Movies Reviews
Second Sight movie
Quite by accident, I discovered a movie playing over on the Hallmark Channel called Second Sight. I’d never seen it before. In the back of my mind, I have an extremely vague recognition of the title, but that’s it. However, what caught my attention and made …
Batman Begins Movie
When I was three, I had a Batman fixation. I think that fixation has returned in full force after seeing Batman Begins. Every actor puts in a good effort, although the face behind Scarecrow is by far the most convincing and even frightening. Featuring one of …
Bratz Kidz Sleepover Adventure
My daughter absolutely loves the Bratz. It doesn’t matter if it’s a doll or the latest movie, she needs to have it.
When Bratz Kids Sleepover Adventure came out on DVD, I was a good parent and kept my promise to rent it for her. Big mistake.
The movie has …
The Ruins (Movie )
The Ruins was a complete waste of time, which was sad because I really wanted to see it. I kept seeing the movie advertised and telling my friends how good I thought it was. I’ve never read the book the film was based on, but now that I’ve seen …
Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian
Recently my kids and I watched “Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian”; we saw how funny it looked on its trailer and wanted to buy it. Immediately after watching it I wanted to do a review and decided on one thing: if a movie that …
Borrowed Hearts
Borrowed Hearts is one of my all time favorite Christmas movies. My mom, sister and I have to watch it every year. You can now buy the DVD of this movie or watch it on tv during the Christmas season. It stars Roma Downey, Hector Elizondo, and Eric McCormack(from …
Carandiru (R, 2004) movie
It’s amazing how much of a learning tool Netflix has been for me. I rented “Carandiru” without ever hearing about the inmate/police riot that occurred in October of 1992. I know that I wasn’t really up on world events during that time. But knowing …
Canterbury Tales movie
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s adaptation of the classic novel by Geoffrey Chaucer about pilgrims who tell their dirty stories to each other.
This was made in a time where Pasolini was constantly taking new turns in his filmmaking and in my opinion getting further away from his original genius in his …
Love Actually movie
Love actually is a feel good movie that was released in 2003 and is written and directed Richard Curtis who also worked on Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary.
In this star studded movie it is all about love. It is about finding love, losing love and un-required love.
I always …
The Devil Wears Prada
I was a bit bored last night because the baby was awake and I couldn’t seem to find anything on TV. So, I ended up going to one of our movie channels and watching the Devil Wears Prada once again.
You know what, this movie gets worse every time I …
Happy Feet movie
As a father with three children, ages 9 down to 3, I went into this film with some trepidation. Mind you, I like children’s fare, but this one just didn’t have the appeal for me.
Boy, was I wrong.
The tap-dancing penguin in the movie is just adorable. As much …
The Pursuit of Happyness
Pursuit of Happyness is a movie based on a true story of a man Chris Gardener. It is a tale of struggle, disappointment, fall and rise of his life. Chris Gardener who lives with a 5 year old son trying somehow to make the two ends meet. His monthly …
The Longest Day
Arguably, the best war film ever to be made. I believe it was filmed in 1962. Big names like, John Wayne, Richard Burton and Sean Connery to name a few, starred in this black & white movie.
What intrigued me the most about this flick was that the Americans/British spoke …
Over the Hedge (2006)
A raccoon has found himself in dangerous territory when he tries to steal food from a hibernating bear, the bear catches him nut instead of rending him limb from limb, he offers the raccoon a choice, either death or replace the food supply that the bear had. RJ the …
The Fan (1996)
The Fan, directed by Tony Scott is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong language throughout and some intense violence. The original release date for the movie was August 16, 1996 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Sport/Thriller and stars …
Barn Yard
I really enjoyed watching this movie. I just did not know what to expect from Otis and the hill surfing to the motorcycle ride back to the farm. I think and fell that each character brought that little extra something that every film needs. The twist and turns …
August Rush Movie
August Rush is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.
