Movies Reviews
Emperor of the North (1973)
I wasn’t too sure what to expect when I checked this movie out of the library, but to my delight it was a truly engrossing movie. It’s about the power struggle between two men on a train during the Great Depression. One man works on the train and he …
Hellraiser movie
Clive Barker is known as the artist of flesh, shocking the world with this horror film from the late 1980s. Actually, Barker decided not to follow this up, even though it was both successful among the audience and critically acclaimed. The story is about a family moving in to …
Dallas Buyers Club (movie)
It’s that time of year again when awards ceremonies such as the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes honour spectacular achievement in films released over the past year. As someone who considers myself as an artistic person and a film buff who desires to go into the business someday, …
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Movie
The slave named Pseudolus lives in ancient Rome and desires nothing more than to be a free man. One day his master falls in love with a beautiful woman, and Pseudolus manages to negotiate his way to freedom, but before his plan goes to work, something gos terribly wrong.
This …
Pit and the Pendulum movie
This avantgarde film by Jan Svankmajer depicts the classic horror story by Edgar Allan Poe in a most original way. Svankmajer always used the style that pleased him the very most, not bothering about the commercial success or anything of the kind. Film is a pure art form for …
WarGames (1983) movie
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Juanin Clay, Barry Corbin, Michael Ensign, Michael Madsen, Alan Blumenfeld, Maury Chaykin, Eddie Deezen, and Art LaFleur.
Directed by: John Badham.
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is a young teenage hacker who unknowingly finds a back door into NORAD’s central military computer, ‘WOPR’, …
Hannah Montana, the movie
I liked watching the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana and when the movie came out, I became so excited to see it. However, the movie’s story is not as what I expected. Miley Stewart who is living a secret life as the superstar Hannah Montana is being stubborn and …
Brigadoon MGM musical
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, …
Persepolis the movie
I watched this movie just today with my mom. I was told by my friends it was nice and all that, but when I watched it, I wasn’t sure how to feel. The beginning was very interesting. I loved the way they made this movie just …
Dead Like Me: The Ledger
Dead Like Me: The Ledger has a bit of a change for Roxy, who leaves behind the world of meter maids and joins the police force. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes in the future, but the first thing I noticed about it was that she …
Swordfish movie
Though this movie can be considered a highly complicated film because of its astounding special effects and nerve-wracking code-breaking features, its groundwork is very simple: deception.
On the outset of the story, a monologue from the antagonist tackles how powerful media had been, how it has influenced people’s belief, and …
Cat’s Eye movie
This is an “anthology” film. It features three self contained stories. The closest thing to a link is a stray cat that wanders from location to location and sort of observes the events in the film.
The stories are all based on works by horror master Stephen King. …
Asterix and the Olympics
First, I can’t remember the first Asterix movie I watched, but I remember it was very funny. I’m disappointed by this one though, more details later. If you’ve read their comics, then you know that Asterix and Obelix are a lovable character from the Gaul village in …
Movie: The Best Years of our Lives
I had never heard of the movie The Best Years of our Lives until this past weekend, when I discovered it as part of a Memorial Day marathon. At first, I didn’t know what I was watching. But, it ended up being a halfway decent movie.
Unlike a lot of …
Rocky IV
I haven’t watched any Rocky movies in a while. But, I was up with my daughter the other night and came across Rocky IV.
This is still one of the better Rocky movies ever made; even when it is cut up for television broadcast. Watching Rocky take on a guy …
Pay It Forward (2001)
Watching this, Pay It Forward (2001) on the DVD the other night gave me a bit of self-confidence to embrace life more better.
The movie story stars Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey and if you remember the talented kid from the movie the Sixth Sense, it is none other than …
The night listener movie
The night listener is a 2006 film released by Miramax Films that stars Robin Williams. The movie is about a talk show host Gabriel Noone who becomes infatuated with a young boy named Pete and his step mother that calls his show regularly. He wants to help Pete publish …
Cleaner (2007)
Cleaner the movie is running short than 2 hours but I think it is not that bad of a movie. This is about a crime story and at first when my sister brought this DVD movie home, I thought it’s another funny comedy flick or something. But once …
Addams Family Values (1993 movie)
While this movie brought back the original characters as well as the same actors who played them, it was just lacking in the area of what I was looking for in a sequel to the first movie. It had all of the chemistry and potential for the greatness of …
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer Movie
Are you just plain tired of the same old horror movies? Are you sick of the tiresome overkill of the once popular (for some stupid reason) ’shaky cam’ in horror movies? Are you wishing for films reminiscing of ‘Evil Dead’? Well look no further than ‘Jack …
Can’t Buy me Love
I am reviewing the movie, Can’t Buy me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey. `Patrick Depsey plays Ronald Miller, a social outcast in high school. He mows lawns for money. He’s a loser. Then there’s the local popular girl…beautiful, intelligent, irresistable, and unavailable. She’s going out with a guy …
My Best Friends Wedding (1997 Film)
This movie from the year 1997 called my best friends wedding quickly became a Julia Roberts classic and one of my all time favorites. This movie has so many qualities that movie goers love; romance, comedy, actors that really make the film something fresh and enjoyable, and something that …
Birdemic Shock and Terror, Blu-ray Romantic Horror film
Birdemic: Shock and Terror had to have been made for cult status purposes. I mean come on why would anyone made a movie with birds that spit acid and shoot lasers—¦or I think they are lasers. The movie has crappy violence, early 90s PC game dialogue, and children who …
State of Play the Movie
With Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren in the cast, it is hard to go wrong with it. The story revolves around a congressman who had an affair with his researcher who gets killed. I love Ben Affleck’s acting here, especially when he was announcing into one of …
The Ugly Truth
I was really excited to see the Ugly Truth with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler when I heard it was coming out. I had seen an interview with Katherine about it and she said it was raunchier than she had ever done so I assumed it would be …
Last Vegas (2013 Film)
Last Vegas is a comedy film I was eager to see after viewing the trailer for it one evening. I wasn’t hesitant in watching it due to all the veteran actors that would be starring in the film. I just knew that a film with Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, …
Paranormal Activity (Movie)
Although this movie was found to be corny and unhorrifyingly unsuspenseful by some members of my family, I found this too scary and I was really scared watching this movie. This movie had come out in 2007 but it was only shown last year in our country and I …
Movie Leon
In Leon (The Professional), the movie, is the first time that I ever saw Natalie Portman in a movie, and she was pretty young back then. Being young did not seem to faze this great actress, however, as she played the part of Mathilda beautifully. Not only does …
Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone
Well, first off, Evangelion 1.0: You Are Not Alone is part of the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is part of a 4 movie project to reboot the series, shaping the storyline to be easier understood by mainstream audience, as well as adding new characters and the …
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Ah, yes…those lovable little Ewoks. Those, cute, cuddly little bear-like bundles of joy helped bring a happy ending to this final installment of not only the original trilogy, but chronologically the entire saga of the life and death of Annakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader.
