Kid Valentine Movies to Enjoy

Be My Valentine Charlie Brown

Who can resist the charm of Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown is always a classic to enjoy and watch. Be My Valentine Charlie Brown is a 1975 movie on DVD with the Peanuts gang. This is a good light-hearted Valentine movie for the entire family to enjoy.

Bug’s Bunny Cupid Capers

Another great Valentine movie for the entire family and kids to enjoy is Bug’s Bunny Cupid Capers. Classic Elmer Fudd tries his hand at playing a match maker. This is a great new version of Bug’s Bunny and the gang to enjoy with your kids for some wholesome humor on Valentine’s Day.

Care Bear Helping Hearts

The Care Bear gang is so enjoyable. With the Care Bear Helping Hearts, there are eight episodes for kids to enjoy on Valentine’s day. This is a great movie series for preschool and elementary school aged kids to keep them entertained Valentine’s Day.

Drag Me to Hell DVD Release

Looking for a DVD to watch during the Halloween season? Drag Me to Hell movie is now out on DVD. Drag Me to Hell is directed by Sam Raimi. If you’re not familiar with the name, Sam Raimi is also the directed of the infamous Spider Man movie. Drag Me to Hell is definitely a keeper and one to add to your DVD collection of movies.

Drag Me to Hell movie stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long. The directing by Sam Raimi is excellent. The acting by Lohman and Long is also excellent. The story-line is slightly predictable but handled in a humorous sort of way.

You will want to fill up your popcorn and drinks. No-one is going to want to pause the movie, Drag Me to Hell when you watch it on DVD at home. Be prepared for some humor and horror combined together in Drag Me to Hell.

The Cider House Rules (1999)

The Cider House Rules is a coming-of-age movie. Tobey Maguire stars as Homer Wells. He’s an orphan in a remote area of Maine. Dr. Larch, played by Michael Caine is very fond of Homer and teaches him medical skills. Dr. Larch would love nothing more than for Homer to follow in his footsteps. Homer has something different in mind. He wants a life outside the orphanage.

Wally, a soldier, played by Paul Rudd, brings his pregnant girlfriend Candy, played by Charlize Theron, to the orphanage seeking an abortion. Homer becomes friends with the couple and decides to leave the orphanage and work on Wally’s family’s apple farm.

Wally is sent back to war, leaving Candy and Homer alone. They form a very close bond and become intimate. Candy always said she doesn’t do well being alone and gave in to temptation.

An injured Wally comes home from war and Homer respectfully and painfully, bows out of Candy’s life. Homer also learns the stark reality of the world outside the orphanage isn’t as good as he thought it would be. What path will he follow now to find where he really belongs?

The Cider House Rules is a good movie with an excellent cast – available on DVD.

City of Joy (1992)

Max Lowe, played by Patrick Swayze, is an American doctor. He is longing for a deeper meaning in his life. He travels to Calcutta, India in hopes of fulfilling this longing.

Max meets Hazari Pal, played by Om Puri. Hazari and his family are unable to repay a loan. Their property is auctioned off and they are left homeless. They land in Calcutta, hoping to start a new life. Unfortunately, a con man who posed as their landlord, took all their money.

Hazari and Max meet in Calcutta and they form a friendship, along with a volunteer clinic worker named Joan, played by Pauline Collins. Max helps Pauline to open a new clinic in hopes of helping the poor residents of this foreign land.

Max is determined to change the lives of people in this poverty-stricken area. In the process, he sees his life in a new way.

City of Joy is an excellent and moving film. If you are a fan of the late Patrick Swayze, you’ll enjoy his superb acting in this movie.

The Scarlet Letter (1995)

I missed the Scarlet Letter when it was released in 1995, but recently rented it on DVD. The movie is set in the 1600’s and is loosely based on a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Demi Moore stars as Hester Prynne and Robert Duvall plays her husband, Roger. Hester is a strong and passionate woman, although there is a longing in her eyes. She arrives while her husband is away, in a colony hoping to find freedom without fear. She finds more than she bargained for.

Hester meets Reverend Dimmesdale, played by Gary Oldman, as her carriage gets stuck in the woods. She later listened to one of his sermons and was immediately drawn to his emotion and passion.

Word gets to Hester that her husband has died. By now her heart belonged to Reverend Dimmesdale, as his love for her is mutual. Their love created a baby girl, named Pearl. The townspeople persecuted Hester for having a baby out of wedlock, but she refused to disclose who the father was. She is forced to wear a scarlet letter A, for adulteress, in public as proof and humiliation for her sin.

To Hester’s surprise her husband is not dead. He returns to find she has a little girl, one that is not his own.

The acting in this movie is impressive. The runtime of 135 minutes is longer than the usual movie, but worth the watch.

Reba – Season 6 on DVD

Fans of the popular TV series, Reba are thrilled with the release of season 6 on DVD this past June. The American sitcom is set in Houston, Texas.

