Hollywood's Young Mr. Lincoln

It's a rare pleasure to watch Henry Fonda portraying an historical figure. He reversed his policy to play Lincoln for director John Ford. ...

Casino Royale Movie Review

Not only does this film give us a new Bond, but it also gives us a completely new style, direction, and tone. The Bond franchise has been running for quite some time when this was released and was badly in need of a facelift. On top of that, to me, the story seemed to be getting stale, and the ideas were beginning to run out. So this film was here to put the Bond franchise back on the map, and it certainly stepped up to the plate. ...

The Wrong Number?

Dial M for Murder is 60 years old. It is still an engrossing tale despite its age. ...

Vincent Price: The Ultimate Shock Master

With his distinctive voice, dashing good looks and affluent upbringing, Vincent Price had every reason to believe that his acting career would land him leading roles as the romantic love interest. But in 1939, his career took an eerie turn, when he was cast in the scary Boris Karloff feature Tower of London. A Hollywood demon was born. ...

A Quick Review of the 2014 Installment of "Godzilla"

A movie review for the 2014 film, Godzilla. Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche and Aaron Taylor-Johnson star in the Gareth Edwards directed feature. This film includes past events that lead up to Godzilla making his way to land, but it also adds a new chapter to the story. With just enough of the old and new, "Godzilla" is the perfect remake. ...

Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? Six Reasons to Watch Frozen and to Keep Loving It

Wondering what all the hype surrounding Frozen is about? Read this to find out why. ...

Glee Season 5 - Review, Insights, and Frustrations

Last Tuesday's episode of Glee wrapped up its Season 5 with an episode entitled: "The Untitled Rachel Berry Project". To be honest, I'm quite skeptical on writing about this but I can't hold long this feeling of disappointment inside me so I needed to write it out. Okay, I'll go straight to the point. ...

"THE IMMIGRANT" - A New Film Report

Here's what went through my mind watching "THE IMMIGRANT": New York Harbor comes into view; and I try to bring to mind how my grandparents must have thrilled as they hailed the grand Statue of Liberty. And then as the people swayed off the boat and were checked off through Ellis Island, I pictured those folks again. After that I no longer thought about my grandparents but tried to be absorbed in the film's plot and the acting. The story portrays one young Polish woman who disembarks and (with her sister) looks forward to living in their aunt and uncle's house as they start life in New York. ...

An Alien Experience

Alien was a scary movie because of where it all took place. In space, they said, no one could hear you scream. ...

A Near Masterpiece

An X rating didn't mean the same thing in 1969 that it means today. Midnight Cowboy was rated X, and it won Best Picture. ...

The Tribulations of a Real-Life Natural

Jimmy Stewart's portrayal of baseball player Monty Stratton, whose major-league career was cut short by a hunting accident, was inspiring. It was even more inspiring because it was true. ...

Introducing the Thin Man

William Powell and Myrna Loy appeared in six Thin Man movies. The first one premiered 80 years ago. ...

Frasier's Pursuit of Happiness

On May 19, 1994, Frasier wrapped up its first season on the air. The season-ending episode focused on what would be a familiar setting, Niles and Frasier conversing over coffee at Cafe Nervosa. ...

The Depth Behind the Exceptional Narrative of Donnie Darko

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Donnie Darko for the first time. The plot involves Jake Gyllenhaal who plays the unstable character of Donnie. He has continuous visions of a large bunny rabbit called Frank who influences him to commit a series of crimes. ...

Movie Review of "Neighbors"

A movie review for the film, Neighbors, starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Dave Franco. Zac Efron and Dave Franco play frat brothers who are responsible for causing most of the neighborhood drama, but will stop at nothing to keep their frat house. The ensuing neighbor wars results in plenty of comedy and a satisfying ending. ...

Twilight of the Doctor: Series 8: Rumours, Gossip, Spoilers and More

Earlier last month, former Doctor Who Matt Smith announced that he was "really jealous" of successor Peter Capaldi. Smith, who portrayed the eponymous Doctor from 2010 - 2013, told Calgary Expo Comic-Con visitors that upon hearing about series boss Steven Moffat's plans for the upcoming episodes, he actually felt some misgivings about leaving the role. ...

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne who is wrongly convicted of killing his wife but is sent to prison for two life term sentences. Whilst in prison, Andy struggles early on to cope but soon befriends a long term prisoner named Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, (Morgan Freeman) who teaches him about prison life. They soon become friends and Andy becomes more likeable to the prison warden who is a corrupt warden that cannot be trusted. The movie gives us a deep incite into the pain and hardship of prison life and deals well with the subject of being institutionalized and has a strong message of hope especially in adverse situations. ...

Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (1991)

The terminator, the T-101 model (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has been sent this time to protect Sarah Connor's son, John Connor in order that the resistance movement will prevail against the machines and Skynet. John Connor is just a kid who doesn't realize the danger that he faces from a more advanced terminator, the T-1000 model that is trying to kill him. The scene is set to see which terminator will prevail and the movie doesn't disappoint us as action is guaranteed throughout and we are pleased with the outcome. ...

Magic Starring Anthony Hopkins (1978)

Anthony Hopkins delivers a superb performance as the struggling magician, Corky Withers who has trouble communicating with his audience until he performs his ventriloquist act with his dummy named "Fats". The problem for Corky is that he begins to think the dummy is real and he converses with Fats all the time in everything he does. Corky slowly begins to lose his mind and we are taken on a journey of suspense and a thrilling conclusion to a very good movie. ...

The Green Mile (1999)

Paul Edgecomb plays a prison officer of Death row inmates at the Louisiana Corrections Facility during the great depression. Paul and his co-workers must ensure that they fulfill their duties with respect when carrying out executions but they face difficulties from a new prisoner named wild Bill and from a fellow prison officer named Percy. Paul Edgecomb and his colleagues are also expecting a new prisoner, a gentle giant of a man named John Coffe who has a God given gift of healing the sick. ...

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather is the story of the mafia crime family, the Corleone's and how they operate their business where loyalty to Don Vito Corleone is required and respect must be given by every soldier within the organisation. The Corleone's face certain enemies from the other crime families, the Tattalia's and from a man named Solozzo who works with them. The Corleone's must defeat their enemies and ensure that all rivals from within and outside of the family are silenced forever. ...

Licence to Kill (1989)

James Bond's Licence to Kill is revoked and he undertakes a personal vendetta against a drug's baron named Franz Sanchez who is responsible for almost killing Bond's personal friend, Felix Leiter and of killing Felix's new bride. Bond is hell bent on revenge and he will not rest until Sanchez and his men pay for what they have done. ...

"FED UP" - A New Film Report

Run-don't walk-to this film! It may prolong your health, your life and the life of your kin. It's no laughing matter-- seeing chubby children waddle around after a few years of getting wrongly socked with an addiction to sugar or its camouflaged surrogates with names like fructose, malto dextrin, and xanthan gum- plus some others. ...

Recap + Review - Orphan Black: "Governed As It Were by Chance"

Last episode of Orphan Black entitled: "Governed as It Were by Chance" was just as intense. There's quite a lot of questions that have been answered but still are confusing as ever. ...

Quasi-Grown Ups: Neighbors

Neighbors is a surprisingly fresh comedy. Which says a lot for a premise that seems so generic it had me really iffy about this whole thing to start with. The film blends elements of spontaneity and off-the-cuff charm that add a layer of realism. ...

Reckless Driving: Locke

"I just want to know that when the sun comes up, I can turn around and drive home." Steven Spielberg's reaction to Locke is pretty much the same reaction anyone who enjoys the film will have after seeing it; he immediately asked Tom Hardy "How did you do that?" By "that", Spielberg means: how did you just drive around in a car for 85 minutes and keep me enthralled the whole time? ...

God's Pocket - Movie Review

God's Pocket contains one of the last performances of the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, and that alone makes it worth watching. It also boasts a fantastic cast of character actors, and marks the feature directorial debut of Mad Men's John Slattery. Unfortunately, a feeling of malaise blankets the whole film, and makes the final product feel like it's lacking. ...

The Crow 1994

Brandon Lee plays Eric Draven, a talented musician who is killed along with his girlfriend, Shelley on Devil's night. A year has passed since they both were killed when Eric returns from the grave and follows a Crow that guides him to the people responsible for their deaths. The scene is now set for revenge and justice for Eric and he also obtains solace and comfort from his friend Sarah and Detective Albrecht. ...

Let's Be Awful to Children: Bad Words

Of all film genres, comedy has to be the hardest to succeed at. Just take a look at the IMDb Top 250 and you'll only find a very small handful of comedies listed. The public consciousness is fickle when it comes to what it finds funny in any given decade resulting in an onslaught of identical comedies every few years. ...

The Bright Knight: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

"Wow!" That's the word that continually prefaced everything I had to say about this movie once the lights came up in the theater. Not since seeing The Dark Knight have I left my seat feeling like I just watched a comic book movie transcend the usual pitfalls that plague the genre, becoming something else entirely. ...

