I was expecting The Invention of Lying to be a romantic comedy, and only a decent one, because while I love Ricky Gervais, I do not enjoy the movies which Jennifer Garner does. I figured Gervais’ wonderful, sarcastic, dry, British humour would carry this movie. While Gervais was great, …

A Christmas Carol, 1999, starring Patrick Stewart, has left me disappointed. I love the story, and I thought Stewart could make a good Scrooge, but his performance had not touched me at all. The movie followed the book closely enough. Scrooge, a lonely, hard-hearted businessman, hates Christmas because he …

I finally gave in and watched the movie The Messengers with my wife yesterday afternoon. And, even though I’ve never seen the film, I felt like I did.
The problem with The Messengers is, for a horror film, it’s really not all that scary. And, it’s because they used the …

This is a beautiful, although sad, movie. The story takes place in 1849 New York. Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) is the daughter of Dr. Sloper (Ralph Richardson), a very wealthy man and a cruel, tyrannical father. Catherine’s mother had died in childbirth - Catherine’s birth. Not only Dr. Sloper …

Be careful what you wish for this is the story line behind this movie as a young man craving love and attention from a beautiful woman strikes a deal with the devil in human form. Every wish that he makes comes to reality but with a dark twist and …

I wasn’t able to see “All the King’s Men” with Sean Penn when it went through the theatres, but look forward to seeing in on DVD. I recently watched the 1949 version with Broderick Crawford and loved it. It’s in black and white, a medium that is used far …

I saw the Inside Access Jeff Gordon DVD at the store and picked it up, thinking that it might be interesting. I’m not a fan of the racer, but I do think he’s talented and does some great things both on and off the track. I put it in …

I found this movie to be drawn out, lacking in valuable information known in the real Black Dahlia murder, and more of a love story than a mystery.
Being a huge fan of true crime books and movies I anticipated the release of The Black Dahlia on dvd. I had …

Fight Club (1999) is a drama directed by David Fincher and is rated R by the MPAA.
Fight Club is about a lonely, young man (Edward Norton) who can only find comfort in going to terminal ilness and disease support groups. While on a business trip he comes across …

Fantastic 4 back in action, now Reed will marry Sue, Johnny while still picked charm and beautiful girl in the section, while the more sticky with Ben lover, Alicia. However, before the wedding Reed and Sue, suddenly appears only thing strange figure silver, surf in space. Reed dubs this …

Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, is an enjoyable family oriented comedy. It won’t win any Oscars, but it’s one you feel fairly safe watching with your kids. There is some very mild bad language, but it’s pretty tame even for its PG rating. My one biggest complaint (Spoiler alert) …

Cold Souls is an excellent independent film to sink your teeth into. Paul Giamatti does an excellent job, as usual, of playing a flawed and likeable character, only this time the character is himself. The plot is quite simple, Paul is an actor who needs help disengaging from the …

The first Friday the 13th movie is the one that few people remember. They forget that Kevin Bacon appeared in the movie, and they forget that Jason Vorhees was merely an afterthought. Most people completely forget that it was actually his mother who was the first killer.
Watching this movie …

I think this animated film is perhaps one of the never-ending type of movies that I will definitely be catching a lot of times in this year 2008. I think that perhaps 2008 will be a very good year of animations and the likes and in this very funny …

A 1995 production, In the Shadow of Evil stars Treat Williams as detective who suffers a nasty fall and hit on his head and then develops a type of amnesia. He remembers many things, but much of his short term memory is gone. The sticky wicket of …

Actors from an old cult-rated science fiction tv-series are contacted by aliens. Somehow the signals from the tv-series have reached the aliens and they think it has to do with the history of earth, which of course is far from the truth.
The film is a comedy, rather odd one …

Fury of the Wolfman (1973)
The first disappointing Waldemar film of Paul Naschy’s career was the victim of a haphazard production schedule that saw much of the film never actually shot and padded footage from Marca Del Hombre Lobo inserted.
Pretty standard fare has Waldemar bitten by the yeti (!) …

Pet Sematary is s very scary movie. I think this is one of Stephen King’s best movies ever made to date. The thing that was scary about this movie was that is had lots of things to do with death and ghosts. I also think that the movie was scary …

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte is a movie about an old woman, Charlotte, who is played by Bette Davis. I love Bette Davis and certainly Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte is one of her best films. So Charlotte is living the remaining years of her life in an old mansion with …

My boyfriend and I have been watching all of the Star Wars movies from the very beginning. After really becoming addicted to A New Hope, I knew that I had to watch the next film on the list, “The Empire Strikes Back”. This movie really made me see further …

Kung Fu Panda is a movie about a panda (no surprises there) named Po who aspires to become a kung fu warrior.
Not surprisingly enough, the new blockbuster from DreamWorks, was an enormous sucess. The usual deal from DreamWorks, high quality animation (great details), funky characters, occational gags… …

This movie was very interesting and exciting. It was a little bit long though but it kept me interested in it. It started off very nicely and went straight into the movie. It was towards the middle and end that I felt it dragged on a little bit. It …

DNAngel Episode 8 has Sehara falling for a girl that he sees in a museum when he’s trying to take a picture of the Agate Links necklace that Dark is supposed to steal.
This was a pretty good episode. The plot was pretty interesting and it gave us even …

