Tag Archives: romance

Movies That Improve on Multiple Viewings: Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

The first time I saw Ever After: A Cinderella Story, I had to stop watching at one point because it was such a depressing sight to behold. After the heroine Danielle has lost her father, been brutally whipped, had her … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies That Improve | Tagged drew barrymore, fairy tales, romance, romantic comedy | 6 Comments

Movie Matchups: Dave vs. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Election season is in full swing across America, and political tensions are hotter than ever. You know what a pivotal moment like this calls for? A little drama and comedy to lighten the mood. Let’s look back at a gentler … Continue reading →

Posted in Movie Matchups | Tagged comedy, films, government, movie review, movies, politics, romance, united states | 4 Comments

Pleasant Surprises: The Parent Trap (1998)

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

This is the second film I’ve reviewed in the Pleasant Surprises section, and it also happens to be the second film with a date in the title, the first being Star Trek (2009). I’ll try not to make a habit … Continue reading →

Posted in Pleasant Surprises | Tagged comedy, disney, drama, films, movie review, movies, relationships, romance | 13 Comments

10 Movies That Will Make You Bawl (While You Have a Ball)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Some movies are so good that it doesn’t matter that they make me feel incredibly sad. I’ve compiled a list of 10 movies that have the power to make me cry my heart out, but they still keep me coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Stuff | Tagged animated films, baseball, beauty and the beast, big, cats, christian slater, comedy, deep impact, dinosaurs, disaster movies, disney, don bluth, drama, elephant man, film score, films, fun, garfield, girls, humor, james horner, john merrick, john travolta, love, macaulay culkin, madonna, major league baseball, movie review, movies, music, my girl, phenomenon, relationships, romance, romantic comedy, sad, star trek, tearjerker, the land before time, tom hanks, untamed heart | 4 Comments

Forgotten Film Gems: Gattaca

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Why do great movies like Gattaca bomb at the box office while drivel like Avatar earn way more money than they deserve? I guess the film business is a lot like high school. The smart, nerdy films get ignored while … Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Film Gems | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, avatar, calvinism, discrimination, dna, drama, ethan hawke, films, gattaca, genetics, jude law, love, martin luther king, message movies, movie review, movies, politics, predestination, relationships, religion, romance, science, science fiction, space, space exploration | 10 Comments

Movies That Improve on Multiple Viewings: Primer

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Get ready for a wild ride. Primer is probably the best movie you’ve never heard of. It was made for less than $10,000, and it was released with little fanfare in 2004. But despite its low-budget feel and lack of … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies That Improve | Tagged back to the future, bill murray, cars, christopher nolan, comedy, drama, films, groundhog day, independent film, low budget, memento, message movies, millennium, movie review, movies, mpaa, primer, romance, science, science fiction, the godfather, time travel | Leave a comment

James Cameron’s Best Movie

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

What is James Cameron’s best movie? It’s not Aliens. It’s not Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It’s not even Titanic. No, his best movie is one that he planned more than a decade before it became a reality. He had to … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Stuff | Tagged 1980s, abyss, action movies, alan silvestri, alien, america, avatar, back to the future, beauty and the beast, CGI, characters, cold war, conservatives, drama, dreamworks, ed harris, film score, films, history, how to train your dragon, humanity, james cameron, james horner, liberals, love, mary elizabeth mastrantonio, message movies, michael biehn, military, movie review, movies, music, navy, navy seals, pixar, politics, relationships, romance, science fiction, somewhere in time, soundtrack, soviet union, special effects, star trek, submarine, technology, terminator, titanic, tron, undersea, united states, war | 19 Comments

Bad Movies with Great Music: St. Elmo’s Fire

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Long before Joel Schumacher made Batman and Robin, he had already cemented his position as a schlock director with the 1985 cinematic stinker called St. Elmo’s Fire. He actually wrote and directed this movie, so there’s no wiggle room to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bad Movies with Great Music | Tagged 1980s, ally sheedy, bad movies, batman and robin, demi moore, drama, emilio estevez, film score, films, funny, ghost, humor, joel schumacher, judd nelson, love, movie review, movies, music, patrick swayze, relationships, rob lowe, romance, seven degrees, songs, soundtrack, st elmos fire, tom hanks | 5 Comments

Movie Matchups: Star Wars Prequels vs. Spartacus

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Spartacus (1960) is proof that the Star Wars prequels could have been contained in one film. And they probably would have been much better if they had. Just imagine, we could have gone back and seen the birth of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Movie Matchups | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, action movies, anakin skywalker, ancient rome, darth vader, drama, films, freedom, fun, funny, george lucas, government, history, humor, love, movie review, movies, obi-wan kenobi, padme amidala, relationships, return of the jedi, revenge of the sith, robocop, roman empire, romance, science fiction, slavery, spartacus, stanley kubrick, star wars, star wars prequels | 7 Comments

A Tale of Two Satans: The Joker vs. General Zod

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer

Two of my favorite sequels of all time are The Dark Knight and Superman II. Both of them expand the heroes’ story and deepen the world they inhabit. A lot of the success of these films can be credited directly … Continue reading →

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