Movies Reviews
We’re No Angels (movie)
For a comedy film, the movie We�re No Angels really doesn�t produce many laughs.
Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn put in a valiant effort, but the weak script and the even weaker concept really doesn�t work. You can only make so many jokes at the expense of the church …
Van Helsing (2004)
Van Helsing, directed by Stephen Sommers is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for nonstop creature action violence and frightening images, and for sensuality. The original release date was May 7, 2004 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller and stars …
X-men Days of Future Past (2014 Film)
I’m not what you would call a super duper die hard fan of X-men comics, but I do enjoy the movies and have followed them since the very first one came out. I was excited for the newest movie in the X-men Days of Future Past, when viewing the trailers. …
Are We There Yet? (2005 movie)
Nick (Ice Cube), a small shop owner, falls for Suzanne (Nia Long), a single mother of two. As he begins courting her, Nick soon discovers that her kids, jealous and protective of their mother, will be the ones he needs to impress and win over first. Besides, it would …
Obsessed
I wasn’t sure I wanted to watch the movie “Obsessed” this past weekend. But, my wife wanted to see it and it was her birthday.
It turned out to be an OK film.
It is actually similar to many other films I’ve seen. You have a successful black guy who is …
To Kill A King
To Kill A King with Tim Roth and Dougray Scott.
This story is a historic narration of the rise to power of Oliver Cromwell. Tim Roth plays the part of the complex character in such a way that we can see into his soul. …
The Lawnmower Man movie
A man with little intelligence is used by the people of his home city as a lawnmower. One day, a scientist who performs experiments on apes get the idea of using the lawnmower man as his new object. Something goes wrong and the lawnmower man becomes intelligent instead, and …
Toy Story 2
I am reviewing the Disney movie, Toy Story 2. Like most sequels, this movie isn’t as good as the original Toy Story, but it is still clever and good. Buzz and Woody are buddies in this film. There is a new puppy in the picture, and it …
The Forbiddent Kingdom Movie
The Forbidden Kingdom is 2008 block buster that sees the first time two mega stars staring in the movie together. They are Jackie Chan and Jet Li. In their entire careers, they both had filmed many movies , but never one together. This is thus the strongest drawing point …
Sweet Revenge, 1998 movie
It does not happen very often that I cannot sit through a movie; however, that was the case with Sweet Revenge, 1998, also known as The Revengers’ Comedies, starring Sam Neill and Helena Bonham Carter. I couldn’t finish watching it. The plot summary provided on the back of the …
The West Point Story movie
James Cagney has center stage in this 1950 salute to America’s West Point Academy, where the Army’s finest are schooled and trained. In this movie, Cagney plays Elwin Bixby, a Broadway director, who helps the cadets put on a show. Of course, it’s not quite that simple. …
Dead Mans Shoes (2004)
I was just about to go to bed when I thought I would watch the first ten minutes of ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ to see what it was like. I thought it was probably just a silly, violent action film or something but I spent the rest of the …
THE ISLAND MOVIE DVD
I hope I am not the only person who was totally NOT impressed with this movie. I found THE ISLAND to be entirely predictable after about 30 minutes. I try so hard not to figure out the endings of movies, or what is REALLY going on, because, when they …
The Addiction
The Addiction is a movie about vampires. It seems as if lately, in the last twenty years or so, there is a great interest in portraying vampires on the big screen, but not necessarily in the way that the older films used to. Maybe it started with spoofing Dracula, …
The Young Poisoner’s Handbook movie
A mentally unstable man named Graham get tired of the people around him and gets the crazy idea of poisoning them all. The film is said to be based on true events, and was quite controversial when it came out. It think it is thrilling mostly because the head …
On the Town musical
Another great musical that I truly love to watch is On the Town. It’s very upbeat and all about love. It’s highly entertaining, with songs that make you want to sing along with them.
The story of On the Town is pretty basic. It’s three sailors on …
Fast and Furious 4 (2009)
One of the most disappointing movies of the year, Fast and Furious 4 was a flat, uninteresting film. I was dismayed that even the actors came out flat here. It came off like a bad “made for TV” low budget movie. There are no twists or events …
George of the Jungle movie
This is one of Brendan Fraser’s best comedies and is a great film for the family to watch.
Basically a spoof of Tarzan, Fraser plays George, a young child abandoned in the jungle and raised by apes. He’s not too bright and is very clumbsy but has a good heart …
Meshes of the Afternoon moive
Perhaps the most important of all experimental films ever made. This was directed by Maya Deren and is and shows one event taking place repeatedly, but each time there is a difference in the way it occurs, only a minor one barely noticable. No matter what you think about …
13 Going on 30 (2004 movie)
A little girl, not very happy with her life, makes a wish on her 13th birthday to be 30 and flirty and thriving. She falls asleep in the closet and when she wakes, she finds herself in a strange house and that she is 30 years old. Finding her …
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 …
The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)
Director: John Herzfeld. Featuring: Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne.
