John Cusack gives a wonderful performance in the new movie “Martian Child”. Cusack plays best-selling science fiction author David Gordon, who has recently lost his wife and is now considering adopting a child. The child he ends-up choosing, named Dennis, (and played by Bobby Coleman) is a little unusual because he thinks he’s from Mars. […]
Nearly 5-years in the making, Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie” is finally here! The animated film stars Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson, a bee who’s just graduated from college and now has to take a job in the honey factory with all the other bees. But Barry wants to leave the hive and check-out the human […]
The first documentary I ever saw was “March of the Penguins”, back in 2005. It’s so good I saw it twice! Now I’ve seen my second. This new one is called “In the Shadow of the Moon”, and it’s the story of the nine American astronauts who have gone to the moon. The movie was […]
“The Game Plan” made a lot more money when it was out in theaters than I thought it would. The Disney’s comedy stars Dwayne”The Rock” Johnson as a pro football quarterback named Joe Kingman who thinks he has the perfect game plan to lead his team to a championship. But then his young daughter shows-up […]
There’s no need to fear…”Underdog” is here, in his own movie from Walt Disney Pictures. This is a live-action version of the 1960’s TV cartoon about a dog who is also a superhero. In the movie a mild-mannered dog gets amazing powers when a scientific experiment he’s part of goes bad. He’s then picked-up off […]
“No Reservations” stars Catherine Zeta Jones as a chef of a New York City restaurant. Her sister is killed in a car accident so Jones’ character has to take care of her niece, who’s played by Abigail Breslin. This isn’t easy for the chef, who is used to living alone and working crazy hours. And […]
The latest version of “Hairspray” is a remake of the 1988 film that starred Riki Lake and it follows the successful Broadway show. And it’s the same story of a teenage girl named Tracy Turnblad who has a dream of dancing on a popular 1960’s TV show. Tracy (played by newcomer Nicki Blonsky) is a […]
“Evan Almighty” is the sequel to 2003’s “Bruce Almighty.” This time newly-elected Congressman Evan Baxter (played by Steve Carrell) get the visit from God (once again played by Morgan Freeman). God tells Evan to build and ark because a flood is coming. At first he doesn’t believe him. but eventually Evan begins the ark, though […]
This movie is based on the popular series of Nancy Drew books, that center around a teenage girl who solves mysteries. Emma Roberts plays Nancy. At the beginning of the movie Nancy and her dad leave their small town of River Heights and move to California where her dad has a new job. Their new […]
There have been plenty of penguin movies the last few years…and “Surf’s Up” is one of the best. The movie tells the story, in “mock-umentary” style, of young Cody Maverick, who leaves his home in Antarctica to follow his dream of becomming a champion surfer. When he gets to Hawaii he learns some nice lessons […]