One of the biggest signs of spring in the Vancouver area of BC is the opening of one of the few remaining drive-in theatres in the province, the Twilight Drive-In in Langley. I have gone to movies there when I was a teen-ager, many years ago now, but as …

Let me first start off by saying that I am a big fan of the Harry Potter books and was excited to see these movies. I was ready to see all of these characters I had been imagining in my head hit the big screen. All of …

The 2009 film starring Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Chris Evans called, “Push” is a film I thought I would really not enjoy. It seemed like so many other action movies out there, where the characters dodge bullets in slow motion and everyone looks like the world on the …

Land of the Dead is the fourth zombie film directed by the master of zombies, George A. Romero. I am not overly familiar with Romero’s previous movies to be honest. My favourite all time zombie movie is Return of the Living Dead which has a lot of …

Pumpkin Scissors Episode 3 has Section travelling to a village to repair a railway tunnel that had been damaged in the war. Unfortunately, the villagers distrust the military and don’t want their help and don’t believe Alice’s promises that they’ll be paid for their work.
This episode was really …

A plane crashes high on a mountain, and two brothers decide to find the wreckage, for very different reasons. Chris, the younger (Robert Wagner) knows that the passengers of the plane must have had money and other valuables with them, and he wants to help himself to their belongings. …

This movie is about a man who works as an author . He has lost his daughter recently. This has significance for the whole concept of the movie;all the pieces comes together at the end. I can really say that the end is brilliant!
The main caracter is …

What a deeply prophetic and darkly funny film this is. The performances from Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and William Holden are absolute perfection, and Sidney Lumet’s directing is brilliant as well, but the screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky is the true diamond of this movie. It is shockingly …

Who doesn’t love this movie ?!? It has Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker in it ! I own it on DVD and in my ipod; I adore those cheesy Halloween-y witch-y movies. I don’t give summaries on my reviews because I don’t want to give the plot away. …

This is a movie to watch with a loved one: spouse or boy/girlfriend, because it can teach you something about relationships. It is the story of Caroline, a waitress, and Adam, a busboy. Caroline has bad luck with relationships, the busboy just doesn’t associate well with people, preferring to …

I started watching the movie “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” without much expectation. I thought it would be another mindless comedy. But I was surprised that it was much more well-made than I’ve expected. The story flows around the main character Nick(Michael Cera), a high school student and an …

Open Water was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. When I first started the movie, I thought, “Oh, well maybe this is one of those movies that has a good storyline, but just a low budget”. But, I guess I was wrong. It …

Strange events take place in the world, events that in courting to the bible hints that the apocalypse is close. For a woman named Abby Quinn it could also mean that her unborn child may be in danger.
This is a film that didn’t really serve it’s purpose in my …

I’d watched this movie when I was in college together with my college friends.
A very touching and heartwarming story.And I could watch it over and over again. I have to admit I shed tears watching this sad,sweet story of Landon and Jamie..My best movie of all time..
This is …

If you have never seen the movie Coraline and you have kids, I definitely recommend that you get this film. It is just a delight and I love it to pieces! A friend gave us a copy of this movie and even though we have no children, it was still …

It is now 2008, and I just now got around to watching “The Devil Wears Prada.” This is because I am not prone to watching films that feature implausible storylines with patchy endings, over-the-top soppy acting, and so on and so forth. But I was attracted …

When it comes to most of Stephen King’s movies I know to almost always expect three things: horror, mentally ill people and jaw dropping endings. This movie gives all three. It is a psychological horror that basically tells a story about a group of people who hide out in …

After growing tired of paying for satellite tv and renting movies that I had to spend more time returning than I did watching, I decided to try the service. I get 3 movies at a time, unlimited rentals, free postage paid return envelopes and an easy to use …

U.S. Marshals, directed by Stuart Baird is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some scenes of violence and brief language. The original release date was March 6, 1998 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Thriller and stars Tommy Lee Jones …

The Hurt Locker is a film that I expected with great interest not only because of the quantity of praise given to it but also because it was the first film in a long while that was addressing the Iraq war. Kathryn Bigelow, world’s first female …

I still don’t understand why JK Rowling had insisted that the actress to play Cho Chang had to be an ‘unknown’. There are a lot of Asian actresses around who would have been perfect for the role. I think they made a mistake in choosing her. Aside from not …

Memoirs of a geisha was craptacular. The plot was overly melodramatic, and there was very little representation of traditional geisha makeup. Basically, a girl is sold by her father to a geisha house, after which her mother and father both die. Orphaned, she becomes the quintessential …

Life is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.The film follows the lives of two African American men,Claude Banks and Ray Gibson who are wrongfully imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.The event leading up to their imprisonment is in a club around 1932. …

Resident Evil Apocalypse is the second phase of Andersson’s work, linked to the successful game title Resident Evil.
This sequel, which would have been completely different from the first one, has made a lot of changes, but it remains steryl in the story.
Andersson, in fact, complicates his work introducing the …

Vampire Knight was created by Matsuri Hino and this anime is derived from her best-selling manga series of the same name. Volume 2 of Vampire Knight was released on September 28, 2010 and runs for around 98 minutes. It contains four episodes, and picks up immediately where …

