Movies Reviews
Mai Otome anime series
Mai Otome is a 26-episode anime series. Another name for this anime is Mai-Z-Hime. This anime takes place in an alternate universe to another anime called “Mai-Hime”. Many characters that appeared in Mai Otome are actually from Mai-Hime but with different personalities, roles, and sometimes age and form.
This show …
abalonemoon.com
Abalone Moon is an excellent example of a literary e-zine. The URL address is http://www.abalonemoon.com and I thoroughly examined this e-zine on the 16th of April. As stated by Abalone Moon, they publish “poetry, interviews, prose, essays, reviews, photography and visual art.” It also states a central theme. …
Movie Message in a Bottle (1999)
Message in a Bottle, directed by Luis Mandoki is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for a scene of sexuality. The original release date was February 12, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Romance and stars Kevin Costner as Garret …
The Bucket List
There are not many movies out there that give you something to intellectually pause over. The Bucket List is an exception to that general rule. Typically when we go to the movies, we are lookig for something happy and uplifting to take us away from the real …
Signs Movie
I was flipping through my Netflix Instant Watch catalog the other night and came across the movie Signs and decided to watch it again.
I have seen a lot of movies about alien invasions. This is one of the few that manages to scare the crap out of me every …
Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah’s Umbrella
A few months ago, my daughter watched the Veggie Tale movie Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson’s Hair Brush. She liked it so much, she wanted me to order it through Netflix for her again.
However, I came across the sequel to that movie, Minnesota Cuke and the Search …
Supernatural
I love sci fi or horror movies. Supernatural is one of those movies. I was scared to watch them alone at first, then I found out that they don’t tell about ghosts or anything scary like that. They tell stories about demons and devils. Ghosts …
A Low Down Dirty Shame Movie
“A Low Down Dirty Shame” is a 90s movie that was written and directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Not only does Keenen Ivory Wayans play the main character, Shame, he is also joined with a pretty decent cast: Jada Pinkett Smith, Charles S. Dutton, Andrew Divoff, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield.
Shame …
You’ve Got Mail (1998)
You’ve Got Mail, directed by Nora Ephron is rated PG by the Motion Picture Asociation of America for some language. The original release date was December 18, 1998 for United States audience. This movie fallsin the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Tom Hanks as Joe Foxx, Meg Ryan as …
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Third Season Set
The complete third season of Beast Wars: Transformers on DVD is a letdown. It’s not the fault of the picture or sound quality on the DVD set, although the amount of “extras” is very disappointing, but it’s the episodes that are the real problem. Unlike season two, the scripts …
Fracture (2007)
Fracture is a movie starring Anthony Hopkins. It is directed by Gregory Hoblit. In the first few minutes of the movie, we see Ted Crawford (an older man played by Anthony Hopkins) shoot his adulterous wife and causes her to fall into a coma. It turns out …
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Hardly expected because one of the leading characters ,who is in fact Jim Carey,this movie is very good,presenting a dramatic story out of a marvelous idea.The story starts with the two main characters,Joel Barish and Clementine.Joel is a passive,shy guy that is living a dull and nostalgic existence,day …
Movie Blond Ambition
To put everything in a short sentence, “Blond Ambition” is a very cheap copy of Reese Whiterspoon success movie “Legally Blond”. It is to no surprise to me that it went straight to DVD release.
The interesting fact about both movies that is that Luke Wilson stars in both of …
Veggietales: Lord of the Beans movie
Synopsis: Toto (Junior Asparagus) is given a bean with the power to grant him any wish. Rather than using it right away, he goes on a journey to learn why he was given his gift.
