Movies Reviews
Neurotic Detective
I am reviewing The Case of the Neurotic Detective, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series 39 Thrilling Episodes. This series was produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France in the fifties. Ronald Howard, the son of actor Leslie Howard, …
Scott Turow’s The Burden of Proof - Part 1 movie
Scott Turow’s The Burden of Proof - Part 1 held some interest for me here and there, though it’s not something I would normally watch. Hector Elizondo stars as attorney Sandy Stern. Fresh off a victory, he goes home and finds his wife of many years dead, …
Movie Mobsters
Mobsters with Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, and Anthony Quinn.
With this group of limited actors, I never gave this movie a chance. Perhaps I was wrong. The movie is based upon the early years of four soon to be infamous …
Secret Window Movie
This movie, starring Johnny Depp, was actually very entertaining. Johnny Depp is always good, and in this movie, he didn’t disappoint. It keeps audiences into the story from beginning to end. The characters are also interesting. You feel a connection with the characters and care what happens to them. …
Hide and Seek
Last night I saw Hide and Seek in television, it’s a drama thriller movie starred by my favorite actor, Robert de Niro and Dakota Fanning. It full of intends from beginning until the end movie.
The story is about psycho daddy starred by Robert de Niro and his daughter Emily …
Dead Like Me DVD Set
The first disk of the Dead Like Me DVD set contains the pilot plus a lot of special features. There were a number of deleted scenes, something that I always love to see. My one complaint is that there were four screens of these deleted scenes and …
The Brother From Another Planet
If you’re looking for a really bad black comedy film from the 70s and early 80s, don’t hesitate to watch the 1984 movie The Brother from Another Planet.
Joe Morton plays “The Brother,” an escaped slave from a planet know as “Another Planet.” I think that was the best joke …
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2-Disc Edition
I’ve always been a fan of the Nightmare On Elm Street series, and in particular the first movie. The day they released this special edition, I picked it up right away and happily put it in my DVD player. Unfortunately I ended up being fairly disappointed. I know that …
Movie Documentary: The Rise and Fall of WCW
Synopsis: This documentary (which was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment) gives a behind-the scenes look at the now defunct World Championship Wrestling franchise and how it rose from it’s regional roots to a national syndication only to ultimately crash and burn at the very end.
What I liked about this …
Locked Up (2004)
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, this one even beats being caught with your pants down. This is a case of mistaken identity that caused an innocent man to be incarcerated in a highly securely penitentiary where he is charged for murder. He didn’t …
The Running Man (1987 film)
I forgot how cheestastic this movie was. It’s an 80’s Schwarzeneggar film, so it’s not all that surprising, but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it.
Ahnuld plays Ben Richards, a soldier who is framed for mass murder after defying orders to fire on innocent civilians. He’s forced …
Holiday Inn movie
Holiday Inn is an adorable holiday movie, and the fun part is that it can be a part of almost any holiday of your choosing! The movie is about a small inn that is only open on holidays, and on those special days, the inn puts on a …
Outbreak movie
Outbreak is a thriller of a drama from 1995 that stars Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo as a divorced couple, both of who are biologists and researchers. Hoffman is researching an Ebola-like virus that killed everyone in an African town in the late sixties. Twenty-five years later, …
Rocky Horror Picture Show
While I’ve never felt the urge to do any cross dressing, I have to admit I’m almost as big of a fan of the Rocky Horror Picture Show as many of the people who do go that far.
I had never seen this movie until I met my wife and …
Australia (2008, Baz Luhrmann) movie
Not nearly as bad as it looks from the trailers.
I avoided watching this for ages because the trailers made it look awful - cheesy, bloated, frankly as interesting and featureful as the Outback. It had one of those trailers which seems to give away the plot of the entire …
10 Things I Hate About You Movie
Since watching the recent Batman movie, The Dark Knight, I have been intrigued on watching more Heath Ledger films due to his brilliant performance. I remember years ago my friends going on about this film, so I decided finally to rent and watch it, and I absolutely loved it.
