Category: Movie Reviews

  • “Puss in Boots” Movie Review

    (Fun movie for kids) – – Antonio Banderas (as Puss) and Salma Hayak (as Kitty Softpaws) lend their voices in this cartoon for kids. Puss is looking for Jack in Beanstalk’s magic beans (the very mean and ugly Jack and Jill have them) so he, Kitty, and bad egg Humpty Dumpty (Zack Galifianakis) can ride…

  • “The Rum Diary” Movie Review

    “The Rum Diary” Movie Review

    (Johnny Depp plays a great drunk) – – Johnny Depp (as Paul Kemp) starts work at a run down newspaper in Puerto Rico.  His first day starts out well (sic)….in a near coma from a massive alcohol binge the night before.  But, no matter, he is hired, and, even though he spends most of his…

  • “Johnny English Reborn” Movie Review

    (If you LOVE Mr. Bean, you will like this movie) – – After a failed protection detail in 2006, Johnny English (the outstanding Rowan Atkinson) left MI7 and spent 5 years learning the ancient martial arts and how to control his body with his mind.   The time has come for MI7 to call him…

  • “Dolphin Tale” Movie Review

    (excellent wholesome family movie) – – A fisherman finds an injured dolphin washed up on the beach.  He yells to a passing kid (Nathan Gamble as Sawyer Nelson) and uses his cell phone to call 911. Harry Connick Jr. (as Dr. Clay Haskett) and his team from the local marine animal hospital repond and take…

  • Movie Review: “Bridesmaids”

    Movie Review: “Bridesmaids”

    (not as good as we were expecting) – – I suppose it is human nature to raise your expectations of a movie based on a lot of positive reviews.  We had heard so much about “Bridesmaids” that we decided to watch it on VUDU last night. Other than a few sparkling scenes, and three very…

  • “50/50” Movie Review

    “50/50” Movie Review

    A pain in a young man’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Adam) back turns out to be a rare form of cancer.  Searching the Internet he finds out that he has a 50/50 chance of survival. His friend, Seth Rogan (as Kyle), decides that if he were a casino, 50/50 would be really good odds of winning.…

  • “Abduction” Movie Review

    “Abduction” Movie Review

    (good action, interesting plot, hokey dialogue) – – “OMG THAT WAS AN AWESOME MOVIE!”  yelled a teenage girl as she was leaving CineMark  Theater #14 in Tracy, CA. For sure, the teen and pre-teen girls in the movie LOVED “Abduction”.  You could tell when they SCREAMED as soon as Taylor Lautner (as Nathan Price) made…

  • “Contagion” Movie Review

    “Contagion” Movie Review

    (Frightening, Realistic, Scary as Hell) – – In 1975, Jaws, scared the shit out of everyone. Growing up on Long Island (Bay Shore), and living there in the aftermath of Jaws, I experienced first hand the fear people had for the water.  I even had to cancel a date because the girl did not want to be…

  • Movie Review: “The Lake House”

    Movie Review: “The Lake House”

    (Time Travel Terrific) – – Sandra Bullock (as Kate Foster) and Keanu Reeves (as Alex Wyler) are both outstanding in this very interesting movie (released in 2006) about two people living in the same house, communicating via a mailbox, but two years separated in time.  She in 2006, he in 2004. They fall in love.…