MoVTie Critic

There are moments in our life that we look back on and remember as moments that we wish could have lasted forever. Even if with the passing of time it also reminds us that the moment can never be relived, we still reflect on it and wonder what might have been if we could have held on to that feeling, even when time and space keep you far apart. In this story we meet two individuals, James More (James McAvoy) a Scotsman with water purification skills being held captive in Africa by jihadist fighters that believe he is really a spy and Danielle Flinders (Alicia Vikander) who specializes in calculating the depth of the ocean who is preparing for a submergence to the ocean floor in the Greenland Sea. Thousands of miles apart, the two reflect on a time they shared while staying at a hotel by the ocean in France where the two developed a passionate romance. Now it is both a memory of hope and despair since neither one can reach the other or knows of the other's circumstances as the...

Every family has their dysfunctions. Some just are better at being normal on the outside than others, yet family events are the major test to see if you can hold it together or if it will just all come out. One thing is for certain, you'll be glad you're family isn't this one. Matthew (Jacob Tierney) and Louisa (Jessica Parker Kennedy) are about to celebrate one of the most important days of their lives, their wedding. There's only one catch, Matthew's family. His mother Barbara Haines (Kathleen Turner) who has her former lover Tammy Bergman (Frances Fisher) who are now very hostile towards one another, a former lover who shows up unexpectedly Roy (David La Haye) and her date Albert (Wallace Shawn) who seems to be trying to mend things more than be a love interest. Along with siblings Carrie (Jessica Paré) her pot growing boyfriend Misha (Luke Kirby) add on to the dramatics with some of their own and the most awkward of all his aspiring actor brother Kurt (Kev...

Hello movie lovers. I apologize for my lack of post. Life has a way of getting in the way sometimes. So don't be surprised if there are multiple post in the coming days. Anyway, here is the latest film to be reviewed and its all about that special connection we find with someone. Most of us if we're lucky will find that special someone that will share this amazing connection with you. You don't always know who it is or what they'll look like, but if you're lucky you'll find them, but unlike this story you won't have to keep finding them every day. Rhiannon (Angourie Rice) is much like your girl next door who goes to school, has good friends even a football player boyfriend Justin (Justice Smith) who is popular, but lacks much of a connection. Yet after an amazing day of skipping school and spending it together Rhiannon believes he has become this amazing boyfriend, until the next day when he tells her everything from yesterday is a blur. As if that was...

Foreign films have a unique fascination to them. They're different in styles in the way of storytelling, camera angles and views even with lighting and sound at times. Yet its a way to dive into a culture you're not too familiar with without having to spend hours researching it and you get a sense of their beliefs, culture and society even if the story is a work of fiction. Sook-hee (Ok-bin Kim) has spent her life surrounded by violence and death. Trained at a young age to kill, when she finally finds some escape from that world and a chance at happiness, she's quickly pulled back in when she takes out an entire building of drug lords and their men single-handed. Seeing this skill, she's taken in by a South Korean government agency where she learns she is pregnant. Offered the chance to serve for ten years and gain a life of freedom, she begins her new training to be a government assassin. With her first mission complete, she is able to take on a new life with he...

Anyone who's ever gambled knows the first rule is "The House Always Wins". Usually that's the way it should be, except when you're rooting for a group of con artist like in the Ocean's movies. Everyone loves a story about a group of unlikely misfits teaming together to profit from a good heist so they can ride off into the sunset, but what if your team came with powers? Michael (Milos Bikovic) is your under the radar talented con artist and gambler who has been working on a huge score for months that gets him into a VIP high stakes gambling game, but when an unforeseen factor in that of a hypnotist Alex (Peter Zekavica) makes him lose his hand and takes the money Michael is left to face the dangerous casino owner Victor (Sergey Astakhov) who gives Michael a week to repay the debt or be hunted down and killed. With little time to prepare for a score this size, Michael seeks out a team of individuals with supernatural gifts. Eric (Aristarkh Venes) a rich ...

With all the issues with gun violence going on from school shootings to gang violence to home invasions gone bad. Most of the time we let the judicial system handle it and move on until the next one. A vicious endless cycle that so many want to change but don't seem to know how. Yet what if it was your family, your spouse, your children? How far would you be willing to go? Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a devoted husband to his wife Lucy (Elisabeth Shue) and father to daughter Jordan (Camilla Morrone) and a successful doctor who saves lives daily. Yet when a home invasion goes wrong resulting in his wife being murdered and their daughter in a coma, he does what anyone would do and let the police handle it. But after weeks of waiting for Detective Kevin Raines (Dean Norris) to make headway on the case and finding its becoming one of the many open cases that may never be solved Paul decides to take matters into his own hands. Taking a crash course education on the street, h...

While Halloween is months away, its never too soon to see a horror movie portrayed on Halloween. Clowns have become a more common icon to be portrayed as horrific and psychotic rather than the loveable slapstick artist they are. With films like "IT" making clowns the stuff of nightmares, its no wonder some people would rather get root canal than go to the circus these days. Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) who was originally seen in "All Hallow's Eve" in 2013 makes his own appearance minus the VHS tape on Halloween night. Two college girls Tara and Dawn (Jenna Kanell and Catherine Corcoran) are out late having spent the evening at a Halloween party and stop to get some pizza as Dawn sobers up before going home when Tara catches the interest of a freaky-looking clown who says nothing and acts strangely. After the clown is thrown out, they assume they've seen the last of him until they find their car's tires have been slashed. Calling up Tara...

