Movies Reviews
Notorious movie
From 1946, Notorious is a classic movie that has been respected and admired since it was made. It’s a movie of intrigue right from the start. It keeps you on your toes, uncertain of motivations and realities.
Filmed in black and white, Notorious stars Cary Grant as T.R. …
Bounty Hunter Bountifully Boring
The movie stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, each other’s exes from their short lived marriage and preceding short lived dating relationship. He is an ex-cop and has taken on a job as a bounty hunter in order to make his living. It just so happens that …
30 Rock Season 2
The second season of 30 Rock was cut short because of the writer’s strike, which is something that I didn’t realize when I first started watching it online through Netflix. Despite the fact that it was missing 5-6 episodes off the regular season length, this was still pretty good. …
Confessions (Japanese Movie)
Confessions (Kokuhaku) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on Kanae Minato’s 2008 debut mystery novel.
A friend of mine recommended the movie to me, she is very excited about it and is practically chanting “must watch” over and over again! Knowing that we’ve quite similar …
A Very Special Love starring John Lloyd Cruz and Sarah Geronimo
Last 2008, my girlfriend asked me to take her to watch another feel-good love story starring Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Good. As I have posted in my previous reviews, I am a no fan of these kind of movies especially Filipino films.
The film was about Sarah Geronimo …
Film Sleepy Hollow
God bless him, Tim Burton has taken Irving Washington’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow and turned it into a first class horror movie and a beautiful romance too. I’ve always disliked the original tale because, despite his flaws, you care about Ichabod Crane and you want him to get the …
Amazing Grace by Michael Apted
Amazing Grace by director Michael Apted is based on the true story about William Wilberforce and his quest to end slavery in Britain. Before watching this movie, I knew nothing about slavery beyond the United States. Heroes such as Wilberforce were unknown to me. This movie, with enthusiastic acting …
The Couple (Aryan Couple)
I found “The Couple” to be an engaging, entertaining movie. The October 2006 movie is just the latest in what has almost become a genre in filmmaking: the efforts to prevent Jews from going to a concentration camp and to rescue them from Nazi Germany.
I like the story of …
The Truman Show
Fifteen years ago, what takes place in this movie would have seemed impossible. Today, with all kinds of reality shows imaginable, it is eerily realistic. The main character, a young man named Truman (Jim Carrey), is an unsuspecting star of a big reality show. Since his birth, he had …
Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
Another scary movie I have watched with my boyfriend is Messengers 2: The Scarecrow. The movie starts out with a young woman, running in a corn field; her face distressed and scared. She was the killed; the movie not showing who had killed her.
The movie then transitions to a …
Valentine’s Day (2010) movie
Valentine’s day was pretty much set up to do great, from its very release. The cast they had was just ridiculous in size and talent. It ranges from Julia Roberts to Taylor Swift in the most experienced actors to ones with very little experience.
The story itself is very …
Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is about a Russian gang in London and how the Russian mafia deals with things. It has wonderful cinematography, that is the way the movie is filmed is fantastic. It is sickeningly violent at times, …
Movie Duplex
Release Date: 2003
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 89 minutes
Directed by: Danny DeVito
Written by: Larry Doyle, John Hamburg
Starring: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell
Alex and Nancy (played with comic charm by Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore) are a young couple who find a seemingly perfect home in Brooklyn. The duplex has only one …
I Love You, Phillip Morris (movie)
Recently I have been going through some movies on a blog that a person listed as the funniest movies that they had seen that were released within the past two years. Well, the movie “I Love You, Phillip Morris” was one of them, and I only got to see …
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
This was an excellent drama starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, in roles that are quite different than anything else I have seen either of them in.
The two actresses play teachers at a British school. Barbara (Dench) is a closet lesbian, and Sheba (Blanchett) is having an affair with …
A Series of Unfortunate Events the Movie
I have read the entire series of the Series of Unfortunate Events books, and have a strange love for them. They are filled with misfortune and woe, but at the same time a mystery, suspense, and little joys and happiness that make it absolutely fantastic. The movie was—¦well—¦a disaster. …
Insidious Chapter 2 (Film 2013)
I decided to watch Insidious Chapter 2 after of course seeing the preview on TV one evening. Given that I had already watched the first movie, I was expecting another one to come after the ending to the first. The first insidious ended in such a way where I …
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
This is the movie about a janitor who loses his memory as he awakes beside a dead body of an FBI Agent in a hotel room. Convinced that he is a CIA Agent, he leaves the hotel with a bag full of money where he is picked up by …
Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth is a phenomenal movie based on the novel written by Jodi Picoult. It was aired on Lifetime TV. It grabs your attention within the first 5 minutes, and holds your attention throughout.
The basis of the movie is an Amish girl that has a baby that is …
Away from Her
I actually went looking for this for this movie in DVD. The teasers made a compelling case for how Alzheimer ’s disease impacts the lives of people every day. Of course the movie came with the required outpouring of various Hollywood actors telling their sad tales of …
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Iron Man blew the box office away in 2008. Now, two years later, Iron Man 2 has done it again with Robert Downey Jr.’s extravagant performance as Tony Stark aka Iron Man.
One of the thing I enjoyed most about the first Iron Man, was its ability to maintain …
High School Musical: Bubblegum Pop
There’s nothing better than a hot cup of cocoa and a movie. Inasmuch as the acting is flat, the characters vapid and bordering on caricature, the music a work of a bygone age of pop, and a little too wholesome for high school, I had an amazing time watching …
Basic Instinct 2
This movie was so unbelievably bad that I am ashamed to say that I own it in my movie collection. I purchased this disgusting excuse for filmmaking in a second-hand DVD sale. The movie has been sitting in my Netflix queue pretty much since it came out …
Batman
Several years ago, before Christian Bale took over the title role in a re-invention of the franchise, Michael Keaton wore a cape and became Batman. And, even today, this movie (unlike the sequels after it) remains one of my favorite super hero films.
