Café’s Most Pleasurable Films Of The Decade

Last I’ve compiled some of the best from the previous year, and now is my time to reveals my list for the most pleasurable films of the decade. With 2010 emerging before us, it feels a little surprising to realize a decade has come and gone. The First Decade of this 21st Century obviously presented a lot of great, deserving films, so this was not an easy task whittled them into the top 10 like you can check below. '00s also had proven as

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2009 Is A Pleasurable Year At The Movie

Now that 2009 is finally winding to a close, everyone is getting nostalgic for the year that was. Best and worst of the year lists are everywhere and if you're still hungry for lists, here in Movie Café we also have one for you. Sum up 2009 in films, it was totally a year of full surprises and absolutely a great year for the business. There are some films came out of nowhere to blow us away and

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Sherlock Holmes: Refreshing And Fun Adventure

It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen any Sherlock Holmes movies, and this Guy Ritchie’s film where the British director taken the liberty to introduce this generation’s audiences to one of the finest detectives in the big screen is a smartly move. Our first impression of the character is absolutely the boring moustache man who smokes a pipe, wearing a checked hat, and going around dark valleys poking his nose into

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Bodyguards and Assassins: Stand Out In Production Values

If last year we have “Ip Man” as our best martial arts spectacle for winter holiday, this year Teddy Chan’s epic martial arts “Bodyguards and Assassins” is absolutely the one that worth checking for. Brings once again Donnie Yen, now the highest paid actor in China, together with an all-star cast in a thrilling story of how a group of kung fu fighters band together to protect revolutionary

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Avatar: The Showcase Of Cameron’s Best Abilities

Twelve years after James Cameron captivated moviegoers with his surprise hit, “Titanic”, the man is back with another sensational, entertaining, sheer spectacle. A film that's been more than ten years in the making, “Avatar”, truly lived up its hype as a film that pioneered technology while inventing techniques that will be used by other filmmakers for years to come. The trailers that for many people are unimpressive enough truly

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The Blind Side: An Endearing And Inspiring Life Story

A Thanksgiving legitimate box office smash, “The Blind Side” that give the vampire romance “Twilight Saga: New Moon” a run for its money, is a delightful, inspirational story of Baltimore Ravens tackle Michael Oher. The true story which also was based on the 2006 book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” by Michael Lewis grossed a very strong $34,5 million in its opening weekend. It set the highest-grossing

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Twilight Saga New Moon: Tortured, Pained, Distant and Difficult Sequel

The first of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series books was published four years ago, like a fast train it has now become a global phenomena every bit as huge as Harry Potter with just four novels and one smash hit movie. The success of “Twilight” caught Hollywood and the rest of the world by storm when the first adaptation arrived in theaters late last year. This year, the second film in the franchise, “New Moon” which

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2012: Spectacular Visual On The Border Of Realism

Having messed up several parts of the globe via extraterrestrial invasion, Japan based lizard monster and massive climate-changing storm, Roland Emmerich now ups the ante by demolishing the whole damn thing in a giant blaze of mayhem and calamity through the Mayan calendar prophecy. Emmerich's not pleased with just crushing the White House, but also adds in the

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Contemporary Films That Were Born For Halloween

Every decade produces terrible horror movies and great horror movies and I think most universally recognized horror classics are from years ago. Such titles as “Halloween”, “Friday the 13th”, “Nightmare on Elm St”, “Carrie”, “The Exorcist”, and “Evil Dead”, are all antiques by today’s standards, but they were revolutionary at the time and heavily influenced modern horror. When it comes to the genre, the 2000s also have

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Where The Wild Things Are: Not Another Children's Movie

If you do go see “Where the Wild Things Are” with an idea that you’ll have the same feelings with watching "Up" or even "Shrek", then think again, this film is entirely different. Though it taking the picture of childhood, but this Spike Jonze-directed film is actually not fully contributes for children. However, it was adapted from the beloved classic children's literature written in 1963 by Maurice Sendak, which theme of dealing with

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Zombieland: A 28 Days Later Played For Laughs

At first, I think that there are already too many zombie films that have been made, so I hope “Zombieland” will be a good one. Hopefully, this movie also has the right comedy and some sort of scary moment that will make me jump out of my seat. In the film, a young boy Columbus [Jesse Eisenberg] is headed East when a lethal virus has broken out and wiped most of the population, turning all the infected into flesh eating zombies. Along the

