Wow…this movie is just great! With Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles as main actor/actress, a great script (come on! the storyline is based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of The Shrew!) nothing could go wrong, and nothing did went wrong!
Of course, this movie is much more suitable for gals - …

Yesterday was the fourth time I’ve registered for Netflix. I’ve been a member before but have cancelled my membership three times thinking we would be cutting back on our movie watching. And, once again, we found we are better off with the service.
The thing I like about Netflix is …

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
The movie industry has always been filled with historical fiction from its inception. Fanciful depictions of factual incidents has graced Hollywood screens for the better part of the last century. While Hollywood movies employ their share of historical advisors, movies are out to entertain, not to …

The newest movie in the batman franchise titled “The Dark Knight” is simply one of if not the best movie I have ever seen. From beginning to end it had me on the edge of my seat. In every scene that passed I only had one thought that …

Russian filmmaker Elem Klimov, who is most famous for is incredibly well crafted anti-war statement “Come and See!”, has in Agonia chosen to depict some russian history. The film takes place in the 19th century and involves how the Emperor of Russia is being decieved by the greedy Rasputin. …

(Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke)
Heads you live. Tails you die. And this movie definitely lives! This “story” about the first female bounty hunter, Domino (Knightley) is a full tilt, off the chart super pumped extravaganza of action, chaos, and mayhem. The high-octane, deliriously shot scenes do …

Saturdays are reserved for some quality time with my four siblings and last Saturday, we had a fun and memorable bonding. After eating out together we watched a movie at home. We borrowed a DVD from a friend and I let the kids watched Kung Fu Hustle.
Kung Fu …

One of my absolute favourite movies to watch as a child was “War of the Buttons”. Funny enough though, I never actually knew the name of the movie since it was something that I had only seen playing on local television. This was alldespite the fact that I searched …

When people have too much money and nothing to do, they do weird stuff. That’s what happens in this movie: Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), a millionaire, invites five of the world’s best and most famous detectives to what he calls “dinner and a murder.” Their task is to A) …

Harold and Kumar: Go to White Castle was released 30 July 2004. The movie had everything actually happening in one night alone. Harold Lee, a korean guy works as an associate at an investment bank. While Kumar Patel is actually a sort of “Happy go Lucky” kind of …

I had gone to see Dark Knight when it was just released in theaters, I was very interested to go and see it. With all the hype surrounding it, well deserved hype I must say. The Dark Knight is the most successful movie in the whole batman series.
The movie …

‘In the Name of the Father’ is a 1993 film directed by Jim Sheridan based on a true story.
The background is the conflict between the Irish Catholics and British Protestants escalates in the 1970s in Northern Ireland. To prevent IRA’s terrorist bombing, the British government gives special rights to …

You want a weird movie? Watch Identity. Talk about a movie that will make you think! The cast is full of actors you already know such as John Cusak (Ed), Rebecca DeMornay (Caroline) and Ray Liotta (Rhodes). Everyone in the movie, all the characters, are out in the desert. …

This movie really interested and intrigued me since I love swimming and everything outdoors and my husband was a licensed diver himself, and we wanted to watch this since we thought we could relate to the movie, and we did. The movie is called Sanctum and they say the …

The sequel to the first movie and a continuing saga, this movie tells the story of the continued struggle of co-existence between humans and mutant kind. Similar to the happenings of the comic book and the TV series, this movie jumps from scene to scene in an attempt to …

I have seen all of the National Lampoon Vacation movies. Christmas vacation is easily the worst of the four but I think European Vacation is one of those movies that isn’t as good as the first “Family Vacation” or the last, “Vegas Vacation.”
That’s not to say it is a …

I hesitated in watching the movie “The Danish Girl” for a long time because I wasn’t sure that I would find it fascinating enough for me to like. However, eventually I warmed to the idea and decided to take the risk watching it, especially after I realised that it received …

Holy Water is a comedy with a lot of good humor that justifies two rules, namely: first, the British films worth seen, and second, the presence of famous actors and directors is not a guarantee for a good movie.
In other words, I watched a movie with actors that I …

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 …

Killing them softly is a crime film that takes the genre completely to another level. The characters and cinematography is top notch however, I found the story to be a bit on the weaker side.
Talking about camera-work, this mob film sure is a breath of fresh air. The joint-smoking …

I am reviewing The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series 39 Thrilling Episodes. This series was produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France in the fifties. Ronald Howard, the son of actor Leslie Howard, …

Because I Said So is a Romantic comedy where the mother tries to find her daughter a “mate” by putting up a personal ad on the internet. While it has it’s funny moments and of course all things work out in the end it is a slow movie. It …

The Foresaken is one of the many horror movies that were rushed into production following the success of Scream. The makers grabbed a handful of attractive actors, and slapped together a movie without giving it a lot of though.
On the surface this is a typical teen vampire movie, …

After life is the movie that left me guessing and I couldn’t sleep after watching it. Is Christina Ricci really dead there or alive? Was Liam Neeson a good guy who speaks to the dead or some psycho creep that kills people who don’t deserve to live, like what …

When I watch the trailer the end of last year, I could’t wait for this movie to be released on the cinema on the neighborhood and I just got the chance to watch the movie yesterday. Eventually, this movie worth the wait.
I like the actors, and actually one of …

