Movies Reviews
The Ninth Gate (2000)
A career driven writer is employed in the services of a wealthy book collector to help him locate a specific set of books. In addition, the collector wants the writer to travel across the globe to find the other books that will complete the collection of books at any …
Legend (movie)
I had heard of the Tom Cruise film “Legend,” but I never got around to watching it until last night. While, overall, it wasn’t a bad movie, I’m not sure if I was overly impressed by it either.
Cruise plays a hermit who is called on to face the Prince …
Chicken Little (2005)
Walt Disney studios present the story of a chicken who comes with claims that the sky is falling when something fell from the sky and hit him on the head. Because of his past, no one readily believes him when he first tells them of this occurrence. Wanting to …
Dead Man Walking movie
Sean Penn plays a man on death row, who committed a rape and a murder (late in the film we find out that his partner in this crime went free). A woman priest wants to help this man, not to get him free, but to make God forgive him …
Cleaner (2007)
Cleaner the movie is running short than 2 hours but I think it is not that bad of a movie. This is about a crime story and at first when my sister brought this DVD movie home, I thought it’s another funny comedy flick or something. But once …
Batman Begins
I had never watched the story of Batman before this movie. I had just always really thought of all super heroes as always just kind of being there. But when I watched this movie, I really liked the way how it explained all of Bruce Wayne’s history, how he …
17 Again movie
The choice of actor Zack Efron to do the movie ‘17 Again’ really caught me by surprise. After finish working on the last movie of ‘High School Musical’, Efron declared that he wanted to work on movies with far more challenging roles. In all honestly, I found that there …
The Devil Wears Prada (Movie)
Boy does this title make sense! There is this new girl working at this fashion magazine place that is really popular. And it is true, her boss is the devil! She expects her two assistants to do outrageous things for her like it was the simplest thing in the …
Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium OVA DVD
Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium OVA DVD is a collection of shorts of Fullmetal Alchemist characters based off events during and after the first anime series and has nothing to do with the new Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood series.
This DVD is something that any Fullmetal Alchemist fan should have in …
Another Cinderellla Story
For Christmas I got the movie “Another Cinderella Story”. I rate this movie as a 7. It was pretty good, and the story line was cute because it goes with this decade.
The movie stars Selena Gomez as Mary. Mary’s mother died and so Mary now lives …
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Jewel of the Nile, directed by Lewis Teague is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date for this movie was December 11, 1985 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Comedy/Romance and stars Michael Douglas as Jack Colton, …
The Woodsman (2004)
The Woodsman, Directed by Nicole Kassell is Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America and stars Kevin Bacon as Walter, Kyra Sedgwick as Vicky, Mos Def as Sgt. Lucas, Eve as Mary-Kay and Benjamin Bratt as Carlos.
Walter is a pedophile is has been released from prison and …
Doctor Strange, 2016 movie
The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand with “Doctor Strange”. Not only does this movie introduce a new hero and defender of the Earth, but it even manages to expand the scope of the already epic franchise as a whole.
True, it is an origin story, but it …
Case 39 Movie (2009)
I’ve seen Renée Zellweger do comedy from the Bridget Jones series, do drama from the movie Cold Mountain and Cinderella Man, and a little bit of both in New in Town and lots more movies she’s been so famous for, but for the first time ever I was surprised …
Still Alice (drama movie)
I was a little hesitant to watch the movie “Still Alice” because I thought that a story about someone experiencing early onset Alzheimer’s Disease was bound to be too frightening and depressing for me. The idea of losing myself and my memory especially at a young age is one of …
The movie Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons looked like a cute movie from the start. When I saw the previews I could not wait to see the movie. Created by Disney I thought that it would be a wonderful addition to the collection. I did finally get to see and I was …
Hot Rod
If you have never seen Hot Rod but love comedies, then you have to check this movie out! It has a few of the cast members of Saturday Night Live such as Andy Sandburg and veteran actress Sissy Spacek, who plays his mother, and a motley crew of some of …
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Wow. What a great movie. Bruckheimer has tapped into a zeitgeist here. People want FUN family entertainment and this is a terrific example.
