Movies Reviews
The Green Berets movie
John Wayne was one of the most patriotic personalities in America. He was devout in his devotion, and he was very vocal. Not everyone agreed with him or liked him, but The Duke put his money where his mouth was, including producing and directing this military picture in …
Movie Frozen River
When I took the time to watch the movie Frozen River this past weekend, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I heard good things about it. But, at the same time, I thought it would be difficult for me to side with characters who help illegal immigrants enter the …
Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for drug content, some sensuality and war violence. The original release date was July 6, 1994 for United States audience. This movie falls in the gerne of Comedy/Drama/Romance and stars Tom Hanks as …
Days of Thunder
Days of thunder staring tom Cruise and Nichole Kidman is a classic drama and action movie! it’s the story of Colt Trickle a young man who works his way up the ranks and becomes a professional NASCAR driver with a die hard determination to win!! Along the way he …
Movie: Alice in Wonderland
Let’s see, Tim Burton directing and Johnny Depp starring. There is absolutely no way the movie Alice in Wonderland would suck.
Wow was I wrong about that.
I didn’t see this movie in the theater for a few reasons and, after seeing it this past weekend, I honestly am glad I …
Blood Diamond movie
Nominated for several academy awards, Blood Diamond tells the story of a diamond smuggler, Leonardo Dicaprio, who teams up with a refugee, Djimon Hounsou, to find a 100 karat diamond that could change both of their lives forever, but in totally separate ways. The story takes place in …
Wrath of the Titans (2012 movie)
I just recently saw the movie Wrath of the Titans. It is the sequel to the previous Greek mythology-based movie about Perseus which was entitled Clash of the Titans. This movie still has the original cast, like Sam Worthington as Perseus, Liam Neeson as Zeus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades, …
Soul Plane (2004)
Bad times fall on an unsuspecting victim and in addition to his humility, he also loses his dog when it got sucked out of the plane and through the plane engine death instantly. He sues the airline and is awarded a grand amount of money. This he took and …
Lt. Robin Crusoe USN
This is not one of Disney’s most well acclaimed live action films to emerge from the 1960’s. Most critics pretty well abhor it, though, suprisingly, it was one of the most popular films from the year it was released.
Disney favorite Dick Van Dyke stars as Robin Crusoe a navy …
Apocalypto, Mel Gibson Movie
In ‘Apocalypto’, again, Mel Gibson chose to drive in the foreign language film, after ‘The Passion of the Christ’ (2004). This time located in the rural South America, precisely at the end of an era of Maya civilization tribe.
Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is a youth by a quiet …
The Man Without a Face (1993)
Ever since a car accident that killed one of his students and left his face scarred, Justin McLeod, played by Mel Gibson, he taken of the life of a shut in painter. He never leaves his home and even his daily house hold supplies and groceries are delivered directly …
The Avengers (2012) movie
Director: Joss Whedon.
Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson.
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon.
Running Time: 143 minutes.
Year: 2012.
Country: United States.
Unlike quite a few people, I was actually largely impressed by The Incredible Hulk back in 2008. I thought that Edward Norton …
Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Kiss of the Dragon, directed by Chris Nahon is rated R by the Motin Picture Association of America for strong violence, language, some sexuality and drug content. The original release date was July 6, 2001 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars …
Black Dog
Black Dog is an unexpected treat. It’s a movie that I’d normally never watch or even think about seeing, except for one thing — it stars my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze. Patrick made this movie right after recovering from a near fatal accident when he’d been thrown …
Red Eye Movie
This seemed like a very interesting story, not really your average suspense movie as it does have a bit of action involved. The movie is about a girl who’s a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) and she just goes home for a vacation and meets a nice young man (Cillian …
Raising Helen movie
Raising Helen was a movie which starred Kate Hudson, it about a woman whose sister unexpectedly dies in an accident with her husband, now she has to take care of his sister’s kids and juggle it with her demanding job and her temporary on hold fun life. At first …
Canterbury Tales movie
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s adaptation of the classic novel by Geoffrey Chaucer about pilgrims who tell their dirty stories to each other.
