Movies Reviews
Into the Woods (fantasy musical movie)
My thoughts about watching the movie Into the Woods were conflicting because on one hand, I had read a lot of unsatisfactory reviews about it online, while on the other hand the trailer as well as some critics reviews, made the movie seem fairly interesting to me. After watching it …
The Road to Hollywood movie
The Road to Hollywood from 1947 was a biography of sorts about the success of crooner, Bing Crosby. This was the such type of production from filmmaker Bud Pollard who had done a piece like this on Danny Kaye the year before.
Pollard serves as the host of The …
Sinister (movie)
I didn’t know anything about the movie “Sinister” until I went to see “End of Watch” in the movie theatres and saw it advertising. Based on what I had seen in the trailer, I knew immediately that I had wanted to see it in the theatres with a friend …
Bedtime Stories
I’ll admit it: I wasn’t too excited about taking my kids to see Bedtime Stories (starring Adam Sandler, Courtney Cox, Kerri Russell).
They received a gift card for the local movie theater from an aunt as a Christmas present and they were itching to make the trek to our local …
White Chicks (Movie)
This movie is entirely and totally hilarious! It features real-life brothers Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans, Jaime King, Frankie Faison, Lochlyn Munro, Jennifer Carpenter, Busy Philipps, John Heard, Terry Crews, Brittany Daniel, Jessica Cauffiel, Eddie Velez, Maitland Ward, and Anne Dudek. The whole cast is crazy and when you …
Meet The Browns - (starring Angela Bassett)
I watched Meet The Browns before and this is a movie starring Angela Bassett. She is a very lovely woman actress that I truly admire. It is not easy being a single mom and that is what Angela’s character, Brenda has to go through. She is a …
Nightmare on Elm Street 4
Starring:
Lisa Wilcox (Alic), Andras Jones (Rick), Tuesday Knight (Kristen), Rodney Eastman (Joey), Ken Sagoes (Kincaid), Danny Hassel (Dan)
Well, they managed to resurrect Freddy Krueger —“ the directors and producers have to, else they could not continue to make money from this horror legend.
From the previous movie, the remaining dream …
S.W.A.T movie
This movie stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez and LL Cool J. This is really a good movie and everyone can just learn a lot from it. Everyone can truly appreciate the work of SWAT members.
Jim Street (Colin Farrell) made a big mistake in his mission when …
A Knight’s Tale movie
This was the first movie I had seen from the late young actor Heath Ledger. I can remember I was in my early years of high school when this movie came out, and even though I hadn’t seen or heard of it advertising I can remember that a …
Ratatouille
Ratatouille is the latest production to come from Pixar, infamous for many popular computer animated films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Cars. Fans of their movies will not be disappointed in Ratatouille, since it still shows the incredible animating skills of the studio along with the Disney, …
The Counterfeiters (2007) Movie
I just came across this movie title in Rottentomatoes.com when I was surfing the web looking for good movies to watch. I saw this and it was a German Film. This film is based on the true story in 1936, when Germany’s best forger, Salomon Sorowitsch, was sent to …
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
I’m not sure about most people, but my holiday season isn’t complete without watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Of all the Vacation movies starring Chevy Chase, this is the only one that actually has the Griswold family staying home for their vacation. But, the series of unfortunate events that befall …
Call Me by Your Name (2017 coming-of-age drama film)
Call me by your name is an adaptation of the homonymous book of 2007 that comes to open the minds of many. This story begins in northern Italy of 1983, where Elio (Timothee Chamalet), a 17-year-old boy, spends the summer with his parents. He spends the days waiting for the …
Big Hero 6 - animated movie (2014)
Big Hero 6 is one of the best animated movies I’ve seen in recent times. It’s actually a movie based on the superhero team ‘Big Hero 6′ from a Marvel Comic. From start to finish this movie is hilarious; the simple humour employed is effective. Often the background scenes such …
Fracture (movie)
One thing that really impresses me about Anthony Hopkins is how he can play a criminal mastermind and yet play it to the point you actually have to be impressed with him.
