Movies Reviews
Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X)
Rurouni Kenshin or Samurai X is a great anime which focuses on the life of a samurai who was the most dangerous manslayer about 30 years ago but turned good after realizing his mistakes. The story starts when Kenshin meets Kaoru, a kendo teacher who believed that the sword …
Absolute Boyfriend Manga
Absolute Boyfriend is a manga by Yu Watase, a romance comedy with a little bit of science fiction. It is about a high school girl by the name of Riiko Izawa who is always rejected by every boy she likes. One day a salesman gives her a website when …
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Mission: Impossible II, directed by John Woo is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of violent action and some sensuality. The original release date was May 24, 2000 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Thriller and stars Tom …
Balls of Fury
Starting from the ambiguous title, this flick sets up expectations for a superficial and possibly disgusting comedy with the kick-in-the-balls type of humor. The expectations are justified. Granted, “Balls of Fury” is a parody, but parody doesn’t have to be stupid or revolting, in my opinion.
Randy, the main character, …
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 …
300 film
“300″ is a 2007 movie based on Frank Miller’s awesome graphic novel showcasing the Battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and the massive army of King Xerxes. It is ultra violent, ultra stylized and ultra intense. It is also ultra awesome.
Pros: Where do I start? …
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
“Goodbye Mr. Chips” was a 1939 MGM (British) movie, filmed in black and white and lasting 114 minutes. It was filmed in England and is based on the short novel by James Hilton. The movie tells in flashback the life story of Charles Chipping as he remembers his life …
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 18
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 18 begins with Ling showing up at the hotel where Winry and Al are staying to let them know what’s happening while Ed heads off to the distant ruins of Xerxes, a city that mysteriously vanished in one night. He and Fu discuss the …
Practical Magic (1998)
Practical Magic, directed by Griffin Dunne is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Sandra Bullock as Sally Owens, Nicole Kidman as Gillian Owens, Stockard Channing as Aunt Frances Owens, Dianne Wiest as Aunt Bridget Owens and Aidan Quinn as Officer Gary Hallet.
As a young …
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a very funny yet violent movie. I think the humor in it was just great. This is a mobster movie, and Joe Pesci is of course in it. Joe Pesci was great and did a good job of acting in the movie. Overall the cast was really good …
No Reservations (2007)
This is the story of a day in the life of a master chef, taking solace behind the scenes she is more at ease preparing the meals for her clientele than basking in the glory of comments that might come her way. A typical day finds her going to …
Son-in-Law
The funny thing about the movie Son-in-Law is the fact it’s funny the first time you see it but gets less and less funny every time you watch it.
Pauly Shore might have been yesterday’s Larry the Cable Guy but the reality is his movies really lack any real substance …
TMNT movie
TMNT is the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and is fully animated. The characters in this movie are played/voiced by Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Patrick Stewart, Nolan North, Mikey Kelley, James Arnold Taylor and Mitchell Whitfield among others. This movie revolves around the turtle brothers growing …
Who’s Harry Crumb (1989)
This is a comedy starring John Candy and he plays a very stupid private investigator in this movie. Truthfully, I didn’t find this movie very funny or entertaining. That is sad as I normally enjoy movies with John Candy. He did the acting well enough but I just didn’t …
Lady In The Water
THE MOVIE
Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) works as a caretaker of an apartment block in Philadelphia. One night, he finds a girl called Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the swimming pool. When the girl tells him that she is a nymph from another world (and she has to accomplish an …
The Loves of a Blonde movie
One of the most famous pieces of czech arthouse cinema of the early 1960s tells the story of a young woman and here desperate search for a lover. The director Milos Forman (who is more known for One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest) delivers his images in a realistic …
28 Days Later (2002)
28 Days Later is a zombie movie with a realistic and terrifying feel to it. Directed by Danny Boyle, it was shot on digital video which gives it a documentary feel to frightening effect. The —˜zombies’ here are not actually dead like in other zombie movies, but …
A ma Soeur (drama movie)
As someone who has some interest in film, I always find it especially fascinating to read up on the accomplishments of female movie directors. I found the movie “A ma Soeur” as it is named in French by doing research on the French director Catherine Breillat. Between being curious about …
Grease movie
I have seen Grease over ten times. It’s one of those movies. the ones you can watch over and over and it still feels fresh and new. The story lien is that a good girl from Australia Sandy falls for American bad boy Danny. It’s …
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 …
The Game Plan, Andy Fickman Movie
Joe `The King` Kingman is a superstar quarterback for Wanted to show some team, the Boston Rebels. Their lives are always filled party while his team wins, besides the various ad products he had starred, even now, he began a restaurant business. However, everything will change when a young …
Children of the Night movie
Children of the Night is based on the true experience of Lois Lee, as played by the magnificent Kathleen Quinlan. Lee is a sociology student writing a dissertation so for research she contacts prostitutes, giving them her card and telling them to call her if they ever need …
K-9 (1989)
Similar to that of the movie Turner and Hooch, pairs the human element and the animal element into a movie to try to get a favorable response by the animal lover in most people. I have noticed that everything has its time in the spotlight and every genre is …
Bedazzled
I watched Bedazzled the movie on TV when my local channel broadcast them not so long ago.
If I’m correct, the movie was during the year 2000 and I did not manage to watch it at the cinema. Instead, I caught it on TV and it was surprisingly …
The Deaths of Ian Stone
I’m a huge SyFy junkie, so when I watched this movie a while back, The Many Deaths of Ian Stone, I was mystified and captivated. Of course, it’s a made-for-tv movie, so the special effects leave a lot to be desired, but as far as these movies go, it’s …
Eagle Eye
I just finished watching the movie Eagle Eye few days ago. I got the DVD from a friend of mine who told me it’s quite a good movie. After watching the movie, I must say I am not very impressed with it.
