Movies Reviews
Holiday in Handcuffs
ABC Family’s holiday movie, Holiday in Handcuffs can be summarized in three words; cute but predictable.
While I like the concept behind this movie (a waitress kidnaps a customer and pretends he’s her boyfriend at her family Christmas gathering), I do think the story used a few too many cliches …
Man of Steel (movie)
One of the movies that I wanted to watch for a long time was “Man of Steel” even before the trailer was released and I heard that a new superman movie was going to be made. While I wasn’t completely familiar with the person who directed it, I do …
Movie Hostel
Hostel (2006) is a horror movie directed by Eli Roth and is rated R by the MPAA
Hostel is about two American backpackers (Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson) in Europe that meet someone while in Amsterdam that tells them about a small country where all the girls are beautiful and …
SWAT movie
There are some movies that I could quote in entirety, line for line without any problems at all. One of these is the 2003 movie SWAT. This movie chronicles the rise of the a Los Angeles SWAT team made up of characters played by Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, …
Naruto
Naruto. Anime, based on the life of a 13 year old who was instilled with a demon, at the age of one, and cursed/gifted ever since. though naruto seems like a childish cartoon, I have found many men liek myself completely captivated in its story line. in order to …
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
I could not miss this second instalment of Madagascar for the world as I had simply loved the first one. I caught this with my cousin and went with a high expectation, especially after the fantastic part 1. After all, the trailers for part 2 was also equally impressive …
Boogie Nights (1997)
Boogie Nights, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong sex scenes with explicit dialogue, nudity, drug use, language and violence. The original release date was October 10, 1997 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of …
DVD PATRIOT
Has Mel Gibson ever made a worse film?
Trying to cash in on Mel’s tremendous success in BRAVEHEART, Roland (THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW among other travesties) Emmerlich cast Mel in a really badly written American Revolution historical picture.
Originally conceived as a WW2 movie, it mutated into the junk that …
The Rape of Richard Beck, movie
For those who are interested in finding out more on the topic of Male on Male Rape, the 1985 television movie “The Rape of Richard Beck” (also known in some places as Deadly Justice) might be valuable in your research. It is perhaps the only movie I’ve ever seen …
3:10 to Yuma-the Removie (2007)
I like westerns very much and am always pleased when Hollywood makes another one with a high budget and good actors. I enjoyed “3:10 to Yuma”-the removie very much. I found it believable and superior to the original. “3:10 to Yuma” is a Relativity Media production, a company that …
Knocked Up
Knocked Up stars Katherine Heigl as Alison Scott, a young woman just promoted to an on-air celebrity interview position, and Seth Rogen as Ben Stone, a man with little motivation who is trying to make money off of a website he has started with his friends, where you can …
Far and Away movie
Though I tend to love a Ron Howard movie because it’s most always well crafted and told with respect as well as flair, I hadn’t yet watched Far and Away until a friend sent it to me a while ago. I actually watched it in pieces; couldn’t quite …
Powder Movie
“Powder” is one of the worth watching movies I ever watched. The story is very emotional and sensational. Direction, Cast and crew and the other supports have done their duty well.
Here I mention the story in brief to give an idea about the film.
