This movie could also be called, "A Biography of Planet Earth."  The film is definitely entertaining and the special effects are wonderful.It's too bad that Charlton Heston didn't have this technology when he made the first film.  It was good to see him in this remake, even as an ape.  

  I thought that the film in trying to mix extreme humor with reality missed the mark–particularly with slave trader ...
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Wow, what a fun movie.  Minnie Driver couldn't have been more sweet in her role as Grace Briggs.  The interplay between Marty O'Reilly (Carroll O'Connor) and his card-playing buddies who were all widowers was a treat to the memory circuits of how America used to be.  Oh, maybe the atmosphere of O'Reilly's Italian restaurant still exists somewhere in America, but I haven't seen it in all the places I've been in this country since my ...
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A true story of Christopher McCandless who leaves his comfortable suburban life style, family, and a Harvard education to travel across the United States with no money with a goal of ending up living in the wilderness of Alaska. This film clearly shows the difference between a starseed soul with Urantian (first-light soul) parents and the starseed soul's higher understanding of the superficiality of third-dimensional life and thinking. The film is full of emotional and sensitive moments with ...
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In this World War II film, when I saw the dress whites of the navy, I was reminded of a photo of my father in his marine dress blues and my uncle in his navy dress whites together with my mother and aunt during the war.  The film connected me with that era and reminded me of many pictures I saw of my parents during that time.  

The film was very authentic.  It stands out as a well-done World War II movie that had teachings about: pride, wanting a ...
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I like to see films where honor is still valued. In today's society, in our government, military, and culture, the virtue of honor seems to be lost and what has taken its place is dishonor and selfishness.  On a fallen world where war still exists between people and nations, there is a thin line between the right and wrong thing to do for a soldier. I believe there is a universal code of right consciousness that exists which all individuals can tap into at those moments ...
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This is a film that should win the Academy Award for Best Picture–definitely for cinematography and script. It's a spiritual movie. It's a sacred movie. And it even has a few sex scenes that will delight your lust. I don't think any American director alive–that we know about–could make a film like this. The ones that we know about, we know about them because they make the commercial sex and violence films and wouldn't have an inkling what a spiritual film would be. The ...
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Sunshine could very well be an academy award winner–best picture, best actor, best supporting actor/actress, you name it.  The film was a very well-done epic covering more than three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family.  The family story within the film is beautifully critiqued at the end of the movie in a letter written by the patriarch of the family, Emmanuelle Sonnenschein (David De Keyser), and read by his great-grandson, Ivan, played by Ralph ...
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