Movies Reviews
Vamps (movie)
I watched the movie “Vamps” last night for the first time and I thought that it was one of the most interesting vampire movies that I’ve watched in a very long time. The funny thing was that I’ve never heard of the movie before last night, which is a …
Black Eagle (1988)
Black Eagle is recruited to locate a US government top secret laser and tracking device that was shot down from a US fighter jet in enemy territory, with the aid of his sons and CIA operative, Black Eagle goes in for the save and finds himself in more trouble …
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Ghostbusters II kinda picks up where the last one left off with the gang chasing ghosts for profit, but this time the stakes are higher. After the business was basically destroyed after they got sued for making a mess of the town, the threat of ghostly attacks become wide …
Whisper of the Heart movie
Another good good good!
Another topnotch of Ghibli stuff. This is is one of the romance movie I have seen without cliche and it tackles so much about life in a very simple way. Though its an old movie it definitely deserves a second look.
Hayao Miyazaki is one of …
Matchstick Men
Matchstick Men is a film that cons you right until the end. A con man getting conned at his own game - while this story has been told in many different versions, the intrique and suspense is no less in this film than any other. It took me …
Bonsai (2012 film)
Serious readers of literature would recognize Bonsai as the quaint novella from Chile that endeared the author Alejandro Zambra to literary critics in the west and transformed him to an eminent writer in his home turf. I had been an avid reader of Literature in Translation —“ foreign …
Resident Evil: Afterlife Movie (2010)
I saw this movie at the theatre today as my brother said it was really cool and great; the movie was only 1 hour and 40 minutes but somehow I felt it was longer. This movie features Alice (Milla Jovovich) going to Japan to finally confront and destroy Umbrella …
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
With all of the X-Men films that have been produced for mutant lovers everywhere, another movie revolving around these super human characters caught me as a little of overkill. However, I was proved very wrong after having seen the 2009 X-Men film, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine’. Not only was this …
The Strangers (2008 Film)
The 2008 movie The Strangers, has changed the way I think about staying home alone, or answering the door late at night. This film was terrifying, and reached into the core of my darkest fears that have no come to the surface thanks to this rated R tale of …
Journey to the Center of the Earth
I went to see this movie with my mom as kind of a mom/son date before leaving for school. I had never really been to a 3d movie so I thought it would be a neat one to try even if it was a coined a “kids movie”. We …
Odd Couple II
I am reviewing the movie, Odd Couple II, which was released in 1998. It stars Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. How can you not like a movie with these two in it? These two were absolute comedic geniuses, and worked best when they were together! Matthau and Lemmon …
The Bourne Ultimatum
In the past decade or so, there have been some pretty good actors. Both still famous and those who have fallen from the limelight. One of these actors to surface in the mid to late nineties was Matt Damon. He’s still an extremely successful actor and is the new …
Yell for the blue sky (Japanese Youth Drama movie)
Yell for the blue sky (also known as Aozora Yell) is a 2016 Japanese youth drama film directed by Takahiro Miki, written by Yukiko Mochiji and based on the manga series of the same name by Kazune Kawahara.
The story is basically about 2 high schoolers, Tsubasa Ono (Tao Tsuchiya) and …
Rocket Science movie
Unlike its title, the movie “Rocket Science” has almost nothing to do with anything scientific. However, I till admit that the plot makes it quite an interesting and unusual teenage film. In fact, I’m still trying to recall right now if I’ve ever seen another film with a similar …
Carlito’s Way movie
Clearly intended as an indirect sequel to Scarface, Brian De Palma’s Carlito’s Way shows Al Pacino as the old drug dealer Carlito Brigante who gets out of prison and wants to start an honest life. But he is deceived and drawn into criminality again by his friend and lawyer …
The Incredible hulk
The incredible hulk which is the second part of the movie The Hulk, is overall a nice action movie but still not as good as the first part. In the second part the hero of the movie who is actually the hulk, desperately run around to change his genetic …
Sherlock holmes movie
A few days ago I saw Sherlock Holmes in the cinema.
Sherlock Holmes in the old books and the stories were really a thinking man, and not so violent!
But in this movie he is. I have not read the books, so I can not say anything about it.
The movie was …
Hoodlum (1997)
The movie Hoodlum was released in 1997. It has a strong cast consisting of Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Andy Garcia, Vanessa Williams, and Cicely Tyson. The story is set in Harlem in the 1930’s during the depression. As we all know the depression was a hard time for families …
Aeon Flux (2005)
Aeon Flux, directed by Karyn Kusama is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sequences of violence and sexual content. The original release date was December 2, 2005 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Science Fiction/Thriller and stars Charlize Theron as …
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
No one dares mention the word classic without having this movie at the top of the list, doesn’t matter the genre, this movie surpasses all time and borders and remains to this day one of the best feature length movies ever created. The plot of this movie is very …
X-Men: First Class, Movie
To be honest I was quite skeptical towards the fifth film in the X-Men series. I found it hard to see James Mcavoy as a young Charles Xavier and the absence of Wolverine also did not help much. What little I saw of the trailer , however , suggested …
Curse of the golden flower, Zhang Yimou Movie
After the successful fight with the movie drama colossal, Hero (2003), film director Zhang Yimou again raise an epic historical drama adapted Chinese classical works through the colossal latest film, Curse Of The Golden Flower (2006), which narrate about family life in the palace China Tang Dynasty government, in the …
War of The Worlds, DVD
You’ve got a movie where the plot is, aliens hatch out of the earth and proceed to try and wipe out the human race in huge squid-like machines that shoot lazers, counter that with the main character having to overcome obstacles like where to hide himself and his …
Movie: High School Musical
Synopsis: A high school boy and girl from two different backgrounds and with different interests land lead roles in the school’s musical production and fall in love with each other; only to find prejudice from their friends threatens both to keep them apart from each other and keep them …
Movie: Chloe
Synopsis: A wife hires a prostitute to seduce her husband so she can prove he is unfaithful.
