Category: Movie Reviews

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Movie Review

    Does The Hunger Games: Catching Fire hold up? Let’s find out:  President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland) wants Katniss Everdeen (a fantastic Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) to pretend that they are in love. We’re then introduced to Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman). A Peacekeeper whips Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth); but, Katniss, Pita Bread and Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson)…

  • The Avengers (2012) Movie Review

    Does The Avengers hold up? Let’s find out: So we start off with an introduction to Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Loki brainwashes Hawkeye/Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Loki confounds Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). We then reunite with Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), who is roughing up some Russian mobsters. Natasha then goes to get Bruce Banner/the Incredible…

  • The Hunger Games (2012) Movie Review

    Panem… 12 districts… you know the drill.  Katniss Everdeen (a fantastic Jennifer Lawrence) takes her sister’s (Primrose Everdeen (Willow Shields) place in the Hunger Games. Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) is also participating in the Hunger Games. Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) is the Obi-Wan Kenobi figure to Katniss and Pita Bread. Pita Bread is a smitten kitten for Katniss.…

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Movie Review

    Does Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 hold up? Let’s find out: So we start off with Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) trying to get into Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter)’s vault at a bank. Griphook helps them, the trio finds Helga Hufflepuff’s cup and…

  • Life-Size (2000) Movie Review

    The good version of Chucky.  So we start off with Casey Stuart (Lindsay Lohan) trying to bring her dead mom back to life.  Drew McDonald (Anne Marie DeLuise) gives Casey an Eve doll. Some of Eve’s hair winds up on the hairbrush that belonged to Casey’s dead mom. Casey performs a ritual, and… This is how…

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Movie Review

    Does Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 hold up? Let’s find out:  So we start off at Malfoy Manor. Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) and Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) have a reunion. Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson) are offed.  We find out that Dumbledore left: 1. Golden Snitch to Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) 2. Deluminator to Ron Weasley…

  • A Cinderella Story (2004) Movie Review

    Does A Cinderella Story hold up? Let’s find out: So we start off by meeting Samantha “Sam” Montgomery (Hilary Duff). Sam lives with her evil stepmother Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge). Sam also lives with her evil stepsisters (Brianna (Madeline Zima) and Gabriella (Andrea Avery)).  Wannabe Regina George Shelby (Julie Gonzalo) makes fun of Carter (Dan Byrd) and Sam. Sam works at…

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Movie Review

    Does Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hold up? Let’s find out: So we start off with Dementors going after  Dudley Dursley (Harry Melling) and Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe). We then find out that the Ministry of Magic is trying to sweep the whole Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) thing under the carpet. We then meet Dolores Umbridge…

  • Curse of Chucky (2013) Movie Review

    Does Curse of Chucky hold up? Let’s find out: So we start off by meeting Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif), and… I’ll admit that, when I heard that Brad Dourif/Chucky’s daughter was the lead for this one, Julie Andrews’ line in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement about nepotism, the arts and plumbing came to mind, and… I hope that…

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Movie Review

    Does Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hold up? Let’s find out:  So we start off with Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) dreaming of Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall). Harry, the Weasleys, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Cedric Diggory (Edward Cullen… just kidding… Robert Pattinson) then go to the Quidditch World Cup; however, the World Cup is…