Movies Reviews
Congo movie (1995)
Killer Gorillas. No such thing, right? Maybe. Maybe not. For years, there have been stories of ancient civilizations that are long gone from this world, that used to use animals as guards for their massive treasures. Whether or not they were …
The Santa Clause (1994 film)
One Christmas movie that I have really enjoyed ever since I first watched it was the 1994 film The Santa Clause. There was so much magic in this film and gave viewers a first glance look at the North Pole, which is of course every child’s dream, and the …
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Neither a brilliant film in its own right or high scorer in the genre, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue or Let Sleeping Corpses Lie as it is sometimes known, is a passable enough zombie movie that should prove watchable enough at least to any zombie fan. The story …
The Mist by Stephen King (R, 2007)
I watched this movie in segments. I have to admit that at first I was completely intrigued. But as time progressed, my interest waned somewhat, and I was wondering whether I should start the movie again. I did, and then I realized that it wasn’t me …
The Princess Bride movie
The Princess Bride is a wonderful movie for people of all ages that appeals to all movie-goers. It has romance, fighting, comedy, suspense, drama, miracles, and pretty much anything you can want in a great movie! It is based on the book, The Princess Bride, by William Goldman and …
Kill Bill
I think Kill Bill is one of the best new movies to come out recently. The female hero is great! She is like a super ninja trying to get revenge on her ex boyfriend who left her for dead at her own wedding. They thought they got rid of her …
The 13th Warrior, Movie
Panned by critics upon release, and still without a Director’s Cut to see the light of day, I think The 13th Warrior is an overlooked gem much deserving of your attention. It was supposed to be an epically scaled historical adventure based on Michael Crichton’s book The Eaters of the …
Batman Forever 1995 Movie
This version of Batman was correctly named. Batman Forever. It should have been forgotten Forever. Because this was the worst of all the current Batman movies to come out in the last 20 to 30 years. It was released in 1995 and never should have left the drawing board. …
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
I watched this the other day and it was awesome. Audrey Tautou’s performance is really thumbs-up and even though this movie is a long-ago one, I find it super awesome, get what I mean. If you don’t believe, watch it and you will understand what I am trying …
Resident Evil: Apocalypse Movie
I really loved the first two Resident Evil movies, and have even picked up the newest special edition DVD versions whenever they come out. I was excited to see this one, but ended up feeling really disappointed.
There is absolutely nothing memorable about this movie. After a few days, …
Falling Down movie
Michael Douglas leads an impressive cast in Joel Schumacher’s “Falling Down”, an interesting tale told out over the course of one day, as an average man embarks on a rampage as he tries to simply “get home”.
It’s an interesting idea, and an incredibly simple one, but don’t let …
The Dark Knight
After hearing how good it was, I finally got around to watching the 2nd Batman movie, “The Dark Knight”. I thought it was well done. It definitely wasn’t just “thrown together” and had plenty of twists and turns to keep me entertained. I think that Christian …
Max & Ruby: The Blue Tarantula
This episode of Max & Ruby was a somewhat boring one. In the Blue Tarantula, Rudy reads a bedtime story to her younger brother, Max. Ruby wants to read “Good Night Snoozy,” but her brother insists that she should read him “The Blue Tarantula,” which is a …
St. Elmo’s Fire (movie)
Didn’t everyone in the 1980’s love St. Elmo’s Fire? The whole thing about seeing a young Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy was simply thrilling to millions, I am sure. I don’t see or understand the inherent value of St. Elmo’s Fire, myself. I laugh when I …
The Kids Are All Right (2010 Comedy-Drama Film)
I have been following the Academy Award seasons for three years now. Most of the time they nominate my favorite films of the year. And sometimes, during my early stages of paying attention to the nominated films, I was able to discover beautiful gems that I wasn’t able to see. …
Black Knight (2001)
Black Knight, directed by Gil Junger is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for language, sexual/crude humor and battle violence. The original release date was November 21, 2001 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Comedy/Family and stars Martin Lawrence as Jamal …
Anger Management movie
Anger Management. I knew of the movie, had no interest in seeing it. Jack Nicholson stooping down so low as to star in a movie with Adam “Billy Madison Boy” Sandler. Not for me.
