Movies Reviews
Holy Man (1998)
Eddie Murphy plays a pilgrim dressed in a white robe throughout the entire movie. His claim is to be a happy person and based on that he has managed to live a very rewarding life. Two network TV shopping channel competitors stumble across his electric personality and manage to …
National Treasure movie
I admit that I don’t like watching Nicholas Cage movies. There is nothing wrong with his acting skills; however for me he represent an actor with a lot of contrast. I really enjoyed watching his movie “The Rock”; however I really hated to watch his movie “City of Angels”. …
Vexille, CGI anime film
I applaud Vexille for taking a different direction in its CG animation, but the lack of characterization and story really hurt it in the long run.
In the year 2067, an international law restricted the use of robotic technology. In protest of this law, Japan decided to isolate itself from …
Ghostrider
Nicholas Cage seems to make like ten movies a year. Okay, maybe not that many, but he definitely puts out like two per year. Three years ago he came out with Lord of War and The Weatherman back to back. I liked Lord of War but not so much …
The Great Debators
I am reviewing the 2008 movie, The Great Debators, starring Denzel Washington. This movie takes place during the Great Depression. It focuses on an all African American college. At this college there is a dedicated, rebellious professor, played by Denzel Washington. He teaches history, and runs …
Ballad of a Soldier movie
Ballad of a Soldier is a russian film about the life of a young russian man and his the futility of war. It was made in a time when the artistic freedom in soviet union had increased, and a lot of interesting cinema appeared as a result. It’s something …
Reviewing - Hitch
Hitch - can be summed up with one word - hilarious ! Will Smith and Kevin James are side achingly funny ! Hitch’s {Will Smith } job is to get the girl of any man’s dreams to fall in love with him in 3 days ! It works like …
A Christmas Carol
One of the first movies I ended up watching on Christmas Eve was George C. Scott’s version of Ebeneezer Scrooge in the 80s remake of A Christmas Carol. And, in my opinion, this remains one of the better tellings of the classic story.
Scott is perfect as Scrooge. He’s the …
Flags Of Our Fathers Movie
Flags of Our Father is a very strong, graphic and realistic war movie covering the battle of Iwo Jima. Having seen other movies such as Private Ryan, I had gone into this movie with the expectation to see lots of battle scenes and the brutality of war. …
Finding Amanda Movie
Finding Amanda is one of the latest movies in 2008 and since my friend works in the cinema theater, I managed to get a special sneak preview of this movie.
It is actually a kind of a nice movie and a feel-good at that as well. There are lots …
Movie Overnight Delivery
“Overnight Delivery” is an incredible, hilarious movie where you won’t stop laughing from the beginning till the end. The main actors in this movie, Paul Rudd and Reese Whiterspoon are at their best.
The story of this movie is about Wyatt Trips (Rudd) who is so in love with his …
Movie Lookout
This was a really good movie. It’s about a teenager that has an accident and afterwards he can’t really remember a lot of things. He has to write a lot of daily things in a notebook to remember them. He works at a Bank as a janitor and he …
Amadeus movie
Milos Forman’s powerful film about the legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It’s a very colorful and moving portrait, narrated through the eyes of one of Mozart’s competitors during this time, who was only mediocre in comparison. Forman uses an epic style to tell this story, and that works very …
Bye Bye Birdie
I finally got an opportunity to see the classic musical Bye Bye Birdie. While I normally enjoy movies like this one, I have to say I wasn’t overly impressed.
The plot of the musical isn’t bad. You have a famous singer who has been drafted and is heading off to …
Boogeyman 2 (UR, 2008)
This film is the supposedly the sequel to the original Boogeyman (PG-13, 2005) and is focused on a group of mental patients who are in some sort of group therapy. There is one girl (the main character of course) who has a big theory about the Boogeyman, …
The Woman in Black (horror movie)
I’ve heard a lot of people say that the movie “The Woman in Black” was either stupid or boring or both. I’ve also seen it rated from below average to average in various places on the internet. However, for some reason I didn’t think that it was all that bad. …
Hostel
Hostel(movie):When my cousin gave me the cd of this movie, he had\’nt told me what this movie is all about .I thought it’s a comedy teenager movie.But when i came to know what this movie is all about after watching the movie,i was unable to concentrate on any …
Nora Ephron’s “Julie and Julia” 2009 film
I’m not exactly a big cinematic buff, and tend to prefer reading to watching films. However, Nora Ephron’s much hailed Julie and Julia tempted me with excellent cast, and when a couple of my friends recommended the film to me, I was really hoping to catch it in the …
Movie Once
“Once” is a good musical movie, but could have been better if the shooting of this movie was more on a steady level. I personally watched this film at home and I am grateful because if I ended up watching it at the cinema, I definitely would have felt …
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is a road movie with a difference. A dysfunctional family from suburbia on their way to child’s talent contest seemed about as attractive to me as watching paint dry ! But I must say I was pleasantly surprised. A nice mix of humour and pathos and …
Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning (Animated Series)
Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning is an anime that explores the life of ayumu, a teen detective who gets caught up in the mystery of the blade children when his older brother disappears one day.
Now the idea of the blade children struck me as kind of original. I had never …
The Prince of Egypt (1998 movie)
Saved from being executed by his mother and set adrift on the river, Moses is rescued by the Egyption queen and is unknowingly raised as a prince of Egypt. After trailing an escaping prisoner, he learns the truth that he is really a Hebrew and he later finds out …
The Notebook (movie)
The Notebook is a wonderful love story. This movie is a great movie if you are ready to cry. Also it lets you see more in depth the actually things that a person dealing with alzheimer’s disease really goes through and the heart ache that the family of the …
Bamboozled-film
Bamboozled is a satirical film made by spike lee.The film follows a harvard educated black man named Pierre working at a network who wants sto get himself fired.He is tired of working for his anglo saxon superior who wants him to write scripts for black shows that portray …
Cats movie
The classic musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, originally based on a novel by T.S. Eliot, here transferred to the cinema.
