as being put into production for a feature …

I am reviewing The Crooked Man, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, produced by Granada television in 1983. This episode finds Sherlock Holmes involved with a case at Watson’s request. It involved the military, a group of people Holmes would …

If there is one thing that makes me really enjoy Tripping the Rift, it is the Dark Clowns. They are the best thing this series has going for it, and episodes which center around them are generally much better than the others. This one is no exception, …

I have always been a fan of Movie DVDs, at every opportunity I try and get hold of some of the latest releases for free or as little and legal as possible. And in all fairness lovefilm.com has come up top.
For 14 days at a time I am able to …

When we first saw previews for the movie Adventures of a Teenaged Drama Queen, we thought it would be a somewhat funny movie. Turns out it was actually quite dull.
Unless you like seeing a teenaged Lindsay Lohan in a tight red dress, there really isn’t much value to this …

I am reviewing the movie, Rush Hour 2 starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Chris plays Carter, a loudmouth, no nonsense, comedic cop. Jackie plays Lee, a hardworking, serious, dedicated detective from Hong Kong. The second movie starts out with the two actors enjoying some …