What I liked about this movie: A lot of movies like this have a bunch of actors and actresses that aren’t well known. This one actually had three very well known players; Liam …
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
So I Married an Axe Murderer, directed by Thomas Schlamme is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for nudity, language and mock terror. The original release date was July 30, 1993 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Crime/Romance/Thriller and stars Mike …
Superintelligence, movie (2020)
Mid-life soft comedies are a brand that Melissa McCarthy shaped and maintains to this day. At McCarthy’s instigation, as well as that of director Ben Falcone (who, by the way, is Melissa McCarthy’s husband), such films as “Big Boss” and “The Soul of the Company” appeared.
Mid-life soft …
Mean Girls
I rented the movie Mean girls the other night it has been out for quite a while but I have never gotten around to watching this. If I was a teenage girl this would be one of my favorite movies. It is about a girl not just moving to …
The Golden Compass
This is a fantasy entertainer. The story is about a girl, and her adventurous journey to the land of unknown, and the film has lot of good special effects to back up this fantasy. It has an adventurous plot with a kid doing lot of impressive things and it …
Mr Magoo’s Christmas Carol
With Quincy Magoo, you either love him, or you hate him. I happen to love the old guy, voiced by Jim Backus, and his version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol stands to me as one of my all-time favorite holiday classics.
Set within a Broadway stage presentation, complete with …
Blood Diamond: the movie
Blood Diamond is a powerful movie that was nominated for an Academy award. The story takes place in Africa. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a diamond smuggler who trades with rebel forces during the country’s bloody civil war. He gives the fighters weapons in exchange for diamonds …
Naked Gun 33 1/3
Naked Gun 33 1/3
This show was made back in the 1990’s when these “stupid” comedies making fun of other shows were very popular. Yet today it still hold very funny. This is the third movie of the Naked Gun Series The Naked Gun series keep on making people laugh …
The Bonfire Of The Vanities Movie
After reading the book The Bonfire Of The Vanities by Tom Wolfe, I was eager to see the film adaptation. However after watching it I wish I never bothered. The book describes the racial tension of New York in the 1980s and …
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 …
Film Sherlock Holmes [2009]
Yea yea, another one of those Sherlock Holmes spinoffs. By now can you really expect anything good out of them by now? Fortunately, after countless mind numbingly awful “reimaginings” of the world of Sherlock Holmes over the past few years (decades even), a movie finally got lucky and didn’t …
Driving Miss Daisy movie
Driving Miss Daisy is a sweet, nostalgic feeling film that focuses upon the relationship between a lady and her driver. Daisy is played by Jessica Tandy and her driver is Hoke, played by Morgan Freeman. Now Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman are two of my all-time favorite actors and …
Tropic Thunder (2008)
This movie is comedy about actors being actors on screen, starring famous faces like Ben Stiller as Tugg Speadman, Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, Jack Black as Jeff Portnoy, Nick Nolte as John Tayback, Tom Cruise as Les Grossman and Matthew McConaughey as Rick Peck. The plot of …
Dredd Movie
800 million people live in the ruins of the old civilization wiped out by a nuclear apocalypse. Megacity One. The giant city suffocates under its own weight. There is chaos in the streets, with record levels of crime and disorder. The only thing standing between the total decline and …
Movie: Three Men And A Little Lady
Three Men And A Little Lady is the sequel to Three Men And A Baby and was released in 1990. All the stars of the original film return for this latest outing which is set five years after the adventures of the first movie.
The movie opens as the first …
Flight 93
I was promted to buy this movie after writing a memorial poem for those that were on the plane that crashed on 9-11. The movie was so close to the actual event that I found myself wishing that the outcome was different than what we all know. …
The Onion Movie
I have long been a fan of the satirical newspaper, The Onion. So, when they made a movie based on the paper, I had high expectations for it.
Too bad it fell well short of those expectations.
When I saw previews for the movie, I figured I would be watching a …
St. Elmo’s Fire (movie)
Didn’t everyone in the 1980’s love St. Elmo’s Fire? The whole thing about seeing a young Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy was simply thrilling to millions, I am sure. I don’t see or understand the inherent value of St. Elmo’s Fire, myself. I laugh when I …
Star Trek 2009 movie
Here’s the deal. I am a devout lover of the original Star Trek TV series. I loved the movies that followed. Then I enjoyed most of the series spin offs that followed; not all, but most. Then in 2009, along came this new Star Trek, …
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
I am a huge fan of Harry Potter, both the movies and the books. I was disappointed when the film showing was moved to this year but was still excited for the 6th installment of the novel by JK Rowling.
Half Blood Prince revolves around the emergence in power of …
Dead Like Me: Last Call
The first surprise comes at the beginning of the story when Rube enters the Waffle House where the grim reapers meet all the time and sees Clancy and Reggie eating there. Knowing George is about to arrive, he ushers his fellow reapers to another part of the diner …
101 Dalmatians (movie)
101 Dalmatians, the original Disney movie, is so cute! This is a movie you and the younger kids will definitely want to see. The antics and perils of two Dalmatian parents, Pongo and Perdita, as they first meet in a London park. When Pongo and Perdita meet, it also …
X-Men Movie
I marveled at the thought that an X-Men movie was going to be made at last, but all that was cut to threads when I finally saw the film. While the plot is comic like as it should be, it was without intrigue. Some of the characters where well …
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich is based on a true story. Erin, played by Julia Roberts, is a single mother of three who goes from living in poverty and being unemployed to a millionairess working as a legal consultant. You know, from the beginning of the movie, that Erin is determined because …
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