Selected Review of the Day: STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
As we all know Star Wars: The Force Awakens soon approaches in a couple of months. And I cannot wait! If any you don't know, I am a HUGE Star Wars fans. Like millions of other people the Star Wars movies, the original trilogy, anyways are some of my favorite movies of all time. These films, initially with the 1977 original, changed cinema forever and took over the world by force, pun intended. Many of today's filmmakers cite Star Wars as one of their major inspirations. Now every blockbuster that comes out wants to be Star Wars. They …
CHRISTMAS REVIEW OF THE DAY: Home Alone (1990)
In this Christmas, we will be spending it at home with one of the most prominent child star of the early 1990s, Macaulay Culkin. That's right it's the popular Christmas classic, Home Alone. Culkin plays 8-year old Kevin McCallister, a troublesome boy who constantly gives his family headaches. His family plans to go on vacation during Christmas and while rushing to catch their flight, they forget one little thing at home, Kevin. Young McCallister now must fend for himself during the holidays and protect his home from a couple of house b…
SELECTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: Jurassic Park (1993)
"Welcome to Jurassic Park", says John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neil) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) as they witness the wonder of the dinosaurs who have been brought back to existence by Hammond and his team of genetic scientists for Hammond's theme park, Jurassic Park. The film, based on Michael Crichton's novel, and directed by Steven Spielberg, is about what happens when man tries to play God and messes with the forces of nature, as Dr. Hammond invites a team of scientists, a paleontologi…
RANDOM REVIEW OF THE DAY: The Prince of Egypt (1998)
How weird is it to adapt the story of Moses from the Bible into an Disney-esque animated musical film? Well Dreamworks did it, but what was the outcome? The outcome...one of the best animated films ever made! This is The Prince of Egypt, the story, which probably the two of you don't know because it is straight from the Bible. When the Pharaoh (voiced by Patrick Stewart) orders an execution of all newborns of the Jewish slaves, a mother saves her own baby boy by putting him in a basket down the Nile River, and praying to God that the baby …
