When I heard they were making a movie about how Hannibal Lecter became a cannibal, I was both excited but skeptical. The plot in Hannibal Rising sounded promising but I didn’t think it was a Hannibal movie without Anthony Hopkins playing the starring role.
Overall though, after watching the film, …

What little characterization from the first movie is tossed aside as Frank…whatever his last name was is now in Miami acting as chauffeur for a politician and his family. It’s clearly a temp job, but he does get along well enough with the kid, testing the boy’s intellect …

Pursuit of Happyness is a movie based on a true story of a man Chris Gardener. It is a tale of struggle, disappointment, fall and rise of his life. Chris Gardener who lives with a 5 year old son trying somehow to make the two ends meet. His monthly …

As far as documentaries go, The Garden, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, has everything that I love in this genre of film. It is a film that depicts the battle for a 14 acre piece of land in south central Los Angeles following …

The Werewolf’s Shadow (1970) (aka Night of Walpurgis and Werewolf vs The Vampire Woman)
Three cheers to Anchor Bay for releasing the most complete version of this Paul Naschy werewolf classic! It is a huge step up over the rotten, heavily edited VHS version BLOOD MOON that was released twenty …

A couple days ago, I watched the docudrama “Shooting Dogs” on the cable television channel, Showtime. It is a British film about a BBC reporter’s experience of being trapped in the African country, Rwanda, during the nineteen ninety four genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutu tribe.
Many people, …

Death Race 2000 is about a deadly road race across the United States. The race is sponsored by the government and the drivers earn points by killing pedestrians. It takes place in the year 2000 but was filmed in 1975. Even though Death Race 2000 has a …

This 2007 movie stars Tommy Lee Jones and is about a drug deal gone wrong, it sucks you in, there is a psychopath who kills people left and right looking for his drug money, eventually leading him to a cowboy who found the money, after about an hour I …

Mangal pandey, one of the so-called most awaited movies, disappoints the viewer miserably. It is slow and dragging, boring us to death. The story line is weak. You don’t even feel interested, leave alone inspired. The item number in it is disgusting!Rani looks unconvincing as a prostitue and Amisha …

Thanks to the wonder of the internet, I have discovered via following David Lynch’s news updates on Facebook and Twitter that in between his mind-boggling films which tend to be about 5 years apart, Lynch’s artistic juices continue to flow and he produces sculptures, paintings, promotes music and then …

‘Apocalypto’ is an English movie directed by Mel Gibson. The movie is not good but is shot well, but there is too much of violence in the movie. The movie is action-packed and the story line is good. All the actors have performed well.
The main character is a young …

When I saw the movie “Great Expectations” on the cable guide a couple years ago, I was more expecting a film based on the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” and not a loosely based modern day spinoff from it. In fact, since I had not seen it from the …

I love watching historical movies, and that is why I was so eager to see “Belle” after I had seen the trailer only months before it was released. What piqued my interest about it even more was that it was supposed to be based on the story revolving around a …

A contract killer comes to town for a mission. To help him on his routes him requires the transportation of a local cab driver. The cab driver, unknowing of the strangers intentions, picks him up as a usual fare. When the first job is complete, Jamie Foxx comes to …

Boogie Nights was released in 1997 and while at the time only had few actors with names anyone knew, by now everybody knows John C Riley, William H Macy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Wahlberg and Burt Reynolds are some of the cast. The movie is about an adult film …

Leprechaun 4 is the fourth trilogy in the Leprechaun Horror franchise.This particular installment is a horror with some comedy elements. As expected,the film stars and evil leprechaun.The evil leprechaun is somehow in space in this film. The film is about a group of army marines hunting for gold on …

This is a silent film by the danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen, but it was produced in Sweden with swedish actors, so the swedes has been taking credit for this as one of their most important silents. It is also considered as one of the first full length horror films …

I rented the movie National Treasure today because it stars Nicolas Cage. I had seen the advertisements trailers for the movie during a mini TV show called treasure hunters. It is a movie about a man named Ben who is hunting for a treasure that was hid by the …

I really get the wrong idea when I first watch Bug. I thought it is some kind of a horror movie or something, but when in the end I realized that this story is something like the genre of ‘art movie’, displaying about life, people and their characters, …

In this rather depressing portrayal of the future, America appears to have lost all its freedoms and turned into a totalitarian society. One of the cruel, government-run entertainments is “The Running Man” show, where convicted criminals are given a chance to run for freedom - but they will be …

Spider-Man (2002) is an action film from director Sam Raimi and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA
Orphaned at a young age, Peter Parker (Toby Maguire) lived in Queens, New York with his loving Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) and Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson). Peter leads the life of a normal …

The Interview stars Seth Rogen and James Franco and was directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. James Franco plays a celebrity journalist who is good at his job. He even has Kim Jong Un as a fan, which is how he lands an interview with the …

One of the best drama movies I remember watching in the early part of 2012 was the movie named “The Help”. I had expected it to be very good because of the actors that were involved in its making, but I never thought that it would be one of …

Note: This review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone might contain spoilers.
I first saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone back in March 2008 on ABC Family channel. I was bored watching television on Saturday evening and decided to start channel flipping to see if I could find …

