Movies Reviews
The City of Ember
I’ve watch this movie just now. Well, it’s trully movies for teenage and below. Not a good action adventure movies as i imagine before. This movie is taken from Jeanne DuPrau in 2003, about the human evolution that makes the world is not safe anymore, so human must stay …
Our Miss Brooks movie
From 1956, Eve Arden takes the part that she played successfully for four years on television, high school English teacher Constance ‘Connie’ Brooks, and puts her on the big screen. What is confusing to some, though, is that instead of moving forward with the story, this movie actually …
Man of Tai Chi (2013) - Movie
Keanu Reeves directed Man of Tai Chi and also starred as Donaka Mark, an evil underground fight club owner. Tiger Hu Chen played Chen Lin Hu, a Tai Chi student that goes by the name of Tiger. You can already see where this is going, right? Surprisingly, no teachers …
Disturbing Behavior
One advantage of having a trial of ShowTime for the next three months is I get to see some movies I haven’t seen in a while. This included the movie Disturbing Behavior.
Even though the plot of the movie skips around a bit and is weak in some spots, I …
Short Circuit (1986)
Short Circuit, directed by John Badham is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was May 9, 1986. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Family/Science Fiction and stars Ally Sheedy as Stephanie Speck, Steve Guttenberg as Newton Crosby, Fisher Stevens as Ben …
Pulse of the planet DVD
11 documentaries and sidelights set pieces finally read through the hearts of the feeling is really indescribable, very shocked, dumbfounded, worship: the planet is really beautiful! Such a beautiful planet and they will not want to undermine it? Did not watch this film before we thought that the …
Vacation (2015 Comedy Adventure Movie)
If you’re like me and you loved many of the National Lampoon movies, you were probably very eager to watch the 2015 movie “Vacation”. The thing about the movie is that it was the fifth in the list of National Lampoon’s Vacation series and it is supposed to be a …
Movie Bad Girls
Bad Girls, directed by Jonathan Kaplan is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for western violence. The original release date was April 22, 1994 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Western and stars Madeleine Stow as Cody Zamora, Mary Stuart Masterson …
The Lovely Bones
I had read the book and really wanted to see this movie. I took my daughter with me, as she had read the book as well. We were both hoping for a different ending than the book had, and we were happy to see an ending we both liked. …
Grand Theft Parsons (movie)
To be honest, I’d only heard the name Gram Parsons but I never had the urge to find out who this person was until I watched the movie “Grand Theft Parsons”. I might not have known of the musician whom they were referring to but my inability to resist …
The Marsh (R, 2006) movie
If you’re thinking about renting a rollercoaster ride of a film, look elsewhere other than “The Marsh.” No offense to the award-winning Forrest Whitaker, or the equally winsome Gabrielle Anwar. In fact, I can’t even say that I didn’t enjoy this movie. …
House Broken
Housebroken is a movie about parents who want their kids to move out. Well one parent who is played by Danny Devito, the mother (Katey Segal) is content with letting her twenty-ish sons mooch off her and her husband.
The appearance of the DVD cover led me to believe …
Toy Story 3
For those of you that grew up with the magic of Pixar, you most definitely know of the many adventures of toy legends, Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear, the space ranger and all their companions. I speak of the first ever Pixar computer generated animation film, Toy Story.
Now …
Tammy and the Doctor
Sandra Dee is back again as swamp gal Tammy Tyree in Tammy and the Doctor. Debbie Reynolds began the Tammy trend by falling in love with accident crash victim and bachelor, Peter Brent. By the end of that movie, it looked like Tammy would soon be Mrs. …
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
The latest release in DC’s original animated movie series has Superman set up by Lex Luthor who is now the President. A kryptonite meteor is heading to Earth and Lex takes advantage of the oppurtunity to strike at his mortal enemy once and for all.
It’s all just an …
Shall We Dance movie
Shall We Dance is a very nice movie. I watched it in DVD when my cousins rented it when we were visiting their place last Christmas.