It’s …
No Greater Love movie
The first part in Kobayashi’s gigantic trilogy on World War II. Tatsuya Nakadai does one of the cinematic history’s most impressive acting in all of the three films as Kaji, a man who goes through huge personality change. He begins as a promising young military officer in charge of …
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is an epic film, where Tom Cruise plays the Captain Nathan Algre, in a scenario of the year of 1876. He is a American Civil War hero that was hired by the Japanese Emperor to train the new modern army in modern fighting styles and to …
Ghost Hunters
I have been watching Ghost Hunters since it stated in 2004 and still enjoy it. Two ordinary men, their real jobs are as plumbers, hunt ghosts by night. It is on the SciFi Wednesdays at 9:00 PM There is nothing fictional about it, it is …
Metro (1997)
Eddie Murphy character in this movie is that of a no nonsense police officer and hostage negotiator. When he encounters a ruthless killer, who will stop at nothing to get what is his, Eddie’s character manages to outsmart him and puts him behind bars, but this was not for …
Bleak House (2005)
At first, I was not sure whether I liked the new Bleak House (released in 2005) better than the old version I have in my collection of classics (the 1985 Masterpiece Theatre production). I was so used to the old version that it took me some time to warm …
Movie Blond Ambition
To put everything in a short sentence, “Blond Ambition” is a very cheap copy of Reese Whiterspoon success movie “Legally Blond”. It is to no surprise to me that it went straight to DVD release.
The interesting fact about both movies that is that Luke Wilson stars in both of …
The Quiet Man (movie)
Last night we were flicking through the channels on TV and both my husband and I like John Wayne movies. We came across the Quiet Man, and that is where we stayed.
Old movies, done well whether they are in black and white or in color are sometimes …
Cold Mountain Movie
This was the movie that had won Nicole Kidman an oscar and it’s a very nice movie. The cast is Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe, Jude Law as Inman, Renee Zellweger as Ruby Thewes, Natalie Portman as Sara, Cillian Murphy as Bardolph, and Giovanni Ribisi as Junior.
The movie is …
Roll Bounce
RollBounce is a movie starring Shad Gregory Moss (little bow wow).
It’s about a young teenage boy whose having a difficult time going on with his life after the death of his mother. Xavier who Shad Moss plays, enjoys skating very much. After the local skating rink is closed down …
Amistad (1997)
Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for some scenes of strong brutal violence and some related nudity. The original release date was December 10, 1997 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/History/Mystery and stars Morgan …
The Clone Wars film
“The Clone Wars” is a 2008 film with the computer animated characters who would later appear on “The Clone Wars” TV series on The Cartoon Network. The movie essentially acts as an introduction to the main characters and the conflicts you will expect to see in the series. …
blockbuster .com
I actually like Blockbuster a lot more than Netflix because you can return the movies to the store instead of mailing them in and waiting to receive new movies. Not only can you return the movies that were mailed to you to the store, but you can also trade …
Burlesque movie
I was very excited when I first saw the preview for this movie. I mean really you can’t go wrong when you combine the powerhouse voice of Christina Aguilera and a legend like Cher. I was expecting a spectacular movie, filled with visually stimulating dance routines, costumes, songs, and …
Movie Message in a Bottle (1999)
Message in a Bottle, directed by Luis Mandoki is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for a scene of sexuality. The original release date was February 12, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Romance and stars Kevin Costner as Garret …
Documentary: American Scary
Synopsis: This 2004 documentary gives a history of the local television hosts past and present who introduced late night horror movies to their audiences. The history starts with Vampira and works its way through other celebrities like Cassandra Peterson (who played Elvira) and uses interviews with hosts, actors and …
Untraceable (2008)
Untraceable (2008)is directed by the Gregory Hobilt. I thought this is going to be another boring DVD, with just a normal action flick story. But the storyline is real awesome. It is about this serial killer on the rise who projected his crimes and action deeds …
Silent Night Deadly Night 2 movie