In the movie Fracture, he plays a man who shoots his wife, is captured minutes later and confesses. …
Mallrats movie
What do you do wih a bunch of kids, who are in love and love to hang out in the mall? Mallrats is the second movie by award winning director kevin Smith. The movie centers around a couple. the girls father has a dating show andd wants to put …
Mirrors (2008)
This story comes to us as viewers with the intentions of scaring us into thinking that there is another world living in the mirrors. Things that are trouble or brought to provocation will attack with lethal intent. When this movie started, it showed a man running for his life …
Hot Shots Part Deux
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the sequel to the movie Hot Shots; Hot Shots Part Deux. And I have to admit, after seeing it again this morning, it’s as good as I remember it being.
While the first Hot Shots movie made fun of the film Top Gun, …
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei: Season One
I first watched this series with my friends in a theater, and I laughed so hard that the next day my voice was hoarse. I couldn’t talk regularly for three days after that!
The actual animation is amazing. They use different techniques from various periods in film history, including sound …
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
My review is very so so with this movie. I was so excited to see it because I heard how awesome it was and I am a huge Johnny Depp fan. I had it in my NetFlix queue for ever and was uber excited when they finally sent it …
In The Land Of Women
I watched In The Land Of Women the other day and was quite surprised to find Adam Brody starring together with one of my most favorite actress, Meg Ryan. If you remember watching The OC, you will know the handsome, tall and dark-haired Adam.
He is a guy …
The Man With Two Brains movie
This film features Steve Martin, in a time where he was probably the funniest man in the whole world, as the brain surgeon who falls in love with a brain without a body (!) during a trip to Austria.
A quite bizarre that is totally dependent on the performance by …
The Forbidden Kingdom movie
The Forbidden Kingdom starring kung fu masters Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time together on the same screen. When I first went into the movie theatre I think I overhyped the movie. After watching the whole movie in it’s entirety, I was actually disappointed …
Hitman (2007)
Timothy Olyphant plays the character of a “Hitman” who goes by the name “Agent 47″. Ok, here is the thing about this movie/game made into a movie…for people who like a good action, adventure, mystery, suspense, drama/romance thrown in here and there or even an on the edge of …
Eight Legged Freaks
My wife and I were in the mood for a good movie the other day but didn’t want to watch a new release just yet (we were both tired out). So, I ended up watching the movie Eight Legged Freaks instead.
When I started watching this movie, I thought it …
Re-Animator movie
The cult favorite among many people is a very gore-filled comedy about a young medicine student who gets involved in the most horrific way of making dead bodies come back to life. The film is very bizarre and the violence just seem to pop out of nowhere, just like …
Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie
Last weekend, I went to the movie house together with my sister. We watched “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. I didn’t really expect much from this movie. I just wanted some entertainment on a lazy Saturday afternoon. Anyway, I thought this film was another of those sci-fi …
Turbulence movie
I completely forgot about the movie “Turbulence” until very recently when I saw it being broadcast on a cable televison channel again. Since the name sounded familiar I decided to even watch half of it in order to refresh my memory on the movie. The result was that I …
Hindi Film : Corporate
This is yet another realistic fim by Madhur Bhandarkar.Corporate is hard hitting movie by director of Chandni bar and Satta. The film deals with the life style of corporate business tycoons star Kay Kay and Bipasha Basu in the leads. The whole film is about how to big business …
Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain Movie
En epic Hong Kong action movie about an ordinary man who gets involved in battles between good and evil on the old mysterious mountain of Zu.
This is one of the strangest films I’ve ever experiences. I suppose the filmmakers were trying to create some kind of experimental and innovative …
Material Girls Movie
This past weekend I saw the movie material Girls the movie is about two sisters who own a cosmetics company that their father left them. The girls are thinking about selling the company when they find out one of their products causes a bad skin reaction. To make maters …
Now You See Me (movie)
One of the movies that I was lucky enough to watch on DVD recently was the movie “Now You See Me”. The first time that I had actually heard about this movie was when someone encouraged me to watch its trailer around three or so weeks before the movie …
Movie: Stripes
Synopsis: Two men, who are fed up with their jobs and their lives, decide to enlist in the army. The only problem is, they really don’t seem to fit in there either.
