A few nights ago when I had nothing to do, I scanned my Netflix instant play queue to find a fun movie to settle down with for the evening. I found one that instantly appealed to me, Peacock. Boasting an impressive cast, including Susan Sarandon, Cillian Murphy, and Ellen …

Last night, I watched Pretty Woman again for the nth time. I still love the movie as much as I did the first time I saw it. In fact, I’d say that I’d loved it more now.
Pretty woman is a story of a prostitute whose life is about to …

Dennis the Menace, a remake of a 1959 movie and a remake of a TV and comic strip series. This is what I am talking about, this kid gets himself into realistic trouble and he uses his smarts to work his way from his captor and deals a dose …

Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck), a successful advertising executive and a hard-edged, arrogant man, is heading back to L.A. from Chicago where he has come on a business trip. In the Chicago airport he meets a young writer Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn). It is Christmas, and Greg, just bumped off …

10 things i hate about you was the breakout vehicle for the at the time unknown future stars Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. The movie is, at its heart, a romantic comedy, but what’s truly great about this movie is that it doesn’t tend to follow the usual stereotypes …

I really loved this movie. I found it to be very moving & inspiring.
Freedom Writers is based on a true story about inner city kids growing up in Long beach California. They are trying to survive Drive-by Shootings, abuse, Racial Tension & Violence, after the worst riots in 1992 …

Orson Welles, who of course is mostly known for his cinematic milestone achievement Citizen Kane, had a lot of financial trouble in his career. Hollywood didn’t think his films would make any big money, so he had to look for investors abroad. Most of his films were financed in …

After reading the details of the film I was impressed, especially because it was a Ralph Fiennes film. Being quite a movie buff and a huge Ralph Fiennes fan, I decided to watch it online. Ralph Fiennes’ performance in The Reader had already inspired me in a number of …

Another one for the kids? Oh yes…another one for the kids. Central Zoo mega-stars four high profile animals, a Lion (Alex), a Zebra (Marty), a Hippo (Gloria) and a Giraffe Melman). It’s Marty’s birthday and he makes a wish to go to….”The Wild”. The others don’t pay him much …

A Night at the Roxbury (1998) is a comedy by directors Peter Markle and John Fortenberry and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for sex related humor, language and some drug content.
Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell reprise their Saturday Night Live roles as Steve and Doug Butabi, …

Maybe I’m a little late in reviewing “The 10th Kingdom” miniseries, but seeing as it’s the ten year anniversary of when it aired on NBC, I figured I’d share my thoughts. I recently watched the DVD of “The 10th Kingdom”, and it’s the first time I’ve seen the movie …

I loved the first two Shrek movies, this third one was such a dissappointment to me. I mean I really thought I’d enjoy it. Usually the first movies is good, then the sequel bombs, and everything else follows.. but in this case Shrek 1 & 2 were …

I was looking for movies my daughter can watch during the afternoons between the time she gets home from school and when my wife and I want the TV. One of those movies was All Dogs Go to Heaven.
It had been a while since I saw the movie so …

Minstrel Man from 1944 really transports a person back to another generation when black face was the rage. It’s hard to believe that era existed, but it did, and many found it to be highly entertaining.
The movie stars Benny Fields as an entertainer named Dixie Boy Johnson. …

Mike Leigh is a british director most known for his grey tones realism films like Secrets & Lies and Naked. A Sense of History is a short film a made in the early 1990s about a noble englishman who tells the most morbid story of his life. The audience …

A must for every collection is what is quickly becoming a classic movie in the poker world; Rounders is a gripping story about two men, a law student and an ex-con that try to make it big playing poker. It?s got a star cast including Matt Damon, Edward Norton …

The movie ‘Pinnochio’ made me feel really disappointed. Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful has been my all time favorite. I watched Pinnochio hoping that it would be as good as Life is Beautiful but I was utterly disappointed. Not in comparison with Life is Beautiful but the movie Pinnochio …

Very few movies get you to unexpected places. Most of the time the movie starts and 5 minutes in you know where it is taking you. Perhaps one of the biggest problems of blockbuster filmmaking is that everyone is running out of ideas, immediately sticking to a single genre that …

My wife was taking a shower last night and my oldest daughter was in bed so it was just me and the baby for a while. I couldn’t do much while holding her so I flipped through the channels and came across the 1994 movie The Scout on Fox …

This review does not have a summary. This movie was one of the best holocaust movies I have seen in a long time. When I saw this movie, it was all in Italian, which is for the most part the only downside to it. Although, the script in …

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is the sequel to the very popular Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. In my opinion, a disappointing sequel. In my eyes, it is the death of a sequel when the makers of the …

I really enjoyed this movie about teenage cheerleaders and the competition they enter to be in a music video. While the movie may seem to be about cheerleading and winning, the story also has a great heart about friendship.
The cheerleading moves in this movie are amazing. I have …

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 …

‘Cranford’ by Elizabeth Gaskell has been made into a five part series, now available to buy on dvd.
It has been adapted by the BBC who seem to be masters of making period dramas for television. The story is set in a Cranford; a market town in the north west …

Dr. Seuss’s cherished book “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” is a story that many people know and love for the holiday season. It was turned into a 2000 motion picture staring Jim Carrey as the Grinch. Not only was there a new twist of comedy to this beloved tale, …

