Movies Reviews
40 Days and 40 Nights
I was expecting Josh Hartnett to shine in the DVD movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights. Don’t get me wrong; Josh is a darling and he acted really well but the storyline is a real bummer for me.
It starts off with Josh character, Matt being dumped by his super …
Movie: The Last House on the Left (1972)
A few weeks ago, my wife and I watched the remake of the movie The Last House on the Left. It was an OK movie but not great and, since I had never seen the original, began wondering if it was any better or worse.
After reading about the original …
The Duchess
This is one historical movie that I found very fascinating even though it was a drama. It stars Kierra Knightly (Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean) and she does an expert job of playing the lead role of the Duchess. To make matters even more interesting, the story …
Silent Hill (starring Radha Mitchell)
Silent Hill starring Radha Mitchell is quite a dark movie. Radha plays a very distraught mom in this movie and her character name is Rose. She goes into Silent Hill in search of her daughter whom has this problem of sleep-walking. Little does she know that this …
Movie: From Within
Synopsis: A small, religious community sees its world flipped upside down when community members begin killing themselves one by one. Is it some sort of suicide pact or does a family once accused of practicing witchcraft have something to do with it?
What I liked about this movie: This movie, …
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
I normally like murder mysteries, especially ones that don’t review who the killer is until the very end. However, in the case of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, I was very disappointed.
The movie centers around Robert Downey Jr who plays an actor who impersonates a private eye and Val Kilmer, …
Wi-heom-han gyan-gye (Dangerous Liaisons) movie
By and large, in Asian cinema, you can attempt to make a dramatic romance by either appealing to a localized sense of humour than might make it seem more uplifting, or you can pursue an angle popularized by Wong Kar Wai and heighten the drama using boiling stifled passion …
The Thing Below (2004) Movie
This is one of those creepy science fiction pictures, horror really, that I found boring. The movie just didn’t hold my attention very well. I guess the plot moved too slowly. Normally I like these kind of creepy pictures. It could be the over-used plot this movie has. Or …
Argo (movie)
Argo is a Biography, History and Drama movie based on a true story. A story of six American Ambassadors who managed to escape from the Embassy while it was attacked by some revolutionists of Iran. The story was directed by Ben Affleck who directed one of my favourite movies …
Julie & Julia movie
I am great fan of the actress Meryl Streep and Nora Ephran movies. ‘Julie & Julia’ brings these two talented woman working together in a very special movie for both of them.
I believe that ‘Julie & Julia’ represented a different type of movie for the director Nora Ephran …
The Village (2004 Movie)
M. Night Shyamalan has another best selling thriller and decides to make it into a movie…bad idea, very bad idea as you do a very good job taking the life from the book. maybe he should stick to writing the books and leave to directing to those who seem …
DVD: Keeping Mum
If Alfred Hitchcock or Wes Craven had made the movie “Mary Poppins” the result would have been “Keeping Mum.” Maggie Smith star of dozens of movies plays Mum. She takes a job helping Gloria Goodfellow (played by Kristen Scott Thomas of “The English Patient” fame), the wife of the …
The Glass House Movie
This movie has a really nice title but it’s hype and mystery isn’t at all what it seems to be. This movie features 2 young orphans who are taken in by their guardians who were really close friends of their parents and of their family as well; at first …
Blazing Saddles 30th Anniversary Edition DVD
I have seen a lot of westerns in my time. Not that I am a big fan of westerns or anything, it just so happens that I have happened to view more than my fair share of them, especially the older ones (John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Stewart …
Nabari No Ou Episode 1
Nabari No Ou is a Japanese anime about a boy named Miharu Rokujo, an average, apathetic boy who doesn’t really want to do anything. At school he is asked by Kouichi Aizawa to join his martial arts club. He declines and goes home. He is followed …
Perfect Neighbor movie
I watched a couple of movies on Lifetime movie network today and this was one of the movies that they played. It was kind of interesting, it could have been better. The movie had a pretty good ending to it. It was about a neighbor that was crazy and …
A Terracotta Warrior Movie
This film is first set in the ancient Qin dynasty of China where a simple warrior falls in love with a noble lady. Both are sentenced to death, but the warrior is given a drink of immortality, and wakes up again in the 1930s when found by a film …
Breakfast on Pluto (movie)
I saw bits and pieces of this movie at least twice when it was being aired on Starz Cinema, and on about the third time I decided the description of the plot made it seem to be too interesting to not try out. I was cooking when I started …
Shallow Hal
I think Directors should definitely make more movies with plots that go around in the movie of Shallow Hal. This is a movie about looking at someone’s personal and inner beauty rather than someone that looks good just on the outer layer or physical skin beauty.
Hal is …
The Producers movie
Have you ever thought about producing a Broadway musical? Then the remake of the Mel Brooks classic is a great movie for you.
The movie started out slowly but, as it progressed, became funnier by the minute and the plot twists kept me wanting to watch just to find out …
Race to Witch Mountain (Staring Dwayne Johnson)
Today I walk to the theater with my girl. Our purpose was to watch the new coming movie, Race to Witch Mountain. Before we went off, we knew what these film about after seeing the thriller on YouTube. It said that this movie is about alien and humankind. And …
New Moon movie
I saw the movie New Moon. The second installment in the Twilight series, when it first came out and at the time thought it was ok. I recently tried watching it again and realize that it was very disappointing.
I did like the beginning when Alice threw the party for …
Return to Me movie
Mundane romantic comedy about a man and a woman who happen to meet accidentally, happen to be perfect for each other, and happen to fall in love instantly. How many times have this been seen before?