The talented singer Reba McEntire plays Reba Hart, a divorced mother of three children. Her husband Brock, played by Christopher Rich, is a dentist. Unfortunately, he practiced more than dentistry at work and had an affair with his hygienist, Barbara Jean, played by Melissa Peterman. Barbara Jean becomes pregnant and Brock and Reba’s marriage is over.

Barbara Jean plays a major comedic role in this series. She also plays a major pain in Reba’s life, yet thinks of Reba as her best friend. Even though Brock and Reba are divorced, somehow their lives are still very much weaved together.

Cheyenne, played by Joanna Garcia, is the oldest daughter. She got pregnant in high school by Van Montgomery, played by Steve Howey. They are a rather ditzy couple living in Reba’s house with their baby, Elizabeth. The younger daughter, Kyra becomes resentful and moves in with her Dad and Barbara Jean. Jake, played by Mitch Holleman, is the youngest and adds a sweetness, yet sometimes mischievous touch to the show.

This series is full of good comedy, great acting and sometimes tears. In my opinion, this is one of the best sitcoms to hit the TV screen. It’s a show that relates to real situations and the will to survive, with a strong comedic touch.

Six Feet Under (HBO series)

I recently had my first taste of HBO’s dark comedy, titled Six Feet Under on DVD. The series is about the Fisher family who operates a funeral home. Each episode is based on someone who has died, the Fisher’s funeral home and subsequent circumstances.

The Fishers are a dysfunctional family, yet each character plays well against the other. Friends and lovers of the Fisher family are also involved, which makes some interesting, if not bizarre, story lines.

While I found this to be an interesting show, I also found it a bit creepy. Seeing a foot chopped off a corpse isn’t exactly my thing, nor the very visible penis of a dead man.

The show definitely has comedic value, as well as some realism. I didn’t like the overuse of foul language, but maybe it’s suited to this type of show. Despite some of the negatives, I found myself engaged with the characters. I just wasn’t always ready for some of the oddities, which seems to be the basis of the show.

Six Feet Under won numerous awards and received consistently top-notch ratings for HBO.

We Own the Night (2007)

We Own the Night is a crime thriller, nominated for 5 awards and released in 2007. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Bobby Green, a New York nightclub manager. There are drug dealers in the mix, but Bobby overlooks this. This is a huge deal because Bobby has forsaken his family whose focus is in law enforcement.

Bobby’s lifestyle is different from his family in all ways, including the life he lives with his girlfriend, Amada, played by Eva Mendes.

Abandoning his family, even to the point of changing his name, Bobby has to make a choice when his father, Burt Grusinsky, played by Robert Duvall and his brother, Joseph Grusinsky, played by Mark Wahlberg, take action on the drug scene within the club.

When family is on opposite forces, can loyalty to each other surpass their differences? You’ll have to watch the movie to find out.

The acting in We Own the Night is excellent, but I’m not surprised due to the cast. The film received mixed reviews, as most films do. This is a movie worth seeing, but it won’t necessarily knock your socks off.

Flirting with Forty (2008)

Flirting with Forty is a Lifetime TV movie, but could easily have been on the big screen. This is a chick flick without much uniqueness, yet a good movie with good character development.

Jackie Laurens, played by the famous and beautiful Heather Locklear, is a divorced mother and about to turn 40. As some of you will be able to identify with, turning 40 sometimes makes you feel life is nearly over.

Jackie goes on a tropical vacation while her ex-husband watches their two children. She gets much more than she bargained for when she meets a younger and handsome man named Kyle Hamilton, played by Robert Buckley. Kyle is a likable man and of course as you may guess, a romance develops between him and Jackie.

More than finding a new romance, Jackie discovers more about herself and life. She realizes that life can have a new beginning at any age. You just have to open yourself up to the opportunities and possibilities.

Flirting with Forty is now available on DVD. For a sneak peak, watch the trailer below:

Night at the Museum Movie Review

In Night at the Museum, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is out of work, recently unmarried, and a sad excuse for a father. He finally gets a job as a night security guard in the Museum of Natural History. Just when he thinks all is well and the job will be a breeze; Larry (Stiller) finds himself confronting, rather timidly, a T-rex skeleton that acts like a puppy, tiny armies from ancient cultures, cowboys and a roguish monkey whose lot in life is to harass Larry. All of this is because of a curse that brings the Night at the Museum to life when the sun goes down.

Just when all could be lost, President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), helps Larry (Stiller) figure out a way to control the chaos and become a hero in his son’s eyes. All of the chaos and mayhem is peaked when previous night watchmen ( Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, and Bill Cobbs) steal the artifact that will save or lose the day.

Night at the Museum is a culmination of cultures and eras that come together for a fun filled, action packed, save the day type of movie. Stiller and Williams truly deliver and hold true to their style.

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