Caro the Movie Critic

Find these Easter eggs... Well, it's the season where you want to be entertained but also be sentimental and emotional towards fables and epic stories. So, therefore, I have found some films regarding Biblical stories and epic fables, but it's most likely the same two stores...if you think about it. But, here they are so you watch them as a family or if you feel like it this week. The Ten Commandments (1956) Of course, this is a classic, which, in my opinion, I think it is a very good Biblical epic by Cecil B. DeMille with Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Ramses. It has an epic scope in a nearly-long 4-hour film but it never bores you. Although, at times, it did stretch with unnecessary narration in scenes and moments for character that we don't really know and it gets cheesy. However, it is a still good movie to watch during the Easter week. Ben-Hur (1959) Yep, another Charlton Heston film. It is a tale about redemption and also a movie about fin...

Theo James and Shailene Woodley talking it over.  Politics and action don't mesh well together as we have witnessed from the Hunger Games saga and the Star Wars saga. It seems to me that the government always threaten the people with so much security that if there is no cooperation, the citizens will die. It brings to one question: If the government's threat interferes with the civilian's lives and they kill or arrest them: what is the government going to control? How are they going to control with no people? It's going to be a boring world or maybe a crowded prison. But, this movie is more unfocused on its characters and action than it needed to be thanks to the unsatisfying and minimalistic plot. Although, it could have been much worse. Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet) sends a message to every faction of the city. She makes a statement to say that peace can be attained as long as they purge the city of their one enemy - the Divergents. Jeanine's men go to Abn...

Sean Penn as the next Liam Neeson: Action Star. Action movies. What's wrong with action movies today? One main problem is that the studios falsely advertise in its projects. This movie is a prime example. I might, as a footnote, that I thought this was an awful movie right from the get-go. Anyway, when the studios are confident in its movie, the material and its stars, they want to develop and craft a trailer and/or tv spots that can sell the movie in a big way without giving too much. Nowadays, they fail almost every single time because they are mostly full of itself or give too much away. This movie falls in the former category and when it sells as an action film, it is a dull soap opera of a drama with a little action but not much tension. Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) is a sharp-shooting sniper in the mercenary assassination team in the Congo who kills the Mercenary of Mining. While there, he has a relationship with his lover, Annie (Jasmine Trinca). After eight years as an int...

Liam Neeson and Joel Kinsman running all night. Duh. Thankfully, I do not know anything about the mob business because it is a secret and exclusive circle of trustworthy people that can stick up to you or can watch your back. However, whenever there are consequences regarding someone or some people you love and the suspect is involved, the mob boss will do whatever it takes to go after that person. It is a dangerous business. Plus, there are no civilians involved unless you get the police and/or your family engaged into the situation. That's what Liam Neeson and his family (in the film) put in that situation. And, now, he and his son are going to run all night into this sort of cat-and-mouse crime thriller that never bores you and it'll entertain you from start to finish despite that the film is a bit insane and self-indulgent. Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) is an aged and former hitman of the mob boss, Shawn (Ed Harris). He seems to drink a lot and is a jerk for the beginnin...

What is Jay thinking? What is following her? This horror film mystified me because I have heard that it is going about a young girl running away from a supernatural cause and I thought to myself, "Ok, I have heard this storyline many times of a girl being chased around by something or someone in their underwear..." That's in about 100 horror films but this horror film is different all around in terms of context and pretty close to originality as far as I'm concerned. Jay (Maika Monroe) is on a date with Hugh (Jake Weary) at the movies. While waiting in line, Hugh comments that the children are lucky to have such sweet, innocent and carefree lives. When they go into the theater, Hugh sees a young woman at the entrance. He points her out to Jay, but, she cannot see her. That event tempts Hugh get scared and demands to Jay to leave the theater with him. On their next date, Jay and Hugh have sex in the car and then he suddenly chloroforms her. When Jay awakens, sh...

Lily James transformed as Princess Cinderella. We all know the story. We all know the fairy tale. Based on many fairy tales, we all want to wish the main female characters happily ever after. It brings to my attention that many children, not just girls, grew up not just watching the Disney animated classics such as 1949's Cinderella itself but we also heard our mothers or our fathers read us these stories to get us to go to sleep. Nevertheless, we enjoy the pleasures of listening to our mothers' or fathers' voice reading the words that the authors penned for future generations of children to enjoy. Now, we have another adaptation of the Cinderella fairy-tale and it is the best adaptation of them all and to my surprise, and this will astound you readers, I enjoyed a little bit more than the Disney cartoon. Ella is living happily with her mother (Hayley Attwell) and father (Ben Chaplin) and she does not want that to cease. However, they both fall ill at different times ...

