Movies Reviews
Splice Movie (2009)
She’s hot!
She’s dangerous!
And…She’s not ENTIRELY human!
Her name is Dren. She is the product of an experiment that went beyond ethical standards. Her creators, Elsa and Clive, mixed human genes with that of several other genes from other animals, thereby creating a new specie unbeknown to human kind. At the first …
Old Dogs movie
This movie stars John Travolta and Robin Williams. It came out in 2009. The plot revolves around two men who are best friends and business partners who end up having to baby sit two kids. The kids happen to be Robin Williams’ kids and needless to say he …
Mission Impossible (1996)
Mission Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some intense action violence. The original release date was May 22, 1996 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Adventure/Thriller and stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, …
Educating Rita Movie
This is one of the movies I can watch over and over again, and often do. Michael Caine plays a disillusioned literature professor who is assigned to teach Rita (Julie Walters), a Liverpool hairdresser. At the age of twenty six, Rita has decided to take care of her education …
Shutter Movie
I have seen this movie last April,2008. I knew that it was a horror movie but I never thought that it would be such a shocker.
There was a newly wed couple traveling by car going to Japan, then the guy who was driving hit a woman …
Cloverfield
Many movies claim to have you on the edge of your seat, but I have never seen a movie do that literally… until I watched Cloverfield. This monster flick redefines the genre and brings viewers a first person look into what an apocalyptic experience is like. The movie was …
Transporter 3 (2008)
The third time is definitely not the charm as in relates to the Transporter franchise, they should have stooped at the first one, but it seems that everyone sees the need to make a trilogy these days. This time around, Frank played by Jason Statham, is accidentally thrown into …
The Other Sister movie
“The Other Sister” is my favorite movie of all time. The acting in this movie couldn’t get much better. This movie features outstanding performances from Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt, and Giovanni Ribisi. I absolutely adored the expression and naivety played by both Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi. …
Hot Shots Part Deux
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the sequel to the movie Hot Shots; Hot Shots Part Deux. And I have to admit, after seeing it again this morning, it’s as good as I remember it being.
While the first Hot Shots movie made fun of the film Top Gun, …
HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION movie
This movie is one of the halloween series with Jamie Lee Curtis. I watched the first one years ago and I enjoyed it. It had a realistic story about three teenaged girls who were interested in boys and clothes and the usual things. Michael Myers, a …
Coming to America (1988)
Coming to America, directed by John Landis is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was June 29, 1988 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem and Clarence and Randy and …
Envy
Nick (Jack Black) and Tim (Ben Stiller) are best friends. Both married, they live next door, work together, and help each other in everything. You would think there’s no place to envy in true friendship, right? Wrong. When Nick’s successful invention makes him rich, Tim starts turning green. Nick …
Movie: The Help (2011)
My family watches a lot of movies, we have cable television and borrow movies from the library. One of the best movies I have seen so far is “The Help,” a movie adapted from the book by Kathryn Stockett. It is a factual and accurate account of life for …
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson aren’t really big Hollywood stars that’s why when a friend asked me to go to the movies with her and watch How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, I wasn’t really very excited. I don’t like Matthew that much (his blond looks isn’t …
Devils Diary
A while back I watched a movie on Lifetime Movie Network called Devils Diary. It’s became one of my favorite movies that they have ever played on there channel. It’s about these kids who find the devils diary and when you write in the book it comes true and …
Trading Places (1983) movie
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristin Holby, Paul Gleason, Alfred Drake, Kelly Curtis, and James Belushi.
Directed by: John Landis.
Two brothers who own a successful commodities brokerage firm take pleasure by conjuring up experimental bets every now and then. Their latest …
Movie: Rambo
Well, I finally got a chance to watch the movie Rambo this past weekend.
When I started it, I honestly wasn’t expecting too much. There are way too many movies that try to remind us of 1980s films and I figured this would be one of those attempts (like Rock …
Postal, comedy action film
Uwe Boll does not have the best track record when it comes to movie making. Boll’s reign of terror started with House of the Dead, his first video game movie that made people notice this German native. Things have been constantly going downhill but that is about to change …
Brick (the film)
Title: Brick
Genre: Independent/Drama
Director: Rian Johnson (2005)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Brendan Frye in this extremely stylized murder-mystery. Still in high school he assumes the role of detective when he stumbles upon his ex-girlfriend and first love, Emily (played by Emilie de Ravin of Lost), dead.
The only thing Brendan was known …
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo is a brilliantly animated saga of emotions, humor mixed with an unconventional story line. It is (as the name suggests) all about Finding Nemo. Nemo is the life of his father who loves and cares for him to the utmost extent possible. But on his very first …
I Love You Man movie
I Love You Man is about a man who’s about to get married but finds he doesn’t have anyone to be his best man or part of his wedding party. He’s been a girlfriend kind of a guy his whole life and never really established any male friendships along …
Cadillac Records
This movie was actually pretty good. Most of the main characters managed to capture the essence of the lives they were supposed to play, but some did not. Mos Def played Chuck Berry and did an outstanding job portraying one of the pioneers of what we now know as …
Religulous documentary
This is an excellent documentary - not only is it a must see but it is a must buy for your video library. I would warn though, for people who are religious - a lot of content may be viewed as offensive. In the documentary Bill Maher …
Flight 93
I was promted to buy this movie after writing a memorial poem for those that were on the plane that crashed on 9-11. The movie was so close to the actual event that I found myself wishing that the outcome was different than what we all know. …
Fear eats the Soul movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was part of the german new wave in the early 1970s together with Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog among others.