David Cronenberg (SCANNERS, THE FLY) makes a long awaited return to the director’s chair with a fantastic feature film version of the God-awful comic book of the same name.
A man’s past comes back to haunt him after his face is plastered all over the news after he shoots two …

Raising Arizona, starring Nicholas Cage, is a movie directed by the Coen brothers, who also directed such classics as O Brother Where Art Thou, Burn After Reading, and Fargo. Raising Arizona was one of their first movies. I’m a big fan of the Coen brothers, and Raising …

A winsome salute to classic comedies, this movie produced by Columbia Pictures in 2001 brings together an award-winning ensemble to deliver a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of contemporary behind-the-scenes Hollywood.
In the movie, Kiki (played by Julia Roberts), is the personal assistant of the beautiful superstar Gwen (Catherine …

Should I be annoyed? I really don’t know. Why do we as women allow our decisions, especially when it comes to love and marriage to be clouded by perception? The perception of friends, relatives and society, as to what is ideal and what is ‘necessary’?
In Tyler Perry’s …

Marie and Bruce is the most boring movie I have seen these days and I literally got a head ache after watching this movie. The film has nothing in it. The most important thing for a film is the story which is not there atleast a bit in this …

This is an old Yakuza (japanese gangster movie) from the 1960s. Director Seijun Suzuki reveals a most violent movie for that age, which reminds a lot of John Woo movies from the 80s, so it’s clear where the inspiration came from. The cinematography is beautiful in color, the acting …

Before last year I had ever heard of this film. In fact, when I first saw the title of it on the televsion guide I had mistaken it for a romance movie which I think might have been set in the mid nineteenth century. However, when I watched the …

Beneath the streets of London there is an ancient fantasy medieval world with knights, kings and wizards. A businessman one day gets invisible for some reason and his life doesn’t seem to exist anymore.
Then he goes down to the underworld of London to seek answers.
A very stupid and pointless …

This movie is so much fun! It was made in 1994 and stars Christopher Lloyd and Macaulay Culkin, with other well known actors lending their voices and talents to the film, including Whoopi Goldberg.
When the movie begins and ends, it’s live action. But, for the …

I had a longer lunch yesterday than usual and ended up being able to watch the movie Airplane II: The Sequel.
It had been a while since I saw the movie so it was almost as though I was seeing it for the first time. And, after seeing it, I …

It lives up to the name of rush hour and rush hour 2. If you watched the first two and liked them you will like this one. It’s a great comedy. They are both hilarious in the movie yet once again. It’s also not just a couple of funny …

The Parent Trap, directed by Nancy Meyers is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for some mild mischief. The originalr release date was July 29, 1998 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Family/Romance and stars Lindsay Lohan as Hallie Parker and …

I first watched Ginger Snaps in 2005 due to recommendations on IMDb. It is a movie about two sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, who are going through changes, one symbolic and one quite literally. The plot focuses heavily on sisterhood, growing apart, changing, and love, as well as losing yourself …

‘Across the universe’ is an English movie directed by Julie Taymor. The actors are Evan, Jim, Joe etc In this movie, the time is around 1960. There is a young man named Jude. He is a shipyard worker. Now, he joins the merchant marine and it so happens …

I have to say that the movie is an award winning movie and it did won many awards. The director is Danny Boyle and he’s a British director. He did a fine job in this movie. It was absolutely amazing to watch Slumdog Millionaire and the heart warming story …

Me And You And Everyone We Know is an independent film made in 2005 by writer, director, and performance artist Miranda July.
John Hawkes stars as a recently separated father of two, Richard Swersey, who spends his days working in the shoe department of a local department store, and the …

When I first saw previews of WALL-E, somehow, I was not intrigued, although I do like most Pixar’s animated movies. But then I had stumbled upon some reviews of this movie online, and they sounded good, so we went and caught WALL-E when it was still playing in theaters.
It …

This is that movie about Rescue Swimmers from the US Coast Guard. From the previews I had seen earlier, I had expected it to be mostly all action - terrifying action among huge ocean waves. And the movie did start out that way. In fact, the opening scene is …

When they came out with Night at the Museum 2, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from it. I liked the first movie but it wasn’t anything overly special when it came to plot. And, I really wondered just how they would be able to build on it …

The movie, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is one of the first few movies when I watched during my early teenage years and I caught the movie on TV actually when it was aired. It made me realize how a psychopath could come in various forms, even in …

This movie is as charming as funny as it is romantic, and it is another film based off of one of Jane Austen’s works. The colors are lovely, and the characters all are just as I would have imagined them after reading the book. It is very accurate, and …

I waited a long time to grab a copy of this film. At last, I was able to watch it. I don’t think this movie falls into the fashion film category. Coco Avant Chanel is a biographical account of Grabrielle alias Coco Chanel’s life. It’s …

One of my favourite movies has got to be “Dirty Girl” starring Juno Temple. This was because of four main reasons. The first was the plot which I thought was very interesting even though it wasn’t particularly unique; the second was how it was filmed which I guess had …

I saw the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakquel at my local MJR Family Film Festival. I was a bit not-so-happy to go see it but it only cost my wife and I two bucks and our daughter got in free.
It ended up being a pretty cute …