Movies Reviews
DreamGirls (2006 Movie)
I recently saw this movie and loved it. The acting and musical talent was awesome. I already knew that Beyonce` could sing wonderfully but was pleasantly surprised to know that Eddie Murphy could also. There were so many instances that that I laughed and cried. Seeing this movie made …
Movie: Paul Blart Mall Cop
Synopsis: An overweight mall cop needs to stop a group of criminals from robbing the mall he is sworn to protect.
What I liked about this movie: Kevin James is actually pretty funny as Blart, a mall cop who is considered a loser by everyone from the people he works …
My Life movie
My life is really amazing movie.It was about a couple Bob and Gail Jones. Bob is a man who have everything,a good job and a beautiful loving wife but he found out he’s dying because of cancer.The worst thing is that her wife will give her first birth but …
Vacancy, Nimród Antal Movie
While heading the design credit for ‘Vacancy’, director Nimród Antal debut in the United States, it will remind Thriller classic Alfred Hitchkock in 1960, ‘Psycho’. Moreover, with music accompanied by a score likewise, the plus location with the ‘incident’ by remote motel run by men psychopathic, it would certainly …
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps movie
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps began with an opening teaser before the credits that featured Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) being released from prison, and it was fantastic. The mobile phone bit is a hoot, but the poignancy of the moment came when Gekko was watching the other released …
Superman Returns (2006)
Why oh why of why!!! Why is it that whenever a remake of a Superman Movie is done, the only character that they seem to pair as his nemesis is always Lex Luthor. Look at the extremely large list of enemies that Superman has, choose a different character to …
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is a very funny show indeed. If you have not yet watch this, I highly recommend. I will always love Garfield. He is just so, so funny. And especially a good watch with the voice-over by Bill Murray.
You …
Kasal Kasali Kasalo
I am just at home for the weekend and a few hours before my day is over today, I’d like to talk about the movie I watched last Friday night in Channel 2 (abs-cbn). The movie is about a young couple’s struggle to get through the troubles of being …
The Odyssey movie
An adaptation of the classic story by Homeros about the adventurer Odysseus who goes on a journey and experiences all kinds of dangers before he can finally return home.
This is the kind of adventure production that is often showed on the channel of Hallmark. That is, low budget films …
Don’t mess with the Zohan
Don’t mess with the Zohan is a hilarious comedy with Adam Sandler from Happy Gillmore. You can expect to find any of his movie funny. You will be sure to laugh your socks off of this movie Don’t Mess With he Zohan.
The way that Adam and everyone dressing …
Lost in Translation film
“Lost in Translation” is an amazing film by director-writer Sofia Coppola starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johanson, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anna Farris. The film takes place over the course of one week and is set in Japan.
In this flick, Johanson stars as Charlotte, a soul searching philosophy major …
The Cannonball Run
The Cannonball Run is almost a remake of The Gumball Rally, an earlier and much better movie about people who participate in illegal road rallies across the country. These rallies have no rules — just get to the appointed destination first and win the prize.
This movie is a …
The Copper Beaches
I am reviewing The Copper Beaches, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, produced in 1983 by Granada television. In this episode, Holmes is employed by a red headed governess, who has landed a position with a couple with one small boy. She …
Open Season
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 …
Hitch Movie
One of the best and my favorite comedians and actors is Will Smith, he can do comedy as if he was born to do it and act comically, he also has great skills as with Bad Boys and Hancock, and here on Hitch I think this movie really suited …
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite is now in my top 10 funniest movies. Wow what is not to like about this movie! I mean Napoleon Dynamite looks so funny and goofy in those big glasses he wears! He also looks very funny when he walks. The way he talks is ever funny. I …
Happy Feet Movie
This may seem weird but I watched this movie as a phone date with my boyfriend. We both put the DVD in the DVD player at the same time and pressed play and watched it with each other over the phone. I love movies about penguins so I knew …
Bebe’s Kids
I was looking through one of the thrift stores in my local area and found one of the movies that I will always remember from my childhood and teenage years because of how different it was and a movie that normally, I would not have really watched. Bebe’s Kids. …
Deadly Matrimony - Part 1 movie
From 1992, Brian Dennehy stars in Deadly Matrimony in which a woman is killed, prompting Dennehy’s character to reflect back to three years earlier.
