Uwe Boll does not have the best track record when it comes to movie making. Boll’s reign of terror started with House of the Dead, his first video game movie that made people notice this German native. Things have been constantly going downhill but that is about to change …

Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was December 9, 1983 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Drama and stars Al Pacino as Tony Montana, Steven Bauer as Manny Ribera, Michelle …

D2: The Mighty Ducks is the 2nd installment of the Mighty Ducks trilogy. The movie starts off with Coach Bombay (Emilio Estevez) getting injured in minor league hockey after being close to making it to the majors. He is then forced to return to Minneapolis to work in the …

A mysterious man dressed in black stabs down some guards at a palace. A couple of hundred years later a very similar crime takes place. Someone is given the mission to find out what the connection between these two crimes are.
A minor Hong Kong action film that didn’t have …

It was a really fascinating and breathtaking experience watching the movie Everest on Imax. I watched it a few days back with a couple of old school friends, and two of us got teary eyed on some scenes of the movie. This is a very moving, inspiring …

Despite a few bad reviews, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is one of the best coming of age films I’ve watched in a very long time. I had an inkling that it would end up being a tearjerker from the title, but to my surprise it was in …

In this follow up to the original film, Mick and his new bride take up residence in the New York area and are living their lives in a some what peaceful situation, Mick is trying to acquaint himself with the running of city life and his wife Sue is …

When I came across the movie Blast on one of our movie channels the other night, the first thought I had was “I’ve never heard of this before.” My second thought was “Eddie Griffin in a drama? Are you kidding me?”
I originally wasn’t going to watch this movie but …

I was looking forward to seeing The Proposal when it came out this week on DVD, mainly because I think Sandra Bullock is a comedic genius. She also produced this film, and in my opinion, she has a knack for making non-cheesy, seriously funny comedies that also work as …

Vanessa Hudgens is the rising young star of Disney. Thanks to High School Musical, she is now a nation wide start. She can act, sing, and dance. That’s a triple threat for you. Recently, I’ve noticed she has gotten more womanly. She has more curves now compared to the …

I watched The Cry - La Llorona on DVD with my family the other night and the whole 80 minutes, we were hooked. We even had to pause the DVD movie and put it on hold to take some time to refresh ourselves and then went back to …

Although I enjoyed seeing the new Star Trek movie, I have to say that the writers really dropped the ball with the script and some of the characterizations. The story was quite poor and not very interesting at all, and it seemed as if the story was written around …

Synopsis: Jackie Chan stars as Agent Ho, a Chinese operative who is on-loan to the United States CIA. He falls in love with his neighbor and offers to watch her kids when she has to go out of town; only to find his and their lives are in danger.
What …

“Chronicle” is a very encouraging type of film; especially, during its beginning scenes. It is light and witty. The film is presented in a very one-sided angle—”so to speak. The audience witnesses: shots taken by the film’s character in way of his digital camera …

‘Flight of Phoenix’ is a movie directd by John Moore. In this movie, pilot Dennis Quaid’s flight crashes on a scorching sandy desert. All the actors play the parts of the survivors of the crash. They are parched and anxious. All these actors have performed their roles wonderfully well. …

I’m not a big fan of Leonardo DiCaprio eventhough he is one of Hollywood’s hottest and most sought-after actors. Not until I saw Blood Diamond. This movie made me his no. 1 fan. I saw Titanic and Romeo and Juliet which didn’t really showcase his acting prowess. But I …

I know that there are literally tons of movies out there in which a young, impressionable 9or not so impressionable) teen gets involved with a married husband and father. This movie puts a little spin on that typical story, with the young babysitter following through on her “talents” by …

There are bigger budget superhero movies today but the first Superman movie is still the one they need to live up to.
This film is a classic and it was the role Christopher Reeve was born to play. It did a great job explaining Superman’s origins and childhood while still …

“The Enchanted Cottage” is an RKO movie, filmed in black and white and lasts 91 minutes. “The whole town WHISPERED about these two!” These two are Laura Pennington (Dorothy McGuire) and Oliver Bradford (Robert Young).
“The Enchanted Cottage” is the story of the ugly duckling. The enchanted cottage weaves a …

Mundane romantic comedy about a man and a woman who happen to meet accidentally, happen to be perfect for each other, and happen to fall in love instantly. How many times have this been seen before?
Countless, or course, and this film is just repeating old sugar sweet cliches like …

Studio Ghibli is an iconic animation studio based in Japan. It’s best known for cultivating a tradition of Japanese animation that touches on adult concerns while also appealing to younger audiences. The legacy of the studio is credited mostly to the popular director Hayao Miyazaki. I am …

This is a fantastic movie! Whenever it comes on television I like to watch it all the way through.
Erin Brockovich is the incredible true story of a single mother of three children. She begins to work at a law firm on an important case dealing with a company that …

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire movie is based on a book by J.K. Rowling. It is the fourth of the series of Harry Potter books. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are about fourteen in this movie and growing into young adults as life becomes more complicated. The movie …

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a rather well known motion picture from 1952 that starred Gregory Peck as Harry Street, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green. Also in the film is The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s Leo G. Carroll as Uncle Bill. I actually …

Sorely missing his recently deceased brother Eric, Randall (played with tortured guilt by Dan Guy) resurrects him through sorcery. Unfortunately, Eric (PJ Megaw) comes back as a soul-sucking demon who turns people into flesh-eating zombies. Eric is already dangerous, but once he finds out his girlfriend, Lily …

