Movies Reviews
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, movie
I enjoy horror movies. I often read them and watch them with the lights turned low, wanting to feel that wonderful scared feeling as the adrenaline gets going. I had seen the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre a year or so ago, and I wanted to …
The Prestige (movie)
The Prestige is one of the best and most entertaining movies I have seen in the year 2007. It was crafted so perfectly that I don’t think there would be a better movie about magic tricks. The Prestige was directed by the same guy who directed Batman Begins. He did …
It Takes Two movie
It Takes two is a movie starring Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. They play two girls who look alike but are not related and from two different backgrounds. They meet at a camp and become freinds where they hatch a plan to get the case worker of the orphan …
Movie: “Night at the Museum” (2006)
I have to say this is one of my all-time favorite Ben Stiller movies. I’m not really a Stiller fan; the only movie he’s really “acted” in was the hilarious Zoolander; otherwise, he always plays the same character: neurotic, a little nerdy, uncommitted, but with a good soul. He …
The Hurt Locker film
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce, and Christian Camargo.
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow.
The Hurt Locker is one of the best war films made in a while, one that deserves to sit up there along with Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and …
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013 movie)
Oz The Great and Powerful tries so hard to be epic. It has a very entertaining feeling. There are aspects of the movie that are brilliant and there were things that I thought needed some work. Sometimes I thought the pacing of the film was a little off and …
The Nannies Diary
The actress, Scarlett Johansson is simply great in the role of the nanny Annie Braddock. I would have no problems leaving my two year old daughter with her, if she is in search for a full time nanny job which I doubt it!
“The Nannies Diary” is the story of …
3:10 to Yuma
I am reviewing the 2007 movie, 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russel Crowe and Christian Bale. Crowe plays Arizona outlaw Benjamin Wade, a no nonsense, dangerous criminal. While dangerous, the man is also charming and likable. Then we meet Dan Evans, played by Christian Bale. He’s a family man, dedicated, …
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Ok, the first A Nightmare on Elm Street was an interesting movie with an interesting premise. Never seen the second so I can’t comment on it, but the third one is just, well, silly.
The plot is essentially the same, except now there are more kids involved. And …
The Holiday movie
The main ingredients of the movie “The Holiday” is a great cast of actresses and a simple, straight forward romantic story. The main topic of this movie is about love the beauty of falling in love and the heart break it brings when we fall out of love. …
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, An Animated Movie
I have to admit that I am a Tim Burton fan. I loved nightmare before Christmas, but when this movie came out in 2005 I wasn’t really all that interested in buying it because the title was just a little too obvious. The title completely gave away the whole …
The departed movie
During the weekend, I went to watch “The departed” played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson. About ten minutes into the movie, I realized that I have watched a Chinese version of this movie. The difference is “The departed” combines all three sequels of the Chinese version. …
Men in Black (1997)
Men in Black (1997) is a sci-fi comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA
In the 1950’s, a secret government agency was formed to monitor and police the activities of extraterrestrial on planet Earth. Thes organization was celled the Men in Black. 40 …
Movie Knowing
I was rather excited about seeing this movie. I like Nicolas Cage and I like Science Fiction so I had great expectations but got pretty disappointed. I mean, the movie is not that bad but it is less than I was expecting.
The movie starts when a class of elementary …
Shallow Grave
Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave is a high tension, psychological thriller that unfortunately, tends to be overshadowed by his much more acclaimed Trainspotting. This is unfortunate, because in my opinion Shallow Grave is almost as fantastic as that film, and deserves the attention of more people.
The film follows three housemates; Alex, …
Death Race
Death Race is a 2008 movie starring Jason Statham as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. In reality, he was set up by a crazy warden of a private prison because he is a great driver, and she needs someone to compete in her Death Race. …
The Lion King
I love everything about this movie. It was very funny. The animation was fantastic.
I first watched this in the theatre when I was in college. It was in the year 1994 when ‘The Lion King’ was in every movie house around the metropolis.
