After seeing Scary Movie 4 this past weekend, I was glad to finally see a movie series that gets better with time. Since dumping the Wayan Brothers prior to the third movie, the plots in the Scary Movie series have gotten more mature and focus more on movie spoofs …

For one night a year, all crime is legal. It’s a very compelling idea for a movie, right? If the film is well executed then yes, but in the case of The Purge, it’s really nothing more than an average movie.
The Purge was one of the first movies in …

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
The movie industry has always been filled with historical fiction from its inception. Fanciful depictions of factual incidents has graced Hollywood screens for the better part of the last century. While Hollywood movies employ their share of historical advisors, movies are out to entertain, not to …

“End of Watch” is definitely one of the best crime dramas in recent times. Here is a spellbinding, action, cop thriller, full of good performances and rendering a strong sense of comradeship. It is also about the realistic, ugly world of crime and drug trafficking. As is the case of …

Purely by accident, America was discovered by a Spanish captain. In hopes of a better living, settlers began building communities on American soil.
“The American Dream” tells of a history searching to be free of persecution, free to live a bountiful life. The struggle to design and develop a functioning …

La Bamba, directed by Luis Valdez is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was July 24, 1987 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Biography/Drama/Music and stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens, Esai Morales as Bob Morales, …

Jim Carrey is always my favorite actor, and this movie named “Liar Liar” is one of his brilliant works. It is a story of a lawyer, who is very efficient, when it come to lying. He always lies about everything, even to his divorced wife and kids, and he …

This movie is called Wild Child, and it features Emma Roberts with a completely different role from what she usually does, it’s not unlike Hotel for Dogs or Nancy Drew, but this movie features her as Poppy, a very rich teenage Malibu queen who’s rebelling because her mom died …

I am reviewing The Crooked Man, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, produced by Granada television in 1983. This episode finds Sherlock Holmes involved with a case at Watson’s request. It involved the military, a group of people Holmes would …

Well here is a movie that will fill your hearts with a so much joy that you will feel like tap dancing all the way home :). This movie certainly is one of the cutest movies of its times.
This is a story of a penguin (voice given by Elijah …

I’m one who enjoys a good religious holiday film, and one of my favorites is King of Kings from 1961. This is a remake of the silent classic and stars Jeffrey Hunter. I adore Hunter. He was an incredible actor who could draw me in to …

For the past month or so I’ve seen previews on TV for the movie Get Smart. It didn’t look that great to me, I figured it may be worth getting on Netflix when it comes out on DVD, but that was all. Certainly not worth seeing in …

This is another fun horror movie about some mutant fish that invade the Louisiana Bayou. The movie stars Mark Dippe and Tory Kittles. I admit I was unsure what to expect when I first picked it up, mainly due to the movie’s name. But the movie was surprisingly good! …

I’ve always heard of people referring to womanizers as “Cassanovas” but I never knew where that reference originated. I always wondered if there was actually a man in history who was named Cassanova and used to be a smooth talking womanizer but I had never actually taken the time …

Rocky 5 with Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, and Tommy Morrison.
Many have called this the worst Rocky sequel. I would have to agree with this rating, but even the worst is not that bad in this case. The characters stay true to form …

Once in a while a teen coming of age movie comes along that I really like, and “Charlie Bartlett” became one of those. In fact, I marveled that I did not hear about it before when it was obvious that the movie was released fairly recently. It starred actors …

Blue Collar is a 1978 film starring Richard Pryor,Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto,and Harvey Keitel.Blue Collar follows the lives of three friends who are auto workers,Zeke ,Smokey and Jerry.The auto workers receive little pay and some of them even have trouble with their families.Zeke is having tax troubles …

The Bourne Legacy is actually a huge disappointment. I delayed watching it because I was reading the book. After reading the book by Eric Van Lustbader, the actual movie was a complete disappointment. As a matter of fact, the movie is still a disappointment even without reading the actual …

Swimming Pool is another movie that will take you to strange thoughts and places. Sarah needs a getaway and she goes to the country and stays in a country home. A young woman shows up, Julie. Julie is the daughter of the man who owns the house. Julie is …

Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, this 1998 movie tells the story of two royal brothers, Loius and Phillip, separated at birth by their father’s wish. Louis was raised as a prince and is now the king of France; Phillip knows nothing about who he is; raised in …

I sat down with my mother, we were having a girls movie night. This girls night movie theme was comedy. Will Ferrel is always at the top of my list for comedy movies. He did not let me down on this one at all. I laughed during almost the …

Fashion model Jennifer (played by Elisha Cuthbert) has been kidnapped after spending the evening at a nightclub. She awakens to find herself trapped in some sort of basement with a labyrinth of killer tricks and props. She realizes that someone is testing her, watching her every move. …

I am reviewing the Night Train Riddle, 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, stars as …

ANGELS & DEMONS
(Advertised as sequel to “The DaVinci Code”)
Directed by: Ron Howard
Written by: Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, adapted from the novel by Dan Brown
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, and Armin Mueller-Stahl
Running time: 125 minutes
Rated: PG-13 (sequences of violence, disturbing images and thematic material)
Have you seen …

The Sandlot is a 1993 comedy/drama film.It takes place in the summer of 1962 and follows the life of a young boy named Scotty Smalls.Scotty is a young reclusive boy who has trouble making friends in his new neighborhood he lives in.This is about to change when an older …

