Movies Reviews
Muppets From Space
I grew up watching the Muppet Show on television and always wondered what exactly Gonzo was supposed to be. Turns out he’s a space alien.
Muppets in Space is a great movie for the family to watch. It has all the muppet characters in it on an adventure to find …
Dementia 13 Movie
Dementia 13 is a movie that has long been on my list to see, yet for some reason I just never had the time or energy to track down a copy. When I bought a boxed set though the movie was inside and I decided to sit down and …
Freejack (1992)
Freejack, directed by Geoff Murphy is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was January 17, 1992 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Science Fiction/Thriller and stars Emilio Estevez as Alex Furlong, Mick Jagger as Victor Vacendak, Rene …
Balls of Fury movie
I think Balls of Fury is a very funny and crazy movie. And of course I am going to like this movie, it has Christopher Walken in it. He is one of my favorite actors and He does a wonderful job of acting in this great film. He is at …
Movie Eragon
When I first saw the movie “Eragon” being advertised to be released in theatres, I wanted to see it since I also like fantasy films and it looked like a fantasy movie which I might just love. However, since I had no one to see it with, I …
Disney Gargoyles
I have recently discovered Gargoyles, a lesser known Disney’s animated series, and I am now hooked. This show is excellent. I so wish Disney would resume making it!
The storyline is rich and complex. It begins in 994 A.D. Scotland, introducing us to a clan of gargoyles powerful …
Children of Men movie
Children of Men: The world has stopped procreating due to some unknown inferility plaguing the world. One woman is pregnant and she must be safely transported to the “Human Project.” What this project is, the movie never explains. Why humans are infertile or why she is able to have …
Suspiria (movie)
Suspiria is a totally weird film, no doubt about that. I watched it because it was recommended as a cult horror classic and I was not disappointed. I loved the bright colors, the shots that were so psychedelic and keeping with the hip times, but sometimes Suspiria was a …
Hoosiers movie
“Hoosiers” is a classic 1986 movie about a small town high school team in Indiana in the 1940s (or 1950s). Gene Hackman stars as Coach Normal Dale, who comes to town with a checkered past. This is a man seeking redemption.
Pros: This is such a great …
Movie Moment Of Truth: Broken Pledges
Moment Of Truth: Broken Pledges is a Lifetime movie about a mother who loses her son to college hazing. Evidently, as the story goes, the young man was being inducted into a college fraternity and during the process, was forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol, which in the …
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
A fantasy movie about an evil wizard who is searching for a magical and powerful artifact that he is willing to use to control the Red Dragons that will in turn assist him in controlling his world. He has sent out his evil henchmen to scour the land to …
Happy Feet
In the movie Happy Feet, penguins must find their heart song in order to find their life partner. The main character Mumble has an issue with finding his heart song- he can not sing. It is kind of implied that something happened during the incubating period that resulted his …
The Good German
Back to basics. This film was shot entirely in black and white, reminiscient of the old days of film-making, before special effects or computer graphics. Risky, but it proved brilliant. The lack of digital enterntainment required the actors to step up to the plate, and they did so much …
Hancock
Does Will Smith ever make a bad movie? Other than Ali, I mean. I watched his movie Hancock tonight and, when I got it I didn’t think it was going to be any good. It turned out to be a great film.
The movie takes a different point of view …
Silent Movie
I finally got a chance to watch one of the two Mel Brooks movies I haven’t seen before; Silent Movie (the other one I haven’t seen is High Anxiety). I saw it was available on my Netflix player and took advantage of the service.
This was a great movie.
The film, …
The movie Mulan
I absolutely loved Mulan. Being of the female persuasion I love any story that show s a woman excel far beyond her limits and restrictions in a male dominated society. I loved how she followed her heart and found her on way in life even at the risk of …
The Lawnmower Man (1992)
The Lawnmower Man, directed by Brett Leonard is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for the movie was March 6, 1992 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Horror/Romance/Science Fiction/Thriller and stars Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, Pierce …
Road to Morocco movie
The Road pictures continue with this third outing from 1942 called Road to Morocco. As with the first two films, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour starred. It was that same old formula, too, but that isn’t a bad thing in the case of this movie.