The concept behind this movie is nothing new. It’s the successful businessman — handsome, confident, charming — who meets the beautiful and intelligent woman who …
Ghost Rider (UR, 2007) movie
I typically do not like comic book films. But I will admit that this little movie starring Nicholas Cage as the Ghost Rider won me over with little effort. What I liked in particular was the way his transformation into the Ghost Rider was filmed. …
Mr. Deeds
Mr. Deeds is one of the movies I watched a few hours before New Year’ eve as a way to pass time. The movie stars Adam Sandler who plays the role of Longfellow Deeds, a small town guy who went to New York for the first time to collect …
Happy Feet
Happy Feet (2007) This movie was a charmer! I loved it as much as my grandkids. It is a happy, feel good movie. It makes you want to get up and start dancing. This is one of the best children’s movies I have seen. I could …
Dan in Real Life film
Dan ( Steve Carell) is a widower with 3 daughters who juggles a writing job and fatherhood. During an extended family get together at his parents house he runs into ‘ Marie’ ( Juliette Binoche) in the town’s bookstore. She is funny, quirky, easy going, lively and empathetic,and the …
Interview with a Vampire (Movie)
Interview with a vampire is my favorite vampire movie of all time. It shows a kind of vampire that I feel has been pushed to the wayside in this generation. I think this is mainly because vampires are either made to be really disgusting monsters (like in Dracula or …
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, directed by Gore Verbinski is rated PG-13 bythe Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of action/adventure violence and some frightening images. The original release date was May 25, 2007 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of …
King’s Ransom (2005)
A wealthy, self absorbed, obnoxious, cruel business man is about to get a taste of his own medicine when he stages his own kidnapping that went terribly wrong. He planned the kidnapping in order to get out of paying off his soon to be divorced wife, but in trying …
The Sorcerers Apprentice, a film of Magical Enchantment
Looking for an action packed film that entices its viewers with magical spells and a stroyline never to be forgotten? The Sorcerers Apprentice matches that categpry exceptionally well. Adapted from a 1797 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ballad, director Jon Turteltaub has produced a magically enchanting film with everything a …
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie
*SPOILER ALERT!*
I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince today, the first day it came out, and I must say I was a bit disappointed. I read reviews and also heard from my friends who watched Harry Potter and the midnight show that it was kind of bad, …
Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine movie
Eleven years after the Columbo series left the year, Peter Falk returned to his legendary role in what would be a new resurrection for the character. No longer a part of the Mystery Movie weekly rotation or any regular appearance schedule, this began a string of made for …
Jammin in Jamaica
Jammin in Jamaica is a kid movie intended for teenage girls. It’s not exactly my cup of tea though but my girls like it. It’s about a group of teenage girls and their boyfriends who play in a band. The boys get an opportunity to go to Jamaica for …
Movie The Hangover
The Hangover is a great movie. But of course, do not follow what these guys have done. Basically they are on a romp for a guy’s night out, so to speak for the about to be married friend.
But things took a wrong turn when the groom …
Premonition (2007)
Premonition, directed by Mennan Yapo is Rated PG-13 bythe Motion Picture Association of America, and stars Sandra Bullock as Linda Quinn Hanson, Julian McMahon as Jim Hanson and Nia Long as Annie.