Shall We Dance is directed by Peter Chelsom and was written by Masayuki Suo and Audrey Wells. It was released in US …
Movie: The Social Network
Synopsis: This film gives you a history of the web site Facebook.com from its humble beginnings as a Harvard social network to it’s expansion into one of the largest and most popular social networking sites in the world.
What I liked about this movie: My wife and I both use …
In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies with Salma Hayek and Edward James Olmos.
The title offered me no clue as to the theme of the movie and in fact it seemed like a sensitive touchy feely movie. Since I try to stay away from these movies, …
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, film (2003)
Alan Moore has been the writer of some of most significant pieces of comic literature, yet his works have failed to be properly brought to the movie screen with success. He was very critical of films like V for Vendetta and Watchmen. He’s repeatedly refused to have …
The Butterfly Effect Movie
I originally saw this film at the cinema, and proceeded to by it on DVD as soon as it was released!
The film is based lightly on the idea / scientific theory of chaos. The Chaos Theory.
Throughout his childhood, Evan suffered from black outs, inexplicable to himself or anyone around …
The devil wears prada
This is a Meryl Streep movie, and like all of her movies she is simply fantastic. I find that Streep gives that extra input in her work that makes her such an extra ordinary actress. I personally compare her a lot to the actor, Joaquin Phoenix they …
Stone Cold (1991)
Stone Cold, directed by Craig R. Baxley is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong violence and language, and for sensuality. The original release date was May 17, 1991 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama and stars Brian Bossworth …
The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King
This past weekend the local cable television had the series of the Lord of the Rings on for the entire weekend, we watched the
The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King. This was third installment, of the triolgy.It is the story of how Frodo and his …
“Palermo shooting” movie
Seemed to be good. Wim Wenders, the desire to pay tribute to Bergman and Antonioni, Milla Jovovich and Dennis Hopper … Fans of punk certainly hoped for a successful role Campino. However, “Palermo shooting” not impressed …
Efforts to complicated reflective plot failed. Interspersed repetitive shares not fully understood, sometimes …
Men of Honor
Men of Honor was based on a true story according to the credits at the end. It deals with a man in the Navy that is discriminated against based on his color in part because he wants to be a diver. At one point our country was almost divided …
Disney’s Peter Pan
Peter Pan by Disney is one of my favorite Disney classics and it beings back some great memories. Peter Pan will always be a classic movie in my view. I like the whole story about how he does not want to grow up and always stay a kid. I find …
“Monsters” movie
Taking up for watching “Monster” I was hoping that it will be explosive combination of “The way” and “District 9″. So I was hoping for poetic road movie, as confirmed in the post-apocalyptic mood, which would become the matrix for an ambitious aesthetic, making a problems, science fiction story. …
A Scanner Darkly [movie]
I just went to see the film “A Scanner Darkly” and I thought it was brilliant. The story is a cautionary tale about drug addiction. As such, it deals with a lot of material not appropriate for children, but could also be considered an important film for youth and …
The Real McCoy (1993)
The Real McCoy, directed by Russell Mulcahy is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was September 10, 1993 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, Val Kilmer as J.T. Barker, …
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
We watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets this weekend on cable. It seems that the station was promoting all the Harry Potter movies.
The Harry Potter and the Chanber of Secrets involved the usual cast of hermonine, ron and Harry. As in each movie there is …
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a movie about the making of the worst movie ever made.
This movie is set in southeast Asia where Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), a former big budget American movie star, is filming his latest movie, a film based on a book written by a POW survivor of …
The Bourne Ultimatum
I have enjoyed both the previous Bourne movies, but I HAVE to say that the last one The Bourne Ultimatum was by far my favourite! I am usually not that much into watching sequels - but the Bourne Sequels just got better and better as they went along! …
2001 Space Idiocies
2001 Space Idiocies is the 4th episode of the 1st season of Tripping the Rift and is to me the highlight of the show’s first season. As the title gives away there is a lot of riffing off of the movie 2001: A Space Oddyssey.