After making a business deal, what are they doing in a cow pasture? There's nothing I can say preceding my review, let's just get it over with. Dan Trunkman (Vince Vaughn) is fired for arguing with his boss, Chuck Portnoy (Sienna Miller), of Dyanic Systems for giving 5% less commission on a business deal. He throws an angry tirade and leaves and starts his own business with Tim McWinters (Tom Wilkinson) and Mike Pancake (Dave Franco) following him. Tim claims he was let go for just being too old and Mike wants to tag along and learn about Dan and his business. What is this, Jerry Maguire? A year later, Dan's business barely gets off the ground and Dan gets a message saying that he is going on a business trip to Portland to meet with two investors, Jim Spinch (James Marsden) and Bill Whimsey (Nick Frost), the latter being Dan's old friend. On the family side, Dan's kids are bullied and Dan's wife, Susan (June Diane Raphael) wants to put their son in a pri...

When you were a kid or an older kid, you would want to watch your favorite animated movies repeatedly until your mom, dad, older sibling or relatives get tired of listening to the same dialogue and songs. But, you know what, so what? Most of these animated movies are timeless classics and will last a long time if preserved correctly and carefully for future generations to endure and enjoy what the animators put through. I mean, it's a time-consuming, long but reward process to make an animated feature. Well, since Disney are going to adapt Cinderella into a live-action feature from a cartoon, it would be appropriate to post my favorite 10 animated Disney films (not including Pixar)... HONORABLE MENTIONS (5 runners-up): Fantasia Dumbo The Fox and the Hound The Little Mermaid Aladdin READ AFTER THE TOP 10 for a little surprise. 10. Pocahontas It does not have a great villain, but its main heroine and its songs and its visuals of the trees and wildlife sold me...

Chappie as a robotic gangster.  It's going to happen sooner or later...robots will be invented for better or for worse. But, we have to consider this or ask ourselves this: we saw it from Elysium , Neill Blomkamp's previous effort, as robots will become security. Humanity will react to it in a positive way but how will this proclivity to make the world better change the outcome for the future? We can't tell, so, there are pros and cons to having robots in the future but that is not necessarily what I will be talking about during this review. It's just a thought. As I'm typing this review, I am still thinking about the feeling of chagrin I have towards this movie. The movie is set in Johannesburg in 2016 where robots are completely automated, have artificial intelligence and is the first city to create robots as a police force. They are all invented and created by Deon Wilson (Dev Patel), whereas, his business rival, Vincent Moore has created the Moose, operate...

Margot Robbie being flirtatious with Will Smith.  "You can never lose focus." True that, even in life but for instance, this movie has the saying because you cannot fault a mistake for one second, otherwise, you will probably end up dead. However, even if you get attached to someone for too long while during the con game, you will also probably be ending up dead. Based on all these heist or con movies, it is an attentive and entertaining genre to follow because you never know what will happen regarding the characters or the product or their reputations. It also will depend on the chemistry between the characters. Based on chemistry and fun in the first two-thirds of the movie, it is a smooth operator of a film which is, as a whole, enough as an entertainment. The con man Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) is at a bar at New York City where he sees a beautiful and seductive woman named Jess (Margot Robbie) passing up another man. They both go up to the hotel room to make out un...

Robbie Amell and Mae Whitman discuss what the DUFF is. Look, I have to be honest and say that labeling students is dumbfounded and somewhat stereotypical because a label either boost morale or drag their self-esteem and reputation down as a human being. Labeling people is wrong and you have to be able to see people when you're talking to them and getting along with them. It is up to the person to see if the other has a great personality. You cannot label people from the get-go. This movie constitutes people regarding their reputation in a small society of high school students but it also centrals a character that is interesting to follow and with clever writing and that is enough for me. High school senior Bianca Piper (Mae Whitman) explains to the audience that in the past that there were students stuck with labels such as jocks, princesses, nerds, etc. But now in recent years, they have been branched out such as jocks playing video games, princesses being on anti-depressant...

Kevin Costner and his cross-country team.  Sports movies. Are they exciting anymore? Well, of course, they are exciting but it depends on how the story revolves around the event and the team's uphill battle to victory and also how the main characters and the characters on the team develop and whether or not they are memorable in the end, especially Disney's sports movies. They are all almost the same but I have enjoyed most of them: Remember The Titans, Miracle , The Rookie , Glory Road . Even though they are all conventional at times, we just witness all of them in some detail. My personal favorite is Miracle  and Titans is a real close second. They have almost cover every sport except cross-country or track that which they call it in the movie and this movie just does not cover the sport itself but also the characters' lives with great perspective. In the year, 1987, Jim White (Kevin Costner) is fired for chastising one of his players by accidentally throwing a shoe...