One of …
The Reaping movie
Starring: Hilary Swank (Katherine Winter), David Morrissey (Doug), Idris Elba (Ben), Anna Sophia Robb (Loren McConnell)
Whew the biblical 10 plagues shown in color can be rather overwhelming after all this while, it has only been images in our minds from the written word.
Katherine Winter, …
Applause Videos in Vancouver, Canada
I just had to be a member of this mom and pop video store, even when I already moved to the city of Surrey. Like the clerk said when I signed up for membership, they really would like to concentrate the service on the community they are located …
Captivity film
Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies
MA 15+ Strong violence, blood and gore.
I should have known that this film was going to turn my stomach. I’m not the blood and gore kind of girl but I am a Roland Joffe (director of the Killing Fields) fan.
First let me say that the rating …
Star Trek
I wasn’t sure what to expect from the new movie Star Trek this past weekend. I have seen so many attempts to re-make other movies that have gone wrong and I was afraid they might have tried to take on too big of a challenge.
However, I have to admit, …
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The movie Prince Caspian is the second book in the Narnia series and takes place some 1000 plus years after “The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.” In the movie, Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) escapes from his kingdom into the forest of Narnia when his greedy uncle, King Miraz …
Life of Brian movie
The Monty Python crew makes fun of old religious values. Brian is born on the same day as Jesus and is stalked by the life of this man for the rest of his life. The film is more of a series a brilliant sketches than a film with a …
Awake film
Hayden Christenson (Star Wars) stars as Clay, a wealthy, good-looking, youthful billionaire. At primary glance Clay emerges to have it all; a gorgeous girlfriend (Sam played by Jessica Alba), great friends (amid them Dr. Harper played through Terrance Howard) money however not all is as it looks. Clay, above …
Ratatouille
Ratatouille is an animated movie about a rat called Remy. The great thing about Remy is, although he is a rat with a destiny to live in a dirty environment, he loves to cook, which absolutely needs a clean environment. This movie is about Remy’s journey to be a …
The Birds movie
The Birds is a movie about people on an island where the birds, for no reason, go wild and begin attacking everyone. The Birds starts off quite normally, with a beautiful young woman shopping at a pet store for Mynah birds. That is the irony of this film, and …
Salo or 120 Days of Sodom (1976) movie
Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Helene Surgere, Sonia Salviange, Renata Moar, Franco Meril, and Ines Pellegrini.
Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini.
In perhaps the most controversial film ever released in the 1970s, four men of power in Nazi Germany (the Duke, …
“A Christmas Carol” (2009 film)
There have many versions of the beloved film, “A Christmas Carol” produced and viewed throughout the world. Perhaps one of the most wonderfully entertaining movies of this section that I have seen was the 2009 “A Christmas Carol” movie with Jim Carrey. This movie shied away from his usual …
Strictly Business (1991)
Strictly Business, directed by Kevin Hooks is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was Novermber 8, 1991 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Tommy Davidson as Bobby, Josehp C. Phillips as Waymon, Anne Marie-Johnson …
Life Is Beautiful movie
The first half of the movie is light hearted romantic comedy. Guido played by Roberto Benigni is a young Italian Jew who comes to Arezzo and sets up a bookstore. He then meets an Dora, Italian woman who is not a Jew. Dora played by Nicoletta Braschian gets closer …
30 Days of Night
As far as vampire flicks go, the movie 30 Days of Night has a lot of potential. However, it falls a bit short.
