Movies Reviews
The Ex
A married couple, Tom and Sofia, are about to have a baby. They live in New York; Sofia is a lawyer, and Tom works at a restaurant, hoping to be soon promoted. When this happens, Sofia wants to quit her job and become a stay-at-home mom. Instead, Tom loses …
Children fo Men movie
It was real tough to decide whether to give this movie a 10 or a 9… I hesitate to put it up there with the best movies of all time, but I feel the urge. Children of Men is a truly great film. I think it is fairly groundbreaking …
The Holiday
After watching a bunch of ‘chick flicks’ I actually liked, I figured there would be no harm in renting The Holiday. Boy was I wrong.
This has got to be the longest, most boring film I’ve seen this year.
The movie is about two women, one American and one British, who …
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Gil Gerad returns! Yes, after 25 years since the original series went off the air it survived as a huge hit in syndication and on its Sci Fi Channel run. This was a classic adventure series will cool, campy overtones in the first season and then it …
Champagne Charlie movie
About a man called Charles Heidsieck, a wealthy person who lived in the 19th century, who is famous for the fact that he introduced champagne in America. What I find awkward about this film is that it doesn’t focus on the champagne itself, or what it had as effects …
2019: After The Fall of New York (1983) movie
Starring: Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis, George Eastman, Valentine Monnier, Romano Puppo, Paolo Maria Scalondro, Louis Ecclesia, Edmund Purdom, Serge Feuillard, Tiziana Fibi, Hal Yamanouchi, Alessandra Tani, Jacques Stany, Siriana Hernandez, Tony Askin, and Franco Mazzieri.
Directed by: Sergio Martino.
“2019: After The Fall of New York” is yet another average B-movie …
50 First Dates
50 First Dates is a 2004 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Adam Sandler plays as Henry Roth, a marine veterinarian, who meets Lucy Whitmore and gets her to agree to go on a date, the next day he discovers she doesn’t remember him at all, he …
Othello movie
Orson Welles, who of course is mostly known for his cinematic milestone achievement Citizen Kane, had a lot of financial trouble in his career. Hollywood didn’t think his films would make any big money, so he had to look for investors abroad. Most of his films were financed in …
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix Movie
The first time I saw the trailer for the latest installment of Harry Potter movie, I was ecstatic. Yes, finally!
Well, after I watched the movie, I wasn’t ecstatic anymore, and it wasn’t because I just finished watching the movie. It was the fact that the movie deviated from the …
The Witch (2015 Horror film)
As soon as I saw the trailer and began to hear a lot of good reviews about it, I searched long and hard for the 2015 movie “The Witch”. I’m a huge supernatural horror movie fan, and so the excitement was contagious. I found it on blu-ray and I expected …
Movie: The Best Years of our Lives
I had never heard of the movie The Best Years of our Lives until this past weekend, when I discovered it as part of a Memorial Day marathon. At first, I didn’t know what I was watching. But, it ended up being a halfway decent movie.
Unlike a lot of …
RPG Metanoia The First 3d Animated Film in The Philippines
The first time I saw RPG Metanoia in YouTube.com as a movie trailer, I was amazed for those people who were involved in producing RPG Metanoia - the first 3d animated film ever made here in the Philippines. I said to myself that I would watch this movie even …
Village of the Damned
It had been ages since I saw the classic movie Village of the Damned. So, when it came on one of the movie channels over the weekend, I had to sit down and watch it again.
Somehow, it wasn’t as scary as I remembered it.
Even though it’s really never explained …
Little Children (R, 2006) movie
I had been skipping this film over and over again in my Netflix queue. When it finally arrived, I was skeptical about whether I would like the movie. I understood that it was about suburban life, particularly two unhappy married people (married to other people) …
Army of Darkness (1992)
Army of Darkness, directed by Sam rami is rated R for violence and horror by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was February 19, 1993 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Fantasy/Horror/Romance and stars Bruce Campbell as …
Bewitched (2005)
Almost to be filed under the category of guilty pleasure is the 2005 movie “Bewitched” featuring Nicole Kidman, except that it wasn’t that much of a pleasure. I grew up watching the television show starring Elizabeth Montgomery and was curious about how the film version might be. Typically I …
Film Basket Case
Considered by some to be one of the sickest films ever made, director/writer Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case is also very inventive, scary, gruesome, touching, funny and disturbing cult films ever made against the most spindly of shoestring budgets.