Godlike: Noah

Darren Aronofsky's decision to make a big budget Hollywood movie production of the Old Testament story of Noah and his ark was a bold one. It was never going to please bible purists and nonbelievers are unlikely to be converted by a movie in 2014. It's clear that Aronofsky just wanted to tell this epic story in his own way and in that vein Noah is a success. Don't let that fool you into thinking it's all smooth sailing as this movie hits some choppy water before finding dry land. ...

Entangled in the Past: Only Lovers Left Alive

Let's just acknowledge that pop culture is pretty much done with vampires for another twenty years or so. They had a good run there for a while, what with True Blood, Twilight, Buffy, et al., but the ride is pretty much over. Hell, we've already moved on (and grown tired of) zombies by this point. Only Lovers Left Alive is not concerned with what pop culture wants or doesn't want. In fact, it has a disdain for the populace in general. ...

Good Night, Children: The Sacrament

Ti West is a name cinephiles tend to drop when discussing horror films amongst themselves. A much more well-known name in horror you may have heard over the past decade is that of Eli Roth. The two could not have more polarizing takes on the genre yet they've teamed up (West as writer and director, Roth as producer) to make The Sacrament, a movie about a hippie commune with a dark secret. ...

I'm Not a Real Boy: The Double

What do you get when Wes Anderson, David Lynch and Spike Jonze have weird sex and one of them gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby? You get Richard Ayoade's new dark comedy, The Double, a wildly imaginative adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella that goes by the same name. ...

Underrated: Contact (1997)

The trailers for Contact leaned heavily on the idea that we would be meeting with an alien race and that would be the whole point of the film. It wasn't and as a result audiences were pissed. ...

Review of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"

A movie review for the film, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is enjoyable to watch, especially for fans of the movie and comic series. ...

"FADING GIGOLO" - A New Film Report

A dreaded thing happened as I typed this report: it vanished on my computer! I pressed every key I could put my hands on, but no key would locate my words. Still I have to admit: my report was struggling negatively with the whole film. I even alleged this film was idiotic... But with the stark disappearance of those mean-spirited words, I began to feel that just maybe my guiding light was taking some offense to the mean things I typed. After all, who wants to read one's mean-spirited wordings? ...

Why Chris Nolan Produced 'Inception' by Himself

Chris Nolan makes amazing movies we all know that. Of all his movies Inception was exceptional. We haven't seen anything like that before. But how did he end up producing his own movie. Well here is my version. ...

Broadway Shows in the Big Apple

New York is one of the most populated cities in the US. It comes as no surprise that it is also home to shops, galleries, and other establishments showcasing art of all forms: paintings, fashion items, home decor, and the best musicals and Broadway shows in the world. ...

Titanic Facts - Things You May Not Have Known

You probably know, from movies or books, that the Titanic is one of the largest ships in history to sink after hitting an iceberg and as a result causing the loss of many lives. But there are many Titanic facts that you may not know by now. The exact time that the Titanic hit the iceberg was 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912. ...

"Transcendence" Puts Artificial Intelligence in a New Light

Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall and Paul Bettany star in this 2014 film, Transcendence. Here is a movie review for the drama/mystery movie. ...

"Six Degrees Of Separation:" The Desire For Fame And Riches

"Isn't that what everyone wants? A new world?" Ouisa Kittridge (Stockard Channing) in the movie Six Degrees of Separation. I was stunned when I first saw the movie "Six Degrees of Separation" in 1993 in a theater in Evanston, Illinois. I was visiting my sister who had a party to go to. I went to the movies. I remember walking to my car afterwards in a daze. At the time, I didn't understand why. Now I know. The lives of the rich and famous seem so wonderful. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby said, "The rich are different from you and me" to which Ernest Hemingway purportedly responded, "Yes. They have more money," suggesting that there's nothing special about them. Yet I want to be them. Perhaps you do too. ...

"THE RAILWAY MAN" - A New Film Report

One of the hardest tasks in any person's life is to forgive and learn to love someone's heinous actions that have scarred his senses. Few victims can dare to do that. In this memorable film starring Colin Firth as a British veteran of a Japanese prison camp and survivor of The Thai-Burma Railway work force, we see a man tortured beyond sane endurance. Even after thirty-five years of the World War II end, Colin Firth's character, Eric Lomax, suffers in dreams all the brutality that afflicted him then. ...

Teen Angst Portrayed in Movies and TV Shows

Teen angst is something that has always interested me. The movies and shows about teenage outcasts may seem overused. However, I still get emotionally invested in these characters because I see myself in them. These movies and TV shows are addicting for all teenagers whether you're popular or the loneliest teenager in the world. Note: these aren't all of the TV shows/movies in the world, just the ones that my generation might have overlooked. ...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review

Is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 a sequel worth watching? Or should Sony go ahead and find a new cast and reboot the whole thing again? Find out in my review! ...