The story started in the Middle East region …
Iron Man 2 (2010 Film)
After watching the first “Iron Man”, I knew that I would have to watch the second one, which came out in 2010. “Iron Man 2” was not only as well acted and plotted out as the first one, but delivered an even more powerful character conflict and a very …
Swarmed movie
Swarmed is essentially a movie about a lot big, bad bugs, specifically wasps. It all starts with an experimental chemical that gets taken from a lab and sprayed on some wasps. It’s not a good thing. The wasps become more intense and people-hungry as the movie …
The Kings of Mykonos (2010 film)
This is an Australian production filmed in the famous Mykonos island, in Greece. As long as you do not form high expectations about it in advance you might have some fun with it.
The plot itself is not a big deal. An Aussie of Greek origin inherits a big deal …
Faithful Unto Death
I am reviewing the murder mystery film, Faithful Unto Death, starring John Nettles and Daniel Casey. This film was produced by Brian True-May and Betty Willingale, and is based off of the novels of Caroline Graham. It was created in 1998.
In the movie Faithful Unto Death, the whole …
Phone Booth Movie
Honesty and having the option to tell peole the complete truth is always taken for granted. The act of lying is being done way more than it should and things need to be changed. That is the main theme Joel Schumacher was trying to create while directing the movie …
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
I just finished reading Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol to my daughter and she said she would love to see a movie about it. Wanting to find a movie that gave justice to the book yet wasn’t too scary for her, I finally settled on Mickey’s Christmas Carol.
The thing …
The Mummy Returns (2001)
This sequel starts of with the telling of the Scorpion King and how he came to power, the struggle that he had to endure before becoming the Scorpion King, the deal he made and the price that he paid all in the name of the Scorpion King Title. His …
Analyze This (1999)
Analyze This, directed by Harold Ramis is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language, a scene of sexuality and some violence. The original release date was March 5, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Crime and stars Robert De …
Transporter 3
I must say that the —˜Transporter’ films are my favourite Jason Statham’s movies together with ‘The Bank Job’. I believe that with ‘Transporter 3′ the director, Olivier Megaton and writers, Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen managed to put together the right ingredients that made this movie series so …
Movie - “House”
Sure, the plot seems a bit “cookie-cutter” at first; but don’t let that fool you. “House” is a deeply disturbing film that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Two young couples are stranded in rural Alabama. They find shelter at a nearby bed and breakfast; but what …
The Blair Witch Project
This movie is an extremely low budget film in the style of the whole film being a lost videotape, a documentary about “The Blair Witch” a group of 3 college students interview people in a small town, they ask about the witch, and then walk out into the woods …
Ladder 49
I am reviewing the movie, Ladder 49, starring John Travolta and Juaquin Pheonix, among many others. This movie depicts the courageousness of being a firefighter. Juaquin Pheonix plays a newbie fireman whose captain (John Travolta) shows him the ropes of the job. It isn’t all hard work and …
I know who killed me
I like Lindsay Lohan, that’s why I decided to watch this movie. Drama? Thriller? Comedy? Mistery? I don’t really know what to call this movie’s genre. It’s about a girl missing, abducted by a serial killer, and instead the found the missing identical …
Lego Batman: The Movie
With the recent “Lego” movie thriving at the box office, I decided to take a look back at its quasi-official predecessor, a direct to video movie that tied into the “Lego Batman” video game franchise, more specifically, the sequel that brought in several of the other heroes that inhabit …
The Day the Earth Stood Still movie
Many current science fiction movies rely heavily on special effects and don’t always have the best scripts. Those movie producers should do more research into The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The movie doesn’t have a lot of special effects, even by 1950s standards but is still a memorable science …
K-Pax
The movie is about the self-named Prot (Kevin Spacey) ,a patient in a psychiatric hospital,found in a train station,that apparently appeared from nowhere,has no name,address,relatives and he can see ultraviolets,thus always wearing sunshades because of the brightness of the sun.He believes that he comes from another planet,and proves to …
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
This is a Korean Movie starred by Lee Young-Ae. This is the last part of a suspense-vengeance trilogy by Mr. Park. This movie was released in some parts of Europe, Middle east and in most parts of Asia.
It has an English subtitle and thankfully because the subtitle was really …
Thinking XXX (NR, 2004) documentary
One might think that documentaries about sexually explicit topics will be full of juicy material. I found this one downright boring. While it was interesting to see porn stars (like Tera Patrick) actually taking part in interviews, some of the dialogue and things they were talking about …
The Jacket (R, 2005) movie
I really like Adrian Brody. And seeing him starring in something so trippy was a treat for me. The Jacket is a really interesting film that merges psy-fi with a little of that thriller drama stuff. Brody portrays a veteran who dies, but then is brought …
Session 9- movie
“Session 9” is a brightly filmed -dark themed movie starring David Caruso and Peter Mullen. A group of excavators invade an old asylum to remove asbestos and other harmful materials. The asylum has been abandoned for several years (save for the occasional squatters mentioned in the beginning …
Redbox Rental Service
I love Redbox. It’s a vending machine that dispenses movies, even Blu-rays, with 19 locations within 10 miles of my home. At first DVDs were $1 per movie per night. Now they are $1.20 plus tax. However I think it’s still a great deal. I usually grab a movie …
Ride the Wild Surf movie
From 1964, Ride the Wild Surf is one overly melodramatic movie that tried to capitalize on the beach picture craze. About the only thing it has going for it is a great cast, at least as far as bikini and surf pictures of the 60’s go. Fabian, …
Movie: Next (2007)
What would you do if you could see into the future, even though only for two minutes? Chris, an LA performer, uses his gift to win money at casinos - not much and not very often, in order to stay undiscovered. However, the government knows about him, and secret …
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