Brining a wicker basket with him to Manhatten, Duane (Kevin Han Hentenryck) …
The Break-Up, Peyton Reed Movie
In real-life couple Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, ‘The Break-Up’ came precisely where the general romantic comedy movie ended. Yes, this is a story about the pair who have long lived houseful, but eventually the friction occurs because the pattern of practices that different. Limit of tolerance that was …
Murder Once Removed movie
Murder Once Removed is a murder mystery movie, as might seem obvious, that starred John Forsythe as the handsome physician, Ron Wellesley. He’s known to be a ladies man, but at least one man, Frank Manning (Richard Kiley) believes that Wellesley is a murderer. In fact, Manning …
The Red Squirrel movie
The second full feature film of spanish poetic filmmaker Julio Medem tells the story of a man and a woman meeting each by blind chance and ending up a couple as the woman lost her memory right before their meeting. They go on a camping trip together, and the …
The Off Season (Horror)
Starring: Christina Campenella (Kathryn Bennet), Don Wood (Rick Holland) Angus Scrimm (Ted)
Rick and Kathryn moved from New York into a one-room unit at the Vikings Motel in Maine. Rick wanted a quiet place to do some writing away from the hustle and bustle of the city; while …
10,000 BC
I purchase this movie together with some more as a time killing activity while my husband is on a two week vacation. I thought at first that it was just an ordinary and boring historical type of movies but as I watched the movie, I know it is more …
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (fantasy drama movie)
Peter Jackson is one of my favourite directors. Also movies such as those in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit franchise are some of my favourites. Therefore it was definitely a given that I had to watch the last installment in the Hobbit movies, “The Hobbit: The Battle …
Liar Liar (1997)
Liar Liar, directed by Tom Shadyac is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sex related humor and language. The original release date was March 21, 1997 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Fantasy and stars Jim Carrey as Fletcher Reede, …
The Great Raid, John Dahl Movie
Philippines 1945. Time is in the region Carbantuan, jailed nearly 500 soldiers U.S. who were arrested by Japan troops and be treated as prisoners of war (POW). Among the captivity Mayor Gibson is starting to catch the disease malaria. Meanwhile, Margaret Utinsky, Gibson’s wife is trying to free her …
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Movie
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 …
The Net
Up to 1995 we were so used of associating the actress Sandra Bullock to romantic movies. During this year, Bullock decided to show her talents in a different movie that included drama, patios and action. This is what “The Net” is all about.
The story of this movie is about …
Movie Say Anything
Lloyd (John Cusack) is heading into a life of uncertainty as he finally graduates from High School where he was a pretty normal boy and not warrenting of much attention or expections. One thing he is certain about is his crush on pretty and intelligent Diane (Ione Skye). Having …
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July is a two hour holiday movie that I enjoy. I just viewed it thi afternoon.
Rudolph and Frosty team up to help Milton, the flying ice cream man. It seems the Circus by the Sea is in trouble financially.
The evil Winterbolt …
Good Burger movie
This is a review of a nikelodion produced comedy movie that was released in 1997 called good burger.It starred two characters from the children’s sketch comedy show All That which was on nikelodeon.They were kenan thompson and kel mitchel and were both african american.Kel Mitchel played an idiotic fast …
The Secret Life of Bees
The movie had a power house cast. It includes Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys and Dakota Fanning. Set in the late 1964, the story recalls ethnical atrocities and family disorientation.
The story basically centers on the misery of Lily Owens ( Dakota Fanning ) who is …
The Pagemaster
This movie is so much fun! It was made in 1994 and stars Christopher Lloyd and Macaulay Culkin, with other well known actors lending their voices and talents to the film, including Whoopi Goldberg.
