P2 is a little-known horror movie that I stumbled across while watching movies online on my Netflix service. It’s not a movie I knew about her would’ve picked up most likely in the video store. But I checked it out on Netflix and I’m glad I did. …

A film by the finnish director Aki Kaurismaki about a rock band called Leningrad Cowboys who have severe difficulties getting a contract from a record company.
The roomer says Kaurismaki himself is ashamed of this film which he did early in his career. I personally can’t appreciate those of his …

A lovable, but irresponsible father of three finds himself torn away from his three kids after a messy divorce. Desperate to see them more the occasional Saturday granted by the judge, Daniel (Robin Williams) goes to extreme lengths, donning the convincing disguise of an elderly Scottish woman, getting the …

Stephen King movies are usually hit or miss. Some are great, others are kind of dumb.
The Mist falls into the former more than the latter. But, it still is flawed.
The great thing about The Mist is the fact you really never know what is going on until the very …

I was curious about the romance drama film The lifeguard, when stumbling across it on the internet movie database website. I was intrigued by the cast list and the controversial storyline. I figured since Kristen Bell was the lead role, the movie would be pretty good since she is a …

Signs starring (Mel Gibson) is an interesting tale of a small mid-american town trying to come to terms with a real alien invasion. After Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) discovers a crop circle in his field stranger tales of extraterrestrials quickly begin to circulate around town. Even stranger when …

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a 2 hour 15 minute masterpiece. I watched the movie in IMAX 3D, a format I definitely recommend to anyone that has not watched the movie because the visuals are outstanding. I’m now excited to see how this new Star Wars trilogy will unfold.
The …

Boys Don’t Cry is a graphic, violent, emotional account of a true story, the story of Brandon Teena or Teena Brandon. Teena Brandon was born a girl, but somewhere along the way she decided that she wanted to be a boy so she changed her name to Brandon Teena …

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa explores the theme of friendship and kinship through using animations, specifically: cartoons. It talks about 4 good friends (all are animals in the Zoo at New York City), namely - Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo. The movie …

In this sequel to the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” it turns out that the monster (Boris Karloff) survived, as well as Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive). The doctor wants nothing but to destroy the creature and thus end the unfortunate experiment. However, another mad scientist shows up, Dr. Praetorious, who has …

I finally got a chance to watch the Scooby Doo movie Chill Out Scooby Doo with my daughter this past weekend. It turned out to be a pretty funny full length film.
Basically, Scooby and the gang find themselves investigating a mystery about a Yeti in the Himalayas. But, I …

With some of my favourite actors like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen featuring as the main characters in the movie “50 50″. The expectations were high, because both of these had done exceptionally well in the previous movies.
I knew what to expect from these names, and they didn’t disappointed …

Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for scenes of war violence, and for language. The original release date was March 31, 2000 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Drama/Thriller/War and stars Tommy Lee …

I had a chance to get this movie as a rental and enjoyed it very much. I originally got it for the kids, but it is one of those cartoon movies that ends up being a family favorite. So far we have watched it three times because the kids …

This stunning movie is already considered a classic. Garnering five 1991 Academy Awards, it comes to no surprise that many of us still find it spellbinding.
Clarice Starling is training to be a FBI agent. When a psychopath is murdering women, Starling (Jodie Foster) was sent to interview a prisoner, …

The Dreamworks masterpiece “Prince of Egypt” is one of the most beautiful and touching animated films of all time. It is a musical with stirring songs written by Stephen Schwartz; and it features an all-star cast of voices, including Val Kilmer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, and Patrick …

As the movie started, my roommates joked that this was “Fallout: The Movie”. Given that it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the country is a vast wasteland, comparisons are inevitable, but some of the set pieces were also very reminiscent of the game. Given that …

Wicked fun or magic fun..? This movie, Hocus Pocus is really awesome and I have enjoyed watching it very much. It is basically about 3 witches trying to ’survive’ and live on. I don’t encourage nor support witchcraft acts but this story pokes fun at witchcraft and …

Movies in the early to mid-sixties often dealt with one thing; well, maybe two — the beach and young love. That’s exactly what 1964’s For Those Who Think Young is about. It stars James Darren and Pamela Tiffin. Darren plays Gardner ‘Ding’ Pruitt III. He’s …

I am reviewing The Priory School, a Sherlock Holmes episode contained within the boxed set, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was produced in 1984 by Granada television. This episode finds Holmes investigating the disappearance of a young boy at the Priory School. The boy is the son …

“Angel Eyes” was promoted as a Jennifer Lopez movie because, at the time, she was a very hot celebrity; however this movie is all about the acting talents of James Caviezel. Although the movie was promoted as one of the best roles for Lopez, it didn’t live up to …

I decided to unwind last night and watched this movie on DVD. Scream 4 is another sequel to the 1996 hit Scream which raked more than 170 million in the box office.
The plot starts with an anniversary killings in the fictional place of Woodsboro. Just on the fifteenth …

I decided to watch “Shooter” because I knew that Mark Wahlberg had the leading role in this film. I really like his acting skills especially after watching him in films such as “The Perfect Storm”, “The Italian Job”, “The Kingdom” and in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed”. I must admit …

One of the movies that I can remember watching in the nineties when I was still a child was “Baby’s Day Out”. I remember that after I had seen it in theatres back then, I found it so interesting that I was talking about it for a very long …

