Movies Reviews
Signs (Movies)
I recently came to live in a new city for a few months, and part of my condominium lease included some great movie channels on cable. I have been re-watching a lot of movies that I saw a long time ago, and enjoying many of them. Last weekend, we …
Movie : Faster (2010)
Faster is an edgy thriller starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as three men on a collision course. Dwayne Johnson plays Driver, a convict who has recently been paroled. He leaves prison with one goal in mind- to hunt down and kill the men responsible …
Blockbuster Video
We have often rented movies at Blockbuster, but lately we have been checking out a smaller video store down the road.
When the smaller store down the road does not have the movie we are looking for, we head to Blockbuster. The reason we opt to go to the smaller …
Serendipity
One of my Husband’s favorite movie is Serendipity.He watched it a lot of times.Before i do not like it.I find it boring but when my husband ask me to sit down and watch with him.I was impressed to the movie.
It was all about Jonathan and Sara.Everything started …
The Ugly Truth movie
I really enjoyed watching this movie. This was another pick from the RedBox dvd kiosk. I will however purchase this to have in my movie collection. This movie is a great romantic comedy dealing with issues such as relationships, what men and women look for when dating, etc. There …
Pirates 3
I went to see Pirates of the carribbean 3 with my 11 year old daughter. We loved it. I thought it was better than the second one Dead Man’s Chest. Johnny Depp is hilarious.I enjoyed the part where he was “hallucinating” and there were Jack Sparrows everywhere on …
Baabul movie
Baabul is a good family picture. It is a Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, John Abraham, Parmeet Sethi, Om Puri, Aman Verma, Rajpal Yadav, Smita Jaykar, Avtar Gill, Gargi Patel. The playback singers for this film are Amitabh Bachchan, Salman …
Ice Princess
Ice Princes is about a girl named Casey Carlie who is trying to complete a physics project so she can get a scholarship for college. Her professor told her to make it about something personal. That’s when she came up with the idea to study the girls figure skating …
50 First Dates
Adam Sandler is thoroughly charming in the movie date, 50 First Dates. I caught this on DVD and in fact, I have done that lots of times. I always do not fail to laugh whenever I watch 50 First Dates, and the side-kick heroine in this laughable romantic …
New Halloween Movie
I am not really a movie person and often I find myself waiting until a movie comes out on video to even bother watching it. But I had different plans for the NEW HALLOWEEN MOVIE. I figured this would have to be a decent movie because of the past …
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
It is very difficult for a sequel to make the audience feel the same excitement as the first movie, and this sequel didn’t quite live up to that… However, it didn’t fail either. The second Transformers movie did a bad job, and a good job of giving us …
Employee of the Month, movie
Dane Cook’s first time out as a leading man left me laughing, but not so much at the movie, as at myself. I found this movie to hit all of the right marks for laughter but couldn’t being myself to admit that it was anything more than a poor …
Movie Juno (2007)
Juno (2007) is a comedy by director Jason Reitman that’s rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content and language.
Juno is the story of a witty 16 year old named Juno McGuff (Ellen Page) who accidentaly becomes pregnant after a one-time meeting with her best friend Pauly Bleeker (Michael …
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Dirty Dancing, directed by Emile Ardolino is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was August 21, 1987 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Music/Romance and stars Jennifer Grey as Frances Houseman aka baby, Patrick Swayze as Johnny …
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The movie “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is a complicated film. The setting is the first feature I noticed and loved-Spain is a gorgeous back drop for this romantic comedy. I hesitate to call it ‘romantic comedy’ because it certainly isn’t the set pattern of today’s romantic comedy, which gets predictable …
Mission to Mars Movie
Brian De Palma is a filmmaker I used to be big fan of. When I first saw his incredibly powerful films from the 1980s, like Scarface and The Untouchables, he become one of my favorites, but unfortunately he proved to be a very uneven director who got worse with …
Blow-Up Movie
Antonioni’s trip to England where he showed the would he was a very flexible filmmaker. It is the story of an eccentric photographer in London who discovers a most strange crime in one of his photographs and decides to investigate it further. Blow-Up is a very visual film, and …
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Wow do I wish I owned a pair of 3-D glasses. We watched the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth last night and it was awesome. When comparing Brendon Frasier in this film with his other movies I would rank this one right up there with The …
Alexander The Great movie
After a long while, I’m back here, just to write a short review about the film “Alexander” from Oliver Stone. The film is about Alexander the Great.
