Movies Reviews
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead is a British romantic comedy/horror film featuring Simon Pegg as the bumbling slacker Shaun who is forced to save his family and friends from a town full of bloodthirsty zombies. While this movie sports lots of zombie gore, it is almost cartoonish or Monty …
License to Wed
For a while, comedian Robin Williams pretty much just slipped off the face of the Earth. Whenever he did have a good movie, it was more of a drama than an actual comedy. But, recently, he seems to have found himself again. First, there was RV, which turned out …
Movie Swan Princess
I decided to sit down and watch a movie with my daughter yesterday before she took her nap. After some discussion (I really did not want to watch another Scooby Doo movie), we ended up watching The Swan Princess. I didn’t know what to expect at first, but it …
Monsters Inc. movie
I had a copy of this at home however I didn’t bother watching it at first since I really don’t like the title Monsters Inc. I thought it was one of those boring gruesome monsters stories I often see on television. One time I had nothing to do except …
Movie Harvey
Harvey is a delightful motion picture from 1950 that stars James Stewart and Harvey, the invisible rabbit. It’s true. The rabbit gets excellent billing in the movie.
Stewart plays Elwood P. Dowd, who is unusually pleasant about absolutely everything. He’s never in a hurry, and he never …
Netflix
Recently, I evaluated the Netflix rental service. It’s very much like that of Blockbuster’s, where you select the DVDs you’d like to rent, they send them to you, you return them, and then the next one is sent. Unfortunately, the Netflix trial isn’t as long as Blockbuster’s …
Reptilicus movie
A most bizarre danish science fiction b-movie from the 1960s. A terrible monster seems to appear out of nowhere and starts terrorising people. The military sees no way of getting rid of the creature and is getting more and more desperate.
This could indeed be the very definition of a …
Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton takes our everyday world and shoves it down a rabbit hole in his bizarre new take on “Alice in Wonderland.”
Starting out with pallid, nineteen-year-old Alice, viewers watch as she flees her aristocratic peers in an engagement party and finds herself trailing behind a white rabbit down a …
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything (2008)
I like pirate movies and I had wanted to see this one for some time, so I was happy when I found it on the shelf of my local library. I had seen the preview before on other children’s DVDs and had thought it looked interesting. Truthfully, I found …
The Charles Dickens Collection (BBC Video)
I have bought this recently released boxed set of DVD’s on Amazon.com for $42, which I think is quite a bargain for 6 great movies. I am a huge Dickens fan, I’ve been hunting for different movie versions of his different stories for years, so this 2005 BBC release …
Pathfinder, epic action film by Marcus Nispel
I had so many reasons I didn’t want to see this movie. For starters the director made the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the one that came out in 2003. How could somebody that made that disappointing movie make a barbarian movie? Then you have the fact that this movie opened …
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Michael Mann is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was September 25, 1992 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Romance/War and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye aka Nathaniel Poe, Madeline …
Pulse of the planet DVD
11 documentaries and sidelights set pieces finally read through the hearts of the feeling is really indescribable, very shocked, dumbfounded, worship: the planet is really beautiful! Such a beautiful planet and they will not want to undermine it? Did not watch this film before we thought that the …
Prisoners (2013 movie)
Prisoners was one of those films that I kept putting off watching even when I had the time. There was something about the trailer that didn’t make it appear interesting to me even though most if not all of the people in the main roles were very good an popular …
Movie: Psycho Ward
Synopsis: A professor brings a documentary crew to an abandoned insane asylum to make a film about illegal experiments he suspected were conducted there. However, they soon find themselves trapped inside the building and hunted down one by one.
What I liked about this movie: At least for the first …
Grey Gardens documentary (1975)
Grey Gardens, a documentary filmed in 1975, is made up of interviews with two women- “Little Edie,” who is in her 50s, and “Big Edie” her mother, who is elderly. These women were relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and were very rich and beautiful when they were young. However, …
Austin Powers (Movie)
Let’s be honest, have you never laughed at silly things? Do we not laugh at such simple comments said in a funny way? Or by the idiot face that some of our friends display from time to time so that we laugh when we are sad? This film is …
Poseidon (2006)
This movie is a remake of so many other movies of the same name or with similar titles, a group of passengers on an ocean liner must band together to see the light of day and emerge with their lives as the ship they are on is hit by …
What Lies Beneath (2000)
A ghostly story about a man and his wife and the mistress that was never found after her death so many years before. This is a case of not knowing a person’s past before you actually get involved with them and ultimately meet your demise at the hands of …
Clash Of the titans
In my opinion Clash of the titans is not all it is hyped up to be by all the reviews, it didn’t seem as enticing as most action/adventure movies seem to be. It is about mythology so you would expect there to be a lot of fighting, also it …
And Then There Were None movie
Ten people are assembled on an isolated island, as well as a butler plus his wife, for the weekend. Not any of them claim to recognize their host who invited them and one by one they begin being killed off simply once their host Mr U N Owen allows …
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 …
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Apocalypse with Milla Jovovich and Siena Guillory.
Take two miniskirted super models and make them the focal point of your movie and you cannot fail. Add in a proven walking dead backdrop with non stop action and you get a box office winner. …
Into the Woods - Musical Fantasy Movie (Disney, 2014)
Into the Woods is a musical, fantasy movie by Disney. This movie took the classic fairy tales ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘Cinderella’ and had them crossover in a way that each story required the other. All these stories unfold throughout the lives of a …
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus movie 2009
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was one very interesting movie for several reasons. One, the story line is unique, but complex and hard to follow, requiring more than just casual attention. Heath Ledger starred in this film—“ and died during the production. Rather than scrap the …
Stomp The Yard Movie
My brother recommended that I watch this movie since I loved dancing, and upon watching it I was first bored as the steps were quite robotic and it was so “formal”, the setting was in a university and it was quite different like cheerdancing is different to cheerleading, it …
The Parent Trap (1998)
The Parent Trap, directed by Nancy Meyers is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for some mild mischief. The originalr release date was July 29, 1998 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Family/Romance and stars Lindsay Lohan as Hallie Parker and …
21 Grams
The movie 21 Grams stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio De Toro. It focuses on their three characters and how their lives are interlinked.