This episode succeeds in …
The Smurfs 2 - Movie
The great performance (600 million dollars) of the first feature movie about the Smurfs (2011) made the continuation of their adventures an inevitability. And it is already a fact - three-dimensional, dynamic and colorful as usual. In the center of the story is Gargamel, who is a superstar in …
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader” film
I am a huge “The Chronicles of Narnia” fan. I remember it as being the first book series I ever read.
I had the privilege to attend a charity screening event attended by Skandar Keynes, and Georgie Henley (the main actors in the film). It was an event I’ll …
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Director: Richard Roxburgh Featuring: Eric Bana and Franka Potente.
This is a great human story based on the memoir of Raimond Gaita. His father Romulus is a farmer from a Romanian origin and his mother Christina is German. Raimond is a happy child brought up …
Willow (1988)
A fantasy movie about a baby that was kidnapped by an evil queen in order to destroy what ever hopes other may have of the prophecy being fulfilled. It would seem that the queen wants her reign to continue for years to come and with this child’s destiny looming …
Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper movie
“The Time Bombed Skyscaper” is a movie based off of the hit Japanese anime show “Case Closed”. Case Closed is a based on the life of Jimmy Kudo, who is a genius junoir detective that was shrunk to a child due from poisening from a crime organization. He now …
Catch me if you can
‘Catch me if you can’ is an English film, directed by Steven Spielberg. The actors are LeonardoDicaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher etc.. This movie is the story of Frank Abagnale who, while he was turning to the age of 19, conned nearly millions of dollars worth in cheques. Leonardo plays …
The Cell, 2016 Movie
John Cusack plays novelist Clay Riddel, a writer who is on his way home from a trip. He standing in the airport when all hell breaks loose it seems. He had just finished speaking to his son on his cell phone when he lost the signal, as he searches for …
Love Comes Softly movie
I am reviewing the movie, Love Comes Softly, which was released in 2002. This movie stars Katherine Heigl from Grey’s Anatomy as Marty Claridge and Dale Midkiff as widower Clark Davis. This movie is based on Janette Oke’s best selling book. Heigl’s character is along with her …
All Night Long movie
The comedy All Night Long has a couple of big surprises in it — Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand. Hackman really wasn’t known for comedy but yet this movie was written for him based on his cameo in Young Frankenstein. Streisand wasn’t initially attached to this project, …
Batman The Movie
Batman The Movie is an old Batman film, but it is now available on DVD, with plenty of special features. It is rated Universal, suitable for everyone. The film stars Adam West as Batman, and Burt Ward as Batman’s sidekick, Robin. The four villains who plan to defeat Batman …
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York movie
The movie “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” was the sequel and successor to one of the biggest hit movies of the 20th century, “Home Alone”. Of course, like many other sequels with very successful prequels, this movie didn’t do well as the first. Nevertheless, it was still …
Swarmed movie
Swarmed is essentially a movie about a lot big, bad bugs, specifically wasps. It all starts with an experimental chemical that gets taken from a lab and sprayed on some wasps. It’s not a good thing. The wasps become more intense and people-hungry as the movie …
Ratatouille
Ratatouille is the latest production to come from Pixar, infamous for many popular computer animated films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Cars. Fans of their movies will not be disappointed in Ratatouille, since it still shows the incredible animating skills of the studio along with the Disney, …
Movie Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson from 1972 is all Robert Redford. He’s a man who tires of the city and the worst parts of society. He wants peace, and he finds it in the mountains. He’s a greenhorn, though, and it’s not until he meets Bear Claw, played by …
“Adam” Movie
The movie Adam is very interesting. It is about an adult with Aspergers syndrome which is similar to autism or some may call it high functioning autism. This movie was unique because they portrayed a normal man, not a genius or an idiot savant, but …
Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket is one of the most powerful and hard hitting war movies ever made. The late Stanley Kubrick is a genius and he shows us that in this movie. Right of the bat, we are shown how brutal and shocking just the basic training is …
Movie I know who killed me
Whenever I read a tabloid article about Lindsay Lohan getting busted for drunk driving or entering re-hab, I can’t help but be saddened. That’s because, for all the negative publicity she receives, she is actually not that bad of an actress.
Her latest movie, I know who killed me, is …
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