Countless, or course, and this film is just repeating old sugar sweet cliches like …
Up film
Up is another one of those animated films from Pixar that comes out every so often that we feel we’re too old for but end up watching anyhow. At least, that’s how I usually feel about animated films these days.
Up is about an old man, Carl Fredricksen who …
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
This sequel to the block buster original simply called ‘Dirty Dancing’ is basically the same movie but instead of it being staged in the United States of America, it was staged in Cuba. A young girl from a well off family goes to a retreat and falls for the …
Brother Bear
This is one of my favorite animated movies. I love to watch this movie with my younger sister. It’s a great movie for the whole family and enjoyable to watch. It kept me interested and entertained throughout the whole movie. There were plenty of parts that made me really …
Birdman of Alcatraz
Birdman Of Alcatraz is the story of Robert Stroud, a criminal imprisoned on the infamous Alcatraz island. Robert Stroud is a killer and scary man, so you cannot let what he does after he spend years in prison change your mind about what he did to become a death …
Taken 3 (action movie)
When the trailer for Taken 3 was released, I didn’t get the feeling that it would have been as big as the first one was. Then after it was released, I noticed that it had gotten some fairly low ratings from viewers on various sites such as IMDB. Nevertheless, this …
Machete (2010 film)
I want to preface this review by saying that this is one of my favorite movies because it embraces what it is. It is an action movie that focuses primarily on the action. This is the type of movie that you watch solely for entertainment value. It is not …
David Icke’s From Prison to Paradise
I have a thing for writers who are out there on the fringe a little bit. I don’t know what it is about them but there is something that intrigues me. With this in mind, I thought that I would enjoy watching David Icke’s “From Prison to …
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007): movie
Oscar Wilde’s short story The Picture of Dorian Gray has been adapted into a movie a number of times. The most recent adaptation of the short story was made in 2007. It was produced by Third Rock Films and directed by Duncan Roy. It starred David …
The Kingdom Movie
Not knowing anything about the movie The Kingdom, I added it to my Netflix queue. I figured since it starred Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Copper it would probably be a decent movie. Right from the very beginning of the movie it was very action involved. The movie …
Repossessed movie
A parody on films like The Exorcist, this film tells the story of a 17 year old woman who is possessed by the devil. When she finally is free of the possession by exorcism, she is later possessed another time, and now they send it live on television!
I’m not …
American Sniper, movie
This movie has gotten a lot of buzz for a variety of reasons. Some of the reasons are legit and others are a bit frivolous.
For some reason, people have turned the movie into a political pawn. Fox News talks about it all the time and …
A Greater Yes: The Story of Amy Newhouse
I had seen A Greater Yes advertised and really wanted to see it. It was produced by Pure Flix, a production company I really like, and is Dove Family approved. So I was hopeful about this movie. When I read the cover, I was a bit …
Love Happens movie
In Love Happens, Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) writes a book about successfully dealing with grief after he lost his wife. It rockets him to fame and he begins doing seminars. In the lobby of one of the hotels where he is to give a seminar, he meets …
My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very funny movie! It will have you laughing through out the entire film. It is about a woman(Tula) that is in a Greek family, and she is somewhat embarrassed about how her family acts(like them roasting a lamb on a …
Zoo (UR, 2007) documentary
There was a man who once had sex with a horse and died from a ruptured colon. I found this story hard to believe until I realized that there was a documentary on the event. It’s obviously not told by the man, but by another …
Disney’s Tarzan (1999)
Another telling of the story of the legendary ape man Tarzan as seen through the eyes of Disney artists. A family shipwrecked on a deserted island comes to terms with the reality that they may be on the island for a very long time, they build a home and …
The Age of Adaline (2015) - Movie
I found out about The Age of Adaline while scrolling through an article cataloguing new 2015 movie releases. I never saw the trailer but I decided to see this movie because I recognized the actress on the movie poster. I know Blake Lively from the TV show Gossip Girl and …
Movie Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, directed by McG is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for action violence, sensuality and language/innuendo. The original release date was June 27, 2003 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Comedy/Crime/Thriller and stars Cameron Diaz as Natalie …
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
Crocodile hunting is now illegal in Australia and as it is, Mick Dundee is now forced to subject himself to performing live crocodile wrestling show for the tourist that come to his neck of the woods. When news about a job opening falls in the lap of his wife …
Mo’ Money (1992)
Mo’ Money, written by Damon Wayans and directed by Peter MacDonald is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was July 24, 1992 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comesy/Crime/Romance/Thriller and stars Damon Wayans as Johnny Stewart, Stacey …
The Glass Bottom Boat
There’s a lot of memorable aspects to The Glass Bottom Boat, most notable of which is its star, Doris Day. Some of the time, she’s a mermaid for her father, who gives a tour of Catalina Island waters with his glass bottom boat, hence the name. Day …
HER, the movie (2013)
HER is one of the most interesting, innovative, and highly acclaimed films of 2013. Critics and audiences alike are passionate about this film. So what’s the reason? Initially, I thought it was solely because of the trendiness of this project, its sci-fi shell, and put the pretty picture.
But how …
Seventh Son movie (2015)
I’ll be coming as a viewer who hasn’t read the book series by Joseph Delaney but after having seen the movie, I’ll be buying a copy of book 1 of the series.
I thought the movie had potential if only it was handled better. The SFX was good enough not …
Movie Peter Pan
“Peter Pan” is the classic 1950s Disney animated movie about the boy who never grew up and his adventures in Never Land. As a child, I loved this movie. However, I recently watched it with my daughter and so I viewed through the eyes of an adult …
The Good Guy
Movie The Good Guy is a wasted effort. With some intelligent and logical plot creations this movie could have made more interesting and above all digestible for the audience. The story of the movie has intensity in its simple looking plot. It is all about relations and move is …
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