He often focused on depraved working class mid-aged women and their emotional state. Fear eats the Soul is the story of an older german woman who falls in …
Cromartie High School, Anime series
Cromartie High School is no ordinary school. It’s a school for delinquents. The most important subject is “fighting” and their biggest concern is “who the biggest badass is?” Everything they talk about is completely random and has nothing to do with school. You could say this anime is pointless, …
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998 film)
Obviously, it’s difficult to discuss any film adaptation without analyzing how well it sticks to the source material, and “Fear and Loathing” is one of those rare cases where the movie remains almost unbelievably parallel to the book, with entire passages of narration and dialogue used verbatim from the …
Lion (2016 Drama Film)
Some movies are really made to catch awards attention. They often fail because the process becomes terribly inorganic, instead of telling a good story, they somehow focus in smaller details in the film - and while on paper it sounds good, the end material is always somewhat disappointing. Take for …
Train to Busan (2016 Korean Film)
Train to Busan is a 2016 zombie apocalypse thriller film from Korea. It stars Gong Yoo, Kim Su-An, Jong Yu Mi and Ma Dong Seok, among others.
The story revolves around Seok Woo (Gong Yoo), a divorced father who works as a fund manager and his daughter, Soo- An (Kim Su-An) …
Ant-Man, movie
The already very crowded club of super heroes with their own movies got another member; it is the Ant-Man. A man who can shrink and become small as an ant, he wears a suit that makes him look like an ant and he can also communicate with and command ants. …
Pretty in Pink
The film Pretty in Pink has been out for a long time now but tonight was the first time I had a chance to sit down and actually watch it. It was supposed to be a glimpse into the life of a teenaged girl in the 1980s. It was …
Movie Alice in wonderland
It’s not just Pandora that is beautiful in 3D. Tim Burton’s twisted fairy tale universe flash magic of both horror and beauty.
Alice has been 19 years. She remains steadfast and willful, and when a anemisk aristocrat proposes to her, put her off from it all - and almost …
Land of the Dead movie
This is the fourth film in George A Romero’s zombie film series (supposed to be a trilogy, but..). It follows the films Night of the living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). My own personal favorite is the first film, mostly because …
Transformers Animated Series - Black Arachnia Action Figure
Black Arachnia is one of the Decepticons in the Transformers Animated Series toy line. She is unusual in that she is one of the few female Transformers. One must wonder what gender would even mean in terms of robots, but I digress. She is a neat …
Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona is a 1987 movie about a couple who kidnaps a baby. Holly Hunter plays the wife, Ed, and Nicholas Cage plays her husband, H.I. Ed wants a baby so badly and H.I. has the hairbrained idea that they can get one from a married couple who has …
The Son of Frankenstein
Boris Karloff gets to wear his makeup of the assembled-from-dead-body-parts monster yet again. This time, it is the son of Dr. Frankenstein, Wolf, who has to deal with him. Wolf returns from America to the family castle where the monster was first created, and guess what? The monster is …
Slackers
Slackers is a comedy (?) about a geek who wants to hook up with a beautiful popular girl and gets the help of three people ,who get really bad grades but do not do any work to achieve them, to help him get the girl. The director of this …
The Bit Hit Movie
This is one of my favorite movies starring Mark Wahlberg, this was one of the movies including Fear which he got so famous in and what makes it more funny is that Lou Diamond Philips stars as the antagonist here. It’s a comedy film although the plot isn’t and …
Shriner’s Circus movie
I recently had an opportunity to take my daughter to the Shriner’s Circus when they were holding it here in Beaver Dam.
While not the best circus I have ever attended, I will say it was a bit better than expected.
When I took my daughter to the Dodge County Fairgrounds, …
The Addams Family (1991 movie)
Uncles Fester is missing, no one knows his where-abouts, it is believed that he disappeared somewhere in the Bermuda Traingle. With this in mind, a couple of con-artists plan to decieve the creepy family by using their son who looks very similar to Uncle Fester, to cash in on …
Let The Right One In (2008): Låt den rätte komma in
Forget Twilight. Underworld. Dracula. Blade. Forget Interview with a Vampire. This is one of the best vampire movies you will ever see.
[Warning]: This is a Swedish film so if you have no patience for subtitles then watch Twilight.
What sets it apart form other vampire movies?
Let The Right One In …
Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian
Although this movie had been aired for quite some time in the cinema, I haven’t had the time to watch the movie until recently. I watched the first part, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and I find the storyline very interesting. That is why I watched …
Fright Night (1985)
Fright Night, directed by Tom Holland is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was August 2, 1985 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Horror/Thriller and stars Chris Sarandon as Jerry Dandridge, William Ragsdale as Charley Brewster, Amanda …
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 …
Aliens
Aliens is probably one of the movies that can scare me till this day. The monsters in this movie are pretty terrifying. I think that this movie may have been where they got the idea for the game Doom. Because this movie was very freaky. I think the music and …
Movie: Night of the Comet
I ended up watching a movie last night that I haven’t seen in years; Night of the Comet.
While much cornier than I remember it being, it also ended up being somewhat entertaining and a great way to spend a couple hours on a rainy, stormy night (perfect weather for …
Movie Great Expectations
Great Expectations starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke is an average movie with some boring moments. Pip used to go to the house of an old woman everyday and he is a painter and artist from his childhood. Oneday he sees a small girl who is of his age …
The Hunted (2003)
The Hunted, directed by William Friedkin is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong bloody violence and some language. The original release date was March 14, 2003 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Drama/Thriller and stars Tommy Lee Jones as …
Trespass (1992)
Trespass, directed by Walter Hill is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was December 22, 1992 for UNited States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Thriller and stars Bill Paxton as Vince Gillian, Ice-T as King James, William Sadler as …
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