Legally Blonde is a girly type of movie. This movie stars Reese Witherspoon as the determined law student who faces politicians and the law concerning animal cruelty. I thought that I would like this movie when I first saw the previews but once I rented it and watched it …

Sid and Nancy with Gary Oldmann and Chloe Webb.
Ever hear of the axiom, If you have nothing good to say, then it is best to say nothing?” Well this biography of the crash and burn life of Sid Vicious from the group Sex Pistols …

Road Show was a 1941 movie musical that starred Adolphe Menjou, who was one of the mainstays in motion pictures in this era. He was just everywhere. In this picture, he portrays Colonel Carleton Carroway.
The movie also starred Carole Landis as, get this, Penguin Moore. She …

The vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung is in my opinion one of the most interesting filmmakers the last 10-15 years, which he showed with brilliance in The Scent of Green Papaya and Cyclo. The Vertical Ray of the Sun was the most recent film he made and, similar to …

After my cousin told me that an animation movie titled “Frozen” is leading the box-office. I knew this movie had some great odds of getting on top of my best animation movies list with “Tangled”. Tangled was released in 2010 with a great funny, hooking story and heart conquering …

I just finished watching “The Fourth Kind” and can’t stop laughing. This was a pathetic attempt at a movie. The premise is similar to the Blair Witch film in that it is presented as a “mockumentary” complete with fake “archive footage and audio.” This is one of those movies …

Tom Cruise is an american military officer who is captures by the japanese and changes his view on everything about life. It is using the same story as the old classic miniseries Shogun once did and attempts to be a serious artistic Kurosawa-style feature. However, The Last Samurai is …

When the first series of Spiderman movies came out in the early 2000’s, my husband and I were quick to go see them. However, after the first two it became more of a run on series rather than a well thought out movie series. It was my exhaustion …

Pay It Forward is a nice movie in the genre of drama. The movie stars Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey. Haley Joel Osment, the kid who impressed everyone with his powerful performance in The Sixth Sense plays the pivotal role in this movie and he doesn’t …

Chances Are is a clever; engaging movie. It originates from the same movie pool of other movies involving rebirth of the soul; in a new physique. It demonstrates clearly the fact that movies are not tales but more precisely that they are about storytelling. In other …

“Artemisia” is the 1997 Miramax biopic of Artemisia Gentileschi, a seventeenth century Italian woman painter when women were not and were not allowed to be artists. Artemisia is played by Italian actor Valentina Cervi who was unknown to me before watching the movie. She plays a young, intense woman …

As I often do, I spent some time Friday looking through Netflix’s Instant Watch section for movies I could watch with my two girls.
One of the movies I came across was the VeggieTales movie Pistachio. This proved to be worth watching.
The movie (which is essentially one of their TV …

As a big fan of science fiction with cosmic themes, I decided to watch Interstellar despite the busy exam period. In the end, the movie absolutely worth the ticket price. If you are also a big fan of science fiction, do not read my review anymore and go watch …

The classic musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, originally based on a novel by T.S. Eliot, here transferred to the cinema.
I think it was a very colorful thing to look at, and some of the songs are unforgettable, but overall I think this felt more like a filmed musical stage …

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 …

Regal Natomas Marketplace 16 is the only theater near my house. Its located right on the boarder of a bad neighborhood. I would never go to this theater at night by myself. There is a rough crowd that hangs around it a night. The theaters always smell really bad, …

The original Men In Black was an excellent comedic action movie and a welcome twist on the all to common genre of alien movies. The comedy throughout this movie was real comedy, not the non-stop attempts at slapstick or idiotic humor that have begun to plague comedies as of …

As many others, my first experience with Cloverfield was during the opening set of previews for last year’s summer blockbuster Transformers. The movie was drenched in the bloody veins of terror, depicting some… thing laying waste to New York like with all its ability. Shrieks of people pierced the …

The movie had a power house cast. It includes Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys and Dakota Fanning. Set in the late 1964, the story recalls ethnical atrocities and family disorientation.
The story basically centers on the misery of Lily Owens ( Dakota Fanning ) who is …

Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton is rated PG-13 bythe Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was December 14, 1990 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Romance and stars Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder as Kim, Dianne Wiest as …

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is mexican filmmaker who showed his amazing talent half a decade ago with Amores Perros. 21 grams is his second film and it tells a very tragic and complex story, all told in flashbacks, of three people who meet each other for different reasons that are …

I try to keep up with the latest releases of gay and lesbian films so I ordered a movie called Hannah Free from Netflix last week. It stars Sharon Gless as an elderly butch lesbian who is in the same nursing home as her long time lover, who …

I had heard good things about the movie Up in the Air, including that it had been nominated for an Academy award for best picture. Also, I like George Clooney, who starred in the movie. So this was a movie I wanted to see in the theater, …

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach and written by Mike Myers is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Asociation of America for nudity, sex-related dialogue and humor. The original release date was May 2, 1997 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre …

This is supposed to be a more artsy depiction of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Paul Morrissey, perhaps the weirdest filmmaker ever, directed this. It stars Udo Kier as dr Frankenstein, the rest are mostly amateurs. I don’t know if I would call this film artsy, but it certainly was …

Kiss the Girls, directed by Gary Fleder is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for terror, violence and language. The original release date was October 3, 1997 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller and stars Morgan Freeman as Dr. Alex …

