Movies Reviews

Storyline: Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York the only woman he’s ever loved. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas – a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he…

Storyline: When Rick and Fred show signs of restless- ness at home, their wives grant them a “hall pass,” one week of freedom to do whatever they want… no questions asked.

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Cast: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 105 min

Release Date: February 25, 2011

MPAA Rating: R for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity and drug use.

If you wanna laugh hard because of unbelievable antics, moments and situations, then watch Hall Pass. It is so funny and realistic that I am afraid to get married. The story and the concept behind…

Storyline: Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn’t recognize him and another man has assumed his identity.

Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller and Adaptation

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sexual content.

Release Date: February 18, 2011

Runtime: 113 min

Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures

The man behind Taken is back again and I love it. The master jedi is back and Unknown brings us a story with a good twist to it. Although stolen identities are very common in movies, I’d have…

Storyline: PRIEST, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, is set in an alternate world — one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, a trigger-fingered…

Storyline: Set in California against the backdrop of the mid-sixties, That’s What I Am is a coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers. Everyone’s favorite teacher, Mr. Simon (Ed Harris), pairs Andy with the school’s biggest outcast and social pariah, Stanley aka “Big G” (Alexander Walters), on a critical school project. Sporting thick orange hair, a head too big for his body and ears too big for his head,…

Storyline: A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.

Director: Gore Verbinski

Cast: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western

MPAA: Rated PG for rude humor, language, action and smoking

Runtime: 107 min

Release Date:    March 4th, 2011

Distributors: Paramount Pictures

U.S. Box Office:                $122,152,494

Rango is a funny story about a pet chameleon with a big imagination. Maybe that’s the consequences for living a solitary…

Storyline: A modern-day take on the “Beauty and the Beast” tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.

Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen, Peter Krause, Neil Patrick Harris

Director: Daniel Barnz

Genre: Romance, Fantasy

Release Date: March 4, 2011

Run Time: 86min

MPAA Rating: PG 13 for language including some crude comments, drug references and brief violence.

Distributor: CBS Films

U.S. Box Office:                $27,854,896

Beastly was supposedly a modern day Beauty and the Beast kind of story but I just wasn’t impressed. Yes the cast were quite good looking and Mary-Kate Olsen didn’t suffer any fashion…

Storyline: A young girl is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive who plans to have her lobotomized in five days’ time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum, plot to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions, as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it’s too late.

Director: Zack Snyder

Cast: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens,…

Director: Mikael Håfström

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue , Alice Braga , Ciarán Hinds , Toby Jones

Genre: Drama,Thriller

Runtime: 114 min

Release Date: January 28, 2011

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing thematic material, violence, frightening images, and language including sexual references.

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Gross: $33,037,754

The Rite is an exorcism story but is not quite like the other exorcist films. Don’t expect to see people walking on all fours while on their back, the head turning and the green vomit.

Let’s start with the story. Despite the negative film reviews, I for one quietly enjoyed the film. Till now their concept of the good versus the…

Storyline:  Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When Blu discovers there’s another — and that she’s a she — he leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio. But it’s far from love at first sight between the domesticated and flight-challenged Blu and the fiercely independent, high-flying female, Jewel. Unexpectedly thrown together, they embark on an adventure of a lifetime, where they learn about friendship, love, courage, and being…