A young foundling boy dreams of the day his parents will find him again. He knows that if they listen hard enough like he does, they will hear him and they will come …
Shankar dadaa M.B.B.S. telugu film
Shankar Dadaa, M.B.B.S. movie is a good entertainer movie starring “Megastar” Chiranjeevi, Sonali Bendre, and Srikanth in lead roles. Shankar is son of a school teacher runs away from home and becomes robinhood of a colony. He meets his parents and to satisfy them he lies that …
Spanglish movie
I am reviewing the movie, Spanglish, which came out last year. It stars Adam Sandler as John Clasky, who is an incredible chef and father of two children. His wife is played by Tea Leoni, who is an eccentric, emotionally disturbed woman trying to live life how …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
The great and quite long series of books&movies which has been around for more than a decade is about to come to an end.
Being a loyal Harry Potter fan, I read all the books in the series, watched the movies and even played the computer games..
Usually I wasn’t very …
Star Trek 1991 Cachet
As a stamp collector and a huge Star Trek fan, I jumped at the chance to get this cool-looking collectible. The Star Trek 1991 Cachet was issued by Paramount Pictures, in association with the United States Postal Service, in celebration of Star Trek’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
It’s an awesome display …
Arrival (2016 Sci-fi Drama Film)
The way this film is marketed is truly off-putting, who else wants to watch another alien-invasion movie? I find it truly distracting that “language” is one of the main themes here but the distributor actually did not know how to communicate/market this film to the general audience. Granted, science fiction …
Beauty and the Beast,1991 animation movie
I love this movie, I can’t praise it enough. It is beautiful, creative, funny, and touching. Disney can make good animation, if they put their mind to it.
A young beauty named Belle lives in a village with her father Maurice, an inventor thought to be crazy because his machines …
Spirited Away - Animated Movie Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away is a movie that explores the adventure of a ten year old girl Chihiro Ogino who is moving to a new world and is trapped in the spirit world when her parents are turned to pigs after eating the food of the spirits. This will probably always …
Return to Frogtown Movie
This is an interesting movie. The sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, starring Roddy Piper, this movie takes place a few years later. Sam Hell is no longer Roddy Piper, but is some other guy with an enormously freakish face, and he is now a member of …
The film The Secret
I found this “The Secret” to be quite ridiculous, a tad boring, and totally unrealistic. This “movie” generated much hype a couple of years ago and, like most, I fell for it all and ran out to rent it. BIG mistake. It spends two agonizing hours …
Crimson Peak (2015 Gothic Horror Movie)
I love Gothic Horror movies, Guillermo Del Toro, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston and so it was a given that I definitely had to see the movie Crimson Peak once it was released. I read both good and bad reviews about it, and so I wasn’t totally sure what to …
Bachelor Party Vegas movie
When I first loaded the movie Bachelor Party Vegas on our netflix player, I wasn’t sure what to expect. i figured it was either a comedy or a soft core porn film. So, I waited until the kids were spending the night at their grandparents’ before my wife and …
Snow Globe
Normally, I dread watching Christmas movies. They rarely offer anything new and are so full of cliches, you can pretty much predict what will happen next.
Tonight, I got to watch a Christmas movie that I actually enjoyed.
ABC Family’s movie, Snow Globe, is a Christmas movie that is so original, …
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (movie)
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life is a movie about a teenage boy, Justin, who falls prey to the addictions of online pornography. Justin begins as a normal teenage boy who is an athlete, has a pretty girlfriend, two parents who seem to love each other and they all live …
Krull
This film quietly snuck up on us in the early 1980’s. It’s a science fantasy film that, boiled down, is essentially the classic plot: boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy gets girl.
The boy and girl are Corwyn and Lyssa. And in the beginning they are to be married, …
Happy feet
Happy feet may not be as child friendly as it’s animation may imply.