I, for one, believe that each should stick to what they can do…rappers rap, singers sing, dancers dance, actors act, and so on. When they try to do things that they know nothing of, they make a fool of themselves. Now, Bow wow is no stranger to the acting …

If there is any war movie I love watching over and over again, it is the 300 staring Gerard Butler as King Leonidas. The 300 is the story of the Spartans battling the Persian army led by the God-King Xerxes.
They waged their battle in the infamous Hot Gates paving …

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best horror movies of all time. I still remember the first time I saw the movie and it literally scared me to death. I’ve seen it many times since then and it still manages to completely disturb me. I think …

I’ll start out by saying Ice Age 2 is a good family movie and is certainly enjoyable.
However, after watching it this weekend, I felt very unsatisfied.
The first Ice Age was a unique and funny movie. The second one was poorly scripted and didn’t seem to have as much …

This disney movie is about a family father who wants to buy something special for his son as a christmas present. He finds a cute little creature in a strange shop, but the shopkeeper won’t sell it to him. After a long while the father manages to buy the …

The best way to describe this movie is a cute teenager movie with a humoristic twist. ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ is about 14 year old Georgia Nicholson (Georgia Groome) who simply isn’t happy with her life. She dreams of having a boyfriend and thinks that she found the …

About 2 months ago, Star Cinema made available for public viewing in cinemas millions of Filipinos had most looked forward to : T2, a Filipino-based horror movie directed by the very popular Chito Rono. Its trailer had been running in big Tv networks for weeks and the people can’t …

With two small girls in the house, it is inevitable that our movie selections revolve around animations that the kids can watch. Moana, the Disney animation movie about a little girl that gets “chosen” by the ocean to save their tribe is such a stunning movie that I don’t even …

Patrick McGoohan both directed and starred in Columbo: Agenda for Murder, which aired during the 1990 year when six Columbo movies were made. In this outing, McGoohan is Oscar Finch, a political guru who hopes to become the country’s attorney general after the next election. His wife …

When I read the short outline of this movie, I thought I was reading a news article. I just saw Miral earlier, and it was probably the only culturally significant movie I’ve seen of this year. To summarize, Miral is one way to understand the political conflict …

The movie released in India today, and I saw the first show on the First day - a rarity for me, made possible however since it was a holiday!
My overall first impressions, “Pretty Good”
For a detailed breakup, however here goes, and dont worry I will not be giving away …

The first few months of the year are usually the hardest for movie goers, such as myself, as there is a huge difficulty finding quality movies, but I can safely say, the drought is over. We finally have our gem and its name is Chronicle.
Chronicle is directed by first …

After a couple of years of cancellation, this Dead Like Me movie which is sub-titled Life After Death was done with most of the original cast except for Mandy Patinkin and Laura Harris. Harris’ Daisy character was recast with Sarah Wynter. The opening integrates a comic book …

I went to go see this movie, while it was still in theaters, with my husband. It was supposed to be a nice, date-like evening, so we chose the one that looked both funny and romantic. We weren’t disappointed. In fact, I think he like the …

In 1970, Carter’s Army was released, and somewhere along the line it’s been re-released under the name Black Brigade. Now what is interesting to me is that before writing my review, I was checking out the credits and ran across the first few lines of comments someone made …

When I bought Project Moonbase, I was expecting to see a sprawling, scientifically accurate moon city, especially when I knew it was written by Robert Heinlein, one of the giants of literary science fiction. I was even further encouraged when I saw the spectacular opening titles, set against …

When compiling a list of great martial arts movie stars several names are almost always expected to top that list, Bruce Lee is always present, as is Jackie Chan, and the same can likely be said for Jet Li. But, one name that is almost always painfully overlooked is …

Dixiana was a musical from 1930 that was one of those love stories that combined the boy from the good side of the tracks with the girl from the bad side, only I don’t really get the societal norm of the time that stated that circus performers were some …

This is a science fiction film about the first manned trip to Mars. Instead of being action as most science fiction movies are, this is a drama. It’s also a survival story, one that’s filmed pretty decently on a low budget. It’s the story of five people stuck on …

Love, Simon is a movie released in 2018, based on the book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. It stars Nick Robinson as Simon Spier, a young teen in high school who has one mysterious secret.

He has a very happy life, really nice friends, a beautiful family …

When I saw the movie “Hot Tub Time Machine” advertising I ignored it, simply because I thought that it was going to be one of those college humour shows that is full of lots of sex and sex jokes that I would generally not be interested in. However, …

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway star in this lackluster, predictable comedy in which best friends become enemies when they accidentally book their weddings on the same date. Determined to upstage each other, they pull all kinds of unpleasant tricks to try and ruin the other’s wedding.
I had several issues …

I honestly think there should be a law against Hollywood basing a movie off of a classic piece of literature and then making a film that doesn�t resemble the book at all.
Bram Stoker’s The Mummy is based off of his book The Jewel of the Seven Stars. While I …

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 …

Instinct, directed by Jon Turteltaub is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for some intense violent behavior. The original release date was June 4, 1999 for United States audience. Thismovie falls in the genre of Drama/Thriller and stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Ethan Powell, Cuba Gooding …