Linda loses her husband in a traggic motor vehicle accident and has trouble coping. Whenever she goes to …
Pather Panchali Movie
Pather Panchali : Pather Panchali is the debut film of the legendary film maker Satyajit Ray. The story is about a poor village family, who struggles to earn their daily bred, and the head of the family has to constantly move outside the village for work, so that he …
Enchanted movie
The story introduced me that the theory of “happily ever after” is just a fairytale. Enchanted shows you the fact, between the fairytale and the realities. Love needs time and everything may be happen when you’re about to find your true love. Well, I guess that was the idea …
Kireedam Tamil Movie
Kireedam is the latest release of the ultimate star Ajit movie. This movie is produced by Balaji and directed by newcomer Vijay. For the second time Ajit paired up with Trisha in this movie. Rajkiran and Saranya are also casted in the movie; they played the …
Babel, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu Movie
At first, people only have one language, but since the incident tower of Babel, God to punish man they have so many languages, so that written in the book of the Gospel. This film highlights the three stories in three different places, but there is a red thread that …
The Haunted Mansion
I am not an Eddie Murphy fan. I wasn’t fond of him back in the days of Saturday Night Live, and I have never liked his comedy bits. He’s way too out of my comfort zone for acceptable and appropriate comedy. That said, the best thing …
Ella Enchanted
I’ve always found that, when in doubt, a movie based around a fairy tale will always fill in nicely. In the case of Ella Enchanted, you have a good story complete with a few catchy song and dance numbers.
I have liked Anne Hathaway as an actress since I first …
The Damned movie
A story that focuses on rich german people during the World War II and how naive they were. Director Luchino Visconti is known for his long epic-style films, and this one is not an exception. The narrative is slow but yet very engaging. Visconti gives his audience a lot …
Rush Hour 3
Every so often a comedy duo comes around that really can do no wrong. you had Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in more than a few movies and now we have Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in their Rush Hour series. The third installment of this movie, Rush Hour …
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies movie
A TV series came out of this movie production of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, starring the beautiful and talented Doris Day. Along with Day, David Niven starred. Day and Niven are a bit odd together, but it works really well. I’ve always been surprised by …
The Forbidden Kingdom
For the second time, I watched Jacky Chan’s and Jet Li’s movie The Forbidden Kingdom on my way home from a TV and DVD showing on my bus ride. Due to the traffic, I kind of watched the whole movie again and I never thought I will be enjoying …
Golden Voyage of Sinbad Movie
Casting :
John Phillip Law (Sinbad)
Caroline Munro (Slave girl)
Tom Baker (Koura)
Special visual effects by Ray Harryhausen
Produced by Charles H.Scnneer and Ray Harryhausen
Directed by Gordon Hessler
In my childhood days,I studied about Big ships, Demons, magicians, prince, princess, magic lamp, genie, magics , 7 oceans ,islands, treasure haunts, etc in many story …
American Beauty (drama movie)
I was reading a book about writing screenplays and at one point it referred to the movie “American Beauty” as an example of a good fairly modern screenplay. However when I watched it for myself, I realised that it wasn’t just the screenplay that was good, but the entire movie.
The …
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is just a fabulous movie, rich in theme and substance. No matter how many times I watch this 1967 classic, it still touches my soul.
The performances just can’t be matched. Hepburn and Tracy, in their last coupling together on film, are dynamic, …
Spice and Wolf Episode 5 (Anime)
Spice and Wolf Episode 5 has Lawrence trying to figure out how to get Holo away from her captors.. He also has to do it without endangering his business partners.
This episode was really interesting and intense. But what makes it unique is that it’s about economics and …
They Movie
While this is not an excellent horror movie, it can stand on it’s own two feet. The best time to watch this movie or any horror movie in fact is in the nighttime…all by yourself, no one else around to distract you and take away from the terror it …
The Fall - (Tarsem Singh) film
This is a stunningly good, stunningly beautiful film.
You will probably find yourself thinking “What?” or just “?” throughout. Occasionally re-winding to find out if you really DID hear/see that, or to find out the answer to “?”
Being moved to tears, then laughter, or both at the same time may …
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