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Phobia 2: When Fears Become Entertaining And Addictive

Like its first effort which is one of the best anthologies I’ve seen in a long time, “Phobia 2” also has these variety of short horror tales that each story was uniquely has its own beast and could have all worked as stand-alone shorts. But while there was no thread connecting them other than them all being horrors about karma, they flowed very naturally into one another. It’s like watching episodes of The Twilight Zone. There are lots of

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The Informant!: Frenzy Of Corn, Lies and Wiretaps

Another movie based on a true story about corporate whistle-blower (ala "Silkwood" and "The Insider") came from Steven Soderbergh. “The Informant!” maybe not a film for everyone but it still managed to earn an estimated $10.5 million from only 2,505 venues in its opening weekend. Soderbergh who was coming off of two Che Guevera flicks that failed badly and hadn't had a successful non-Ocean's movie since

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9: Good For Its Unique Style And Design

Previously, a film called “District 9” became an impressive word-of-mouth in Hollywood while it was only made by this new filmmaker, Neil Blomkamp, who garnered such of buzz because he is an apprentice of Peter Jackson. Now, another new name that also started his creation in a short movie frame, Shane Acker, is following Blomkamp’s step by entering the film business under the wings of two famous visionaries, Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. They lend

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District 9: Amazing Movie Deserves To Be Seen

In the modern era of big-budget tentpoles, “District 9” which cost less than $30 million is arriving as absolutely the dark horse of the summer. One started paying attention for the Peter Jackson’s produced sci-fi when the project was previewed at last year's Comic-Con. It took the form of banners and signs posted around the convention that labeled areas as "for humans only" with a stylized alien-formed cartouche with a big red X through it, and a website address, d-9.com. Jackson and the breakthrough director Neil Blomkamp previously

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G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra: Leave Your Critical Brain For This One

The success of “Transformers” would once again set another trend in the world of cinema. After the novels, comics, video games and amusement parks, toys have become a new source of inspiration for Hollywood scriptwriters. In this sense, the G.I. Joes appeared to be a particularly wise choice. True icons of popular culture, these collection toys had launched on the market since 1963 and at the height of its popularity back in the 1980s, the brand spawned a cartoon series, a Marvel comic and even an animated movie before fading away in the early

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Leisurely Bridge To The Final Episodes

Year by year and finally here we are on the theaters again to watch the (finally released) sixth film installment of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". With the magic and the darkness are stronger than ever, this episode easily marks the franchise's departure from an entertaining series to a flat-out, must-see epic adventure. Sure, “Half-Blood Prince” made us wait a few extra months, but it does a great job of setting things up for what looks to be quite an exciting finish that being split into two movies, by the

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Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen: It’s All About Clash Of The Robots

Since the first film offered the gratification of watching clash of the big transforming robots on the big screen, everyone is happy to know Bay is please to return as the commander for the second huge battle on earth. Even though the plot for the first film was criticized by many for being simple and weak, but Bay’s action and CGI spices proven that “Transformers” still has myriad to present its producer pockets. Now, how with this next installment in the adaptation of Hasbro best selling toys? Could Bay learned from his first work and made it more

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Up: Pixar Continues Soaring Up With Their Best Work

The peoples at Pixar animation studios are keep coming back with their finest work. Who can push away the facts that Pixar animated movie always become one of the bests every year they comes up, since their 1995 masterpiece, "Toy Story" to last year "Wall-E." And for this summer season's offering from Pixar, "Up," the digital animation studio works its magic all over again. Pixar can be relied upon to offer audiences something new and different with each release. One more thing that Pixar does so well is that it uses advanced digital animation to tell stories that you just could not tell as well in live action, their film even

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Drag Me To Hell: Raimi Drag Horror Back To Its Glory

When horror films these days are getting more dehydrates and fatigue, as they’re just move around with completely cliché plot, sadistic, nudity, and facts that they are just not that scary anymore. Thus, what formula that efficacious enough to drag the horror genre back to its reasonable form? If you demand the find the answer just like what I did, I think you better go to your nearest cinema and watch the ‘now showing’ horror, “Drag Me to Hell”. Why? Because, for me, this film is truly one of the answers that we’ve been waiting for, not only work as a jump in your seat scary movie, despite its PG-13 rating, but this is also

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