The film follows the story of a penguin who seems unable to fulfill his duty in life, that being to find a mate through singing his “heart song”. Mumbles, the unfortunate penguin, was blessed with a very …
The 2008 Comedy/Horror Teeth
A friend told me about this movie one Saturday and all but forced me to watch it. To tell the truth, at first I thought the movie was going to be silly, and just another b-movie since the plot alone sounded ridiculous to me. Either way, I tried it …
Turistas
What a horrifying situation, to be stranded in a foreign country, and caught up in the schemes of dealers of death. The premise of Turistas (Spanish for tourists) is straightforward. A group of tourists, fresh from a bus accident, find a beach to relax on before walking off to …
Scarface (1983)
Scarface (1983) is a drama film directed by Brian De Palma and is rated R by the MPAA.
Scarface is the rags to riches tale of Tony Montana (Al Pacino), a cuban deportee rise form a dishwasher to the head of Miami’s cocaine industry. His intelligence, guts, and imbition …
The Movie Princess Diaries
What little girl hasn’t at one point or another wished that she was a princess? That it what this movie was about. Mia Thermopolis, a geeky 15 year old girl trying to make it through high school, finds out that she is a real life princess and must …
Escape Plan movie
In its desire to entertain the cinema methodically presents a series of jobs, making viewers experts without even requiring them to leave their comfortable armchairs.
When resources are depleting, writers create new professional backgrounds in the hope that the audience will treat their whims indulgently and will follow them enthusiastically in …
The Descent (2005)
The Descent (2005) is a horror film by director Neil Marshall thats rated R by the MPAA
The Descent is the story of a group of girl-friends who, after a tragic accident one year ago, reunite to explore cave systems in the mountains. Once inside, a rock collapses and …
The Last Shot (2004)
Let us talk about a movie that falls under the category of a complete ‘miss’. This movie stars some of the best actors in Hollywood like Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Tony Shaloub, Ray Liotta, Toni Collette and even Eric Roberts, but even though it had these people in the …
Happy Feet ( childrens movie )
My daughter rented this childrens movie last night. My grandkids have been dying to see Happy Feet, and they were not dissapointed.
This is a very cute and funny animated movie about Emperor Penguins, who are born to sing . The actors in Happy feet are : Robin Willams, Hugh …
Cast Away (2000)
Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense action sequences and some disturbing images. The original release date was December 22, 2000 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Drama and stars Tom Hanks as …
Troll (1986 Film)
The 1986 film “Troll” is in one word, eerie. Now, being used to the creepy and spooky bump in the night films of the modern day, movie lovers may wonder what a 1986 movie may hold in the eerie department compared to a movie of today. But it’s the …
I Know What You Did Last Summer
This is a 1997 horror film in the style of movies like Scream, and other teen horror films, the movie is about a group of kids that run over a guy while drunk driving and hide the body instead of calling the cops and reporting the accident, the kids …
Bio Dome
When I think back to the movies made in the 1990s, I can think of quite a few good ones. And, then I can think of ones made by Pauley Shore that weren’t so good but still somewhat entertaining.
Shore will never win any awards for his performance in the …
Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness
“The Pursuit of Happyness” is a wonderful film, inspired by the true life story of Chris Garner, who managed to survive with his five-year-old son in early 1980s San Francisco while working his way through an unpaid six-month intership to become a stock broker.
Will Smith is spectacular as Chris, …
Bangkok Dangerous (2008), crime thriller film
How could a film that was made in 1999 already get a remake? The Pang Brothers felt it was a perfect opportunity to remake their hit 1999 debut film, Bangkok Dangerous, for its American release. Was this a smart move from the Pang Brothers or is the original film …
Movie Waterworld
For some reason, my husband loves “Waterworld.” I love my husband, but I loathe and detest this film.
It’s hard to believe that this 1975 cinematic “messterpiece” was one of the most expensive movies ever made. Maybe they spent a lot of the money on the sets …
Bruce Almighty Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey was brilliantly funny in this movie. He has always been one of my favorite actors and this movie just sealed it. It kind of made me think not to ever question God’s authority again. Jim Carrey plays a guy who is fed up with always being the …
Saving Private Ryan movie
Steven Spielberg’s oscarwinning depiction of the d-day during World War II when the american army invaded Normandy in France to fight the germans. The opening 15 minutes of the film is incredibly intense and well-directed with possibly the most realistic war scenes ever filmed. After that the film turns …
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