Of course the magnificence …
American Gangster (2007) movie
American Gangster is a American crime film based on the life of a black gangster in Harlem named Frank Lucas. It also has the parallel story of a detective named Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe). Lucas (Denzel Washington) is the new crimelord and town and begins directly importing heroin from …
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was November 16, 1984 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Thriller and stars John Saxon as Lt. Thompson, …
Pet Shop of Horrors Episode 2
Pet Shop of Horrors Episode 2 begins with a woman in a wedding dress falling into the sea from a ship and we hear her scream. Then a man named Jason Grey comes to Count D.’s shop to pick up a pet that his late wife Evangeline Blue …
Desperate Escape movie
Though made in 2009, Desperate Escape only premiered on the Lifetime Movie Channel in February 2010. Make no mistake this is a B-movie with a standard, much-used plot and not a single surprise within in, unless you’re new to TV and movies. What it does have, however, …
Tinkerbell Great Fairy Rescue
Ever since I was a child, I was a fan of cartoon movies especially about princess and fairies. I grew up knowing Tinkerbell and even though they are not real there’s a part of me that still do. Since I have a daughter now who loves watching movies about …
Katie Leung as Cho Chang
I still don’t understand why JK Rowling had insisted that the actress to play Cho Chang had to be an ‘unknown’. There are a lot of Asian actresses around who would have been perfect for the role. I think they made a mistake in choosing her. Aside from not …
The Grudge (2004 movie)
A remake of a classic Japanese horror called Ju-On, an american is working in Tokyo Japan as a nurse. Yeah, you already know the plot cause I bet you have all seen it, so lets get to the bashing of the movie. Let’s all agree that it started off …
Oceans Movie
Recently the movie Oceans became available on Netflix instant queue and I immediately added it. I am a big fan of nature movies because they offer a glimpse of an extremely beautiful world that most of us hardly ever get to see to the extent that it deserves. Oceans …
This Is the End, 2013 movie
If you’re searching a movie that will make your stomach hurt from laughing, this is one of them. This Is the End got me filled with laughter from beginning to end and never got boring.
It all starts with Jay Baruchel visiting Seth Rogen in Los Angeles. That’s correct, the …
The Happiest Millionaire
The first big live-action movie musical for Disney Studios was a film called “The Happiest Millionaire”. As a young girl, I’d heard about this movie, and I was dying to see it. When it opened in town, it was only at the drive-in, and my parents didn’t …
Disturbia
I just love Shia La Beouf’s movies. This is another one of them. It was released in 2007, under the horror category. However this was more of a thriller than horror.
The story is about a boy Kale(Shia La Beouf) who is under house arrest for punching his Spanish teacher …
HOUSE OF WAX REMAKE movie
Umm. Yuck.
I was lucky enough to see the 1981 rerelease of Vincent Price’s original House of Wax in 3-D in theaters and it was a visual treat.
And Price make an incredibly menacing villian. In this tedious, overlong box office dud, we get quite the incredibly
unerotic Paris Hilton deliver the …
Meet the Parents Movie
An insane comedy with Ben Stiller and an aged Robert De Niro. Stiller is a young nervous man who comes to meet his parents in law for the first time, which results in chaos and lots of humoristic situations. I personally think Ben Stiller is a talented comedian, but …
Soul Eater Episode 1
Soul Eater is an anime where the Grimm Reaper has started a Death Weapon Meister Academy to prevent evil souls who become Keeshan Eggs from destroying the world. The first episode involves Weapon Meister Maka Albarn has collected evil souls and is trying to collect the soul of …
Creep (2014 horror film)
This was easily one of my all time favorite horror films I have ever seen. I feel that the camera work and the acting from Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice were simply amazing. If you are someone who enjoys found footage style films, you’ll enjoy this one a lot. In …
SWAT movie
There are some movies that I could quote in entirety, line for line without any problems at all. One of these is the 2003 movie SWAT. This movie chronicles the rise of the a Los Angeles SWAT team made up of characters played by Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, …
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
This is the story of a priest that encountered evil times while serving in World War II, things that left him to question his faith, things that to this day still haunts him. He has chosen a different profession and is now a respected and noted archeologist, while on …
Axe
Axe is one of the most confusing horror movies that I’ve seen in a long time. It’s better known as Lisa, Lisa and many people know it because the lead actress had several urban legends surrounding her and what happened to her after filming of the movie finished. Lisa …
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
I really enjoyed watching the film 30 Days of Night and was excited when I heard that a sequel would soon be coming to the big screen. To what potential readers may find dismaying, I have to say that that 30 Days of Night: Dark Days was unimpressive.
