At the beginning of the film, Joe Pendleton was the backup quarterback for the football team the Rams. He was very skilled at that sport and it lead him to start the next game. His luck had changed one afternoon and he never played in the next game. Joe had been in an accident and was killed before the big game. When he was waiting to go to his finial...

Heaven Can Wait is a sweet story about a mischievous man (Don Ameche) whose death prompts him to arrive at the gates of hell. Although the man is enthusiastic about his admittance and his supposedly doomed life, the receptionist is not so sure. Thus ensues the tale of his life. It begins with plenty of trouble, but basically good deeds done on his part...

After watching the movie “The Prophecy” for the first time a few years after it was initially released, I was able to go and watch “The Prophecy 2″ directly after it. At first I didn’t like this movie as much, the tone was different, albeit much darker than the first one, and the idea of an angel falling for a human had...

CITY OF ANGELS is an interesting movie that opened my mind a bit and was easy to get into. The story surrounds Maggie (Meg Ryan) who loses a patient, and an angel named Seth (Nicolas Cage) comes to comfort her. What he doesn’t expect is to fall in love with her. Maggie too, is smitten with him, but is frustrated by their distance, and that she...

The thing to remember when watching  A Life Less Ordinary, is that the movie is supposed to be surreal–it’s kind of like a dream. The violence, if taken seriously, ruins the whole piece. But when that violence, along with just about everything else about the movie, is viewed as something outside of reality, everything comes together to...

Every day I hear, “They just don’t make family movies any more”. Well, they are wrong. Yes, they are few and far between, but they do still make them and I, personally, appreciate those who write, produce, direct and perform in these movies; especially in a time when even the ratings on movies don’t truly define the content of...