So, now long after I think this movie is ancient history, I turn …
The Pig Keepers Daughter
My wife is out of town for a few days so I’m trying to pass the time at night by watching some older movies on our Netflix player.
Last night, I came across one called the Pig Keeper’s Daughter. I didn’t know what it was when I watched it. I …
D-War: Dragon Wars (2007)
You haven’t seen a crappy movie until you have seen this movie, I mean, when I first saw the preview for this movie, I was truly expecting to see one the greatest movies featuring lots and lots of dragons and mythological creatures coming to terrorize humankind, but instead, I …
Zhang Yimou’s 1991 film “Raise the Red Lantern”
I’m as accustomed to Western cinema as the next person; the majority of films I watch are either American or English-language international productions, which means that I’m used to certain styles of storytelling, not to mention cultural codes and stereotypes. Therefore, for me to enjoy a film made outside …
Contraband (2012 Movie)
With so many movie trailers exploiting all their best parts, it’s rare that a movie is better than I expected from the trailer; this is the case with Contraband. I expected a fast-paced, “Gone in 60 Seconds”-style movie, and while it delivers that, it delivers a lot more.
There are …
Krippendorf’s Tribe
This is a fun-filled comedy about a college professor who is forced to turn his own family (his son and daughter) into a New Guinea tribe or risk going to jail for squandering grant money. I had wanted to see this movie for a long time and finally found …
Dead Man’s Eleven movie
I am reviewing the murder mystery film, Dead Man’s Eleven, starring John Nettles and Daniel Casey as Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy. This movie was made in 1999, was produced by Brian True May, and was based off of the novels of author Caroline Graham.
In …
Art Of Revenge
Art Of Revenge is a Lifetime movie that starts off with a young, married couple who seems to have it all. Or at least that is what the movie producers want you to think. Art of Revenge started off, as I perceived the movie, with a whining wife and …
The Brothers Grimsby 2016 Spy Action Comedy Movie
I had seen the trailer for the movie “The Brothers Grimsby” previously but wrote it off and forgot about it because I didn’t think that it would be great at all. However, after seeing the audience’s reaction to a clip of the movie on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, I became …
Rambo, First Blood
I watched Rambo First Blood on video the other day and once again found myself enjoying a movie I’ve watched at least a dozen times before.
One of Sylvester Stallone’s best films ever, the movie is very well written and really makes you think about our Vietnam veterans and what …
Bad Santa
This movie is simply disgusting. I don’t know what they were thinking when filming it? Hoping to spoil Christmas for everyone, and especially for kids? The mention of Santa in the title would certainly draw families and kids to see this - and they shouldn’t. The Santa here is …
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle is a delightful musical that has stood up through the test of time as an entertaining film. Oddly, when released in 1967, it didn’t do well. Musicals were sadly on their way out, and Doctor Dolittle was one of the victims. However, it’s become …
Twilight (2008) movie
This much anticipated movie based on Stephenie Mayer’s novel “Twilight” was a huge disappointment to me since I have read the book. I fell in love with the book when I first read it and couldn’t wait for the movie to come out when the book was said to …
Dark Water (2005)
Starring Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, Tim Roth, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite Tim Roth
Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) was going through an unsettling divorce, fighting for custody over her daughter, Cecilia (Ariel Gade). Her husband had accused her of being mentally unstable, living in a world of her world. …
DIE.COM
This is not for children to view. This movie, DIE.COM is for the adult who is able to view a plot that is about living and dying, with the plot set into a mystery that keeps your attention right up there. This is not a gory movie, although, blood …
Happy Feet Movie
The movie Happy Feet was one of the best children’s movies I have seen this year.
The soundtrack was awesome. I was amazed at the computer graphics used in the movie. The penguins looked real as well as the other animals.