Took the family to see it tonight and it was fantastic.
Afterwards, we compared the first and this one- honestly, I preferred the first because it had a …
The Negotiator movie
Samuel L. Jackson is the police negotiator who gets involved in what seems to be some kind of plot against him and his family. He is forced to take the role of those he always worked against, those who take hostages to achieve something. A second negotiator, played by …
The Worlds Fastest Indian movie
The movie The Worlds Fastest Indian is one of those movies that after you finish watching it you feal like you can acomplish anything that you set your mind to. The story follows a man named Burt Munro from New Zealand who’s goal is to set the land speed …
Men in Black 3 (movie)
One of the movies that I watched this summer was “Men in Black 3”, starring the first movie’s original actors, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. I have to admit that before I saw it, I was somewhat eager to watch the movie being that the plot sounded very …
Casino Royale Movie
We went to see the new James Bond movie this weekend, “Casino Royale”. We were a party of two adults and found the movie to be good entertainment. Daniel Craig was a great new James Bond and both my husband and I felt he did a great job. He …
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory is a musical adoption of a children’s book by the writer Roald Dahl.I will describe what the movie is like before reviewing it.The movie is about a kind,gentle but poor boy named Charlie Bucket who lives with his mother and four grandparents.An owner …
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Very curious indeed!
I had high hopes for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Firstly Brad Pitt was in it (how could it possibly be anything but great) and secondly it has been nominated for so many awards that I was really looking forward to seeing it. Unfortunately, although I …
Click - the movie
In my opinion this is the best comedy drama of recent years, many of you have already known the story plot it’s about a guy Michael Newman an architect (played by Adam Sandler) who come into posession of a remote control that can magically move life back and forth …
SKELETON KEY movie
Ready for a thriller? The Skeleton Key is the movie for you! Based in New Orleans, our hero is a 25 year old lady who just wants to help people. Wracked with guilt, due to not being present when her own father died, she is determined that people who …
Winter Sonata movie
I can say that I really love this Winter Sonata, Korean Drama. The story itself was a romantic love story. But since it is a long drama story, you can not really guess easily what is the plot of the movie. You really need to follow each step or …
Escape to Witch Mountain movie
Disney’s 1975 film, Escape to Witch Mountain, is a delight even now, decades later, as I write this review. The cast is terrific, and the story definitely entertains. It’s done with traditional family style and adventure, and even more so, there was a lot of heart, and …
Le Havre by Aki Kaurismaki (2011 film)
I’m fairly accustomed to watching subtitled foreign language films, where one mostly gets an education of Cinema’s roots. It is just now that new titles —“ notable ones from last year’s Cannes —“ have popped out way past the editorial reviews and hoopla spewed by publications. Le …
P2 : movie
P2 is a little-known horror movie that I stumbled across while watching movies online on my Netflix service. It’s not a movie I knew about her would’ve picked up most likely in the video store. But I checked it out on Netflix and I’m glad I did. …
Movie Atonement
Oh wow, this movie blew me away. It is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It is one I would actually buy on DVD if my fiance didn’t have that Blockbuster promotion thing. I love the costumes, the set designs, everything. The ending …
Christmas with the Kranks
I just finished Christmas with the Kranks and it is a cute holiday movie. It stars Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis and has other big stars in it like Caroline Rhea, Dan Akroyd, Felicity Huffman and Cheech Marin. The premise of the movie is that the Krank’s daughter …
Flight Plan movie
Flight Plan is kind of movie about hijicking a plane by a bad guy. But, I think we must think for a moment until the middle of this movie guessing who really a bad person here, because I think its a lot of trick and I’m also surprised when …
Coneheads
Coneheads was an alright movie. I think it was kind of cheesey and wacky yet funny. The big heads on the cone head people were pretty funny looking. I also liked the acting and voices of the characters in the film. I think the storyline was not very good. It …