This was made in a time where Pasolini was constantly taking new turns in his filmmaking and in my opinion getting further away from his original genius in his …
The Hurt Locker
Prior to bagging the best picture trophy, this was not one of my favorites. I was rooting for The Blind Side or Precious for the Best Picture in this year’s Academy Awards.
The story revolves around the lives of William James who heads the US Army Explosive Disposal …
Big Shots movie
Big Shots with Chris Titus and Dylan Mc Dermott.
The first episode of this series was pretty good, but the novelty quickly wore off. Four 40 year old well to do executives are friends and form a support group for each other as they muck …
Music and Lyrics
For people who grew up in the 80’s, much of the subtle humor in the recent movie, “Music and Lyrics” is not as subtle as it is obvious and in your face. From the incredibly cheesy music videos, to the fanatical gyrations of a has-been, this movie made me …
Kill Bill Volume 1
I’m not a big fan of Quentin Tarantino so before I saw Kill Bill Volume 1, I didn’t really know what to expect (I failed to watch the much talked about Pulp Fiction). I’m sure glad I watched it because it’s truly one of the most engaging movies I’ve …
Big Nothing movie
“Big Nothing” is a comedy about how to stay on the wrong side of the law with the actors, David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg at their best. I must admit that this movie could have been better if there was good work on the script and the way it …
Netflix Movie Rental
I recently tried a free trial of Netflix. I really enjoyed it for the trial period, so I decided to stick with it. I am a college student, and being the movie enthusiast I am, I needed to find an inexpensive way to satisfy my movie watching fix. Netflix …
Love Potion No. 9
Two scientists, Paul and Diane, not very successful in the dating game, receive a “love potion” from a gipsy. Skeptical at first, they soon see that the potion does work: whoever takes the potion can make any person of the opposite sex immediately fall in love with them, although …
Sucker Punch (movie)
Sucker Punch was an action fantasy movie about a girl who struggles to get out of a mental institution after she is wrongfully put there by her stepfather after her mother’s death. At times I wondered if she really was going crazy when she would use her fantasies to …
My Bloody Valentine 3D
I haven’t seen the original so I can’t compare. I will say that this movie is not particularly good.
Look, it is bad, but it’s the fun kind of bad. Seeing this movie in 3D, with a packed theater, you’ll get your money’s worth. Eyes come out …
Public Enemies (starring Johnny Depp)
In a stress world, do we still want to find money when we know that we are suffering in health like say, early signs of hypertension, nerve anxiety and stuff like that? It would be hazardous in the long run if we don’t rest well. Why are there …
Terminator 3:Rise Of The Machine Movie
This film failed in comparison to the two previous films. Not only did it fail to live up to the other two it introduces a female Terminator with limited technological advancement. The T-1000 of Judgement Day was the best of all Terminators. The conclusion to the trilogy left viewers …
Raiders of the Lost Ark
We need more movies like this one, to keep the past alive. Not history’s past, but cinema’s past. It was George Lucas’ vision to make the Indiana Jones movies be reminiscent of the old movie serials of the 30’s and 40’s. This was a time when a person could …
Ironman the Movie
Before when I was watching the movie trailer of Ironman, I was thinking that the trailer was just intended to hype up the anticipated viewers of the film. I guess my first impression was wrong, I under estimated the capacity of the movie to become a blockbuster hit.
Anyway, …
Men in Black
Now that it’s a holiday, we have quite a lot of times to enjoy movies at home and relax with family and friends. This holiday, we have had a lot of good movies to watch, one of them was the Men in Black. I know it is a bit …
Lying to Be Perfect (movie)
Some time ago, the thought of watching a movie on Lifetime or a Lifetime Original movie was not appealing to me. However, these days I’ve found quite a few of them to be quite interesting and “Lying to Be Perfect” is one of those.
The movie is about a …
Sweeney Todd
My wife dragged me to see this one. I didn’t know what to expect other than few of my favourite actors namely Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen and Alan Rickman. Also it is directed by Tim Burton and I quite like the collaboration between Tim Burton …
Igor (movie)
One of the animated movies that I was fortunate to watch earlier on this year was the movie “Igor”. To tell you the truth, I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it whenever it was first released not only because the trailer just didn’t interest me, but because …
Final Destination IV movie
I almost didn’t finish this movie when I watched it with my friends in September of 2009. It was just released a few days ago, and so the cinema at Strawberry Hills mall here in Surrey, Canada was filled to the rafters.
