True Grit

The Coen Brothers latest movie is a remake of classic western called True Grit. While Coen brothers receive critical acclaims for their movies, they rarely had big box office success with their movies. True Grit is a rare exception. It did better than most of their previous works in terms of box office success. It spent some time at the top of the … [Read more...]

Drive Angry

I consider Nicolas Cage to be a great actor. He can do comedy, drama, or action movies without too much problem. You can believe him to be funny, dramatic, or heroic in his past movies. However, he has produced some awful movies lately. Knowing, Next, Wicker Man, Ghost rider, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice were all pretty bad movies. While … [Read more...]

The rite

If you watched The Rite’s trailer, you might have expected to watch typical exorcism movie in the mold of Exorcist or even the recently released The Last Exorcism. But, when you dive into the actual movie information, it clearly states that it’s based on a true event. The claim of true event relating to exorcism will probably put some doubts in … [Read more...]

the mechanic

Once you see Jason Statham on the cast list, you know what type of film you are going to be watching. Mainly, Statham is associated with action movies. I can’t think of single movie that Statham started that didn’t involve some type of violence/action. He has made a great career out of playing a singular type of character in most movies. Even … [Read more...]

No strings attached

No Strings Attached is another predictable romantic comedy with some good actors. To be honest, it is fairly difficult to come up with completely original plot in romantic comedy arena. Two leads meet, have conflict, and ultimately end up together at the end of the movie. No Strings Attached follows this script very closely. Good or bad, No Strings … [Read more...]

what dreams may come

We don’t often think of Robin Williams as a dramatic actor. Instead, we see him as a funnyman on big or small screen. Even with his Oscar win for Good Will Hunting, we don’t really see him as dramatic actor. Robin Williams followed up his 1997 Oscar performance in Good Will Hunting with another dramatic role in What Dreams May Come. With budget … [Read more...]

The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet starting Seth Rogan is the remake of the 1960s television series starting Bruce lee and Van Williams as Kato and Green Hornet respectively. The television series itself was based on the popular comic book. With the recent fondness of movies based on comic books, it was inevitable for Green Hornet to be made into a movie. However, … [Read more...]

The Fighter

Without any previous knowledge about Micky Ward, you might find The Fighter to be a standard sports movie. The story of down and out underdog making it big is nothing new to the genre. However, if you are a boxing fan or a sports fan in general, you can’t help but love this movie. I recall all 3 Ward Vs. Gatti fights. They were 3 of the most epic … [Read more...]

The Pacific

With so much success with Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, it was no brainer for Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to team up again for another war drama. This time, they decided to focus on the Pacific theater of the World War II. Aptly titled The Pacific, the drama follows several characters as they go from beginning of the war to the … [Read more...]

How to train your dragon

With gluttony of animated films flooding the market, How to Train Your Dragon is easily one of the most entertaining CG animated film in a long time. It seems like DreamWorks and other studios have consistently churned out CG animated films to keep up with Pixar’s stranglehold on the genre. While DreamWorks have had some success with Shrek … [Read more...]