The movie didn’t get lots of good reviews, and I cannot say that it is a good movie, but I found it very fun to watch anyway. It is quite entertaining and there are really good actors in it. I think …
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975 Film)
The group of well known British comics who used to star in “Monty Python Flying Circus” short films came out with a film in 1975 called “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Now, this film is without a doubt an acquired type of comedy, but a comedy none the …
Lake Placid movie
I can rememebr when the movie “Lake PLacid” was released in 1999, it seemed to gain a lot of attention from my peers; but since I didn’t see it advertising to be released in theatres I wasn’t yearning to watch it as much as some of my friends were. …
Supernatural:Monster movie
The director decided to go Vintage style and so this episode is black and white. Right from the start to the end,it is in black and white. Well not much of a difference actually,because the show does not sport bright colors,which is with keeping with the theme of the …
Angels & Demons Movie
Having read this book, I can say the movie is quite acceptable compared to the other movies also derived from novels such as the Harry Potter series, here in this movie and novel I can say that the movie didn’t deviate as much as the other films did and …
Dallas Season 9 DVD
A lot of people knock this particular season of DALLAS but it really isn’t all that bad. Actually, the only knock it because of what happens in season 10. Ok, let’s explain what this is all about: in the previous season, Patrick Duffy left Dallas to seek other pursuits. He …
The Princess Diaries
“The Princess Diaries” was Anne Hathway passport to success and also opened her way to other interesting and challenging roles such as “The Devil’s Wears Prada” and “Brokeback Mountain”. What I find interesting about this actress in the fact that even though she didn’t work on a huge list of …
Avatar in Digital 3D
I wanted to write about Avatar while it’s still fresh in my mind. I watched it on December 24, 2009 for a hefty fee of $14.99 (that’s how much it costs to watch a full-blown digital 3D movie these days). On second thought, this cost is not …
Jacob’s Ladder movie
Tim Robbins does an amazing job in this film as an american war veteran who suspects the government is trying to hide something for him. He suspects that he and other soldiers where affected by some form of drug during wartime and he desperately tries to prove this, but …
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (Chinese Adventure Action Movie)
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe is a 2015 Chinese 3D adventure action film directed and co-written by Lu Chuan. The film is an adaptation of Tianxia Bachang’s 2006 best-selling novel Ghost Blows Out the Light.
I was reluctant to watch this movie because I’ve just watched a pretty bad Chinese tomb-exploring …
Music and Lyrics (2007)
There is no reason for romantic-comedy lover not to watch this movie because there is a king and queen of romantic comedy inside, that is : Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. The good news here is, this movie is as great as I expected when I heard that it …
The Hurt Locker (2009 film)
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 …
1408 (Film)
1408 is a film which is based on a short story by Stephen King. The film focuses on a character named Mike Enslin, played by John Cusack, who is a writer who focuses on occult subjects such as the 10 most haunted hotels in America or similar themes like …
Casino Movie
I think Casino is one of the greatest Mob movies ever made. Joe Pesci does a great job of playing Nicky Santoro. I also think that Robert Deniro did a great job as Sam he hustler. I think the movie really tells the story of how mob bosses used …
A Man Escaped (1956)
“A Man Escaped” (1956) is a French movie from Nouvelles Editions de Films. The movie primarily in French with some German when a German soldier is speaking. The DVD comes with English subtitles. “A Man Escaped” was filmed on location in a prison in France in black and white. …
Mr. Adam’s Bomb movie short
Mr. Adam’s Bomb from 1949 was a really weird film that catered to an offbeat story line that frankly bored me and barely had a comprehendible plot. It opens in an entertaining way, with a man named Johnson doing the jitterbug with the maid. It is probably …
Easy A (Movie)
This is a typical high-school movie in which the gossip mill spreads like wildfire, and one clean-cut high school girl’s reputation gets ruined by an accidental lie. The movie features Emma Stone as Olive, who was forced to tell a lie to her very petulant best friend, and when …
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Mr. Deeds, directed by Steven Brill is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for language including sexual references, and some rear nudity. The original release date was June 28, 2002 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Adam Sandler …
Lansing Mall Cinema
If we are going to see a movie in the weekend, we would consider Lansing Mall Cinema. It is as good as the other cinema. It is clean and cozy. Bathroom is neat and you can even take a nap right there inside the bathroom. …
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
I have always been a huge fan of vampire movies, but I have to say that Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn” is the most bizarre vampire movie I have ever seen. There is a lot of great talent in this movie - including George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette …
Barbarella (1968)
Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Joan Greenwood, Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Claude Dauphin, and Ugo Tognazzi.
Directed by: Roger Vadim.
Erotic science fiction in the late 1960s? Who would have ever thought of it? Apparently, a comic artist named Jean-Claude Forest did when he created “Barbarella” and …
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016 Superhero Movie)
I remember hearing about the movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” a long time when it was just a rumour, and I was very excited to see how it would be translated to screen. However, I lost interest in seeing it when I found out that Ben Affleck was …
The Butler (2013 Film)
The Butler is one of those movies that I like to call a quiet movie that’s meant for winding down. You don’t turn on this kind of movie, ready for action or something intensely graphic to happen. It’s a movie that tells you a deep rooted story. My review …
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
This story is a remake three times over and this remake just did not make the grade, for the life of me, no matter how many times I start watching and try to watch this movie, I just get extremely bored and I have to switch away to something …
Narnia movie
I have just returned from seeing the long-awaited Narnia movie (”The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” based on the novel by C.S.Lewis). The movie was excellent!! They didn’t change any of the story, the casting and acting was great, and the computer-generated characters were real and believable. The …
The Ghost and the Darkness movie
When I saw the Ghost and the Darkness on sale at the store I had to buy it for my collection. This is one of the most suspense filled movies I’ve ever seen and definitely one that will make you think.
I think this is one of Val Kilmer’s and …
The Book of Eli Movie
A film with Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, an apocalypse, and books. How could this movie be bad? Well, ‘The Book of Eli’ makes it look easy.
The opening scene had me expectant of a good watch. I liked the way the film looked; excellent use of light and shadow, earthy …
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