The Cobbler is a very different kind of movie to the ones normally associated with its star, Adam Sandler. He’s had movies, such as Reign Over Me, that have really demonstrated his ability to tackle serious subject matter and deliver moving performances. Whilst I am a fan of some of …

The Man, directed by Les Mayfield is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for language, rude dialogue and some violence. The original release date for this movie was September 9, 2005 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Crime and stars Samuel …

This 1994 comedy movie stars Brendan Frasier, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler as A struggling rock band called The Lone Rangers, who have tried everything to get their demo heard, are tired of barely getting by and being ignored by record companies, and the local radio station, and finally …

Another silent montage film by the perhaps most appreciated director that worked with the style, next to Eisenstein - Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Looking through all of his work, I have to say Pudovkin’s films have aged a lot better than Eisenstein. While Eisenstein did all he could to make the films …

I’ve just returned from watching the newly released ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ starring Will Smith. Based on a true rags-to-riches story of a smart and hard-working man, the movie has left me touched, encouraged’ and a little depressed. It’s not that I didn’t know that life can be hard; …

When I first saw the movie “The Pink Panther” advertising to be released theatres, I didn’t show much interest in it. While a few of my friends were planning to go and see the movie in theatres, I didn’t want to because I had the impression that it was …

This movie contained some of my favourite actors like JK Simmons from Oz and Spiderman, and also the actor Shane West. However, even though I thought the movie wasn’t awful like some others I’ve seen, I still think that it really wasn’t all that great, and I was expecting …

I was in the mood to watch a horror movie recently and couldn’t figure out which one to watch. That was when I remembered one called “Ouija” that I had seen the trailer of when I went to watch something else in the theatre. While it was obvious that the …

The story about a drug dealer moving product through Mexico may not be a new one but writers Bob Fisher, Steve Farber, Sean Anders and John Morris have found a new, exciting and hilarious way to tell it.
David Clark is a drug dealer and seems to be pretty satisfied …

Black Death is the latest film by Christopher Smith, the man behind the Triangle. On the web I saw references to this as a horror film history.
1348. This is the year the film takes place, the year is under the sign of bubonic plague. The story begins with Osmund …

This romance anthology is made up of 5 love stories that happened in 5 different cities —“ Prague, Shanghai, Paris, Hokkaido and Florence. The stories portrayed different kind of love relationships.
I am usually not a fan of romance films, the reason I watched this is because of a few …

Heartbreak Ridge, directed by Clint Eastwood is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was December 5, 1986 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comdy/Drama/War and stars Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, Mario Van Peebles as …

This movie, more or less, is a buddy film, reminiscent of The Emperor’s New Groove. It is not so much a story of survival, as both animals are in their elements. Even though Boog is a fat, pampered, domesticated animal, none of the other animals in the forest are …

I finally got around to watching the movie Angels & Demons last night. And, to be honest with you, that decision was based almost solely on the fact I couldn’t find anything better to watch at the time.
I have had the book this movie is based off of for …

“About a Boy” is the movie where Hugh Grant tried to make something different from the usual movie projects we are so used seeing him in. I must admit that, although this movie was a great success, I prefer Grant version in his usual type of movies. All in …

Independence Day, Wild. Wild West, Men in Black, I Robot, I legend. Main ingredient Will Smith plus flat imagination, lots of special effects. I fell asleep, I felt ripped off. There were dramatic moderately high points in the movie. The scripts were not original, Smith …

As a fan of Halle Berry, I tend to tune into most everything she is featured in. When seeing the preview trailers for The Call, I was excited and dead set on seeing it. The previews were intriguing, but in a simple kind of way.
The Call isn’t meant …

Life is only travelled once. Today’s moments may be tomorrow’s memories. The movie Lakehouse depicts the story of two people who fell in love through a time difference of two years– a past and a future. Alex (Keannu Reeves) and Kate (Sandra Bullock) proved to the world that …

Evidence of Blood came out in 1998 and like the true, old south, it moves slowly. No, it doesn’t move, it crawls. Everything is told in a deliberate, snail-like drawl that is agonizingly slow. I’m all for murder mysteries, but I need something to keep me …

The filmmaker Roland Emmerich have for quite a long time been renowned for his peculiar way of waving with the american flag in his films, and The Patriot is, not very unexpected, the same thing.
Mel Gibson is an american family father in america in the late 18th century. A …

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 …

Normally I really enjoy kid’s movies, especially with high tech CGI animation. I didn’t know much about this one when I rented it, other than Gary Oldman was one of the voice actors, and he is one of my favorites. After watching the film I still do …

How I became familiar with the movie called “Stiff Odds” was that I saw it in one of my friend’s dvd collection, and after he insisted that despite the weird cover it was actually a pretty good movie, that he was positive I would enjoy, I decided to borrow …

In 2010, a film starring Michael Cera came out that looked to be something extremely interesting and a movie that he will be well known for. It was called “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”. Sad to say, that this film did not really hold the wow factor that I …

Pretty good movie based on a decent book.
I enjoyed this movie more than I expected to. Julia Roberts isn’t my favorite actor, although I think in the case of Liz Gilbert, she was probably the best choice. I also enjoyed the movie more than I did the …

Liar Liar, directed by Tom Shadyac is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sex related humor and language. The original release date was March 21, 1997 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Fantasy and stars Jim Carrey as Fletcher Reede, …