Two Brothers is a movie aimed at children that is also very good for adults. The plot is relatively simple — it follows the lives of two tiger cubs as they grow up in captivity. The two cubs are brothers, born of the same mother, who live …

Monster is about Aileen Wuornos, a female serial killer. Monster looks behind the scenes and tells you the real story of Aileen. I never thought that Aileen was justified in murdering men in cold blood, but I can say that I feel Aileen was a victim of men all …

Some of these earlier movie musicals are so hard to describe simply because the plot can get a little offbeat and quirky. Of course, the same thing happens from time to time today, too, but some early films just didn’t have that much to them. Let’s take …

This movie really interested and intrigued me since I love swimming and everything outdoors and my husband was a licensed diver himself, and we wanted to watch this since we thought we could relate to the movie, and we did. The movie is called Sanctum and they say the …

As I often do, I spent some time Friday looking through Netflix’s Instant Watch section for movies I could watch with my two girls.
One of the movies I came across was the VeggieTales movie Pistachio. This proved to be worth watching.
The movie (which is essentially one of their TV …

The Incredible Hulk, directed by Louis Leterrier is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sequences of intense action violence, some frightening sci-fi images, and brief suggestive content. The original release date was June 13, 2008 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre …

Synopsis: An overweight mall cop needs to stop a group of criminals from robbing the mall he is sworn to protect.
What I liked about this movie: Kevin James is actually pretty funny as Blart, a mall cop who is considered a loser by everyone from the people he works …

I liked “The Girl Next Door” the first time I watched it, but I really enjoyed it more the second time around. I liked it so much, I actually bought it on DVD! I got a good deal, so even though I don’t feel the need to …

Despite the pre-release hype, Ouija didn’t live up to my expectations. It’s intended to be a horror movie but it’s weakened by a terrible cast and paltry directing. The screenplay of the movie is decent but it wasn’t utilized properly. As a horror movie, ‘Ouija’ completely fails. It wasn’t enjoyable …

This film made me cry. Maybe because I’m prone to nostalgia or maybe because I’ve always loved cinema, and “Cinema Paradiso” (”Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” by its original Italian title) is both a movie steeped in nostalgia and a movie obviously made by a lover of the movies.
The story of …

This is a film by the talented Spike Lee and in my opinion his best film to date. A film about rascism and prejudice, how the true nature of these issues actually looks like. Spike Lee doesn’t choose his side here. All fractions of a society in america are …

MPAA Rating - Rated R for strong violence, sexuality, drug use and language.
Starring: Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Willem Defoe, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Chloe Sevigny
American Psycho (2000) is the film adaption of the graphic novel by Bret Easton Ellis. It tells the story Patrick Batemen, an investment banker and …

I just saw the movie Monsters last night and I don’t really quite know how to categorize it. I cannot put it in bad movie file, but then I cannot recommend to watch it. I can’t even quite tell if I can enjoyed it. The feeling this movie has …

A Shark’s Tale is one of those movies that looks like it might be okay, but the thought of paying movie theater prices to see it scares the crap out of you. I had this problem on the one hand it had a really great cast. Even Robert De …

The original and still the best. This side-splitting comedy tells the tale of a kid who thought he had wished his family away. Enjoying his spoils he indulges his child-like appetite like only a kid can. Meanwhile, two buglars are rampaging through the neighborhood stealing all in their path …

From 1946, Bad Bascomb stars Wallace Beery in the title role of outlaw Zed Bascomb and young Margaret O’Brien as Emmy, a child who warms his heart even though that is the last thing that he ever wanted.
Bascomb’s gang is on the verge of being captured, so Bascomb and …

I’m not sure what exactly the draw is for me but whenever the movie Pretty Woman is on television, I just have to watch it.
Maybe I’m just a closet Julia Roberts fan but I just can’t get enough of a Cinderella story that has a prostitute and millionaire falling …

Chiyo, a little girl from a small village in the outskirts of Japan was sold to a geisha house where she works as a servant to pay off her parent’s debts. There, she began to pursue the life of a geisha in order to uplift her status and eventually …

Here is another example of why Hollywood should stay as far away from comic book remakes as possible. This movie is so bad, it makes ‘bad’ seem like a candy bar. At first when the movie started, I was all geared up to enjoy Hulk style destruction similar to …

Starring: Jonathan Tucker (JJ), Jennifer Tilly (Dot), Dan Moran (Bull), David Strathairn (Dr Charlie), Deirdre O’Connell (Phyllis)
How horrifying it is for a seventeen-year old to discover that there are people preying on his life. After coming out from rehab, JJ had hoped to pick up the pieces of …

We’ve all wondered about the Ouija board: is it just a game, or can spirits really come through it? Some people just have to learn the hard way.
Jim (Todd Allen) and Linda (Tawny Kitaen) hold a party; but Jim is angry and jealous when Linda invites her ex-boyfriend Brandon …

This film captures some breathtaking scenery, as it is set in Africa. The movie itself is breathtaking, but in a deeper and more moving way. The film portrays a diplomat and his wife living in tuberculosis infested Africa. After her death, he finds himself immersed in conspiracy, murder, and …

A United Nations negotiator is the sole survivor of a plane crash and he comes across a seemingly deserted island, only to find out that the island is not deserted, instead, it is the testing ground for a crazy scientist who has managed to successfully splice human DNA with …