When I saw the previews for the movie, I just had to see it. After all, what can be scarier than a group of vampires visiting an …
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
With the next movie franchise coming out soon, I decided to update myself on the Harry Potter series. Sadly though, I was not as fascinated as I should be with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I loved the book, mind you, but I hated the movie. First …
Stargate: Atlantis 501 “Search and Rescue”
Stargate Atlantis season 5 premiere was one of the things I was really waiting for. With all the spoilers out there, I couldn’t imagine how they will make it work. And oh boy, was it worth it.
The episode is an immediate continuation of the season 4 finale. The building …
My Sister’s Keeper (the book and movie)
My Sister’s Keeper is a novel by Jodi Piccoult and a movie recently released on DVD. I try to make a concentrated effort to read a book before watching it on film because it is never as good on film. I have to admit that while reading …
Pitch Perfect (movie)
One of the movies that I was privileged to watch as of recently was an unexpected gem called Pitch Perfect. I call this unexpected because when I first saw the trailer for this movie, I was much less than interested in seeing it. I was never much of a …
Alone in The Wilderness
One night when I was channel surfing for something interesting to watch, I stumbled onto a PBS special called Alone in The Wilderness. It is a movie based on a book written by Dick Proenneke. It was about his life and how he went to Alaska to live a …
Shakespeare in love
Shakespeare in love is a movie which is really well made and which is worth watching. It is a nice drama with Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow as the leading actors. It is the story of the world’s best master storyteller William Shakespeare. Shakespeare does stage in a town …
Battle Planet (movie)
When I saw the dvd at the house of a friend, I could not help thinking that the name “Battle Planet” sounded familiar. However, later on I learned that the movie was actually a Syfy original science fiction movie, and after reading a good, review on it, I was …
Zoom
When the movie Zoom came out, it had two strikes against it in my opinion. First, it was about a bunch of kids with super powers; something that has been done way too many times in my opinion. Secondly, it starred Tim Allen. I like his stand up comedy. …
Inception movie
Oh. My. God. If only I could write this review in caps, I would have wholeheartedly done so just to stress how freaking amazing this movie is.
From someone who watched the likes of Rashomon to My Favorite Martian on a daily rotating basis, I sadly found myself living …
101 Dalmatians (movie)
101 Dalmatians, the original Disney movie, is so cute! This is a movie you and the younger kids will definitely want to see. The antics and perils of two Dalmatian parents, Pongo and Perdita, as they first meet in a London park. When Pongo and Perdita meet, it also …
Santa Sangre movie
Santa Sangre is the last film by the cinematic artist Alejandro Jodorowsky, and tells the story about a man locked inside an institution for his unstable mental condition. He is plagued by the memories of his childhood where is religiously fanatic father tortured his mother in a most brutal …
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Movie
I’m not really a fan of G.I Joe stuff but when I saw the movie G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra on HBO, I was kind of impressed. Not with the story though, but with the movie effects.
G.I Joe is a group of really special and top military men …
Catch-22 movie
Based on a novel by Josef Heller, this is a film about an american pilot during World War II who’s desperate to get home. The only problem is that he seems to be stuck in a difficult situation in which it doesn’t matter what he says, he will given …
Bounce,2000 movie
Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck), a successful advertising executive and a hard-edged, arrogant man, is heading back to L.A. from Chicago where he has come on a business trip. In the Chicago airport he meets a young writer Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn). It is Christmas, and Greg, just bumped off …
The Holiday (2006)
The Holiday, written and directed by Nancy Meyers is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America, and stars Cameron Diaz as Amanda, Jude Law as Graham, Kate Winslet as Iris, Jack Black as Miles and Eli Wallach as Author Abbott.
Both Amanda and Iris are at a stage …
Vantage Point
This movie is about an assassination attempt to the president of the United States. It is not a typical movie I can say. I think the plot was easy but I did enjoy watching it. It is a typical conspiracy theory movie but with a twist. I really thought …
How She Move (movie)
When I saw the actress Rutina Wesley in the popular cable television series “True Blood”, I could not place my finger on where I had seen her before since she looked so familiar to me, and it was only later that I found out that it was she who …
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