What I liked about this movie: I have watched and reviewed other veggie tale movies …
Shark Tale (2004)
The main character Oscar, played by Will Smith is the center of attraction, he comes across a shark that was killed by an anchor and he takes the glory for killing the shark all to himself. When word of his shark slaying heroisms reach home, the welcome him with …
Daniel Deronda
This mini-series was such a pleasure to watch. The story is based on a novel by George Eliot. The title character, Daniel, supposedly an illegitimate son of a wealthy English aristocrat, was raised like a gentleman. He is a well educated young man who has plenty of money, but …
Life Is Beautiful movie
The first half of the movie is light hearted romantic comedy. Guido played by Roberto Benigni is a young Italian Jew who comes to Arezzo and sets up a bookstore. He then meets an Dora, Italian woman who is not a Jew. Dora played by Nicoletta Braschian gets closer …
Returner Movie
When earth have been invaded by aliens and the downfall is very close, one human being manages to travel back in time to stop the invasion before it takes place.
This is mostly interesting because of the poetic imagery it uses and the excellent actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. The film is …
Movie Christina’s House
Christina’s House is the kind of movie that I shouldn’t like, but somehow I do. It’s the movie that I keep telling my friends to watch, even though they’ve seen it and hated it. I have to admit that the movie is pretty cheesy, but I still somehow find …
Rat Race movie
This is a hillarious lesser-known movie about a race to get 2 million dollars. I had never even heard of this movie until a friend brought it into work one night. I had stomach pains by the time it was over from laughing so hard.
It has an amazing cast: …
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
This movie is simply hilarious. Steve Martin and Michael Caine shine as two con artists who at first team up and then start competing with each other. Each time I watch it, I laugh all anew, even though I know what’s coming, and I can tell that both actors …
Lucy (2014 film)
While the trailers made this movie look like a formulaic popcorn flick, I had heard generally good things about this movie. The truth is, it is something of a mixed bag.
As the trailers show, the movie follows a young woman (played by Scarlett Johansson) who becomes something superhuman …
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Music and Lyrics, written and directed by Marc Lawrence is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some sexual content. The original release date was February 14, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Music/Romance and stars Hugh Grant as Alex …
Sword For Truth Anime Movie
Sword for Truth is a Japanese anime movie about Shuranosuke Sakaki, a master swordsman who has to rescue Princess Mayu the Shogunate after she is kidnapped by a faction of rebel ninjas.
I wasn’t sure what I was going to get when I watched this movie on the …
Pineapple Express (2008)
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny R. McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr., Nora Dunn, Joe Lo Truglio, Bill Hader, James Remar, Bobby Lee, Ken Jeong, and Justin Long.
Directed by: David Gordon Green.
It’s hard to find a good comedy nowadays. Look …
Where The Heart Is
Where The Heart Is is a lovely little movie about a girl who has a baby in an Oklahoma Wal Mart. What a place to start off in the world! Natalie Portman’s character, Novalee, goes into Wal Mart to buy slippers and when she comes back out to the …
Here Comes the Boom (movie)
One of the movies that I realised that I underrated the most earlier on in the year was the one that went by the same name of a POD song called “Here Comes the Boom”. One of the reasons why I didn’t even consider watching it at the time …
Transformers Animated Series - Jazz Action Figure
Jazz is definitely one of the best action figures in the Transformers Animated Series toy line! He is equally awesome in robot mode and car mode, and he retains enough of his look from the original series that you recognize him as Jazz. However, his figure is …
Troy
Four years after the epic movie “Gladiator”, Brad Pitt attempts to make a success out of another epic movie “Troy”. The only two things in common that these two movies have are that they were both filmed in Malta. While “Gladiator” was a huge blockbuster, “Troy” failed …
Tropic Thunder (2008)
This movie is comedy about actors being actors on screen, starring famous faces like Ben Stiller as Tugg Speadman, Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, Jack Black as Jeff Portnoy, Nick Nolte as John Tayback, Tom Cruise as Les Grossman and Matthew McConaughey as Rick Peck. The plot of …
It Follows (horror movie)
It Follows is a story about a monster that is sexually transmitted, and once you have him following you, he doesn’t stop until you’re dead or you transmit it to someone else. This movie is another fantastic addition to the horror genre, and is well recognized as being one of …
Wild Wild West (1999)
Wild Wild West, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for action violence, sex references and innuendo. The original release date was June 30, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Science Fiction/Western and stars Will Smith …
Before sunrise movie
I bought a copy of this CD from HMV store which I’ve got on sale and as I read the back label of the CD I thought this movie is something worthwhile to be watched because as it says it is quite romantic. Since I am a big …
Pursuit of happiness
Pursuit of Happiness starring Will Smith is the best movie I had ever seen in terms of potraying the real life situation. The struggle to existence and the survival of the fittest theory has been explained beautifully in the movie. Will smith acts as a ordinary sales person although …
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 …
Mr. fix it (2006) movie
Oh my God, this is one of the most stupid movies out there. I don’t even know how in the world can you make a movie that is so bad. And it is very surprising since the actors in the movie are absolutely amazing. The only scenario I can …
Take Me Home Tonight (2011 Movie)
This is one of those movies that wastes all of it’s good scenes in the trailer to entice people to come see it. When you actually watch the whole movie, you’ll realize you’ve already seen all the good parts and you’re left with a mediocre, forgettable movie.