“Placebo Effect” is a Twilight Zone episode featuring Sidney Poitier’s daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, who plays Dr. Leslie Coburn.
In this installment, she treats a hypochondric man who has been coming to her clinic on multiple occasions for various “illnesses.” One day he comes in with …

This is the movie about an autistic little boy who manages to crack a cryptographic code designed by the Federal Government. His life is now in danger, but based on his sickness, and age, there is nothing he can do to fend off the people who are now on …

If you want to see a motion picture about the mystery and magic of love, then Miracle in the Rain is the movie for you. This picture sends tingling chills up my spine, the kind of chills from the enduring legacy of a love that can’t and won’t …

Nightwatch was produced by Timur Bekmambetov. It is a science fiction action movie with a very interesting main plot and a few different subplots, that interlink in the end of the movie, but still leave the ending to be somewhat mysterious. The film begins with a prologue, a picture …

Horror-suspense flick “Eden Lake” keeps you breathless and guessing from start to finish.
Jenny and her boyfriend, Steve, escape to the wilderness for a romantic weekend of camping; Steve is also planning a surprise proposal. Things look great until the couple come across an unruly group of boys who view …

I’ve said this once before, but any movie that will keep my 3-year-old daughter occupied for 90 minutes is one that will always receive high praise from me.
The Rugrats movie is one of those films.
I bought her the movie about a week ago as a bribe. She had spent …

Rosie! is a delightful comedy about an eccentric woman whose family questions her sanity. Of course, it’s all because they are worried about her money and it getting away from the family. It’s a common theme for movies, and it’s the central one here. The wonderful …

A private detective named Harry is hired to find a man who is supposed to be in a hospital somewhere with amnesia. The strange thing is that everyone connected to the man, who would have some information to supply Harry with, all dies for mysterious reasons.
This is not a …

I’m pretty sure Leap Year is in my top five favorites for movies. Leap Year is an awesome movie that I’ve watched over and over and over. It’s just one of those movies that you don’t get tired of. Of course, it’s a total love story, so maybe that’s …

The Ugly Truth is a romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler and directed by Robert Luketic. It is rated R.
Abby (Heigl) is the uptight producer of a morning news program. Although she is successful, she is looking for love and lives with her cat. …

Away We Go is based on what I thought was a cute idea, so I really wanted to go see it. I missed it in the theatres though, because my friends wanted to see other things. I’m pleased that I managed to see it even though I didn’t get …

The other night I was watching the movie Hitch starring Will Smith and I thought I would give my take on this movie. Well I have been a fan of Smith since Fresh Prince and I enjoy many of his action movies. Hitch shows a date doctor whose job …

“The Wizard of Oz” is one of the best MGM musicals of all time and a film that continues to cross generational lines. I read somewhere that they had originally wanted Shirley Temple to play the part of Dorothy. As talented a child actress as Temple was, …

Note: This review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix contains spoilers.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is my 2nd favorite Potter film out of the first five, but just like with Prisoner of Azkaban it took some time for me to get adjust.
Here’s what …

This is supposed to be a more artsy depiction of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Paul Morrissey, perhaps the weirdest filmmaker ever, directed this. It stars Udo Kier as dr Frankenstein, the rest are mostly amateurs. I don’t know if I would call this film artsy, but it certainly was …

I was a bit apprehensive about whether this remake would be as good as the original. But then I realize that this film was made by the same director. It is then that I realized that all the nuances were the same as the first …

When I saw the previews for Slither on TV, I thought it was going to be a good horror movie. After all, you can’t go wrong with slimy slugs that take over people’s bodies and turn them into zombies.
Unfortunately, the makers of the movie missed big-time and turned what …

A 1995 production, In the Shadow of Evil stars Treat Williams as detective who suffers a nasty fall and hit on his head and then develops a type of amnesia. He remembers many things, but much of his short term memory is gone. The sticky wicket of …

“Drop Dead Gorgeous” was what I thought was a very interesting and unique comedy film. It was unique in the sense that it was dark and it was filmed in a way and a style which I thought was different from any other comedy film I had ever seen …

To be perfectly honest, I was not expecting the fourth Ice Age movie to be any good at all. The movie actually pleasantly surprised me by exceeding my expectations. Needless to say, Manny, Sid, Diego, and Scrat are just as funny as they were the first three times.
The …

A great family movie, we will definately be buying this one on dvd to go in our collection. A story about singing penquins and how one young penguin finds it hard to fit in because he cant sing, when he starts tapping his feet and doing a tap like …

Four young black women disillusioned and down on their luck, begin robbing banks to make their way out of the ghetto and move onto better things.
The story of amateur crooks trying to make their way in the criminal underworld is hardly a new thing; and this film is …

Over Her Dead Body stars the ever sweet Eva Longoria and in this movie, she plays a beautiful dead woman and a gorgeous ghost at that. I laughed for quite a few times and I watched this with my boyfriend recently. Paul Rudd stars as the man that …

Scoop is a comedy atypical for Woody Allen. A comedy situated on the border between Allen’s specific black comedies, a classic romantic comedy and a mystery thriller. Another unusual element in Scoop is Scarlett Johansson, who stars in my opinion in one of his best roles. She is a …

My wife and I rented the remake of the movie Friday the 13th and didn’t know what to expect from it. I figured it would be roughly the same as the original but, shortly after starting it, I realized I don’t remember a thing about the original and couldn’t …