REQUESTED REVIEW OF THE DAY ANNOUNCEMENT!
NOW TAKING REQUESTS! That's right starting the new year I will be doing Requested Review of the Day. It's very simple you either request a film on a comment on any of my posts/reviews, post a comment on my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/CurtisMovies , or email me at the blog's email address, curtisandmovies@yahoo.com, with "Requested Review" as the subject and just tell me what film you want me to review. It is very simple. There are a few rules though. One, the films you request must be theatrical releases, meani…
RANDOM REVIEW OF THE DAY: Big Fat Liar (2002)
Oh I remember Big Fat Liar. This was like the youth comedy of it's time starring big teen actors at the time. Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle, Amanda Bynes from Nickelodeon's All That and The Amanda Show, and Paul Giamatti from...wait what is he doing in a tween comedy? Anyways it is unknown what the general adult audience thought of this youth comedy but the tweens and teens seemed to love at the time of its release, and when I was young I did not think it has half bad either. So how does it hold up today....eh-ish. Muniz st…
RANDOM REVIEW OF THE DAY: Mary Poppins (1964)
There was a time where the Walt Disney Studios not only made animated films, but live-action films as well starting from 1950s. And the one that seems considered one of the most popular and highly memorable ones would be Mary Poppins, and there is a reason for that. It's bright, colorful, it's a musical with highly catchy and memorable songs, it has colorful characters, it has a child-like charm, and it is one of the many first films of childhood along with the animated classics produced by Disney. The story is about a magical nanny na…
SELECTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Well I don't think there is any other special occasion that I can say when is appropriate to review this film. For December 21, 2012 I am going to review the film Seeking a Friend for the End World, and as you would guess it is about the end of the world. The film stars Steve Carrell as Dodge Petersen, a lonely and reluctant middle-age man who just found out about that an asteroid named Matilda is coming down that is powerful enough to wipe out humanity, and just as his wife leaves him. Dodge sees no point in enjoying life anymore until he…
CHRISTMAS REVIEW OF THE DAY: A Christmas Carol (1938)
Christmas Review of the Day returns after a long hiatus with A Christmas Carol, released in 1938. This adaptation stars Reginald Owen as the miserable English miser Ebenezer Scrooge and I believe this one of the first adaptations that had audio as the previous ones were silent films. But let us take a look if it holds up and is a worthy telling of the classic Dickens tale. Let us first see how Reginald Owen holds up as Scrooge. Well let's be honest he starts off really over the top, goofy, and cartoonish. He yells, looks over the top …
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Review
Finally we come to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Being the prequel to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit is probably one of the most anticipated films of the year and every since the release of Return of the King, and after nine years of waiting An Unexpected Journey is the first installment in a proposed trilogy. The story starts off with a younger Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who has an encounter with the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), who tricks Bilbo in being the host of twelve dwarves who unexpectedly drop by his ho…
SELECTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
We finally come to the final installment of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Return of the King. Considered by many to be the best and most epic out of the trilogy we follow Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin), and Gollum (Andy Serkis) as things tense between the three as they get nearer and nearer towards Mount Doom. Sam and Gollum form a nasty rivalry as Gollum continues to hatch a plan to get rid of the Hobbits and take the Ring for himself, and in the meantime Frodo is slowly driven to insanity and greed as the Ring starts to corrupt h…