Silent Night Deadly Night 2 is a sequal to a controversial horror film called Silent Night Deadly Night,made in 1984.Silent Night Deadly Night is about an 18 year old guy named billy who is dressed in a santa suit going on a killing rampage around christmas time.This …
Sex and the City (2008)
I love watching Sex and the City, the series before on TV, and now that there’s a movie rendition, I sure wouldn’t want to miss it at all. As usual, it stars the lovely and gorgeous Sarah Jessica Parker and the other lovely ladies as well such as …
Troy
Four years after the epic movie “Gladiator”, Brad Pitt attempts to make a success out of another epic movie “Troy”. The only two things in common that these two movies have are that they were both filmed in Malta. While “Gladiator” was a huge blockbuster, “Troy” failed …
Vampire in Brooklyn,1995 movie
I guess the problem with this movie is that it cannot decide what it is: a horror or comedy. It is not scary enough to for the former and not funny enough for the latter. Eddie Murphy is playing the main character (and Eddie is not exactly vampire material, …
Obsessed the movie
I saw the Beyonce movie, Obessed, last night with my husband. It was honestly exactly what I expected. I didn’t expect something that would have me sitting on the edge of my seat, and it didn’t. The story line was fast moving and kept me interested, but it didn’t …
Epic Movie-
The movie I am about to review is called Epic Movie released in 2007.Yes,it is literally called Epic Movie!!. The reason for this strange title is that the movie is a spoof of a couple of popular and high grossing movies that came out the time of the movie.Spoofs …
The Age of Adaline Movie
There are just some books that should not be made as movies, and The Age of Adaline was one of those books. I never read the book myself and after watching the movie I probably will do my best to go out of my way just to avoid it in …
Turistas, John Stockwell Movie
A group of tourists from various countries do not intentionally form groups since they ride the bus accident and they find a beautiful isolated beach. They are Alex (Josh Duhamel), from the United States will be reluctant traveler, but should accompany the sister Bea (Olivia Wilde) and her friend …
Pulp Fiction movie
When Pulp Fiction was released, I had not seen a good movie like this in a while. Pulp Fiction held my attention from the moment the movie started and I waited with my breath held to see what would happen next until the end of the movie. John Travolta …
DVD: Hidden Places
I enjoyed watching “Hidden Places” very much. Made for television by Hallmark Entertainment, the a wholesome, family-oriented film comfortably entertains without being overly sweet. The family owns an orange grove in California but faces the threat of foreclosure by the bank. If this sounds familiar, it should because it …
Get Smart Movie
My cousin’s family decided to have an early evening yesterday and we went to catch the movie, Get Smart, starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and some other great casts. Everyone in this movie seems to be having good potential to win an award, and I love all the …
Burn After Reading
Burn after reading is a 2008 movie of the Coen brothers. I had great expectations but I must say, right here at the beginning, and I got disappointed. First of all when I saw the list of actors; George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and the rest …
Heidi,1937 movie
Heidi (Shirley Temple) is an adorable little girl who seems to bring love and laughter with her anywhere she goes. When her parents die, her aunt sends Heidi to her grandfather, a stern, grumpy man living alone at the mountains. At first, grandpa has no idea how to relate …
Knight of Cups (2016 Film)
I had a really tough time getting through Terrence Malick’s well-known film The Tree of Life when it was released. The first time I watched it I didn’t lasted for 15 minutes. I immediately turned it off because I thought it was nothing but a pretentious show-off. I kept hearing …
The Feminine Touch movie
Overall, I like The Feminine Touch, a classic movie from 1941. It’s a bit of a comedy with dramatic undertones. Rosalind Russell stars as Julie Hathaway, the wife of an aspiring author, who is preparing his manuscript about jealousy and how wrong it is. Don Ameche …
In the name of the father movie
Based on a true story, this film reveals some severe weaknesses in the british justice system as a man, played marvellously by Daniel Day-Lewis, is wrongfully accused and imprisoned for a murder. And not only that, but his whole family, who are also all innocent, are convicted. This was …
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