Movies Reviews
Bus 174
Bus 174 is a movie that I really enjoyed watching with my sister and brother. We love watching hostages movie scenario, but felt that to happen in real life would be devastating. But I love watching how the characters blend and try to escape, something like that. …
Spongebob Squarepants - Fear of a Krabby Patty
Both of my daughters, one who is three years old and the other who just turned one, are huge fans of Spongebob and his friends. We have quite the collection of his movies, and Fear of A Krabby Patty is one of them. I personally like to …
Roman Polanski’s “Oliver Twist,” 2005
I went to see Roman Polanski’s 2005 release of “Oliver Twist” a couple of days ago. I was not disappointed, but I wasn’t very impressed, either. One of the good points is that the story is not in any way “Hollywoodized,” it is told in a straight, true-to-the-source way. …
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Beverly Hills Chihuahua is about a spoilt little Chihuahua named Chloe, who gets pampered a lot by her owner. When Chloe gets lost in Mexico, she has to learn to live without all her fancy clothes, shoes and perfumes. Not to mention her spa treatments and salon appointments every …
Life Support (NR, 2006) movie
I will admit that I was a little apprehensive about seeing this movie. At first I didn’t realize that Nelson George developed this film which was based on his sister’s battle with being diagnosed as HIV-positive. Starring Queen Latifah in the lead role, I …
Mallrats movie
What do you do wih a bunch of kids, who are in love and love to hang out in the mall? Mallrats is the second movie by award winning director kevin Smith. The movie centers around a couple. the girls father has a dating show andd wants to put …
Eyes Wide Shut movie
Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick’s last film as a director, and is a highly under appreciated study of sexually jealousy and paranoia. A young doctor (Tom Cruise) whose wife (Nicole Kidman) confesses a sex fantasy about another man to him, sending him off into an insecure rage. …
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace doesn’t exactly strike me as the movie that fans really expected Lucas to make following the original three films. The way that Lucas released his movies makes it slightly hard to connect them all, assuming Episode 2 and 3 are currently missing, …
Movie Eastern Promises
The best word to discribe the drama movie “Eastern Promises” is shocking. It starts with a huge shock and there is quite some few shocks during the movie too. All in all, it is a truly exceptional movie.
“Eastern Promises” is all about the actor, Viggo Mortensen. I didn’t realise …
The Barretts of Wimpole Street movie
From 1934, The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a very nice movie, though I must admit I prefer one of the remakes better. Still, this was the one that started it all, and there are some fine moments to it.
I love that Flush, the dog, gets star billing …
Autumn in New York
Autumn in New York is a mediocre romantic movie with an element of drama. The movie has Richard Gere and Winona Ryder playing the lead roles. It is the story of a man who falls in love with a very ill woman. I watched this movie on cable and …
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 …
The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons Movie is the best movie of the summer so far. It is full of hilarious scenes that will keep you laughing to the very end. As usual, Homer is an idiot, and Bart is a bad influence for children. Over all the antics in …
Major League movie
I am reviewing the movie, Major League, which was released in 1989. Everyone has to know about this movie, so I’ll just briefly give a plot and actors involved in this movie. Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, and Corbin Bernen are just a few of the major actors …
The Dream Chasers
The Dream Chasers is a movie about a young boy named Herbie and his friend Telford who owns a antique shop. Telford looses his antique shop and gets put into a retirement home. Herbie is a young boy that has cancer and idolizes Butch Cassidy. He has always dreamed …
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
I’m not sure about most people, but my holiday season isn’t complete without watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Of all the Vacation movies starring Chevy Chase, this is the only one that actually has the Griswold family staying home for their vacation. But, the series of unfortunate events that befall …
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Movie
I have been a fan of Peter Jackson’s movies ever since the first “Lord of the Rings” movie came out - “The Fellowship of the ring”. And I think that with “The Hobbit” trilogy that he is now making I was again able to return to the amazing fantasy …
Friday the 13th Part 3
Friday the 13th part 3 is a movie that makes me laugh, though not in a good way. Part of it is the bad special effects, while a larger part is simply how dated the movie is after all these years. It makes me wonder how they ever based …
Film Vanity Fair
One of my favourite types of films are historical films, or films which are set in some time before the twentieth century as I have always liked the subject history. The film does not even have to be one hundred percent historically accurate but I always tend to enjoy …
Where Eagles Dare Movie
Where Eagles Dare with Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure.