Naomi Watts is fantastic as a recovered addict who lost her husband and kids to a car accident and is now struggling with sobriety. …
Dead Like Me: The Escape Artist
What I liked most about Dead Like Me: The Escape Artist is one of the scenes at the end. Barbara Barrie appears again as Joy’s mother. The two don’t get along very well, but yet at the end, they share a calm moment. The really good …
Couples Retreat movie
In couples Retreat, we follow several sets of couples as they go to a couples therapy retreat on a tropical island. They find that the island is split with two sides/retreats, one for couples (with therapy), and one for singles (with wild parties). The men soon find …
Veggie Tales: Wonderful Wizard of Ha’s
If there’s any question about the Veggie Tales movie “Wonderful Wizard of Ha’s” and how good it is, I want you to keep this in mind. We picked it up for my daughter through Netflix three weeks ago. She has watched it 2-3 times each day since that date …
Happy Feet Movie
Happy Feet, Emperor Penguins find their way through life and themselves. It’s about the one penguin that just doesn’t belong, like many of us can relate to. This one penguin, Mumble and his friend, Gloria are destined to be together, but Gloria just can’t see that Mumble being different …
Premonition
I can’t help comparing Premonition to another Sandra Bullock’s movie, also a recent one, called The Lake House. Both movies have a fantastic twist to them, dealing with different timelines. Both need to be watched very closely in order not to have the two timelines confused. In both movies, …
Film Misery
When writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is saved from death during a violent snow storm by his number one fan, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), he doesn’t suspect that his life is still very much in danger and he will subsequently be forced into a cat and mouse game with …
50 First Dates movie
Imagine what it would be like to wake up every day with your memory blank. You can’t remember what you did yesterday (or the day before, or the day before that). You can’t remember people you’ve met, either. Even your next door neighbors would have to introduce themselves to …
The Man from U.N.C.L.E-2015, Action, Comedy Movie
The Man from U.N.C.L.E is a spy movie. It is based off the TV show of the same name which kept running from 1964 to 1968. Before viewing this movie I didn’t knew anything about it. Without a doubt I had low desires from it on the grounds that I …
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (movie)
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants is another movie about girls, relationships, and best friends. The different in the story line is that a pair of pants glues the girls together during a summer vacation. Four friends find a pair of magical pants that fit each one of them …
Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street
I just finished watching this movie at home and I wasn’t quite happy with the flow of the story or plot. Although the lead character Johnny Depp did a fantastic job as the barber who turned out to be a serial killer in Fleet street. The story …
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988, stars Michael Caine and Steve Martin as two con artists who begin as competitors, continue as partners, and end up getting scammed themselves. Michael Caine’s character, Lawrence, is preying on rich women who have got money to burn. He poses as a prince from some …
Eight Mile movie
Before watching this movie I really did not have too much background on rap nor did it really strike me as something that is hard to do-just a bunch of aimless words being spoken with a beat. Featuring Eminem, this movie is about his story and how he made …
Proof, John Madden Movie
Robert, a math professor this recently died. This was to make Catherine feel important, because he is the father manage. Claire also appears, Sister Catherine came to attend the funeral their father, but other than that Claire is planning to invite Catherine moved to New York to live with …
Jump! movie
From 2007, Jump! stars Patrick Swayze as a Jewish lawyer in Austria who defends a young man accused of murdering his father. This was Swayze’s last real theatrical appearance in a starring role. He did film a television movie this same year and then did a cameo …
Arachnophobia (1990 Movie)
Man dies in South America, Killer spider comes along for the ride to the US of A, doctor relocates to small town, patients start dying, spiders are the main suspect…but this is realized too late as the killer spiders have mutiplied a thousand fold and are wreaking havok. The …
Son of Rambow
This was a fun, entertaining comedy to watch and one I really enjoyed. I had never heard of it before when I found it on my library’s movie shelf, but it looked interesting so I checked it out. I’m glad I did, as it really is a gem.
Basically …
Vantage Point
This movie is about an assassination attempt to the president of the United States. It is not a typical movie I can say. I think the plot was easy but I did enjoy watching it. It is a typical conspiracy theory movie but with a twist. I really thought …
Disturbia (movie)
I was not expecting much going into this movie. The only thing that drew me to it was the lead actor Shia LaBeouf, who I am a big fan of. I was thoroughly surprised at how entertaining and well made the movie was. The story is …
Herbie Fully Loaded
Growing up, I was a die hard Herbie fan. So, when they made another Herbie movie, starring Lindsay Lohan, I had to watch it because… it was Herbie!
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting too much. I thought they would probably deviate too far from the original genius of the …
Elf
I’m still watching Christmas movies today, mostly because there isn’t a whole lot for me to do with everyone being sick and us being low on cash (yet again).
One movie that just came on that I haven’t seen in a while is the Will Ferrell film, Elf. I have …
Ironman the Movie
Before when I was watching the movie trailer of Ironman, I was thinking that the trailer was just intended to hype up the anticipated viewers of the film. I guess my first impression was wrong, I under estimated the capacity of the movie to become a blockbuster hit.
Anyway, …
“On the Beach” Movie
The 1959 movie “On the Beach” is a classic story of Armageddon that resulted in a nuclear war that brought an end to human life on the planet Earth. The film was directed by Stanley Kramer and is extremely well done. Gregory Peck stars as a commander of the …
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