The world in the 50’s and 60’s loved stories about carnivals and circuses, and that’s why we have this film, Carnival Story, from 1954. In fact, I understand a German version was made at the same time and that the stars of both movies are seen but uncredited …

Truly one of the most innovative films of the 1980’s, I don’t believe that anyone truly expected what this film was before they witnessed it.
I remember seeing it at the theater when I was around nine years old. I’d seen the advertisements, and while it sure did seem different …

Troy (2004)
Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Featuring; Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson and Diane Kruger.
The movie is structured as a classic epic movie about love and war. Although this one is more about the loving than the fighting. The story is set in the time when …

I have always thought Julia Roberts acting to be very influential and contagious, in a positive way. And in Mona Lisa Smile, she suits the role that she played as a teacher in a college and the time era was during the early 1900s. My 2 favorite actresses; …

Captain Jack Sparrow returned triumphantly in his full 3D glory after some absence from the big screen. The cheerful and joyous captain who still goes by without a ship, is causing a terrible havoc in central London, while trying to rescue his best friend Gibbs from the gallows. This …

Isn’t it good to go to a movie and see intelligent, peacefull and interesting films? But there is nothing of this that I found at Lord of The Rings 3. There are so much violence in the scenes, so much strange anoyng creatures, like the Orcs, creatures that are …

Sandra Bullock plays Kate Forster, a beautiful doctor who had been renting the Lake House - a unique, all made of glass house on a lake. There is a mailbox at the house that turns out to be a little out of the ordinary: it allows Kate to correspond …

I finally got to watch the third movie in the X-men trilogy, X-Men The Last Stand. Overall, it was a decent film, but it should have been called Wolverine’s big movie.
The movie promised all the characters from the first two films, and it delivered. However, many of the main …

Before this week, my exposure to Tex Ritter was just knowing that he was a singing cowboy and that he was John Ritter’s father. In fact, watching him, all I could think about was John. I saw John in Tex so much that it was almost distracting. …

Epic movie is basically like date movie it makes fun of all the heroic movies/ just other movies like superman, narnia, harry potter, willy wonka, nach libre, Starwars, Pirates of the Carribean, Borat and others. 2 of the six writers of scary movie wrote the script.
Synopsis:
It centers 4 …

After the giant company’s Umbrella Corp. produce T-Virus leak to the surface of the earth and cause a human zombie, it is now facing extinction of mankind. Earth to become barren, big-city roads become dry and life for those who still are with the survivors wander from one town …

Okay, I admit it I only watched this movie because of Robert Pattinson and their beautiful movie poster that hung at the cinema every time I pass by. Having said that, I find the movie a bit dragging and the emotions they portray are blown out of proportion. …

This movie was rated PG13 , its about 114 minutes not counting the next attractions which normally about 6 movies. At long last, Hong Kong movie legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li share the screen. Jackie Chan aha aha he is amazing and charming. It’s not worth the wait.
Michael …

Perhaps one of Ingmar Bergman’s most underrated film from the late 1960s, as usual by that time with Liv Ullman and Max von Sydow in the leading roles. It’s very uncharacteristic for Bergman as it deals with the atrocities of war, and this loving couple who are slowly driven …

Overall, I like The Feminine Touch, a classic movie from 1941. It’s a bit of a comedy with dramatic undertones. Rosalind Russell stars as Julie Hathaway, the wife of an aspiring author, who is preparing his manuscript about jealousy and how wrong it is. Don Ameche …

Tim, a little boy who lives in an orphanage, is afraid of the dark, and finds comfort in the light of the stars. One night however, his favourite star disappears. He then meets a strange creature called the Cat Shepherd, who guards children while they sleep, and who …

I Want To Live is a movie about a woman who ends up being in the right place at the wrong time. Barbara Graham was a real person and I Want To Live is her story. Susan Haywood does a fine performance as Barbara Graham. Barbara works with a …

When we think about the Middle Ages what strikes us is a lot of savagery, pain and torture but above them all the notion of heroism, which taken that manages to deal with all the challenges previously enlisted stands out more than anything we can …

Wong Kar-Wai’s blistering masterpiece about two couples moving in next to each other in an apartment house. The husband, respectively the wife in each couple are never shown. The husband that is shown finds out his wife is having a secret affair with the neighbour, and he seeks contact …

The movie formula for Thirteen Ghosts works for me. I love the plot and though it’s a bit nonsensical to see these ghosts lurking with their weird designs and features, but it’s still a bonus to watch this.
I felt that this movie is like one of its …

48 Hours, directed by Walter Hill is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was December 8, 1982 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Nick Nolte as Jack Cates, Eddie Murphy as Reggie Hammond, Annette …

“Memento” is one of the weirdest and most surprising films I ever saw. This mind bending thriller was released in 2000 and it was based on a short story written by Jonathan Nolan. It was directed by his brother Christopher Nolan. Together they wrote the script. This movie is …

About the two investigating journalists who discovered the remarkable and shocking Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, something that came on the news in the whole world afterwards.
Even though I think the story here is interesting and that both Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are great as the two …

I had not heard anything about Limitless when I walked into the theater and sat down to watch it. My initial reaction at hearing that Bradley Cooper was playing the main character was to wonder if he could pull that off; sure he has been successful as a side …

Since my daughter is now in school again, I don’t get to spend as much time with her during the week. So, last night, since my wife was too tired after work to have a family movie night (her and the baby were in bed before 8), I decided …