I did …
Movie The good girl
I watched ‘The good girl’ because it seemed to be a good film however I ended up very disappointed! This is a truly awful film. I cannot understand how a very talented actress, Jennifer Aniston would be involved in such a lousy production!
In this film, Aniston interprets the character of …
Silence of the Lambs Movie
This stunning movie is already considered a classic. Garnering five 1991 Academy Awards, it comes to no surprise that many of us still find it spellbinding.
Clarice Starling is training to be a FBI agent. When a psychopath is murdering women, Starling (Jodie Foster) was sent to interview a prisoner, …
Strike movie
A silent classic by Sergei Eisenstein in which a factory of workers is putting up a strike when one of their fellows is savagely killed by soldiers. This montage-tecnique these russians directors used was a remarkable cinematic achievement that all of the world were a amazed by, and many …
Waitress (2007)
A small town woman living a small town life, dreams of leaving her current surrounds in hopes of launching her own bakery and serving up her famous and delectable pies that are dreamed up with kindness and baked with love. Sounds like a very delicious movie huh, but on …
Throne of Blood movie
Akira Kurosawa’s depiction of the classic Shakespeare play Macbeth moved to a japanese environment. Apparently Kurosawa was very clear on that fact that he wanted to make Throne of Blood a japanese film, and that the audience was supposed to feel the Shakespeare story was only in the background. …
The Wild Thornberrys movie
I thought that “The Wild Thornberrys” surpassed my expectations of what it would be like. I knew that it would do well in theatres as the series seemed to be quite popular amongst many children at the time, but I thought that if I watched it I might find …
500 Days of Summer movie
I rented 500 days of summer knowing nothing about it except that it starred Joseph Gordon Levitt who is best known for playing the Alien, Tommy on the sitcom “Third Rock From the Sun,” and Zooey Deschanel. I have to say that I enjoyed this movie, but found …
The Cookout (2004)
A young, talented, up and coming basketball star has just signed a contract to play for the New Jersey Nets basketball team worth thirty million (30,000,000) dollars. To celebrate this deal, he buys himself a new house in a wealthy part of a neighborhood and invites his family and …
The Happening movie
Not very many movies can make me cover my eyes, but The Happening definitely did just that. This M. Night Shyamalan movie didn’t scare me per say, but it put me on the edge of my seat for the entire movie. Most of the …
Movie: The Break Up
This movie was one that I saw as part of an all female outing with the husbands left at home. The people who saw it were all women in their 30s, to give the review context. It stars Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Aniston as the lead characters, and as …
But I’m a Cheerleader (movie)
I watched this movie a long time ago a little after it was released, but I don’t think I was old enough to understand it enough to appreciate it. I forgot about it for a couple more years until I saw it on television recently again. I didn’t think …
Resident Evil: Extinction
If you have seen one zombie movie, you have seen them all. I know that fans of such movies will disagree, but really, what can these movies be about except a bunch of decomposing dead folks walking around threatening the living, and the living trying to get rid of …
27 Dresses
Watching feel good and light story movies does make someone feel better, and often times feel good about themselves. I think 27 Dresses did that to me. Katherine Heigl is wonderful in her role and being the “always” bridesmaids suits her. With all the glamour and stuffs she has …
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