Movies Reviews
The Hurt Locker (2009 film)
The Hurt Locker is a film that I expected with great interest not only because of the quantity of praise given to it but also because it was the first film in a long while that was addressing the Iraq war. Kathryn Bigelow, world’s first female …
Odd Girl Out movie
I had often wondered what happened to the actress Alex Vega after the Spy Kids trilogy, as it seemed that she had just disappeared for a while. However, last night when watching the Lifetime television station, I saw her in a movie called “Odd Girl Out”. It was that …
Pay It Forward (2001)
Watching this, Pay It Forward (2001) on the DVD the other night gave me a bit of self-confidence to embrace life more better.
The movie story stars Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey and if you remember the talented kid from the movie the Sixth Sense, it is none other than …
Pursuit of Happyness
How lucky is Will Smith to be able to act with his real life son Jaden? What a fine performance the two of them put in to make Pursuit of Happyness such a joy to see. It is the story of hope, tenacity, desperation, all the things humans in …
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is the final movie in the Pirates trilogy. I was not very high on Dead Man’s Chest and was hoping At World’s End would reinvigorate my love I had for Pirates 1. However, what I got dissipated my love for …
Labor Pains
What do you do when you are stuck in a rut in your daily job, and your boss isn’t helping your bored situation and you keep coming late and making your boss angry? Either you resign, or in some situation you get the sack. But what if it …
Metallica: Some kind of monster
This is a documentary feature by the same couple who made the much talked about films about the “West Memphis Three” and how they where innocently convicted for murder and put on death row. Those two films features music by heavy metal band Metallica and now the filmmakers made …
Saw III
Saw III continues in the fashion of the last 2 films, it was released just one year after the last, released around Halloween of 2006, the movie was produced by James Wan, and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. The plot to the film is the Jigsaw Killer is on …
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
I am reviewing the 2006 movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose. This movie is suposedly based on real life events. I have always been fascinated with the subject of demonic possession, and so this movie was very fascinating for me. Plus, the main actress is from the …
Awake (R, 2007)
I am definitely not a huge Jessica Alba fan. But I wanted to see this movie mainly because I was unsure how the director would put a spin on �anesthetic awareness��a condition that causes people undergoing surgery to feel pain and be conscious, but unable to move …
La La Land - (Romantic Musical Film) 2016
Tears in your eyes, laughter spewing out of you and songs you find humming at odd hours? You must have watched La La Land. I’m not a person who often enjoys musicals and yet La La Land surprised me. I was enthralled, drawn into the story and of course couldn’t …
Number 23
Although Jim Carrey is known for his comedy movies, he did an amazing job in this movie. I was a little reluctant because I didn’t know how good he would be in this type of movie and the previews looked good I was a little worried about him being …
A Christmas Story
When I first saw A Christmas Story a few years ago, I thought it was a great film. Now, after every television station has managed to show it at least a dozen times, I’m a bit burned out on it.
Overall, this is a unique holiday film in the sense …
Krull movie
A science Fiction about the planet Krull. This place is visited by an evil creature and his army that plans to take over the planet. This is something that the two kings ruling the planet will not accept, and forms an alliance that will fight back against the evil …
Movie : Defendor (2009)
Released in 2009 amid the madness across the globe that saw ordinary people waling the streets in costumes as super-heroes came DEFENDOR, a woody Harrelson led tale about a regular guy that is sick of the corruption and crime in his city and decides to do something about it.
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Serendipity (2001)
John Cusack (Jonathan Trager) and Kate Beckinsale (Sara Thomas) star in this dramatic romantic comedy that is just phenomenal. The both meet a department store where they met each other on the issue of a pair of gloves. Dare I say, I just love Kate’s smile.
A mutual attraction is …
Hellboy Movie
An action film that was originally a comic book created by Mike Mignola and the Dark Horse Comics. Hellboy is a character who was once born out of the flames of hell, but was rescued and fights on the good side against evil.
It’s an entertaining film, and Ron Perlman …
Equilibrium movie
Equilibrium is one of the best movies I have ever watched. I have watched it a few times and i still like the movie. It is a futuristic movie starring Christian Bale. Its actually the first movie where I saw Christian Bale and I thought at that time that …
NOMADLAND, the movie (2020)
The film by Chloe Zhao, who acted as writer, director, producer, and editor, really surprised me. It is an adaptation of Jessica Bruder’s novel of the same name, but it is shot in a documentary style. NOMADLAND was a breath of fresh air for me in the world of glamour, …
Enchanted April Movie
The 1992 movie “Enchanted April” is a charming, almost magical movie about four women who vacation together in a villa in Italy. Lottie Wilkins (played by Josie Lawrence) and Rose Arbuthnot (played by Miranda Richardson) are two English women living in England shortly after World War I. The two …
Open Range (2003)
Once again, Kevin Costner has delivered unto us, the viewing public, another almost three hour feature length film based in the days of the old west. I guess it is safe to say that he loves this time period and he enjoys getting all submerged in a world where …
My Side of the Mountain movie
Based on Jean Craighead George classic childrens book about wilderness survival, My Side of the Mountain follows the adventures of a boy named Sam (Ted Eccles). Sam lives in the city, changed to Toronto for the film, and yearns to live alongside nature as his hero Thoreau. One day …
The Book of Eli Movie
I watched the Book of Eli last night not knowing what the movie is all about. The movie was a post-apocalyptic one, I guess that’s explains the dreary, dusty and dark atmosphere it exudes. The movie has a lot of mixed reviews. Some thought it was an …
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist, who after receiving an award from the mayor, is celebrating in his home with his wife by his side when they discover that they are not alone. A former patient of Dr. Crowe broke a window and entered the dwelling, …
Cast a Deadly Spell movie
The film takes place in 1948 when apparently magic is used by more or less every human being alive. When a book called “The Necronomicon” is stolen, the only one who doesn’t use magic is called in the retrieve it.