“John Tucker Must Die” is a cute romantic comedy targeting teenagers. The interesting aspect of this movie is that it includes a lot of Hollywood rising stars such as Brittany Snow, Jesse Metcalfe, Penn Badgley, Sophia Bush, Ashanti and Arielle Kebbel. These actors are mostly know for their involvement …

I have never been more disappointed with Hollywood than I was with the announcement of the movie World Trade Center. The movie stars Nicholas cage and tells the real life story of two-port authority police officer that responded to the scene of the world trade center on September 11th …

Today I just watch the new movie Fast and Furious 4 in theatre. It’s the sequel of the previous movie Fast and Furious 1,2, and 3. The story is not so different with the previous movie, it’s about catching the bud guy and always involved racing car on it.
In …

One of Bunuel’s less known films tells a story about a couple of mexican crooks hijacking a street car in Mexico City. It takes place in one whole day and these crooks experience a number of different things they would never had expected. It feels a lot like a …

Reign Over Me, directed by Mike Binder is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language and some sexual references. The oroginal release date was March 23, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama and stars Adam Sandler as Charlie …

“Spirited Away” presents remarkable detail in the way of animation. The creator of the animation is Hiyao Miyazaki. The storyline itself is highly imaginative. Suffice it to say: much goes into proper animation of a movie. During the process sometimes there is a tendency …

Synopsis: A successful business man (Rodney Dangerfield) decides to attend college in an effort to convince his son not to drop out of school and becomes an instant success with his new classmates.
What I liked about this movie: A lot of people don’t like Dangerfield’s comedy. i’m not one …

This movie is exactly what the name suggests — Insidious. If you find yourself sorting through new movies and find nothing that deserves any consideration, I would encourage you to give Insidious another look. If you are looking for a star studded cast, Shymalan-esque plot twists, or …

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a tale of one young boy that wins a golden ticket that allows him to access the mystical Wonka Candy Factory. This candy factory is owned by one strange chocolatier, Willy Wonka. He is not a public person, so that he is …

Dr. Seuss’s cherished book “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” is a story that many people know and love for the holiday season. It was turned into a 2000 motion picture staring Jim Carrey as the Grinch. Not only was there a new twist of comedy to this beloved tale, …

I couldn’t wait until the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie came out on DVD. Everyone in my family loved the first one and, even though I figured it might not be as good as the original, I was still looking forward to seeing the sequel.
Unfortunately, the second movie …

The movie shutter island takes place in the Boston area in 1954 on a remote island. Teddy Daniels is the main character, a U.S. Marshal who has been assigned to find a missing inmate at a hospital for the criminally insane along with his new partner. …

As a youngling, I had two loves I woke up every Saturday morning. One was classic monster fights. Whether it was Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster or Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, I was keen on seeing this cinematic bouts hosted by Al Lewis in his Grandpa Munster …

Troy (2004) is an action film from director Wolfgang Peterson and is rated R by the MPAA for graphic violence and some sexuality/nudity.
In ancient Greece, the love between two of literature’s most notorious lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, starts a …

Although this movie is a remake of a terrific film, with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale taking the leads, this film did more than just update a classic; it surpassed it. “3:10 to Yuma” is more than just a western. This is a movie that could well be …

I do not have issues watching movies about gay people. This is one of those movies that I wanted to see because it stars Jim Carrey and Ewan Macgregor. I Love You Phillip Morris is about a gay man who wanted to lead a normal life with a normal …

A lot of horror movies, especially in recent years, just don’t live up to the hype: “The Unborn” is an exception.
Casey Beldon is being haunted - or possessed, she’s not sure which - by the spirit of her twin brother, who died in the womb. But is it really …

Chucky has found a bride, they have a child and all are still in the doll bodies and this can not be a good thing. Now, they plan to live out the rest of their natural lives in human form but in order to do this, they need hosts. …

Whether he is doing comedy or drama or action adventure, Antonio Banderas is always on the mark. He was born to play Zorro, and his choice to play him dramatically with just a layer of comedy is the right choice. Catherine Zeta Jones does well as his wife– ex-wife …

I have a really weird fascination for Pixar films. In the country where I live, Pixar films tend to show late compared to their release dates stateside. That is why I had to wait for a month or two to catch them in cinemas rather than watch a downloaded a …

I had often wondered what happened to the actress Alex Vega after the Spy Kids trilogy, as it seemed that she had just disappeared for a while. However, last night when watching the Lifetime television station, I saw her in a movie called “Odd Girl Out”. It was that …

Back in the late 1980s, the director John Woo used to make some visually interesting films, but none of these had any depth, there was nothing beyond that beautiful surface. When he later was offered film projects in Hollywood, he couldn’t turn them down for the money.
While there he …

I saw “Vajra Sky Over Tibet” yesterday afternoon here in Bellingham at the Pickford Theatre, our local independent, artistic theatre. The movie is a documentary that bills itself as a pilgrimage to Tibet. I described it to a friend as a spiritual and political travelogue.
This is a very good, …

The Root of All Evil documentary was a two part series put on by the BBC over in Britain, based upon the book of the same name by Richard Dawkins, famous evolutionist who is best known for his book, “The Selfish Gene.” He is also one of the …

This review is for the movie “100 feet” starring Famke Janssen (Jean Gray from X-Men). I picked it up at my local Blockbuster thinking it looked like a decent horror film.
Reading the back of the case provided a plausible premise for a horror flick. A woman is released …