Many meaningfull historical event are forget, and I think that Alexander was not that mad man.
The photography is at the level of Oliver …
Happy feet movie
Happy Feet the Movie came on our Direct TV Pay-Per-View. It was so cute. My grandchildren loved the movie. There seem to be quite a few movies coming out about Penguins, but this one was really cute. It had a great lesson in it. …
Movie: “Witchboard” (1986)
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 …
“8 Mile” (2002 Film)
While Eminem and Brittney Murphy, along with Mikai Phiffer are very talented, I have to wonder if the movie they starred in, “8 Mile” which was featured in theaters in 2002, was really a film worth watching. The film itself I believe was trying to do something positive …
Farce Of The Penguins
Well here is another Penguin movie my daughter rented last night,but this one is an adult movie. “The Farce Of The Penguins” was mad funny. We laughed our butts off. Well of course Bob Saget was in it, as well as Christina Applegate, Lewis Black, Mo’nique, Tracy Morgan. The …
Kungfu Panda
This is the funny aaction animation movie that I saw last night. Kungfu Panda is the animation movie about the big Panda who becoming the dragon warrior. The Panda (Po) voice by Jack Black is always dream about kungfu, he ’s so interested with kungfu and wanna be a …
Hairspray
The movie ‘Hairspray’ is a musical of a highschool girl with a fasination of the preforming arts and the desire to dance on a local tv show called ‘The Corney Collins Show’ It stars names like, John Trovolta, Queen Latifa, and Christopher Walkin.
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Vacation (2015 Comedy Adventure Movie)
If you’re like me and you loved many of the National Lampoon movies, you were probably very eager to watch the 2015 movie “Vacation”. The thing about the movie is that it was the fifth in the list of National Lampoon’s Vacation series and it is supposed to be a …
Hritik Roshan
Hritik roshan is the current teenage heartthrob of bollywood his first film kaho na pyar hai, Brock all commercial records and was the most successful film of last decade he emedetlly acquired stardom from his debut film and became and over night sensation.
He is a very good actor an …
Everyone Says I Love You - (starring Drew Barrymore)
I didn’t know that this musical, Everyone Says I Love You was directed by Woody Allen until my friend highlighted it to me. I am not that big a fan for musicals, but at the same time, I don’t prevent from watching it altogether. I think that musical …
Warren Haynes DVD
I have been very lucky to find a DVD of an excellent benefit concert, recorded live at Warren Haynes 18th Annual Christmas Jam on December 16, 2006, at the Asheville Civic Center, North Carolina. DVD is recently released, on June 24, 2008.
Warren Haynes is a member of the …
Movie Doubt
Doubt is a movie that takes place in the Bronx, New York in 1964. It stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn a charismatic priest affiliated with a Catholic Parochial school. Sister Aloysius is the Principal of the school. She is known as a …
Life-movie
Life is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.The film follows the lives of two African American men,Claude Banks and Ray Gibson who are wrongfully imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.The event leading up to their imprisonment is in a club around 1932. …
Big Fish movie
“Big Fish” is a very unique film starring Ewan McGregor. When I say unique, I really mean unique. It is a very hard film to describe without spoiling the plot.