In the early parts of this movie, we see Martin Lawrence’s character RJ Stevens as a successful talk show host with a trophy lady by his side. He has made a name for himself by promoting the ‘Team of Me’ slogan. He gets an invite for a family reunion …

Sphere is a science-fiction thriller which was released in 1997, starring Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L Jackson. I remember seeing things about it when it came out and had a rough idea what it was about, but never actually watched it till now. The strong cast are …

Courage Under Fire, directed by Edward Zwick is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for war violence and language. The original release date was July 12, 1996 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Drama/Mystery/War and stars Denzel Washington as Lt. Colonel …

The Amityville Horror, starring Ryan Reynolds, whom is now rumored to be engaged to actress Scarlett Johansson.
The movie is believed to be based on a true story and there is nothing not terrifying about a thought out haunted house. This family moves in, suffer for 28 days …

13 Going On 30 is one of the most idiotic movies I have ever seen. My family saw it and convinced me to sit down and watch with them. Well, I will give 13 Going On 30 credit for getting the family to sit through one more viewing because …

To look at The Wild from a technical standpoint, the animation here was just fine. But from a story standpoint, it was hard for me to differentiate between The Wild, Lion King and Madagascar. All deal with the same issues roughly, especially The Wild and Lion King. Both deal …

American Violet is a movie that I knew very little about. I had been seeing a billboard advertising it inside one of the neighborhood restaurants I sometimes frequent. This still did not really grab my attention although I am an avid movie lover.
I ended up coming across the movie …

Mary and Max is a 2009 animation, comedy and drama movie directed by Adam Elliot. I recently had a great experience watching claymation animation movies, so I was looking for more. My search ended up on Mary and Max.
The movie proved to be a total disappointment. I hardly …

This is a Disney movie made back in 1942. It’s about a fawn who experiences life in all its goodness and sadness. The fawn’s name is Bambi.
I have to admit that I never watched this movie up until I had my son. I landed upon it accidentally, when I …

A rookie cop on her very first night on patrol encounters danger in a supermarket as it was being robbed while her more experienced partner was in the bathroom, she decides to make a move on the criminal as it is her job to protect and serve, nearing the …

I love movies! Especially movies about spies! They’re so action packed, so cool and the spies themselves are so hot! Well most of them are. That was my first impression when I saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s trailer for the first time. I was totally blown away!
The plot is …

This movie is awesome! The story is set in the year 10,000 B.C. and directed by Roland Emmerich. The cast includes Steven Strait as D’Leh, Camilla Belle as Evolet, Cliff Curtis as Tic’Tic, Joel Virgel as Nakudu, Affif Ben Badra as the Warlord, and Marco Khan as One-Eye. The …

This is the story of a government operative who is framed for the killings of Vietnam refuges and a Chinese ambassador, now he is on the run from both the FBI and the Chinese gangsters known as the Triad in order to clear his good name. majority of the …

I liked “The Girl Next Door” the first time I watched it, but I really enjoyed it more the second time around. I liked it so much, I actually bought it on DVD! I got a good deal, so even though I don’t feel the need to …

If you love movies of foreign languages, then you can try to watch this Korean movie titled, A Frozen Flower. I thought it’s a rather weird movie and at the same time, feels quite confused by it all. This movie is basically about royalty, about the “relationship” of …

Director: Mike Binder. Featuring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows and Donald Sutherland.
I thought it was a really good movie, although definitely not easy to watch. When I saw the trailer, I thought it was going to be more on a comedy side. The fact …

Another perennial favorite, like The Wizard of Oz, I eagerly looked forward to my yearly visit to my favorite chocolate factory. Returning each year were the five kids, each representing bad habits parents wish their kids wouldn’t develop: Augustus Gloop and his greediness and gluttony, Veruca Salt the selfish …

Spider-Man (2002) is an action film from director Sam Raimi and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA
Orphaned at a young age, Peter Parker (Toby Maguire) lived in Queens, New York with his loving Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) and Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson). Peter leads the life of a normal …

The New Springtime is the sequel to Robert Silverberg’s At Winter’s End. It continues the tale of Hresh, the Chronicler of the city of Dawinno. Much has happened in the forty years since the end of the Long Winter. Using the artifacts found in the ruins …

Failure of a hitman is not a situation that you could assess it as “funny.” However, it is perfectly possible in Wild Target, applying the opus of the typology “ordinary people put in extreme situations.”
Three main and unusual characters appear in this movie, a hitman who takes care of …

In the DVD movie I’ve watched, The Wedding Planner, it starred the unlikely duo; Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.
Jennifer’s character plays a pretty successful wedding planner and I really like her witty dialogs. Though you might be wondering that perhaps Jennifer and Matthew’s characters wouldn’t fit together …

Next Door is one weird film. If you like foreign cinema, you will like this movie. If you like foreign cinema with eroticism and suspense, then you will LOVE this movie. I will confess that I wasn’t sure exactly what was going on at first. …

M Moderate supernatural themes and violence.
Starring Josh Holloway
I will no tell a lie the main reason I decided to watch Whisper was because I am a big fan of Josh Holloway. (Sawyer from the TV series Lost). Fans of Mr Holloway will not be disappointed by this supernatural thriller.
Josh plays …

Freak Out is the kind of movie that seems to call my name whenever I pass the clearance rack at Hollywood Video. They were running a special on their previously viewed movies, and this one caught my eye. According to the box, it’s a type of horror movie spoof …