Another hour and a half of my life wasted watching the movie Skyline.
I love science fiction but this just made my eyes roll. It stars Scottie Thompson (as Elaine) and Eric Balfour (as Jarrod), a couple who fly to Los Angeles for the birthday party of Jarrod’s good …

“Blade Runner” is set in the 2020 Los Angeles. The technology has reached the highest levels, and those who have technology have power and money. Tyrell Corporation is one of these power-holders, producing so-called “replicants” - androids programmed for certain tasks and used as working force in colonies outside …

I was dying to see this movie when it hit theaters. But alas, I ended up catching it on DVD. And I have to say that I’m glad I waited. While the movie was funny, I found the little boy’s antics a bit over …

Everything seemed incredible.Yet,the movie is said to be a true life story.Leonardo De caprio was the perfect actor for the role displaying so much skills and versatility that I aws almost desiring to be just like him.
Beginning life just with the fake checks given to him by his father,his …

How To Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks) has it all–fantasy,comedy,action and adventure,even a little romance. In the opening scene the Viking clan who inhabit the island of Berk are battling dragons who habitually carry off their sheep and set fire to their houses. Here we meet Hiccup (voiced by Jay …

How I Met Your Mother, commonly referred to as HIMYM, is a hilarious sitcom on CBS. HIMYM airs on Monday at 8:30est. The sitcom revolves around Ted Mosby, who is telling his son and daughter about how he met their mother. The show mainly revolves …

When we rented Blades of Glory, I didn�t know what to expect from it. We�ve watched Will Ferrell movies in the past and, while some are absolutely hilarious, there are just as many that were very disappointing to us.
The good news for us was, while I wouldn�t put Blades …

This sequel starts of with the telling of the Scorpion King and how he came to power, the struggle that he had to endure before becoming the Scorpion King, the deal he made and the price that he paid all in the name of the Scorpion King Title. His …

This is an Indian movie in Hindi. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Raveena Tandon, and Sunny Deol. It is about a woman who marries after the tragic loss of her first husband but does not tell her second about the first. Then all the misunderstandings and mysteries begin.
This …

Spirits, vampires, werewolves, demons and devils are all part of the Halloween tradition but this year Goosebumps are also going to be one of those.The reason behind it is the movie “Goosebumps” which just got released to make your Halloween the best ever.Out of the famous Goosebumps book series written …

This movie had made me be more careful about the movies I check out with netflix. I did not know too much about this film before I watched it. I had only seen the trailer and it did not look too bad. To make sure I …

I love movies. I love them. They are one my passions in life. “Alien” and “Aliens”, along with “Predator” are incredibly frightening, hardcore movies which I enjoy with every bit of fanboyish delight that they deserve. So it would make sense that if you take …

I watched this The Real Beckhams DVD the other night and here is what I have to say about this. I am truly surprised that this DVD is that good. No kidding. You guys should watch it, I highly recommend it to you guys.
This is also extremely …

It’s a martial-art action movie. Fantastic thai martial-art show, and just an average action film.
Honestly, everything is common. Standard story, nothing special on the effects, just an acceptable filming quality and not much of an acting. Even one of my friend made a joke after watching this movie. He …

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The anime “Generator Gawl” tells the story of three people who travel back in time from the future to 2007 to prevent the destruction of the world. These three time travelers are Jay Hickman as Koji, Matt Kelley as Ryo and Vic Mignogna as Gawl.
This anime is short …

Notting Hill is a romantic comedy, with some drama in it. Hugh Grant is middle class book store owner, Julia Roberts is a Hollywood star. Both are looking for a life partner, Grant’s a divorcee, and Roberts have had a lot of bad experience in love relations. And …

This movie is based on a true story about a guy who found money fallen off of a bank car and decided to keep it. The lucky fellow, Joey, is played by John Cusack. Joey, an unemployed dockworker, can certainly use the money, so at first you somewhat sympathize …

“Inside Mecca” is a National Geographic television production (2003). It follows three Muslims engaging in hajj: a woman from Texas, a man and his wife from Malaysia, and a man from South Africa.
Pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam (faith, prayer, alms giving, and fasting). In …

Having never been able to become very interested in the book for some reason or another, I somehow found myself enamored with the film version of Pride and Prejudice. The romance between Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) and Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfayden) is legendary, of course, but this film and …

Without the shade of a doubt, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is by far my favourite story. The first time I read it, it left me in tears and I have a habit of coming back to it times and times again. I find it equally touching every time. There …

I love supernatural horror movies, but for some reason I can’t seem to get enough of them. The slasher movies and those horror movies that have a lot more gore in them seem to be what’s popular now. Those few with a religious or supernatural theme that I love so …

Obviously, a review of ANY Stanley Kubrick movie is going to have the usual raves (visually stunning, technically masterful!) and the usual criticisms (the acting can feel a little…robotic at times, and there’s generally a certain bleak, emotionally distant view of the human condition). Those definitely apply to Kubrick’s …

Bill Plympton is an animator who is notorious for an off-kilter sense of humor. Ever since his first noted animated short, Your Face, to his feature film debut, The Tune, he’s been responsible for some of the most madcap imagery in hand drawn animation. As he made …

The year 2004 was a great year for awesome music. It was also the same year that I become aware of a relatively unknown, independent recording group known as The Push Stars. Their song ‘Keg on the Coffin’ was receiving extensive radio play on Alabama airwaves by indie recording …

