| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twilight - PG-13 | I waited until it reached TV, but I had to see movie that so many people were talking about. Eh, its just a love story between a young girl and a good looking vampire. I prefer True Blood for my vampire stories. Still it did have a plot, so it gets some marks. | December 30, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Love For Sale: Suely in the Sky (O Ceu de Suely) - Unrated | I saw this with English subtitles. I did not find it outstanding, but worth watching. Is it a comment on the few choices a Brazilian woman has - especially one with a child? Her husband abandons her, and she is left to raise their son with no income in a dead town - even his mother is no help. | December 30, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Women - PG-13 | Lots of A list actors. A little unrealistic. Start your own clothes designs and Saks wants to buy them? A friend writes a best seller on her first try? I guess the movie is OK to watch if you don't think too much. | October 5, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York - Unrated | This is a really hokey movie. I wasn't impressed with the camera work, the special effects or even the whole story-line. | September 29, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Eagle vs. Shark - R | I suppose love is blind. I don't see what Lily sees in Jarrod - to me, he is crazy whereas Lily is just awkward. But the movie is engaging. I find I was hoping they could make a go of it by the end. | September 29, 2009 | N/A | |||
| 10,000 B.C. - PG-13 | Alright, so 10,000 BC is not historically accurate, for instance woolly mammoths and horses did not roam earth at the same time, but as a bit of an escape, 10,000 BC is fine. The hero has to convince many tribes to join together to defeat the evil master. | September 29, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Stop Loss - R |
I am not really into war movies. However, Stop-Loss kept me watching to the bitter end. It deals with the inhumanity of war, of soldiers trying to fit back into civilian life, and with the American government's Stop-loss program - a program to keep soldiers in the war beyond even when their tour of duty should be over. I found the ending disappointing and a let-down. |
September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Dead at 17 - Unrated | Four teenagers are involved in an accidental death. We see the different ways the boys deal with the stress of covering things up. When it looks like one of the four is going to spill the beans, he is murdered but it is made to look like suicide. Of course, his mother doesn't believe her son was suicidal and conducts her own investigation. | September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Personal Effects - R | An interesting movie. About two families dealing with murders in their families, and sitting through the trials. The leading actors are Ashton Kutcher -- the first time I have seen him in a serious role and Michelle Pfieffer. They land up supporting each other. The images of a dark and depressing American town stand out as well. | September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Double Jeopardy - R | I think this is the third time I've seen Tommy Lee Jones in his "chasing the wrong bad guy" role. The plot feels like a movie you would write in movie-writing class. I wouldn't recommend this movie, but it has its moments in the details. | September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Last Chance Harvey - PG-13 | An untypical movie. A movie about love where the characters are mature. Both Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are great in this movie. Of course this is just the movies. How many 50-year-olds do you know who on the same day as he gets rejected by his daughter and fired from his job has time to chat up a nice British woman. But it is nice to have a hopeful movie. | September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Ratatouille - G | I don't have real high opinions of most animated movies, but this one is pretty good. A cute rat (can a rat be cute?) wants to be a chef - in Paris no less. | September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Michael Clayton - R | Is there such a thing as an honest lawyer? This movie struggles with that question. Could you defend a company that sell chemicals that poison its customers? This is an interesting movie to watch. I recommend it. | September 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Bonneville - PG | This movie is Thelma and Louise with less theatrics. Not as good as T & L, but fun nonetheless. | September 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Static (Glitch) - Unrated | Pretty interesting story. Things don't go well when three researchers implant themselves with their invention. | September 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Mulholland Drive - R |
Alright, I have tried to watch this at least three or four times. I still have not had the patience to watch it all the way through its two and a half hours in one sitting. But at least I have seen all of the movie now. I don't like it. Not my type of movie. I like logic in my movies. This one has no idea who is real and who is a dream. |
September 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Devil's Mercy - Unrated | I guess I can't rate it very highly. I just wrote down the title, and 3 or 4 days later, I was going to write my review, but I can't remember what happened. It is supposed to be a horror film | September 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Sleepwalking - R |
Tara's mother is trash, and when she's forced from her home, she bunks in with her younger brother, then deserts her brother (James) and daughter (Tara). James does his best trying to care for Tara, but it isn't easy - he lands up losing his job, and Tara is put into foster care. James and Tara land up at James' father's farm, which is where the movie becomes unrealistic. All in all, it is worth watching the movie. Not cute, more scary actually. |
September 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - PG | I don't know if I will ever rate an animated movie beyond 3 stars. It just isn't a full movie to me when the characters are avatars. Each of the four friends finds out something significant when they land up in Africa. If you have 90 minutes to kill some weekend, and this movie comes up, watch it. | September 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer - PG-13 | I saw this movie 17 years after it was released. Even after seeing a few of the Buffy TV shows. Perhaps I was expecting too much for the first movie of the Buffy genre. I didn't like it. Too simplistic. Stick to the TV series, and skip this movie. | September 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Deadline - R |
In Canada, this movie was called "Press Run". It is a whodunit like Perry Mason used to solve. Of course the hero is framed and the movie includes the hired cut-throat killers, the good cop, the love interest, the real bad guy, etc. -- almost as if someone wrote this movie from the how-to-write-a-whodunit text book. It OK if there are no other movies on TV. |
September 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Kiss The Girls - R | The movie is adequate. Keeps you interested. I enjoyed Morgan Freeman's acting, but Ashley Judd's was a bit suspect. The business that the cops missed the underground hideout is pretty lame. | September 14, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Fugitive Pieces - R | I found this a gripping movie. Life is not easy for Holocaust survivors. We follow the life of a Jakob who looses he parents and sister to the Nazi's. He has troubles letting his memories go - he needs to retain them, but not forgetting means he cannot love. The acting by Robbie Kay who played Jakob as a nine year old was amazing. | September 14, 2009 | N/A | |||
| A Kiss Before Dying - R | An interesting movie. We know who the bad guy is, but the characters in the movie do not. Ellen can't quite believe that her sister committed suicide, and she continues investigating over a couple of years -- while meeting, falling in love with and marrying the character played by Matt Dillon. It is not quite a whodunit, but a figure-out-who-did-it. I'd like to see the original 1956 version of the movie though. | September 14, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Silence of the Lambs - R |
Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Dr Hannibal Lecter is amazing. He is one of the great villains in movies. I watched it for the third time eleven years after it was made, and the movie still keeps you riveted to your seat. What is weird is that even though Lecter is a serial killer, the movie goes to great lengths to show us the similarities between Starling and Lecter, and we don't hate Lecter, but we hate 'Buffalo Bill'. And the line at the end of the movie - Lecter is having Dr. Chilton over for dinner. |
September 12, 2009 | N/A |
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