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Movie came out this past year and it was wonderful! It is my favorite movie of the Harry Potter movies so far! The acting was great and so were the settings and scenes! The fourth book is huge and they were able …

Fruits Baskets is my all time favorite manga, by Natsuki Takaya, about a very optimistic, orphan high school girl named Tohru Honda who’s mother recently died. She lives in the woods while her grandfather is remodeling his house, and finds out she is living on the property of the …

It was 2001 when Chuck Schuldiner made one of his last presentations with Death before withdrawing from the metal scene due to his battle against cancer. This DVD is not only a recording of this concert, which took place in a reknown L.A. house called ‘Whisky a Go Go’, …

What show can you think of that has completely influenced the entire population of single women across the world? Sex and the City of course. The first wonderful thing about this show is that it’s set in one of the most intriguing, most colorful cities of all …

A film I consider to be one of the best films ever made is “The Godfather,” made in 1972 and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
As close as any film will ever come to being a true masterpiece, “The Godfather” set a new standard of excellence that has only been …

The movie stars the ever lovable and funny character in Macaulay Culkin in a darker light as he takes on the roll of a crazed child with violent tendencies. The events that led up to this discovery were when his cousin is left with him after the death of …

I am reviewing The Case of the Split Ticket, 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, …

This is a movie where I feel people will have mixed emotions about. Either they will find it really entertaining or very disturbing. For me personally, I found it to be a not-so thrilling movie as the story isn’t much for me, however I wasn’t disturbed. Having read the Fifty …

Recently I visited the local artsy video store and rented the DVD “Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg” It is a Swedish film in Swedish, but much of it was in German with English subtitles. Directed by Kjell Grede and released in 1990.
I was extremely impressed by it. I must confess …

Most barbarian movies are pretty sweet. No matter how much you tease them or find out every flaw, these movies grab your attention and they never let go until the last person in the credits gets their due. Barbarian Queen does just that and it does something else that …

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 …

I, Robot is a movie based on the Issac Asimov short stories which are also titled I, Robot. It is about detective Del Spooner, played by Will Smith, who lives in a world where robots assist humans in there everyday life and become more humanlike everyday. The robots are …

Donnie Darko (2001) is a horror film and the directorial debut of Richard Kelly and is rated R for language, some drug use and violence.
Donnie Darko is the story of a teenager (Jake Gyllenhall) who after a freak occurence that could have possibly killed him, begins to explore what …

This is supposed to be a more artsy depiction of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Paul Morrissey, perhaps the weirdest filmmaker ever, directed this. It stars Udo Kier as dr Frankenstein, the rest are mostly amateurs. I don’t know if I would call this film artsy, but it certainly was …

This is quite simply my favorite movie of all time, and that is saying a lot considering how many movies I have seen. This is one of the few films that I personally think is flawless. Indiana Jones is the best character to ever hit the big …

After almost 60 years, the king has returned to his position as the monumental gorilla. Set in the same time period, the depression era, the 1930’s in New York City.
The beautiful blonde actress Anne Daryl (Naomi Watts), once played by actress Faye Wray. She beats the pavement to pursue …

Taken from the pages of the comic strip and the TV series, this live action movie has won me over. Richie Rich is the richest child in the world who has any and everything that he wants or needs. The only problem to that situation is that he is …

If you liked Sacha Baron Cohen’s most famous movie, Borat, you will find Bruno funny. Yes, this latest controversial and extremely politically incorrect comedy is over-the-top in the poor taste department. I do admit to finding the reactions of the people he encounters to be hilarious, and in …

Stories about two penguins Memphis and Norma Jean forge love, not how long it appears they both love results. As usual, a task for the male penguin eggs to sit, while the female secede moment with the male. Time continues to pass, now penguin eggs hatch began, but somehow …

64 Rokuyon Zenpen based on the award-winning novel by the same name by Hideo Yokoyama.

The film starts with the kidnapping of a young girl during the Showa Era Year 64 (1989) in Gunma Prefecture, Inspector Mikami and his team is put in charge of the case. The victim’s father …

When the movie Wall-E first came out, i figured it was going to be just like any other over-hyped animated movie. So, I didn’t bother watching it until very recently. As it turns out, the movie is actually one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
The film, which is …

I usually try to find cartoons to load on our Netflix player for our daughter to watch after school. Yesterday morning, I found one I have seen parts of; The Jetsons Movie and I put in on there for her.
She had just started watching it last night when I …

Pretty Woman is one of the first romantic movies I have seen and I liked it very much. I still love that movie after watching over hundred times in all these years. This Julia Roberts and Richard Gere starred movie is one of the greatest romantic movies of Hollywood …

Release Date: 2008
Genre: Comedy/ Fantasy
Running Time: 99 minutes
Directed by: Adam Shankman
Produced by: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Andrew Gunn
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kerri Russel
Walt Disney Pictures and Happy Madison Productions have teamed up to create an enjoyable, if somewhat formulaic, family adventure.
Skeeter Bronson was a lively little boy with a wild imagination, …

Like many of the movies I’ve watched recently, one of the first places that I heard of the movie “Unknown” was on a movie blog. The plot sounded very promising, so I got the movie and watched it with two people as soon as I had the time. Everyone …