Keaton does a great job playing Batman …
Knocked Up (2007)
A one night stand between two drunk consenting adults lead them to an unwanted pregnancy that the woman intends to keep no matter what. When she realized that she was actually with child, she called up the guy she had the one night stand with and asked him to …
The King Is Back Movie
After almost 60 years, the king has returned to his position as the monumental gorilla. Set in the same time period, the depression era, the 1930’s in New York City.
The beautiful blonde actress Anne Daryl (Naomi Watts), once played by actress Faye Wray. She beats the pavement to pursue …
Sniper (1993)
Experienced U.S. marine sniper Thomas Beckett is paired with rookie sniper Richard Miller and are sent into the bushes of the Panama jungle to locate and silence a drug lord in the area, they are dropped off a distance away from the kill zone and they must work their …
Happy Feet Movie
I saw “Happy Feet” earlier this year after seeing commercial’s for it on TV. I had been told that it was just going to be a cartoon version of another penguin documentary. However, this was not at all the case! I really, really enjoyed watching the …
Movie: The Land Time Forgot
It was a bit cold and foggy this morning so, since I couldn’t go outside to work in the garden, I ended up watching some movies instead.
One of those movies was a film I had loaded on our Netflix instant watch; The Land Time Forgot. I mainly loaded it …
Dumb & Dumber
I don’t think anyone else but Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey could play Harry and Lloyd. You hear that all the time, that so-and-so are born to play a role, but Jim Carrey was Lloyd Christmas, and Jeff was Harry Dunne. They both stepped into these characters seamlessly, artfully. …
Meet the Spartans
I’m slowly becoming more disappointed with the way comedy movies are going in the United States. There was a time where I could go to the movies (a comedy) and find myself laughing hysterically for a good hour and a half. Now I find myself staring at the screen …
Tales from the Crypt-Demon Knight
A horror/comedy type adventure starring William Sadler as a demon knight and Billy Zane as a demon. Death comes to the doorstep of a stranded demon knight and he has to defend the fort or suffer the wrath of a demon and its minions. Jada Pinkett (not married yet) …
Friday the 13th Part 6
Friday the 13th part 6 isn’t my favorite, but there are a few scenes that I really love. One thing that I loved is that two 1980’s actors from soap operas appear in the movie. The first is a man who played Duncan on As the World Turns. On …
Movie: From Prada to Nada
I first saw this title on my T.V. guide as I was scrolling to search for programs to record on my Rogers PVR.
From Prada to Nada sounded like a catchy name for a film and it caught my attention when I looked at the info on the movie. …
House of Wax
House of Wax is a horror movie that most people hated right away, but I liked it. I wouldn’t say that I loved the movie, but I didn’t think it was nearly as bad as everyone said. I’ve never seen the original movie and all I know of it …
Ninotchka
I am a major fan of classic movies and I actually have a big VHS and DVD movie collection. Among those I cherish most is “Ninotchka”, the first motion picture where Greta Garbo laughed. It may not sound extraordinary, but it was, because Garbo was largely known …
Serpico
Throughout the film “Serpico”, Serpico is confronted with multiple instances of police corruption. Serpico was presented with the challenge of doing what was right and ethical and what the rest of the officers in his division wanted him to. Serpico tries to fix the problem from within, but his …
Elizabethtown the movie
Orlando Bloom may be a great character actor and eye candy for women every where but, as a leading actor, he leaves a lot to be desired.
The movie Elizabethtown had great intentions and could have been a great love story. But, in my opinion, it fell flat. Kirsten Dunst …
“Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides” (2011 Film)
I can honestly say that the fourth film of the “Pirates of Carribean” series worried me. The first three films were remarkably casted, well laid out, and left me laughing and one the edge of my seat with suspence. However, after seeing the fourth film in theaters, “Pirates of …
Evolution movie
“Evolution” was a comedy film which was released in the year 2001. I can remember thinking when I saw it advertising to be released in theatres that it was the first in a long time that I had seen the X-FIles actor David Duchovny in a movie. I can …
Bed of Roses
The movie “Bed of Roses” represents an attempt from Christian Slater to make another movie similar to “Untamed Heart”. This movie came at a time where Slater wanted to move on with his acting career and leave his past bad boy image behind him. Through this movie Slater failed …
Monster In Law movie
I don’t know if the whole Jennifer Lopez thing is all played out. But seeing her in another “Getting Married” movie is just not cutting it for me anymore. This movie is another don’t watch film starring J-Lo. If you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. This film is …
Fun with Dick and Jane movie
Yes, this movie was funny but I miss the old Jim Carrey. This is not nearly as funny as some of his prvious hits like Liar, Liar or Ace Ventura. This movie is more up to par with Bruce Almighty so it definitely has its funny parts …
The Duchess movie
I just finished watching this movie at home and I should say that I like the performance of Keira Knightley who does the led role of Georgina Spencer Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire. I think Keira did a marvellous job because she looks very elegant and beautiful in …
Earth: movie
This is, and hold on to your chair, my absolute favorite film of all time. I just wanted to clear that out before anything else. As I am a fan of cinema, that is the visual element before anything, the basic story in Earth isn’t really that interesting. Of …
Three men and a baby
Three men and a baby is a very touching movie and it is very heart warming experience that one feels while watching the movie. The movie starts off like a guy movie with three guys and their stints and efforts. These three guys are bachelors and the journey starts …
The Number 23
I watched the DVD movie, The Number 23 before and this story is from the Director Joel Schumacher.
There are lots of mixed feelings and reviews about this movie from my friends and all but I would still go for a positive rating. The main actor in this …
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