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called “The Big Hit.” I rate this movie excellent because it meets the three criteria of an entertaining action/adventure show. The first criterion is that the show must have action scenes of gun shooting, car chasing, and full contact physical fighting…

in 1950, was produced in 1979 as a made-for- television mini-series. As with most adapted screenplays, the movie differs from the novel. These differences are not that drastic and do not circumvent the overlying message of the piece. The first…

many people were stunned at the quality of the movie. This was no mere theatrical release. It looked like live action, but it was all done on a computer (or, more precisely, many computers). The toys looked staggeringly real. They looked not…

Mark Addy, Steve Huison, Paul Barber, Hugo Speer. Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy. Director: Peter Cattaneo. Watching the most infectious comic moment in the British import The Full Monty -- a film rich with infectious comic moments -- can teach…

is a story about four women from China, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Linda Jong, and Ying Ying St. Clair, and their four daughters, Jing-mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. The Asian mothers had fled China in the 1940’s to escape…

mourning the loss of Bambi’s mother. Now comes the epic tale of “The Lion King,” and the mourning of the King of Pride Rock, and the lead character’s father, Mufasa. “The Lion King” is based on half the stories in classical mythology. It is the tale…

in its existence. 40% knows someone who has it. 5% claim to have the "gift". 1% refuses to discuss it. Some of us wish we could expand our understanding. Some of us are born into a life in which we are not prepared to live. These words were found…

Shayamalan. The film was part of Spyglass Entertainment and Hollywood Pictures. The two main characters were Malcolm Crowe, played by Bruce Willis, and Cole Sear, played by Haley Joel Osment. The genre of the film is in the horror. …

life. People either see them, hear about them, or read about them everyday. It seems that many successful movies are either made about a true event or a similar event follows the movie. For instance, the year of 1991 saw the dreadful and…

we make. But, what if you choose your life into a meaningless existence, an existence where the only satisfaction you have is injected through the end of a hypodermic needle. Trainspotting is a British film, which ponders such an existence with a rathe…