I missed this …
88 minutes movie
This was a really good movie overall. Al Pacino plays in it and he plays a forensic psychiatrist. He gets a phone call and tells him that he only has 88 minutes to live. I really enjoyed watching this movie. It was entertaining, and kept my interests throughout the …
Ghostbusters the Movie
This is an oldie but a goodie. Certainly one of the funniest movies to come out dealing with the paranoia. It is also a nice reminder of the days when Bill Murray used to be funny. I really don’t know what happened to him, but he …
Cool as Ice film
I am going to review a 1991 film that starred the anglo-saxon rapper Vanilla ice.It is said to be a loose remake of an older film called rebel without a cause.It is about a young biker,Johnny played by Ice who regualry hangs out with a bunch of African american …
Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Gallop movie
I have to say that the first thing I noticed about this second entry in the movie’s Miss Marple mystery movie by Agatha Christie is the very bright and campy musical theme. It’s just so bubbly and merry that it seems like follows should be more of a …
White Chicks Movie
White Chicks is a comedy film which stars Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Busy Philipps, Jamie King, Jessica Cauffiel and Jennifer Carpenter. The Wayan brothers play the roles of FBI agents Marcus and Kevin Copeland who almost always screw up their missions and FBI cases. As a sort of punishment, …
84 Charing Cross Road
Helene, a New York writer, gives up on trying to find British authors she likes in her homeland. She writes to a used bookstore in London. Frank, the bookstore manager, sends her a detailed reply. Yes, they do have some of the books she is interested in; yes, they …
Big Daddy (movie)
In Big Daddy, Adam Sandler’s character, Sonny, is dumped with Julian, his friend’s child. Julian, the little boy, has a lisp and needs lots of attention. Sonny is definitely not a parent, he�s just a guy who tip toes through his life. Sonny really doesn’t have much going on, …
Hannah Free Movie 2009
I try to keep up with the latest releases of gay and lesbian films so I ordered a movie called Hannah Free from Netflix last week. It stars Sharon Gless as an elderly butch lesbian who is in the same nursing home as her long time lover, who …
Bobby (NR, 2006) movie
Oh how I really enjoyed this little film. It wasn’t riveting in the least. But I loved how Emilio Estevez pulled together so many talented actors into a film that showcased what they can do–so well. In any event, I have one major complaint: the …
The Devil’s Foot
I am reviewing The Devil’s Foot, a Sherlock HOlmes episode from the boxed set, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which was produced in 1984 by Granada television. This episode finds Holmes in need of recooperation. He and Watson travel to a remote place with the intent on …
All the President’s Men
I’m not into politics much at all, but like most of America, I was glued to much of the Watergate hearings. All the President’s Men is the story of how we got to that point, and it’s superbly done. I remember when I first saw it in …
Movie: The Last Airbender
The Last Airbender is a movie I would not pay for to see again. However, that doesn’t mean it was necessarily a bad movie. The effects were dead on, the casting was great, and the accuracy to the cartoon wasn’t bad either.
However, it was not long enough, and …
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