I think it was a very colorful thing to look at, and some of the songs are unforgettable, but overall I think this felt more like a filmed musical stage …
The Little Mermaid animation movie
Ariel, a young princess mermaid, is fascinated with people and their life up there, above the sea. She even has a small collection of human things, obviously dropped from ships or picked up after shipwrecks. One day Ariel saves the life of a human prince, Eric, who almost drowns …
Fantastic Four (Movie 2005)
What a complete croc…in other words, it’s utter CRAP!!! Characters were under-developed and unconvincing, storyline was dumn and hard to follow, CGI was poorly done and, oh yeah, it’s CRAP (did I say that already?). It makes no sense wasting words to describe how terrible this movie is, so, …
The Burbs (1989)
A day in the life of a typical blue collar working class suburban family man as a loving husband and father soon turns to turmoil when a mysterious family moves into his neighborhood. Along with other home owners in the neighborhood, they get to thinking that their new neighbors …
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
One of my favorite Christmas movies is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It is on TV every year, and I remember watching it even as a kid. Now I have the unedited DVD, which I enjoyed watching this year. This movie is definitely a classic Christmas movie. …
Girl Happy movie
1965 gave the world another Elvis Presley movie, this time called Girl Happy. It featured, once again, Shelley Fabares. She and the King had a real chemistry going, but I have to say that I hated her hairdo in this flick. She looked really funny with …
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 …
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Anyone who has seen the trailer for “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, will have marvelled at the scenes of destruction, the dizzying special effects that show The Meadowlands being ripped apart by an ashen dust swarm. What the trailer fails to show is the mind-numbingly dull 102 minutes …
The Crooked Man
I am reviewing The Crooked Man, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, produced by Granada television in 1983. This episode finds Sherlock Holmes involved with a case at Watson’s request. It involved the military, a group of people Holmes would …
Return of the Rebels movie
Return of the Rebels is a made-for-TV movie that I loved to watch back in the day. It was one of those fun films that was showed repeatedly during a pre-cable era. It stars Barbara Eden and Don Murray, and something about it just appealed to me …
The Mechanic movie
A professional killer named Arthur Bishop is perhaps the most feared man in the world for his remarkably vicious ways of killing people. One day he is put in a situation where he will teach a new upcoming hitman. This doesn’t really turn out as Bishop had hoped for.
The …
The Time Machine movie
It is an entertaining film based on the concept of time traveling. This concept has always thrilled me and I was curious to know about it. The first half of the movie is pretty enjoyable as well as knowledgeable. I am not a die hard fan of science …
Obsessed
I wasn’t sure I wanted to watch the movie “Obsessed” this past weekend. But, my wife wanted to see it and it was her birthday.
It turned out to be an OK film.
It is actually similar to many other films I’ve seen. You have a successful black guy who is …
World War I: Cause and Effect
“World War I: Cause and Effect” is a documentary that details what triggered the war and the lasting effects this war had on the planet and its population. “World War I: Cause and Effect” goes into the necessity of invention, how each country raced to develop better machines in …
Sliding Doors comedy
This would be just another romantic comedy were it not for its original storyline. It tells the story of a young girls, who’s just had a terrible day. She’s been fired and when she’s running to get onto the subway, a weird thing happens. The reality sort of split into …
Love Me or Leave Me movie
This picture, Love Me or Leave Me, is one of Doris Day’s most dramatic roles, and she soars in it. It’s a bit of a dark picture as the movie attempts to tell an account of singer Ruth Etting’s life. Etting was quite successful but also dealt …
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Life isn’t measured in minutes, but in moments…a tag line well portrayed in the character of Benjamin Button. The general plot concerns a man who ages backwards, thus it goes something like: “I was born under unusual circumstances.” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is adapted …
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
This movie is the story of your average turtle who, while trekking through the green ooze, managed to gain life beyond that of your normal turtle. As they grew, they were taken in by the master, a giant rat named Splinter, and he trained them in the ways of …
The Marine
This film start john Sena who is a very famous wrestler. The story is about his wife being kidnapped by robbers and john Sena trying to save her. This movie is meant to be an action movie but it doesn’t have any thrilling elements. The stunts are quite ordinary …
Mike’s new car movie
Animated film about a man named Mike who just went to buy himself a new car. He can’t wait to show it to his friend Sulley. The only problem is that Mike hasn’t had time to learn all of the functions of the car, and the result is a …
The Long Good Friday movie
A thriller set in the gangster neighbourhoods of London. Bob Hoskins plays the boss of a team of criminals who starts cleaning up among the ones who aren’t trustworthy in his opinion, but while doing this he understand that there are more gangsters above his head he shouldn’t play …
Hotel for Dogs Movie
Being a dog lover, my brother bought and gave me this dvd as a present and while I am already in my mid-twenties, I still do enjoy watching movies that are sometimes suitable just for kids, like this movie, and Hotel for Dogs is actually for kids and not …
Forever Lulu movie
Forever Lulu is a 2000 movie that took forever to be released. In fact, the independent picture never did make a real theatrical run and was ultimately released on DVD. However, while foreign titles went under the film name of Forever Lulu, in the United States, the …
Legally Blonde movie
I remember first seeing the trailers for “Legally Blonde” when the movie came out in 2001; they promised some laughs, but overall, I wasn’t impressed and did not go to see the movie. Elle, the main character, seemed too “girly” for me: a fashion-freak blonde wearing pink & high …
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