The Harry Potter is an ever-liked movie. Such movies are seen rare but all these kinds of movies give a kind of pleasure to the mind. I have watched all the parts of the Harry potter movie. The Last part of the Harry potter is excellent …

Bob Munro (Robin Williams) works for the soda company Pure Vibe, but he’s become all work and no play: as a result, he’s losing touch with his rebellious kids.
When his daughter Cassie (Joanna “JoJo” Levesque) and her friend embarrass Bob at the company picnic, Bob’s boss forces him to …

When Dawson’s Creek was on the air in primetime, my daughter was a teenager. She used to bug me to watch it and we began “letting” her take over the TV to watch it each week. At first, her Dad and I would go sit outside or do …

Movies like this make me shake my head and wonder, ‘What were they thinking??’ I am not alone in this, as I see, in regards to this particular movie: I saw ‘The Money Pit’ listed among 10 worse movies done in the 1980s in one online article. I had …

Working with the armed services of the United States of America is no easy task and it becomes even harder when you are employed to the person responsible for leaking sensitive information to the enemy and even more hard to be the one who is supposed to bring his …

The always brilliant Jim Carrey plays Bruce Nolan, a TV reporter who always gets stuck with “silly” stories. He wants to report real news and even dreams of being an anchor. His girlfriend Grace (Jennifer Aniston) tries to encourage him, but he’s frustrated with his life. Meanwhile, his snide …

Hopefully you have loving friends and/or family members who have already warned you to stay away from this epic abomination, but in case you don’t-or if you are actually an adult considering seeing a movie whose very title screams “AWFUL!” louder than an atomic blast-DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE. …

This movie was alright.It had Sara Jessica Parker in it as on of the member’s girlfriend’s.Everyone in the family came to visit there parents for the Chrismas hoilidays . Everyone seemed to come and go all through this movie.One of my favorite parts was when Sara …

Played by one of the most respected comedians in the entertainment industry, Meet Dave is a movie that I would have otherwise been reluctant to watch, as I am not really into blatant fiction, but because of the Eddy Murphy factor, I knew that it would have that comedy …

The movie persuit of happiness starring will smith and his son ,not only in the movie but also in real life have acted remarkably well !
The story is revolving litrally around its tittle..that is persuit of happiness!
The movie has great sense of depth at the same time it shows …

This movie is a musical based on the love shared between a writer and a cabaret actress. How quaint that most musicals encompass the same thing. This movie, while it did manage to grasp quite a few nominations for Oscars, only managed to scrape through with winning only two …

Directed by Danny Boyle, this is a story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the most memorable day of his life. With the whole nation watching him on television, he is just a question away from winning a …

Prescription: Murder was the movie that spawned the iconic Columbo TV series. The movie starred the dapper Gene Barry in the murderer’s role. That was one thing that was special about the Columbo series. It was always a game of cat and mouse. The mystery …

Vacancy, directed by Nimrod Antal is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for brutal violence and terror, brief nudity and language. The original release date was April 20, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Horror/Thriller and stars Kate Beckinsale as …

“A Man Escaped” (1956) is a French movie from Nouvelles Editions de Films. The movie primarily in French with some German when a German soldier is speaking. The DVD comes with English subtitles. “A Man Escaped” was filmed on location in a prison in France in black and white. …

Failure to Launch stars Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew McConaughey. I am not a big fan of SJP, but I do like Matthew McConaughey and I really enjoyed this movie. I think the whole street heard me laugh at the laughing lizard - it was …

Anyone who’s a fan of Madonna or Quentin Tarantino has probably found their careers to lead them to a film called Four Rooms. It’s basically a vignette of sorts: Four rooms in a hotel are rented out on New Year’s Eve, to four groups of guests. The …

A product of the system gets herself entangled too deep and now she has to pay the ultimate price. It all started when a prostitute, while delivering her services, is raped and attacked by one of her clients, this starts a chain reaction that lead her from turning from …

This movie has a very low rating on imdb.com but I say so otherwise and I think this is a great suspense and thriller movie. It had me thinking until the very end and there’s a twisted ending that’s nice too and although I had always been thinking that …

The movie is set six years after the X-Files are closed. Dana Scully is now a doctor at a Catholic hospital, Our Lady of Sorrows while Fox Mulder is some sort of bum after being hunted down by the FBI. They both do not want anything to do with …

I came across a movie on TV the other day called The Dead One. I didn’t know a whole lot about it but it starred Wilmer Valderrama (Fez from That 70s Show) and I decided to record it and watch it later based solely on that.
Well, I finally got …

I watched this movie called frequency today on one of the movie channels. It was a pretty good movie overall. I enjoyed watching it and it got my attention. I really got into the movie in the middle of it. Dennis Quad plays in the movie and so does …

Czech comedy with a lot of seriousness to it from the 80s. The film was directed by a man called Jiri Menzel, and involves a number of different people in a small Czech village. It really has no real point to it, only everyday events are depicted, and that …

Mr. Adam’s Bomb from 1949 was a really weird film that catered to an offbeat story line that frankly bored me and barely had a comprehendible plot. It opens in an entertaining way, with a man named Johnson doing the jitterbug with the maid. It is probably …

When my friends and I talked about the movie A Walk To Remember each time, we would always remember the truly sad ending to this story. I am a hopeless romantic and I find myself knowing what’s going to be the ending to this really sad and romantic movie …