This is a very excellent monster or creepy animal picture. From the beginning the movie held my attention and didn’t let go until the end. There are two giant monsters in this movie: a komodo dragon and a cobra. Both are fast and deadly, although the komodo had a …

Mumbai, city where dream comes true and many dreams just remain as they are, dreams. Story of this movie circles around two brothers Jamal Malik and elder brother Salim Malik and also their female partner in crime, Latika, who at a very young age were rendered homeless due to the …

The Invisible is a movie that I recently picked up and was fairly surprised to find that I liked it, at least more than I thought I would. This is another one of those straight to DVD releases, but unlike other movies this one has some spectacular acting and …

Setting with in city of New York 1981. That time, Chris Gardner, is a medical equipment sales, trying to overcome life increasingly difficult. Medical tool that it was selling less so behavior, even from day to day, as if Chris can not run again role as breadwinners for their …

Starring:
Jim Carrey (Walter Sparrow/Fingerling), Virginia Madsen (Agatha Sparrow/Fabrizia), Logan Lerman (Robin Sparrow), Danny Huston (Issac French/Dr Miles),
I was not sure what to expect from this movie, though the synopsis described the obsession of a man with a book. I had taken this DVD up, as I …

Armed with a unique plot, beautifully colorful animation, and endearing characters, “Bolt” was an absolute delight. I enjoyed every adorable minute of it.
Bolt, voiced by John Travolta, is the star of a TV show where he plays a dog with super powers. The catch: Bolt doesn’t KNOW it’s all …

Claymore Episode 1 begins with a creature called a Youma devour humans. They can also take human form and a boy named Raki befriends a Claymore who comes to the village to destroy the Youma in the village.
This is an interesting fantasy, one of the better anime fantasies …

Played by one of the most respected comedians in the entertainment industry, Meet Dave is a movie that I would have otherwise been reluctant to watch, as I am not really into blatant fiction, but because of the Eddy Murphy factor, I knew that it would have that comedy …

“Count Duckula” was one of my favourite cartoons as a child. I loved everything about it, from the theme song to the drawings and the plot. However, the only thing I disliked was the fact that I would rarely see it on local television. In fact, of the few …

Godzilla 1954 is so much better than the American release, Godzilla 1956. Godzilla 1954 was just recently released in America for the first time ever and it is an incredible film. Unlike the butchered American version which deleted scenes considered to horrific and removed other scenes in favor of …

The most critically acclaimed swedish director - next to Ingmar Bergman and Victor Seastrom - Bo Widerberg here tells the story of the ropewalker Hedvig (aka Elvira Madigan) and the military officer Sixten Sparre. They are already a couple when the film starts, even though Sixten has his wife …

The Dark Gothic film that claimed the life of Brandon Lee. One of my favorite movies of all time, as not everyday you see a corpse rising from the grave to right to wrongs done to him. Not a zombie type role either…but undead and kicking butt from corner …

A stirring movie based on the intricacies of people and the way the view the world according to their own life experiences. On one side of the spectrum, you have a family that is filled with racial hate and it has stemmed for generations. Be that as it may, …

This movie centers around a sickly woman and the choices that she makes in her life that cause her to either live or die, plans are currently in place for her marriage and after that fact, she is set to have a baby, all this in light of the …

1983’s Silkwood is a powerful story. It’s also a true story which makes it tremendously poignant and meaningful. It’s also a story with an uncertain ending, even to this day.
This is the story of Karen Silkwood, a young woman who worked at a nuclear plant and realized …

Something To Talk About is a movie about relationships. And if you love horses, you will love the equestrian action in this film! Julia Roberts is Grace, a bored and well to do housewife who works at her family’s horse ranch. She and her husband, Eddie (Dennis Quaid), have …

One of my favorite Hitchcock films from his time in England. An old lady disappears while travelling in Switzerland, and when this is noticed by two of the passengers a most hideous plot is revealed little by little to a most unexpected end.
One of the first brilliant examples of …

I think that the best way to describe the movie “Serendipity” is John Cusack’s success movie as an attempt to return to his origins. We can remember that in the being of his career Cusack was involved in the successful movie project “The Sure Thing”. “Serendipity” is Cusack’s version …

Who cannot love a young Molly Ringwald as a fashion forward teenager who is trying to survive high school? I know that I can’t, and that is why it’s hard to not absolutely love the 1984 film “Sixteen Candles”. Not only is this movie funny, but it really does …

“The Girl Next Door” is an attempt to do a different teen movie by putting together teen curiously and pornography. Although it received mixed reviews from critics, the general public enjoyed watching this movie due to the involvment of three new generations of great actors Emile Hirsch, …

“Hackers” was one of my favorite movies which the famous actress Angelina Jolie starred in. I first watched it one Saturday evening a couple years ago on the SciFi cable channel and enjoyed it thoroughly. In fact, right now I’m thinking of watching it again.
I would not call …

I really didn’t know what to expect of this movie. I had never seen a trailer about it so I was expecting something between war and politics, but like it actually happens, like we see it on TV every day. Here everything was about money, like it usually is, …

Wishing Well is a 2009 TV movie that aired on the Hallmark Channel. It fits the mode of family film, but it’s a very old plot, one that has been re-used to death over the past few years.
Here’s the plot. Big city girl gets sent to small …

I have had a subscription to Zip.ca for about four months. I live in a rural area, so I like not having to rush into town to return movies as there are no due dates for titles as long as your membership is current.
I pay under $30 a …