Category: Movie Reviews

  • Movie Review: “Bad Hair Day”

    Movie Review: “Bad Hair Day”

    Getting ready for her senior prom, tech whiz (she has been accepted to MIT), Monica (Laura Marano), has been posting hair styles, clothing, and shoes on her web site…..while gathering votes on each. Last night she finished her most popular hair style and went to sleep. Awakened the next morning by a video call (you’re…

  • Movie Review: “Hello Goodbye and Everything in Between”

    Movie Review: “Hello Goodbye and Everything in Between”

    Claire (Talia Ryder) and Aidan (Jordan Fisher) meet at a party at the beginning of their senior year. They decide that, no matter what, they will break up at the end of the year (assuming they are still together) so they can be free to lead their lives the way they feel best. Claire is…

  • Movie Review: “Hocus Pocus 2”

    Movie Review: “Hocus Pocus 2”

    Read this review first….if you dare. 1643 Young Winifred (Taylor Henderson) is turning 16 today and has refused to marry the boy chosen for her. As punishment, Reverand Traske (Tony Hale) has banished the Sanderson sisters from Salem. They escape into the forbidden woods where they meet a witch who recognizes Winifred’s emerging powers, and,…

  • Movie Review: “Hocus Pocus”

    Movie Review: “Hocus Pocus”

    1693 The Sanderson sisters (Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy)) are witches in Salem, Massachusetts. They have figured out a way to steal eternal life for themselves by sucking the life out of a young girl, Emily. Emily’s brother, Thackery (Sean Murray), trys to stop them but is cursed with…

  • Movie Review: “Love in the Villa”

    Movie Review: “Love in the Villa”

    3rd grade teacher, Julie Hutton (Kat Graham) has made plans for her and her boyfriend, Brandon (Raymond Ablack) to visit Verona, Italy! Meeting Brandon for dinner, Julie tells him about all the plans she has, and all the reservations she has made, for their perfect vacation….overlooking Romeo and Juliet’s balcony. Brandon dumped her. WTF!! Off…

  • Movie Review: “Father Stu”

    Movie Review: “Father Stu”

    Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) is an amateur boxer with a fair record….15-2. BUT…..he is getting old and the beatings he is taking is leading to some disturbing medical issues. His mother, Kathleen (Jacki Weaver) urges him to quit boxing and get a job. His father, Bill (Mel Gibson), could care less what his loser son…

  • Movie Review: “Cheaper by the Dozen”

    Movie Review: “Cheaper by the Dozen”

    First of all…..everyone growing up on Gardiner Dr in Bay Shore, NY knows damn well that the Bakers had 12 kids (I lost count /moved away at Kim) and 2 parents (Sam and Lila)…..that made 14! But, I digress to my childhood, sorry…..:-) Divorced, Paul Baker (Zach Braff) met, and eventually married divorced marketing graduate,…

  • Movie Review: “Pinocchio”

    Movie Review: “Pinocchio”

    Wandering the streets of a small village, Jiminy Cricket (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), sees a light on in a shop. He finds a hole to crawl into and watches as the owner of the shop puts the finishing touches on his latest creation. Geppetto (Tom Hanks) makes gadgets for sale and some that will never be sold,…

  • Movie Review: “Modern Persuasion”

    Movie Review: “Modern Persuasion”

    Wren Cosgrove (Alicia Witt) works for a company that is struggling and has instituted austerity measures. Luckily the company is about to meet with a potential client who has the resources to keep Wren’s company in business for at least another year. As the meeting is about to begin, Wren finds out that the client…