It was released in 3-D so …
Ella Enchanted (movie)
Ella Enchanted is a ferry tale type of movie with some similarities to Cinderella. It reminds us that there is good and bad everywhere. That we have to find our inner power to solve some of the most difficult problems that we will face in our lives. That each …
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. Mothra is a definite improvement over King Kong vs. Godzilla, although it is still not necessarily on my top ten list of favorite Godzilla movies. I find the Godzilla suit to be a definite improvement over the Godzilla suit from the previous suit because this Godzilla looks …
Fullmetal Alcehmist Brotherhood Episode 5
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 5 begins with a brief recap of the last episode and then starts with Ed running up to his mother Trisha and showing her a metal toy horse he transmuted. She says she’s proud of him then asks him why he couldn’t make mommy …
Love Happens movie
In Love Happens, Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) writes a book about successfully dealing with grief after he lost his wife. It rockets him to fame and he begins doing seminars. In the lobby of one of the hotels where he is to give a seminar, he meets …
Kung Fu Panda
I saw ‘Kung Fu Panda’ a few days ago. The first thing that hit me as soon as the movie started was the awesome graphics. This animated movie brings together Jack Black(Po), Dustin Hoffman(master shifu), Angelina Jolie (Tigress), Ian McShane (Tai Lung), Jackie Chan (Monkey), Lucy Liu (Viper), Seth …
Mama (supernatural horror movie)
“Mama” might was not a very good or frightening horror movie. In actuality I actually thought that it came off as quite boring, predictable and cliche at times. I am one of Guillermo del Toro’s fans and I expected a lot more from a movie associated with him even …
Red (2010 movie)
Red is an 2010 action, comedy and crime movie starring one of my favourite actors Morgan Freeman. The movie was directed by Robert Schwentke. I am not a fan of action and crime movies, but I truly love the combination of action and crime with comedy. I watched the …
Labyrinth (1986)
A fairy tale about a young lady who is magically taken off into a distant world when she accidentally wishes that her brother be taken by goblins, she is given the task of finding him buy going through a maze, if she fails, then her young brother will be …
The Great Raid (2005)
Based on actual events, this movie is about the planned rescue of America POWs (Prisoner of War) that were being help in a Japanese camp. The prisoners there were treated very inhumanely for example, when they first arrived at the camp, a group of them were lead into a …
The Deserter movie
Another silent montage film by the perhaps most appreciated director that worked with the style, next to Eisenstein - Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Looking through all of his work, I have to say Pudovkin’s films have aged a lot better than Eisenstein. While Eisenstein did all he could to make the films …
Don’t Look in the Cellar (Trailer, 2009)
Normally, in the first paragraph of a review, I try and proved information such as the stars, director and such. This time, however, that task became untterly impossible, because although this is a trailer, I can’t find word one about anything else related to this film. Now …
Winter’s Bone Movie
Winter’s Bone is the kind of movie that drags you down for hours after you finish watching it. Nothing particularly gory or traumatizing happens, however this slow, heavy clunker pulls you down like a boulder. I cannot figure out for the life of me why or how this film …
Netflix
This is the best on-line movie rental program ever!! Even BlockBuster can’t come close to this. We love the selection of movies on DVD from old black and white silent to today’s current movies. TV shows that we grew up with and miss, since we think …
Little Shop of Horrors movie
It was kind of hot outside yesterday and, since my wife is 9 months pregnant and can’t handle the heat too well right now, we ended up spending a good chunk of our afternoon indoors by the air conditioner watching movies.
One of the movies we ended up re-watching for …
Home of the brave movie
The story about four American armies on duty in Iraq. Cutoff from the last period of their duty to brought medical equipment to one of village in Iraq was followed by many tragic cases. Mental conflict experienced after returns to US is not easy to be passed. It is …
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