This is undeniably a salute to the horror novels by …
Aint It Cool News website
If you love movies as much as I do, then it stands to reason that you also like to hear about developments on movies that have yet to come out or about the different ideas being thrown around Hollywood and other parts of the world. You can get …
Something’s Gotta Give movie
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton shine in Something’s Gotta Give. Something’s Gotta Give is a movie about a woman who is middle aged and she really doesn’t have much of a life besides her work. Her name is Erica and Diane Keaton plays her character. Harry, played by Jack …
Drew Peterson: Untouchable, movie
I have to admit, that I don’t like a lot of Lifetime dramas since I believe that a lot of them are just plain mediocre when it comes to the acting, the plot and the overall way in which the entire thing was put together. There are even some …
Movie SEVEN
The most favorite movie i have ever seen is Seven! Brad pitt has done an excellent job. Not to leave out the performance of morgan freeman, the veteran actor has shown all the diagonals of acting. The story is about tracking a serial killer who wants to show the …
Movie: Dolls
Since yesterday was Halloween, my wife and I spent part of the afternoon watching scary movies. One of the movies we ended up watching was one I haven’t seen in a long time called Dolls. I didn’t remember much about it, other than, when I was younger, it scared …
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (hereafter “Fellowship”) is the first movie in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. In many ways, it is also the best of the three. Of course each has its own unique strengths. There is not a …
Serenity movie
In 2005, fan encouragement resulted in this movie called Serenity. It was a follow up to the science fiction series Firefly. Now, I’ve only seen a couple of episode of Firefly. It just didn’t grab me at the time, so I’m a bit behind the story when …
Police Academy (1984)
Comedy has a new flavor and this movie throws it directly into your lap and gives you no other alternative but to like it, and like it you will. This movie hosts a band of misfits that have come to be trained as police officers. The trouble that they …
Indian Tamil Movie
Indian is one of the finest movies in Tamil Cinema. This movie is produced by A.M. Ratnam for his own production unit Sri Surya Movies. The story and screenplay wrote by Shankar. Also he directed the movie. …
Leprechaun in the Hood-film
Leprechaun 5: in the Hood is a 2000 comedy/horror film.It stars Warick Davis and Ice T.It is about an evil leprechaun who searches for his magic flute and gold coins and kills people who get in his way.The movie starts out in the 1970s.A man dressed like a pimp …
Child’s Play (movie)
Child’s Play is one of the first horror movies I saw as a kid. I will always remember this scary movie. Child’s Play is the reason I hate dolls and anything that looks life like. The story is about a killer who is about to die. But before he dies …
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 …
Bulletproof Monk
Bulletproof Monk with Seann William Scott, Chon Yun-Fat, and Jaime King.
I have seen Chow Yun-Fat in Chinese Martial Arts movies before and enjoy the peaceful smile that he exhibits while kicking butt of the bad guys. Scott, on the other hand, was an obnoxious jerk …
Blood for Dracula
I have to say, I never really understood the fuss over Andy Warhol movies. I saw the film Blood for Dracula the other night. While the movie sounded good in the description (Dracula is growing old and needs virgin blood to survive); the movie itself was actually one of …
Jet Li’s Fearless
Even though this film has been out quite a while now I have only just came around to watching it and if you’re into martial arts or the Chinese culture and tradition then you will be interested in this film start to end.
Jet Li plays Huo Yuanjia, son …
A child’s cry for help
I just watched this movie on Lifetime Movie Network a few hours ago. I really liked it a lot. Overall it was a very good movie. It is about a young boy who is sick and in the hospital that her mother takes him to, the doctor there blames …
Firstborn,1984 movie
This is another depressing movie, of the kind I dislike. I mean, life can be depressing enough, so why take its darkest things onto the screen and drag them on and on? Not that I’m totally opposed to movies showing negative reality, but come on, sometimes enough is enough.
Anyway. …
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
When a group of egotistical men have no choice but to accept a female reporter into their group of four, they do not take too kindly to it and challenge it at every chance they get to do so. To add insult to injury, the female that is supposed …
Showcase Cinemas Randolph MA
I took my daughter today to see Bee Movie at Showcase Cinemas in Randolph. The movie was great…but, I will leave that for someone else. :)
There were a lot of cars in the lot when we arrived, but amazingly, there was still parking close by. The …
Thew Ringer movie
The Ringer is a drama comedy movie starring by Johny Knoxville and Katherine Heigl. First time I saw the movie is just uncoincidence and I don’t know exactly what movie it is. After I watch a little longer I can see that this is pretty interesting to watch.
The movie …
The Gravedancers, movie
Another installment in the “8 Films to Die For” lineup, “The Gravedancers” is a film about three high school friends reunited by a funeral and facing off in a traditional haunted house fright fest. This is the type of film that reminds me of how a simple story, when …
Phantom of the Opera movie
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera came to the big screen in 2004, and it was an incredible success. I had the priviledge of seeing it in the theatres while in Mexico, and even there, in a foreign tongue, it received rave reviews. I would completely agree with …
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 …
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