How can a movie with Burton and Eastwood fail? It can’t. This duo of superstars team up to present a suspense filled film in the WWII genre. Burton is an undercover MI6 agent …
Soul Survivors Movie
Soul Survivors is one of the most confusing movies ever made. Yet I still find myself watching it every few years. When I do re-watch it, I still find myself wondering what exactly happened, and feeling highly confused by the plot. Then a few months pass, and I end …
The Secret (R, 2006) movie
You will probably recognize her as Juno’s hyper teenage BFF. But Olivia Thirlby proves otherwise in this 2006 thriller called “The Secret.” The DVD cover art may throw you off. You may think that this is some seedy Lolita movie in which the teen wraps …
Juno (2007)
This movie is about a sixteen year old girl you manages to get pregnant for you’re an admirer of hers, initially she was thinking of having an abortion, but later changed her mind and decided to search the newspapers for couple searching for adopting a child. She meets a …
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
It’s really a shame that I never had a film of Harry Potter with the status of a perfect movie. Each story is so strong, before or after you have never truly inclusive workplace. Of course, the three-ACT-structure can be used, but no information or knowledge to come, but …
Ant-Man, movie
The already very crowded club of super heroes with their own movies got another member; it is the Ant-Man. A man who can shrink and become small as an ant, he wears a suit that makes him look like an ant and he can also communicate with and command ants. …
Due South: Free Willie
Due South: Free Willie reminded me of a series I watched a lot called McCloud. In that show, Dennis Weaver played a United States Marshal from Taos, New Mexico who was temporarily assigned to duty in New York City. He was a fish out of water, but …
Big Business (1988)
This movie is based on two pairs of twins that were separated at birth, one child of each of the set of twins were placed with two different families, one pair went to a rich family where they were spoilt rotten and believe the world is their playground, and …
Suspicious River (R, 2000) movie
I am not a huge Molly Parker fan. But there is something about the actress’ delicate features and avant garde sensitivity that I am drawn to. For that reason, I decided to rent “Suspicious River”—a film about a young woman who works in a motel, …
Betrayed (1988)
An FBI Agent goes under cover to investigate the killing of a radio host, after successfully blending in with a farm family, she start to doubt the information that was given to her as it relates to the matter of the murder, the longer she remains in character, the …
Pan’s Labyrinth
I recently caught this Spanish movie Pan’s Labyrinth. A “fairy tale” set in the backdrop of WW2, in the mountains of Spain where the Facist regime was trying to stamp out the rebellion and the Allies were waging war against the Nazis in Europe.
The fairy tale line is about …
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
While Transformers began with children in mind, Revenge of the fallen couldn’t have landed further without earning an “R” rating. While the robots are more numerous and larger in size, I must say I am a little disappointed with the lack of responsibility taken up by the team to …
Little Voice Movie
Little Voice is a film that really touched me.
Called LV by her mother, Little Voice is a nearly agoraphobic young woman whose only contact with the outside world is through old record albums that had belonged to her beloved deceased father. They are her escape from …
Gravity (2013 Space Thriller Film)
I still remember that day in October, 2013 when Gravity opened in cinemas and I was one of the first people who saw it on its opening day. The cinema was rather surprisingly empty, mimicking the vast space where this film was mostly set. It became a box-office phenomenon a …
The Spirit movie
I remember ive seen the commercial for “The Spirit” on television but never got to see it in the theaters. So I decided to pick it up on Bluray this week. This movie is about the city hero Spirit who is protecting it from an evil guy called Octopus. …
American Gangster
One of the most anticipated movies this year. With a huge celebrity line up from Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe to Common. This movies deserves all its appreciation and glory. The movie is about New York Harlem F.B.I
squad which is supposed to crack down on drugs and harm to …
Sydney White movie
Sydney white is about a girl who goes to college and enters a fraternity. She doesn’t really fit in with the other girls there so she wanders off and meets these guys who live off campus. The guys are sort of nerds and the girl fits in with them …
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. …
Big Daddy
I thought Big Daddy was a pretty good and funny Adam Sandler movie. I think the whole concept of him raising the kid was funny. The movie was not only funny but very touching! One thing I did not like about this movie though was that there were gay scenes …
Obsessed Movie
I love Beyonce. I love her as a singer, I loverd her as an entertainer and a performer, and I love her as an actress. She wasn’t so bad here, I actually thought she was way too much of a natural and this movie is perfect for her since …
Tamara [DVD], horror movie
Oh great a horror movie from Lions Gate that has a hot leading lady, trendy music, and enough promised gore to make a seventeen year old boy jump for joy. This has got to be a classic Halloween movie that will stay in our collections forever. Oh wait never …
The Maid - A Horror Movie
I have seen the DVD and CD of the movie The Maid when I was in the Philippines, but I did not pay attention to it. It didn’t make big on screen. Because I have never heard any news or promotional tour about the movie.
The …
The Fugitive
This weekend I watched The Fugitive again and was reminded what a great movie it is. I was skeptical when it was being made. I love the TV series, which is television classic, and I was afraid the theatrical movie would detract from it or parody it …
Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003)
This is what happens when you have crazy writers giving crazy scripts to crazy production companies that go ahead and make a crazy movie. It is so crazy that it worked and this movie quickly became a cult classic among many different classes of people that I know. The …
Happenstance (R, 2000) movie
When I saw Amelie, I was really really excited to know that there would be another film featuring Audrey Tautou, a brilliant impish actress. Happenstance is very similar to Amelie in that it deals with coincidence, and the complications/ ramifications following. The entire story in Happenstance centers …
After Dark Thrillers dvd
Here is another dvd from my friend’s horror movie dvd collection. He likes old movies from the seventies mostly, and lent me this dvd which he said he was told had some good horror films on it. However, when I watched it I didn’t like the movies at all. …
Inside Man (2006)
Inside Man, directed by Spike Lee is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language and some violent images. The original release date was March 24, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith …
Neve Been Kissed
I like Drew Barrymore, she has such a vitality that it just bursts off the screen. I saw a movie on TV the other night that she starred in. It was called Never Been Kissed.
This was a sweet movie about a 25 year old journalist who decided …
Romeo Must Die movie
One of those Hollywod mixtures between asian martial-arts and plain old-fashioned action that features Jet Li in the role of a cop in seek of revenge for his brother’s death. Every time someone is shot in this film, we see the audience penetrate the human flesh on some kind …
Skin Deep (1989)
Zack, played by John Ritter, has a very serious problem and the only way he knows how to deal with it is by drinking himself stone drunk and having affairs. Zach has a wife and a mistress, his mistress walks in on him cheating on her with another woman …
Twilight (2008)
This is supposed to be a vampire movie for the new generation, it is about a teenaged girl who chose to go and stay with her father in Washington while her mother and new significant other took some well deserved time together alone. She arrives and starts attending the …
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