The Fast and the Furious series took a sharp turn when they came out with the third installment, Tokyo Drift. It takes you to the heart of Japan where a young troubled kid who loves racing, Lucas Black who plays Sean Boswell, was sent to live with his father …

Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenberg return in a sequel to the highly successful Three Men and a Baby in this movie called Three Men and a Little Lady. The angst comes when baby’s mom decides to get married and move to Europe with her new husband. …

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, …

Bright Star is a 2009 British film made by the BBC, telling the story of the romantic poet John Keats’ love affair with Fanny Brawne. This is a costume drama of they type that the BBC make so well, with great attention to period detail, especially the costumes in …

There are two versions of “The Mayor of Casterbridge” movie; the one I am reviewing here is the 1978 mini-series starring Alan Bates. The story is based on a novel by Thomas Hardy. It starts with a young married couple, Michael and Susan Henchard, traveling afoot to some new …

My wife and I never could get into the original Halloween movies and prefer the recent re-makes. But, there was nothing good on TV yesterday afternoon and we had a chance to watch Halloween Resurrection so we did.
I can understand why they eventually just gave up on the original …

1408 a great horror movie.
Based on Stephen King’s novel ‘1408′ is a disturbing and really terrifying horror, which besides sheer thrills might give you the reason to stop for a while and think about what’s really important in your life. The number in the tittle refers to …

One of John Carpenter’s earliest attempts of a science fiction film takes place in a space shuttle that is attacked by a mysterious thing having the shape of a big ball. This thing is trying to kill the crew of the space shuttle one by one and finally take …

This is where I believe the Superman saga got way too watered down and began feeling less like a superman movie and more like a superman flop. They have juiced it out to the point where they are now scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for some thing …

This is the second episode of the Rush Hour saga, this time they are in Honk Kong where Carter, played by Chris Tucker, wants a relaxing but exciting vacation filled with lots of women, but his time in the orient is going to be far from a vacation experience …

This is an excellent movie. The timeframe of the story is early 19 century; the place is Flanders (part of Belgium). Nello, a young orphan, lives with his grandfather. They are poor, but they are happy together. Nello likes to draw, and he is very good at it; it …

All That Jazz is the story of the great choreographer, Bob Fosse. There is absolutely no doubt about just how talented Fosse was, but his personal life was full of trauma and personal problems. That’s how it often is for really great talents. Like Fosse, though, …

Alright, before you get too skeptical about the DVD title movie, Sex and Death 101, let me tell you that this movie is actually pretty harmless, minus all the ‘racy’ scenes, which I’m not interested at all. I just love the comedic storyline and here is it.
Simon Baker …

At the time this movie was launch at the cinemas, it was labelled as another Julia Roberts movie. However this movie was much more then that! “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is one of the best romantic movies of all time and at the same time it was the first …

King Kong vs. Godzilla is the first color Godzilla movie, and in a way, I kind of wish that it was not. Both King Kong and Godzilla look ugly and fake as do the sets and the military tanks and other artillery. I also do not like how the …

This movie is about a pair of star crossed lovers who have fallen prey to a terrible curse set upon them by a Bishop. The tale goes like this, they can never share each others human company for by day, the woman is transformed into a Hawk as the …

I will admit that this movie seemed a little slow to me at first. I had seen the other Zodiac movie (slightly better than a B movie) and this one was much more thorough. Jake Gyllenhaal provided a very believable performance. But overall, I …

I am not quite fond of Lindsey Lohan but in I admire her act in this movie. The swap between a mother and a daughter has been played by her pretty well. The story follows the same theme many Holiday stories have opted for so there is no uniqueness …

“The Natural” starring Robert Redford is one of the greatest movies of all time! It is the story of a boy with the greatest baseball talent of all time. He can pitch, hit, and throw unlike anyone has seen before. More than that, it is the story of the …

The movie Pagemaster is a family oriented fantasy film, starring Macaulay Culkin released in 1994.It is about a young boy, Tyler(Culkin) who pretty much fears everything in the outside world.He bases his life on statistics and is scared that something bad might happen to him at anytime.At one point,his …

WishMaster is a very scary and dark movie. It is about an evil Djinn pronounced Jin, who wants to take over the world. The Djinn is an evil demon from another world, they have magical power and can grant wishes to humans. But they feed on the wishes and they …

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke, Eamonn Walker, Ian Holm, Sammi Rotibi, and Yevgeni Lazarev.
Directed by: Andrew Niccol.
Lord of War is a highly entertaining and smart political crime thriller. This was made in 2005? Wow, that’s hard to believe amidst 99.9% of the garbage that is …

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a movie that stars Jack Nicholson at Murphy. Murphy is a patient in a mental institution. I have to tell you, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a very sad film. It is not the kind of movie you watch to …

If you’ve ever seen Eddie Murphy in family films like Dr. Doolittle and Shrek, I would recommend renting his Raw performance on DVD.
This is Eddie Murphy at his best, giving stand-up comedy performances and talking about everything from politics to women and race issues. If you have kids, put …

