Promoted reviews

Blood Diamond
Reviewed by Heracles
I will start by saying that this film was excellent. The diorama created by the News and Bob Geldoff's perpetual & insincere pressure to donate cash to Africa has been one that has gone on for years. The product of all of this has made peop... More

Romancing the Stone
Reviewed by Prelude
It's easy to have missed this film, but if you're a fan of Indiana Jones, you owe it to yourself to check this movie out. Kathleen Turner has never looked sexier than she did in this film, and Michael Douglas was very well cast in this rol... More

In Bruges
Reviewed by Lexi
''I grew up in Dublin, and I love Dublin. If I had grown up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me. But I didn't, so it doesn't.'' Sent to and staying In Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men reconcile with eac... More

A Fish Called Wanda
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"I love robbing the English, they're so polite." How does one distinguish the difference between a masterpiece and just another ordinary comedy? For starters, an ordinary comedy is commonly clichéd beyond all comprehension - i.e. charac... More

You've Got Mail
Reviewed by Prelude
A perfect example of how a film could've been a cute romantic flick, getting completely ruined by corporate greed. The obvious product placement is how this film simply feels like a feature-length ad for AOL. And Tom Hanks seems to have ... More

Saw V
Reviewed by Lexi
''...I want to play a game. Right now, you are feeling helpless. This is the same helplessness you bestowed onto others. But now, it's unto you. Some would call this karma, I call it justice...'' A detective who seems to be the last pers... More

Psycho
Reviewed by Lexi
''A boy's best friend is his mother.'' A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. Anthony Perkins: Norman Bates Janet ... More

Eagle Eye
Reviewed by Lexi
''Disobey, and you die.'' Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dange... More

What Happens in Vegas
Reviewed by GemLil
I would have loved to be at the board meeting for the pitching of this movie, an up-tight, control freak and a lazy flake are forced together, with hilarious consequences. And get this! they both end up learning that, although they are so ... More

The Fountain
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"There's no hope for us here, there is only death." Darren Aronofsky is a director primarily recognised for being at the helm of such films as Pi and Requiem for a Dream. The Fountain is an ambitious personal project of Aronofsky's that ... More

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Reviewed by Seaworth
This film revamped Science Fiction for all of us. A New Hope was released in 1977 and it changed the way we looked at space forever. I know it came after Star Trek but this saga owns. Star Wars is science fiction for the masses and has an e... More

Wolf Creek
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"30,000 people are reported missing in Australia every year. 90 percent are found within a month. Some are never seen again." Wolf Creek is tagged as "based on true events". This statement is in the same vein as tagging the cult ... More

Clue
Reviewed by Zuraka
For a relativily older movie, this was pretty good. The fact that they took a board game and turned it into a movie is pretty cool. With actors I can remember from my childhood, this hit home pretty hard as well. I really like how they put ... More

Burn After Reading
Reviewed by Lexi
''What a clusterfuck!'' A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. George Clooney : Harry Pfarrer What Burn After Reading results in, is one of the t... More

Eldest: (Inheritance Book 2)
Reviewed by Seaworth
This is the longest book I've read in recent years. It just kepy going and going! I had a schedule to keep for my Book Quest and this book brought me up to the deadline because of its length! After seeing Eragon and finding it intriguing... More

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Reviewed by Lexi
''A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to handle this trip.'' An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel ... More

Private Resort
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
They're looking for hot times. And they came to the right place... The critical brain boggles when faced with the peculiar challenge of reviewing a clichéd 80s teenage sex comedy. One can only imagine how tough it would've been for a fi... More

Paycheck
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"Michael Jennings is not a super agent, he's an engineer." Ever since John Woo trotted off to Hollywood, the quality of his output has gradually declined. Following the days of Hard-Boiled, A Better Tomorrow and The Killer, director Woo ... More