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Review of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) PG-13 124min
19 years after “The Last Crusade”, Indiana Jones is back. So excited to see the favorite character of my childhood. The plot: 1959. Indiana Jones is kidnapped by KGB agents to help them fi...
Review of “The Fobridden Kingdom” (2008) PG-13 113min
Jet Lee and Jackie Chan star together in The Forbidden Kingdom, directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little I & II, Haunted Mansion) and written by John Fusco (Young Guns, The Babe, Loch...
Review of “Iron Man” (2008) PG-13 122min
We tried to see this movie on Friday night, but it was sold out. On Saturday night we got in after standing in line for half an hour and watching commercials and trailers for another 25 minutes. Was t...
Review of “Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” (2008) R 1h 42min
John Cho and Kal Penn of “Harold & Kumar go to White Castle” are back for a sequel written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who also directed the film this time around. The plot:...
Review of “Evan Almighty” (2007) PG 90min
A.k.a. “Bruce Almighty-2″, this is a sequel directed by same Tom Shadyac and starring Morgan Freeman as God and Steve Carell as TV anchorman-turned Congressman Evan Baxter. The plot: Evan ...
Review of “Surf’s Up” (2007) PG 85min
The plot: The reality/documentary follows Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf), a teenage Royal Penguin, and his friend Chicken Joe (Jon Heder), as Cody leaves his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, to parti...
Fool’s Gold (2008) PG-13 113min
The plot: Ben Finn Finnegan (Mathew McConaughey) and his wife Tess (Kate Hudson) were passionate about each other and treasure hunting, but now they are fed up with each other and decide to get divorc...
Movie Review: Rescue Dawn (2006) PG-13 126min
This Vietnam War drama was written and directed by Werner Herzog. The movie is vaguely based on Dieter Dengler’s book, “Escape From Laos”. The actual Dieter Dengler died just before ...
The Bucket List (2007) PG-13 93min
The plot: two terminally ill old men (Morgan Freeman and Jack Nickolson) in the cancer ward of the hospital owned by Jack Nickolson character decide to write a list of all the things they’d like...
National Treasure: Book Of Secrets (2007) PG 124min
A.k.a. National Treasure 2, this is a sequel to Disney’s treasure hunting flick from 3 years ago. The plot: Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) believes that his grand-grand...
Movie review: I Am Legend (2007) PG-13 101min
This movie may become the legend of the box office success: it’s been in theaters for two weeks now and it’s still selling out. The plot: Brilliant scientist Robert Neville (Will Smith) m...
Children Of Men (2006) R 109min HD DVD
The plot: in the alternate near future women stopped getting pregnant and giving birth - on the entire planet. Societies are collapsing, and only Britain has maintained some sort of order by introduci...
Shrek The Third (2007) PG 92min - DVD
The plot: when the frog-king ‘croaks’, Shrek (Mike Myers) is looked at as the next successor to the throne of the Far, Far Away. Shrek, however, believes he is not the right candidate for...
The Golden Compass (2007) PG-13 113min
A major disappointment. The script by Chris Weitz (”About a Boy“) is based on first story of Philip Pullman’s 1995 bestselling (in UK) trilogy novel, His Dark Materials: The Gol...
Enchanted (2007) PG 107min
This movie was…………………. really fun! Very enjoyable! An unexpected surprise. Clever and charming. We went to see it in the theatre because nothing else was star...
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) PG 103min
This film comes from a great French director Luc Besson, who is the king of French action movies. Here in the U.S. of A. we know him for creating “The Fifth Element“, which he conceived w...
Beowulf (2007) PG-13 113min
Just came out of the theatre. Saw it in both regular and 3D. This movie should only be seen in 3D! Completely different experience. The plot is based on the only known surviving Anglo-Saxon poetry ma...
La Chèvre (1981)
“Knock on Wood” is the American title of this excellent French classic - a comedy directed by Msr. Francis Veber and starring great comedian Pierre Richard and famous Gérard Depardieu. ...
Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” (2005) PG-13 181min
It was so bloody long! And extended version is 20 minutes longer! It seems Peter Jackson is still in his “Lord of the Rings” mode with huge budgets, enormous landscapes and mountains so t...
Stardust (2007)
Went to see it late last night with friends. I did not know what the movie is about. I heard from completely forgettable commercials that the movie has Michelle Pfeiffer and De Niro in it, so I thoug...
The Time Machine (2002)
This adaptation of H.G. Wells’s classic is a big departure from the novel. Here an inventor living in New York is trying to go back in time using his invention to save the life of his girlfrien...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005)
I love the Douglas Adams’s book (the 5-part trilogy). It was not easy to read, but it was hilarious. The twisted logic, the irony and the wild imagination in every story of the book - so funny...