I was extremely skeptical, at first, about watching this movie. I am definitely one of those people that if something on t.v. or at the theater doesn’t catch my attention in the first ten or so minutes, it usually doesn’t manage to keep my attention to the end. And …

Normally I don’t like war movies. They are OK, but they usually focus on blood and guts and really don’t have a whole lot in terms of actual plot. Either that, or they focus on a real historical event and I find myself having a hard time enjoying the …

A married woman gets involved with a foreigner when she is taken for a ride during a small wind storm, he comes to her aid and she is captivated by his boyish good looks and his charm. Completely forgetting the fact that she is married, she encourages the young …

My family and I saw this movie over the weekend. Our family includes me age 35 female, my husband age 35 male, and our son age 16. All of us really enjoyed the movie.
I think Heath Ledger did a wonderful job as the Joker. He brought something new …

I am reviewing The Case of the Royal Murder, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series 39 Thrilling Episodes. This series was produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France in the fifties. Ronald Howard, the son of actor Leslie Howard, …

Yet another “in the future the machines will take over the world and destroy all humans” kind of film, this time about a city trying to transport themselves with a time machine but fails. They then face the gruesome cyborgs (part machines, part human) who threaten to kill them …

Cherry Juice is a manga by Haruka Fukushima that is both funny and romantic. It also has drama. It’s about Otome and Minami, two stepsiblings and their relationship with each other. Otome is in love with Amane, Minami’s friend, and it ends up Amane likes her back and they …

I had never heard of the British TV series “The Darling Buds of May” until I saw a DVD set available at our local library. Now that I have watched it, I can’t help wondering why this show is so little known; it turned out to be so good.
Based …

Not too long ago I had an opportunity to watch “The Back-Up Plan” starring Jennifer Lopez as Zoe and the ever gorgeous Alex O’loughlin as Stan. This movie is about a women who when in her 30’s thought she would be married with kids. However, she has yet …

The Forgotten was an alright movie. I remember watching this movie. I didn’t think it was the best movie ever, but it was still cool. I liked the story a little. I think that the whole alien abduction thing was pretty cool and I must say that I did enjoy …

I was at a friend’s house when I first heard about this movie. He said to me “It’s called Grandma’s Boy”. I laughed, thinking it was about a little boy who was spoiled by his grandma and wanted to stay at her house all the time. This was not …

This movie is not to be confused with another movie by the same name and a similar plot which was released some time in either the late nineteen nineties or the early 2000s. I watched this movie some time either last week or the week before on a cable …

Director - Gavin Hood
Cast- Hugh Jackman, Live Schreiber, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan
Running Time- 107 minutes
So the Summer Movie Season begins, like Iron Man last Summer. Comic book movies hope to be the starting gun to an eventful few months in movie land. This one another form …

Just by looking on the title of the film, one can be able to tell that it is not something to be taken seriouly like a normal thriller or suspense movie would. However, when I first saw the movie was when I was over my relative’s house one Saurday …

“Iron Man 3″ is directed by Shane Black and stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley.
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist who isn’t as happy as he should be. Ever since the traumatizing …

Synopsis: After a successful mission destroying zombies in a government complex, a bitten soldier flees his comrades to avoid getting killed and takes refuge in a strip club. When he turns, he bites one of the local strippers, turning her into one of the undead and, at the same …

The Fox and the Hound 2 is one of my favorite movies. It’s a super story, with great music, and my favorite, Patrick Swayze, voicing one of the main characters. I fell in love with the animated film when I saw it, and I’m so glad that …

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel was released in 2009 and continued the success of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore as musical superstars.
Jason Lee plays Dave Seville, who suffers an Alvin type of accident and ends up in traction at the hospital. He sends the Chipmunks to live with …

Thor…Thor…Thor…
If you’ve never heard or read about norse mythology then this name might mean nothing to you. Apparently, I have a little background so I know who Thor is. Thor is the
God of thunder (that’s the only thing that I could remember though), in the movie he also …

I’m sure that most of you out there have already seen “Indecent Proposal,” considering all of the hype surrounding it. But for those of you who have never seen the film, I will offer you my personal opinions on it. I remember being anxious to see this movie before …

Where to start talking about this musical film, Frankie and Johnny? It’s a 1966 release that has a lot of singing Elvis Presley and, of all persons, Donna Douglas as his co-star. Douglas is best known as Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies. While I …

This is a movie where you have the legendary characters of old coming together to quell the upsurge of multiple acts of violence that has occurred. The league comprises of the following superhuman and mere mortals alike and they are: Allan Quatermain, en Englishman who has evaded the …

RomeoXJuliet Episode 13 begins with Juliet being taken to Lord Montague and being sentenced to death. Her loyalist followers decide to break her out of jail while Lord Montague confronts Romeo about Juliet.
This episode was really good. It was suspenseful and exciting and had a few surprises …

Dumbo is a timeless animation classic. This movie will forever live in the hearts of those who saw it. I think that the story of the tiny elephant with big ears was very cute and very sad as well. I was very happy as a kid when I saw this …

A lot went into the making of this film and a lot came out of it. If possible, this trilogy should be watched as if it were one complete film. The closest I came was watching each film nightly, over three nights. By doing so, I gained a perspective …