What I liked about this movie: I have seen this film dozens of times and it never gets …
Notorious (Movie)
There are four reasons I love Notorious. First, because it’s an Alfred Hitchcock film. I think he was the best classic movie director. The next three reasons are the stars of the movie, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. Rains was the supporting actor, …
The Jungle Book movie
You know, I have seen the live action version of the movie The Jungle Book but this past weekend was the first time I’ve seen the cartoon version. After finally getting a chance to watch it (with my daughter) I have to say I liked the live version better.
This …
Frida movie
Frida is a movie about Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who marries Diego Rivera. I had heard of Frida Kahlo, but I did not know she was married to Diego Rivera. In Texas, Diego Rivera is a big name, and he is revered for his works. Frida seems like …
Howard Stern’s Private Parts movie
This is a 1997 movie about Howard Stern, it tells the story of how he grew up, got fired from many radio stations, and tries to show how and why he became famous. The film is based on his 1993 book. The soundtrack to the film is really something …
The Christmas Wish (2003 DVD)
I have a family member who happens to love Christmas movies. Personally, I find them pretty repeditive and lame. I’ve seen so many of them that I’m frankly a little sick of the typical Christmas movie.
Recently we saw that our local library had a Christmas movie that …
The Last Bolshevik movie
This is a documentary style film by experimental french filmmaker Chris Marker. It tells the story of the forgotten soviet genius director Sergei Medvedkin, who made a whole bunch of visually stunning films in the silent era, which were all hidden away by the government as they apparently wasn’t …
Cinderella - A Twist In Time
I must say that when you have lots of nephews and nieces, you have the excuse of watching kiddie DVD and that I got the chance to watch Cinderella - A Twist In Time. This is something like a sequel to Cinderella and boy does it have lots of …
Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man (2012)
I went to see this movie on its opening day. The main thing that made me excited to see it was how hilarious the promotional commercials for the film were- especially the scenes featuring Comedian Kevin Hart. Even though there was a small part of me that …
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers movie
A musical for all ages and a definite must have to any movie collector. I first saw this movie in childhood and to this day my family can still hear me using quotes from the film in addition to singing (offkey i might add) the ever popular tunes. Seven …
Space Camp
I was flipping channels the other day and came across the film Space Camp on one of our movie channels. I have to tell you, it was the first time in years I had seen the movie and it really isn’t as good as I remember it being.
I think …
Carriers I: Movie
I love horror movies like Resident Evil where zombies are created because of viral infection, so I decided to buy Carriers which looks promising in it cover picture full of blood and flu mask, I expect something some gore and serious viral infestation where people will mutate and grow …
Hocus Pocus movie
“Hocus Pocus” was possibly one of the most popular and well made Disney original movies I ever remember watching from when I was a child to now that I’m an adult. One might recognize a few famous faces in it too such as Sarah Jessica Parker the actress who …
Sunshine DVD Movie
When you talk about the movie review on Sunshine, I have the impression of the movie of The Titans. This movie is basically about sunlight, yes, and I thought it was a pretty boring story, yet again on DVD. My brother has loads of it, and I …
Hellboy (2004) Movie
Adventure, action, mystery, humor and romance with a comic-book twist. What more can you ask for in this particular film. It has all the trimmings needed for a good movie. You will be delighted to want to watch this over and over again. Two thumbs up into the sky …
Alice in Wonderland (2010 Film)
Everyone is familiar with the Disney cartoon of “Alice in Wonderland”, however, many might wonder what happened to Alice after she returned from Wonderland. In the modern take of Alice, viewers can find out in the 2010 film “Alice in Wonderland”. While this film has the same name as …
Thirteen Ghosts (movie)
I don’t know about you all but I enjoy the series called Mr Monk on cable. Before Mr Monk came on the TV, the star of the show was in a movie called Thirteen Ghosts.
Although this movie would never win an academy award, it was interesting …
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