When the movie begins and ends, it’s live action. But, for the …
In the name of the father movie
Based on a true story, this film reveals some severe weaknesses in the british justice system as a man, played marvellously by Daniel Day-Lewis, is wrongfully accused and imprisoned for a murder. And not only that, but his whole family, who are also all innocent, are convicted. This was …
Children of the Night movie
Children of the Night is based on the true experience of Lois Lee, as played by the magnificent Kathleen Quinlan. Lee is a sociology student writing a dissertation so for research she contacts prostitutes, giving them her card and telling them to call her if they ever need …
Moulin Rouge (Movie)
Moulin Rouge is one of my favorite movies. I have seen it a lot of times and have never failed to enjoy and feel emotional during the movie. What I like about it most are the songs. The first time I watched it, I was pleasantly …
Trouble with Angels movie
I am reviewing the movie, the Trouble with Angels. This movie is about two girls. They go to a school run by nuns. One is innocent and the other is trouble. The two hook up as best friends and the result is trouble. They definitely keep the sisters on …
Carrie (2013 movie)
Ever since the original movie was released in nineteen seventy six, there seems to have been quite a few remakes of the movie “Carrie” as well as one or two spin offs from it. The one that I’ve decided to review though was the one that was released late …
Hocus Pocus movie
“Hocus Pocus” was possibly one of the most popular and well made Disney original movies I ever remember watching from when I was a child to now that I’m an adult. One might recognize a few famous faces in it too such as Sarah Jessica Parker the actress who …
Employee of the Month
Employee of the Month with Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard.
Okay I rented this movie in the hopes of seeing Jessica Simpson naked. Given this marvel did not occur I was definitely disappointed with this film. Simpson is the trophy for a …
blockbuster .com
I actually like Blockbuster a lot more than Netflix because you can return the movies to the store instead of mailing them in and waiting to receive new movies. Not only can you return the movies that were mailed to you to the store, but you can also trade …
I Know What You Did Last Summer movie
After the film Scream came out in 1996, there was a big renaissance in the horror genre and countless slasher films with a serial killer stalking beautiful young girls flooded the theatres. I Know What You Did Last Summer is one of these and has Jennifer Love Hewitt and …
Stomp the Yard (starring Columbus Short)
Before you guys go into thinking that Stomp the Yard is not worth it, think again. Sure, this movie does has its bad moments, but one word or term that I’ve come to learn would be “stepping”. This is like a lingo known as dancing or step up …
Untraceable (R, 2008) movie
“Hostel”, “FearDotCom”, “The Ring”—If you’ve seen any of the following movies, then you will be more than prepared for this tale of psycho-twisted horrific suspense. At the helm of this mini-gore feast is Diane Lane, claiming the role of a slightly wizened FBI agent. She’s …
Save the Last Dance for me movie
The 2004 Korean Drama “Save the Last Dance for me”, starring Yoo Jin and Ji Sung, is one of my favorite dramas. This was the one which made me start my hallyu craze.
The plot of the drama is not the typical amnesia story. Kang Hyun Woo(Ji Sung) has already …
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
In this installation into the Dolittle franchise, we, the audiences are introduced to the fact that the forest needs to be repopulated by animals; Dr. Dolittle takes this as his chance to introduce a domesticated bear back into the wild. He first needs to convince the bear that he …
How I Met Your Mother
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 …
Wax Mask movie
An italian horror film that was included in a Dario Argento dvd box I got ahold of recently. The strange thing is that Argento did not direct this, so did another man named Sergio Stivaletti.
The film is set in France in the early 20th century. People are getting killed …
Written in Blood movie
I am reviewing the murder mystery movie, Written in Blood, starring John Nettles and Daniel Casey. This movie was made in 1997, was produced by Brian True-May and Betty Willingale, and is based on the novel series written by Caroline Graham.
Gerald Hadleigh is a secretary of a highly …
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