A pregnant woman was attacked and …
Luther,2003 movie
“Luther,” 2003, starring Joseph Fiennes, is a well-done, compelling movie about the beginning of the Reformation. Seeing the questionable practices of the Catholic Church, Luther, a devoted monk, begins to question its teachings. Despite being a monk, he has never read the New Testament; when he does, he is …
Tron Legacy (2010 Movie)
During the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Disney produced a trio of live-action genre pictures, two of which have become cult classics: 1979’s The Black Hole, and 1981’s Dragonslayer. The third film, Tron, has become a bona fide classic, remembered more fondly in the nostalgic minds of …
The Life of Pi movie
I first heard the story of Pi from my teacher. He is a big fan of the book so when the movie came, he is promoting it to us. Out of curiosity, me and my friends watched it together. I never expected to like it for I am not …
Autumn movie 2009
rented Autumn on a whim, thinking because there was a small role for David Carradine it might have some value. If this was his last movie, I truly feel sorry for him and his legacy. It started out with the extremely overdone and predictable premise of …
The Parent Trap (remake)
I am very skeptical about remakes, and since the original The Parent Trap was one of my all time favorite family films, when I saw the remake arriving on the scene in 1998, I was concerned, big time. Happily, though, I found the remake to be delightful. It’s …
Breaking the waves movie
The danish director Lars von Trier has been hailed as a master of cinema and won many prizes on the Cannes film festival the last 15 years. To me he is a very overrated filmmaker who never really managed to develop his own cinematic expression that couldn’t be mistaken …
My Week with Marilyn Monroe (movie)
I’ve been into quite a lot of action films especially lately so it’s easy to see how a movie like this would have escaped my attention at first. I’m not even going to call myself a gigantic Marilyn Monroe fan but the little I’ve heard of her and just …
Music & Lyrics (movie)
OK, when I saw the previews for the movie Music & Lyrics, I thought to myself �Oh no, not another Hugh Grant movie. I said that because I figured it would be very sappy and have humor that is a bit to subtle to be enjoyable.
After watching it, I …
Flawless (R, 1999) movie
I had skipped over this film in my Netflix queue for a long time. Thre was something about seeing Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing a gay drag queen that kept me from bumping it up in the queue. Then I rented it finally. Robert DeNiro is …
Taare Zameen Par, hindi movie
I saw this movie last week. This is the story about a young kid of 9 years who has vision defect and he is not able to see words properly. His parents are not aware of this problem of his and they think that he is mischievous and is …
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Assault on Precinct 13, directed by Jean-Francios Richet is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong violence and language throughout, and for some drug content. The original release date was January 19, 2005 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller …
Human Remains
Before Merchant and Gervais brought the mockumentary back to our screens with The Office, there was Human Remains. Although its legacy remains in the minds of those who fell in love with back in 2000, it certainly hasn’t earned the success it deserves. The show follows a simple premise: …
Sergeantt York Movie
Gary Cooper plays a farmer who against his will is sent to take part in World War I. While there he becomes a war hero, despite his former pacifism sympathies.
This is one of the clearest examples of pure american propaganda. The whole point of the film is to proclaim …
Epic Theatres of St. Augustine
I have decided this summer I will travel around Florida. This weekend’s trip was to St. Augustine, FL. It may come as no surprise to you then that even while away from my home town of Gainesville, FL I still had to go see Transformers 2: Revenge of the …
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh has been a favorite cartoon show among kids and kids-at-heart alike. Pooh bear, with his friends Christopher Robbin, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Eyore, Owl, Helufun, Kessie, Kanga, and Roo all provide kiddie entertainment like no other. Each episode is fully-packed with exciting stories and adventures to tell …
Twilight: Eclipse
Disclaimer: I am neither a fan, nor a hater of the Twilight franchise. While I didn’t read the books, I saw both previous movies, and on the whole found them to be a light, undemanding (if sometimes cracktastic) entertainment.
I went to see Twilight: Eclipse with no particular expectations, and …
Fright Night (2011 Movie)
As much as I hate Hollywood’s love affair with vampires and remakes, I love this movie way better than the original. I didn’t actually see the original Fright Night until a month before the new one came out, and I was disappointed (probably because it was about 20 years …
Girlfight movie
The story about a female boxer with a hectic life at home. With a will made of iron, she challenges everyone who comes in her way, and falls in love with a young man of the same age.
I think Girlfight is a very engaging story with good acting overall. …
White Chicks movie
Where do I start, and where do I find the words to describe this disgusting piece of trash?… Two black FBI agents, Kevin and Marcus Copeland, played by the Wayans brothers, go undercover as two white girls, posing as celebrity sisters who are under the threat of kidnapping. You …
The Bourne Ultimatum
Ex-CIA agent Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is being hunted, again, by the people at the CIA, who initially trained him. Like in the two films preceding The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne is still suffering from amnesia and determined to understand his past and how it came to existence.