The Shame movie
Perhaps one of Ingmar Bergman’s most underrated film from the late 1960s, as usual by that time with Liv Ullman and Max von Sydow in the leading roles. It’s very uncharacteristic for Bergman as it deals with the atrocities of war, and this loving couple who are slowly driven …
Delightfully Dangerous movie
Delightfully Dangerous from 1945 starred a teenaged Jane Powell as Sherry Williams. This is actually the first time I’ve seen her as a teenager and a brunette to boot. I enjoyed her performance, though. She was gay and pretty and gullible, as many girls of the …
Pride and Prejudice movie
Just yesterday I watched the new “Pride and Prejudice” on the CD, the movie didn’t live up to my expectations it was not all that good. The book gives sharp description of each character. Elizabeth is described as a beautiful intelligent girl but kiera knightly looked more like Joe …
The Whole Nine Yards
“The Whole Nine Yards” is all out the acting abilities of Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis and Rosanna Arquette. It is truly unbelievable that Perry was very scared to interpret Nicholas Oseransky in the this movie due to the fact that he was very intimidated by Willis and didn’t know …
Alien 4 Alien Resurrection 1997 Special Edition Bluray Movie
After Alien 3 didn’t really impress me, I wasn’t sure Alien Resurrection would be any good. I purchased the Alien 4 Alien Resurrection 1997 Special Edition Bluray. The filmmakers ended the series on a really strong note, giving some finality to the alien storyline. Ripley died to keep the …
The Notebook (movie)
With Valentine’s day coming up (or even if you’re reading this after that day), this might be a good movie to check out. The Notebook is the movie version of Nicholas Sparks’ book, as you probably already know. As with all of the other stories that this …
Great Expectations movie
When I saw the movie “Great Expectations” on the cable guide a couple years ago, I was more expecting a film based on the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” and not a loosely based modern day spinoff from it. In fact, since I had not seen it from the …
The Green Man movie
I am reviewing the movie, The Green Man, starring John Nettles and Daniel Casey as Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy. This movie was made in 2003, was produced by Brian-True-May, and was based off the novel written by author Caroline Graham.
In this movie, The Green …
American Visa (movie)
As I have mentioned in several of my previous reviews, I like to watch a good foreign film once in a while and when my friends and I were discussing foreign films and she gave me a summary of a film “American Visa”, that she had watched, I became …
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Another revival of “A Christmas Carol”, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is another foray into the classic Dickens tale. Matthew McConaughey plays Connor Mead is the successful playboy photographer who reluctantly returns to his childhood home for his younger brother’s wedding. He loves his brother but thinks marriage …
Tom Hooper’s biographical movie “The King’s Speech”
On the rare occasion when I spare the money to see a film when it is first released to the cinematic theatres, I tend to be cautious: it is easy to turn off my TV or switch between channels, but a choice made between movies at the cinema is …
Netflix
There are thousands — hundreds of thousands — of movies in the world. You can’t possibly go to all of them, especially if, like me, you like art house and independent films.
This is why I, and you, need Netflix.
I had to be talked into Netflix by two or …
Liar Liar (1997)
Liar Liar, directed by Tom Shadyac is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sex related humor and language. The original release date was March 21, 1997 for United States audiences. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Fantasy and stars Jim Carrey as Fletcher Reede, …
Velvet Revolver live in houston DVD
I bought the Velvet Revolver dvd live in Houston at FYI and that band totally rocked that show which was filmed in 2004 in some large theater. The band seemed like they were really tight that night and had a great time jamming. I particularly enjoyed watching Slash play …
Avatar (2009 film)
Any film with many disparate (though often impressive) elements and a lot of hype and money behind it is bound to create both ardent fans and ardent critics, and James Cameron’s sci-fi epic “Avatar” (which was also released in both 2 and 3D) is a prime example. There’s …
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