Toy Story 3 is the third installment in the long-running Toy Story series of films by Pixar and Disney. It centers around some of the main toys from the past two movies, such as Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear the space adventurer, as they prepare for the …

On reading some of the reviews for the 2013 movie Snowpiercer, it was easy for me to assume that the movie would not have been any good since it was heavily criticised by a lot of people. However, after watching it for myself I strongly agree that while it did …

I am a huge fan of the Narnia books so you can imagine how excited I was when I heard that The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was coming to the big screen. As is the case with the Harry Potter movies, I enjoy all the Naria …

Easter Parade is a very nice holiday musical with a tip top cast that includes Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, and Peter Lawford. It’s full of good songs, including the title number which is, naturally, the centerpiece of the motion picture.
Oddly, though, I’m not a huge fan of Easter …

For me, one of the big things I liked about Due South: Manhunt is that guest star Leslie Nielsen was able to show some of his dramatic abilities. For years, Nielsen did almost nothing but serious roles. Then he hit it big with the parodies like Airplane, …

Michael Nouri has the title role in the 1984 film, Spraggue. Glynis Johns, James Cromwell, and Mark Herrier co-star. This has all the earmarks of a TV pilot, complete with title of “Murder for Two.” It may have been shown on one of the mysteries of …

At first I loved this service. I loved picking my two DVDs out online, getting them in the mail, watching them, returning them, getting two new ones at the store, and getting two other ones in the mail the next day. It seriously was a fast return and like …

One of the most interesting movies that I watched maybe about two months ago was a French movie called “A Prophet”. Like many of the movies I watched vey recently, I read about it in a popular movie blog before I decided to try it out, because it got …

I took off yesterday afternoon and, since I discovered there isn’t anything good on TV Friday afternoons, I ended up watching a movie I had DVR’d a couple weeks ago; Mongolian Death Worm.
The movie, which in my opinion is pretty much a rip off of the film Tremors, was …

I was really pleasantly surprised by this film. I watched it on my Virgin on Demand service - I was basically browsing for an easy, fun, romantic comedy and thought this fit the bill from the description.
It’s not just a ‘chick flick’ or your predictable Romcom though.
First off, our …

I am reviewing the movie, Eight Men Out, which was released in 1988. This movie centers on the 1919 fall of American Sports, when the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. The film centers around Shoeless Joe Jackson, played by DB Sweeny; Eddie Cicotte, played by David Strathairn; …

When my kids first heard about the LEGO Movie it was all they would talk about for weeks. I have to admit that even though I tried to act cool about it, I was pretty excited too. This movie had an all-star cast with everyone from Morgan Freeman to …

I am reviewing the Superior 71 Drive-in Theater located between Okoboji and Estherville, IA. This drive in has been in operation for only two years, and I can’t say enough good things about it. I am in my twenties, but I have always loved the idea of …

I had expected the movie —˜Gomorrah’ to be dark and violent, as the plot is about gangs in modern-day Naples, Italy, and it was certainly as I expected. What I hadn’t expected was that, along with the murder and drugs that are prominently featured in this sub-titled film, the …

Starring Emilio Estevez, The Mighty Ducks is a movie about a lawyer (Gordon Bombay) who gets arrested for DUI. He is ordered to do 500 hours of community service, where he must serve as a head coach of a Minneapolis Peewee hockey team. At first he is reluctant to …

Forever Lulu is a 2000 movie that took forever to be released. In fact, the independent picture never did make a real theatrical run and was ultimately released on DVD. However, while foreign titles went under the film name of Forever Lulu, in the United States, the …

This was one of the most awaited movies of the year. It was released last week and I watched it and was quite impressed by the movie . The story is a fantasy taking us back to 10000 B.C. with a fiction situation of a fantasy land where …

You actually realise how important a creative script writer is when you watch two movies with the same story line. The difference between both of them can be the level of acting and the creativity involved.
This is the case of the movie “Chasing Liberty” that has the same storyline …

Welcome is a story about gangsters who are looking for a groom for their sister, although they are gangsters they are looking for a simple, honest man with neat character so that their sister can be married to him and live a neat life. The story has a lot …

“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 …

The fact that most sequels nowadays fail to grasp the success of their predecessors is just pure tragic. The world needs fresh ideas, or perhaps an innovation of original stories sequels are based to. But few filmmakers understood that, so instead of getting rave reviews from everyone, they are mostly …

Brigadoon is an MGM musical from 1954 that still delights to this day. It’s a quieter fare than most, but it has a genuine quality to it that lulls the viewer in. This movie is relevant to today, too, because we’re still in such a rat race, …

I did not see this movie until some tinme after it was released. I didn’t even see it advertise and that could have been because I was a bit busy around the time it was released. However, after finding out about it I was a bit eager to watch …

I watched ‘Vicky, Christina, Barcelona’ last night and could certainly see glimmerings of Woody Allen’s philosophical depth and cynicism in the interactions between the three lead roles - Vicky, Christina and Juan.
The locales in Spain are beautifully shot and I like the narrative style of the film. The threesome …

Watching a Stephen King movie or television show is always a little difficult. The man has a serious talent when it comes to spinning tales that keep the reader riveted and turning the pages. However when those tales hit the big or little screen there seems to …

Out of the many movies that I’ve seen over my lifetime, this is one of those that stands out because of how it frightened me when I watched it one Sunday when I was still a fairly young child. I remember how strange the entire thing was too because …