Pros: Tim Burton certainly used all of his creative juices in directing this film. The film includes …
Night at the museum
A movie from the director Shawn Levy.It is a comedy movie which is PG rated.Actor Stiller acts in the lead role of a night guard the Natural History museum.This movie is a bit of hype with exagerrated adventure.The exhibits in the museum comes alive at …
The Godfather Movie
A film I consider to be one of the best films ever made is “The Godfather,” made in 1972 and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
As close as any film will ever come to being a true masterpiece, “The Godfather” set a new standard of excellence that has only been …
X men Origins: Wolverine
X men Origins: Wolverine turned out to be better than I expected. I wasn’t expecting much because I thought it would be incomplete and completely stupid to concentrate on one character. But it turned out pretty good and interesting.
It did turn out to be a good movie but definitely …
Netflicks
While I do think that Netflicks is onto something with the art of doing dvd renting via the mail, I also think that in order for someone to really take advantage of the service completely, you have to sign up for their most expensive program offer. Of course, …
Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton takes our everyday world and shoves it down a rabbit hole in his bizarre new take on “Alice in Wonderland.”
Starting out with pallid, nineteen-year-old Alice, viewers watch as she flees her aristocratic peers in an engagement party and finds herself trailing behind a white rabbit down a …
Dhoom 2 Movie
Dhoom 2 is the sequel of hit film dhoom. It has Hritik Roshan in lead role and Aishwarya Rai as lead actress. The movie is about a thief who likes to steel all kinds of masterpiece. He is follow by a cop played by Abhishek Bachchan. The film has …
Back to the Future Part 2
Sequels usually flop, unable to capture the magic of the original. Rare cases include Superman II and The Empire Strikes Back. Back to the Future Part 2 joins that rare class, mainly because it is told partly from within the first movie. The filmmakers incorporated scenes from the first …
Emperor of the North (1973)
I wasn’t too sure what to expect when I checked this movie out of the library, but to my delight it was a truly engrossing movie. It’s about the power struggle between two men on a train during the Great Depression. One man works on the train and he …
Life as House
The very first time I saw the actor Hayden Christensen was in the movie “Life as House” where he portrayed a disturbed and out of control teen named Sam. I watched the movie a total of five times after that as I fell in love with everything from …
Carmike Laurel Mall Movie Theatre
My husband and I decided to go to the movies. We ended up going to the movie theatre at the Laurel Mall. It has been a few years since I had been to this movie theatre. When we first arrived we …
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Loaded Weapon 1, directed by Gene Quintano is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was February 5, 1993 for United States audience. Thismovie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Crime and stars Emilio Estevez as Sergeant Jack Colt, Samuel L. Jackson as Sergeant …
13 Assassins (2010) - Movie
I saw this film with a friend for his birthday. He loves Japanese culture, and I actually met one of the actors, Tsuyoshi Ihara, at a Christmas party at my school. All the girls were crowding around him, he had the presence of a rock star. …
Walk the Line
Walk the Line with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.
Why make a movie based upon the rotten life of Johnny Cash? Another entertainer corrupted by rapid success hits rock bottom and then pulls out a turnaround is no big deal. Cash with his …
Sebel Resort Noosa
The Sebel resort is a large modern hotel in Noosa, Australia. It is situated on Hastings Street which is the main street in Noosa. It is therefore in a perfect location as it is within walking distance of all the local restaurants and the beach. Noosa is a lively …
RomeoXJuliet Episode 6
RomeoXJuliet Episode 6 begins with Dr. Lancelot donning the costume of the Red Whirlwind so that Juliet won’t risk her life to save the people who are going to be burned for being suspected as the vigilante. He gives a heroic speech before heroically sacrificing himself so that …
The grudge 2
I watched the grudge 2 a while ago. There are a couple of things about the movie that I didn’t like. First of, I think they should have kept Sarah Michelle Gellar in the movie a lot longer than they did. Second, there were parts that were supposed to …
The Lovely Bones
I had read the book and really wanted to see this movie. I took my daughter with me, as she had read the book as well. We were both hoping for a different ending than the book had, and we were happy to see an ending we both liked. …
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