One of the things that most impressed me …
Lord of the Rings-The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
All is normal and well in a small village known as the Shire where the Hobbits dwell. Once a year, they are visited by a Gandalf the grey, a wizard with mischievous but innocent intent that the children love. It comes to the knowledge of the wizard that Bilbo …
The Mist movie
I can quite honestly say that “The Mist” was the best horror film I have seen all year.
The acting was spectacular, the casting was great and the script was magical. I was actually quite surprised because in my opinion the horror industry has been lacking in the last …
Addams Family Values (1993 movie)
While this movie brought back the original characters as well as the same actors who played them, it was just lacking in the area of what I was looking for in a sequel to the first movie. It had all of the chemistry and potential for the greatness of …
Loser movie
A boy named Paul is what most people would call a “hill-Billy”, a goofy figure from the country who doesn’t really fit in with the city slickers. He’s attending college, but most of the time his room mates just make fun of him. Pretty much everything in Paul’s life …
DVD SILKWOOD
The 1983 classic gets a barebones DVD release courtesy of MGM.
Silkwood is the biopic of Karen Silkwood, the Kerr-Magee Union activist who died under mysterious circumstances at a tme period where she was in the process of exposing a variety
of health and safety violations at the nuclear plant where …
Axe (Movie)
The movie catches the common viewer’s attention rather quickly. I’m someone who has a hard time getting into movies which don’t take off quickly.. and this movie is a classic example of the complete opposite.
PLOT
The movie more-or-less has 2 plots, these include entirely seperate events, but eventually unfold and …
Proof (2005)
Director: David Auburn. Featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The movie is based on a Pulitzer prize stage play about a daughter of a mentally challenged yet brilliant mathematician. Yet despite the mathematics the real issue of the story is the things that are intangible, the faith despite the …
Minority Report (2002)
Minority Report (2002) is a science-fiction film from director Steven Spielberg and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for violence, brief language, some sexuality and drug content.
In the year 2054, murder in Washington D.C. has been eliminated thanks to Precrime, a program that uses the preminitions of three psychics, …
The Persuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness is a movie that stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner. Chris sells bone density scanner machines and is struggling to sell enough to make ends meet for his family. He meets a stock broker and learns about an intern program that starts his journey …
White Chicks (2004)
White Chicks, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for crude and sexual humor, language and some drug content. The original release date was June 23, 2004 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Crime and stars …
A Good Year movie
“A Good Year” (2006) is a good movie. It stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner and is based on a novel written by pro-Provence writer Peter Mayle. Crowe plays a financial wizard from London who inherits his Uncle Henry’s (Albert Finney) vineyard and country home in Provence.
Skinner originally goes …
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
In the early parts of this movie, we see Martin Lawrence’s character RJ Stevens as a successful talk show host with a trophy lady by his side. He has made a name for himself by promoting the ‘Team of Me’ slogan. He gets an invite for a family reunion …
Poseidon (2006)
This movie is a remake of so many other movies of the same name or with similar titles, a group of passengers on an ocean liner must band together to see the light of day and emerge with their lives as the ship they are on is hit by …
A Very Long Engagement Movie
This movie is a classic one that features a love story during the World War One. When I watched this I had a very melancholy feeling, sad and alone and isolated are what came to my mind during the time I was watching this, and you can’t help feeling …
Untraceable Movie
I thoroughly enjoyed Untraceable even though the reviews I read were poor at best. There were a few major problems I had with the movie, but given the cast and the overall plot line, it was something that I could actually get interested in. I usually let a movie …
Lost in Translation (2003)
I am guilty of being a bit prejudiced about films and although Lost in Translation has Bill Murray as one of the leads and he was so funny in Ghostbusters etc, I assumed maybe he had gone down the same ‘comedian, once funny, now does sentimental stuff’ route, along …
A Lot Like Love,movie
A Lot Like Love stars Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet. Its about a couple that have a very casual relationship and their relationships with other and each other over the years. Its a little slow at times but Ashton Kutcher keeps the story interesting. I give …
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