Since he …
Grandma’s Boy movie
A couple years ago when I had all of the movie channels they played this on one of them and I ended up watching it. It was better than I thought it was going to be. I really only started watching it because there was nothing else better on. …
Art Of Revenge
Art Of Revenge is a Lifetime movie that starts off with a young, married couple who seems to have it all. Or at least that is what the movie producers want you to think. Art of Revenge started off, as I perceived the movie, with a whining wife and …
Kickass movie
The film “Kick-Ass” belongs to this unique type of works that when they’re ending, the viewer feels that he or she wants to see them again. Matthew Vaughn has proven that it can shoot a screening of the comic, which is virtually as good as the original. Even more, …
Rainman
Ra-ra-ra-rainman. If you’ve never seen the perfectly flawless perfomance of an autistic man and his brother’s developing relationship, then you’re missing out on one of the great films of the 1990s. It’s iconic. Hords of gamblers went looking for autistic family members to take to Vegas with them. Well, …
Cross Creek movie
“Cross Creek” proves that Hollywood movie makers don’t always have to spend millions of dollars to make good films. This movie is based on an autobiographical book by novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who is best known for writing “The Yearling.” I don’t usually like Mary Steenburgen, but …
Army of Darkness Movie
Army of Darkness is a cult classic movie starring Bruce Campbell and directed by Sam Rami of Spiderman fame. The movie is actually the last part of a series known as the Evil Dead trilogy, though this one has more comedy than the other movies did. Campbell plays Ash, …
The Crow movie
The Dark Gothic film that claimed the life of Brandon Lee. One of my favorite movies of all time, as not everyday you see a corpse rising from the grave to right to wrongs done to him. Not a zombie type role either…but undead and kicking butt from corner …
Up Movie
This movie just came out a month or so ago, I believe (2009). I went to see on the Fourth of July with my family. Although I am a bit old for these movies (Up was meant for kids), I thought it was an amazing movie. I enjoyed the …
Ocean’s 13
Far better than Oceans 12, Oceans 13 is a fun movie. This movie is as filled with celebrity as all of the other two Oceans movies. Full of double and triple crosses, this is as much a move about conmen as robbery.
The problem that I have had with every …
Broken Arrow movie
Back in the late 1980s, the director John Woo used to make some visually interesting films, but none of these had any depth, there was nothing beyond that beautiful surface. When he later was offered film projects in Hollywood, he couldn’t turn them down for the money.
While there he …
Movieweb
This is a website that has a lot of different information about movies. My favorite thing about this website is that they have movie trailers/previews you can watch and you can add the previews to sites you want such as a blog or your social networking page. I also …
In Bruges (2008)
In Bruges (2008) is a comedy by director Martin McDonagh and is rated R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use.
In Bruges is the story of two hitmen, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brenden Gleeson), that are sent to Bruges, a historic medival city in Belgium, …
Dallas Season One
Oh wow was the first season of Dallas and the miniseries that launched the program was awesome! In a lot of ways, this was the prototype for Prime Time soap operatic drama for two decades to come. Yes, I loved the show even as a little kid watching it …
Veggietales: Silly Thing Called Love
I picked up a Veggietales DVD for my daughter that I thought would keep her occupied for about 45 minutes. It turns out it was a pretty decent, full-length disk that kept her occupied for more than an hour.
Silly Thing Called Love is a great Veggietales disk that uses …
The Eye
Most of the time, when I watch a so-called thriller, I find it to be more boring than scary. In fact, I usually find myself laughing at scenes that should be terrifying me.
This wasn’t the case with the movie The Eye. I have to say, after watching it last …
Oculus (horror movie)
I first saw the trailer for the movie Oculus when I had gone to see something else at the cinema. It looked promising at the time because it felt a little more different than the multitudes of supernatural horror movies that had come out during that period of time and …
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