The overall theme of this movie …
Movie: G-Force
Well, I finally got around to watching the movie G-Force with my oldest daughter last night; as I have been promising her I would do for some time now.
You know what, the movie really wasn’t worth the wait.
I will say the film did have some cute and funny moments. …
Disturbia movie
I liked Disturbia because I’m very into thriller movies and love movies that would scare me to bits. It’s about a boy who hasn’t really gotten over his father’s death who gets into trouble most of the time. He is placed under house arrest and is stuck at home; …
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
I must admit that I am not an admirer of Uma Thurman’s movies. When I watched the trailer of “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” I thought that it was a cute fantasy movie with a romantic touch, however I ended up not enjoying this movie.
I must admit that I enjoyed watching …
The Day After Tomorrow
There have been many, many movies from Hollywood which have told us exactly how we’ll die off as a human race. None took so much meaning for the time as The Day After Tomorrow. It showed what effects the weather would have on our climate. We tend to think …
The Boondock Saints (1999)
The Boondock Saints, directed by Troy Duffy is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong violence, language and sexual content. The original release date was November 19, 1999 for Denmark audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Willen Dafoe as Paul …
abalonemoon.com
Abalone Moon is an excellent example of a literary e-zine. The URL address is http://www.abalonemoon.com and I thoroughly examined this e-zine on the 16th of April. As stated by Abalone Moon, they publish “poetry, interviews, prose, essays, reviews, photography and visual art.” It also states a central theme. …
Alice in Wonderland, 2010 Fantasy film
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is the director’s biggest film to date. Yeah sure you could say that some of his other films are better and I would agree, but this one was a cash cow. Disney knew this so in 3 short months the movie went from being …
The Prestige movie
The movie is about two aspiring magicians who were initially friends and eventually ended up to be the biggest rivals in the magic business. They both started off as assistants of a famous magician when tragedy struck when Robert Angier’s (played by Hugh Jackman) wife was accidentally killed …
The Prestige Movie
The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan, stars Hugh Jackman, Micahael Caine and Christopher Bale. I thought that it was is an action packed thriller movie. It is one of those movies that keeps you right on the edge of suspense and wanting to know what is going …
Talk to Me (2007)
Talk to Me, directed by Kasi Lemmons is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for pervasive language and some sexual content. The original release date was August 3, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Biography/Drama/History and stars Don Cheadle as …
The Net movie
From 1995, The Net is a suspenseful, very well made drama. It’s identity theft to the nth degree, and it’s scary. Sandra Bullock plays Angela Bennett. She’s somewhat of a recluse, and she’s a computer nerd/geek. She’s a master programmer and hacker, and she knows …
Thunderbirds (2004)
The movie adaptation of a regular and popular television series. The difference between the movie and the series is that instead of using the puppets from the TV, they have replaced them with live actors to do their worst. I didn’t stutter, they really did their worst in this …
Planet of the Apes movie
A film that relies a lot on that the audience must not be aware of how the film ends, actually the whole point is put in the open in the last scene. Charlton Heston plays an astronaut who, after a long sleep in space, crashes on an unknown planet …
Toy Story (1995)
Toy Story, directed by John Lasseter is rated G my the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was November 22, 1995 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family/Fantasy and stars the voices of Tim Hanks as Woody, Tim …
48 Hours-movie
48 Hours is the film debut of comedian Eddie Murphy back in the 1980s, in where he plays a prisoner who is released for 48 hours to help the police officer played by Nick Nolte catch his old partner who is a suspect for murder. The result of this …
The Covenant, Renny Harlin Movie
Hundred years ago, the colony in Ipswich, Mississippi, is the five families who inherit the power of magic. However, the destruction was a witch occurred, a family killed, making four of the remaining families agreed that they will be silent about their strength. Now, the in the present, four …
Devdas movie
One of the most expensive Bollywood movies ever. I am not a very big fan of indian films, but perhaps that is because I didn’t see that many yet, I’m not sure. Devdas is about a man who returns to India after a long exile abroad, falls in love …
X2: X-Men United, X-Men 2 (2003)
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 …
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, directed by Donald Petrie is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some sex-related material. The original release date was February 7, 2003 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Kate …
Boogeyman 2 (UR, 2008)
This film is the supposedly the sequel to the original Boogeyman (PG-13, 2005) and is focused on a group of mental patients who are in some sort of group therapy. There is one girl (the main character of course) who has a big theory about the Boogeyman, …
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