` Hello mystery lovers. I'm sure you're all excited if you're a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries viewer like I am about the summer mystery event. Hailey Dean is up this June and the second part of the three part event leading up to the final chapter "A Will To Kill" where Hailey Dean will answer the long burning question, "Who killed her first love Will?" This time Hailey (Kellie Martin) finds herself investigating the mysterious murder of art gallery owner Victor Bridgestone (Matthew J Dowden) when he finds his widow Christy arguing with a disgruntle man Simon (Christian Sloan). At first no one suspects foul play, but the circumstances of health-nut Victor Bridgestone and the mysterious disappearance of a request for an autopsy in the hospital computer system leads them to take a closer look. Finding reason to suspect murder, those closest to Victor from his wife Christy to his college friend and their work associate have Hailey along with friend ...

In a world where wealth comes with privilege, we often believe the grass is greener on their side and that life must be perfect. Yet we often forget wealth cannot buy happiness but it does breed resentment and disdain. That's when privilege turns to poison. Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) are two privileged teens who haven't seen each other in years and are reunited when Amanda's mother pays Lily to tutor Amanda for the SAT's. Bonding in an unlikely friendship, Lily learns that Amanda doesn't have emotions and has gone through life imitating human behavior in order to fit in and Amanda learns Lily suppresses her emotions to keep a perfect outward persona but secretly hates her emotionally abusive stepfather Mark (Paul Sparks). A suggested idea of killing her stepfather comes up one night and soon turns from hypothetical to plotting as they go through their options including trying to recruit small-time drug dealer Tim (Anton Yelchin) to carry ...

With talk of the recent rise in suicides and nightly reports and daily articles on the fight against mental disorders, its a wonder that anyone stays sane anymore. Most of us navigate through life with medication and occasional therapy, others need extensive help and often get it too late. Though for those who do get help and are sent back out into the world to navigate it as best as they can, the world can come off frightening and you often wonder if things are really happening, or if you should question your own sanity. Tom ("That 70's Show" Topher Grace) has spent the last twenty years since he was a teenager in an institute working out psychological demons that are linked to a dark past. He learns that days before his release that his father (Robin Thomas Grossman) wealthy political figure committed suicide and has left Tom's childhood home, a mansion to him since his mother (Daisy McCrackin) left when he was fifteen and his brother is in prison. Under a st...

This summer on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, its all about new cases for some of your favorite Mystery Women. This month, its a special three-part Hailey Dean Mystery movie event. Last Sunday was the first chapter which has opened the door to a part of Hailey's past where we learn about the unsolved murder of her first love, all leading up to a potential answer to who killed Will. In the first chapter, Hailey Dean (Kellie Martin) attends a concert at her niece Parker Dean's (Lina Renna) as a way of raising funds for the school's reconstruction to keep it open. However, the music teacher at the helm of this project Naomi Sacks (Hannah Pederson) who's father Norman Sacks (Keith MacKechnie) is friends of her father and know she use to work at the D.A.'s office before becoming a psychiatrist is a no show. After no word from her in days and learning from Parker that Naomi wanted to speak with her, Hailey takes it upon herself to investigate with the help of her f...

Martial arts has been a cultural aspect all over the world for centuries. Today UFC and MMA tournaments pop up all over the world and people practice multiple cultural fighting styles like Tae Kwon Do, Jiu Jitzu, etc. It has also influence literature and cinema over the decades and the fighting scenes have only gotten more intense and graphic with the new age. Taking place one year after the events of "Kickboxer: Vengeance" Kurt Sloane (Alain Moussi) is back in the United States with his wife Liu (Sara Malakul Lane) competing for a chance at the MMA title with no intent on ever returning to Thailand and all the hell it came with. Yet just as he thinks as it's all behind him, he's approached by two men claiming to be U.S. Marshals coming to arrest him for the Tong Po, the fighter he killed to avenge his brother in Thailand in a fight to the death. The next thing he knows he's being stun-gunned and finds himself back in Thailand in front of Thomas Moore (Chris...

Many outlaws back in the days of the Wild West were infamous, some even seen by some as heroes. One of the most famous names is that of Jesse James, one of the few outlaws of the day to retire and with one of the most famous deaths. Even long after, writers and directors still tell his story and of his crime spree. Jesse James (Paul Clayton) returns to his home having ridden with Frank James and the rest of his gang robbing banks across the territory to try to go legit. Starting up his own Wild West Show, for the next three years he lives a fairly simple life with his family, but the past can't stay away. With more shows popping up making it difficult to get a profit, Jesse decides to go for one big score and he has his eyes on the notorious Black Train. Despite the naysayers, he gathers a group to execute his plan, but those who see him as the outlaw that will never change are set to see that The Black Train is Jesse's final hour. After viewing this, I'm sorry to ...

Every family home has their secrets. Some have hidden treasures where others hide dark secrets that are kept under lock and key. So what if one secret was one that plagued you in life and will follow you to the grave? In a rural mansion in 1920's Ireland, sister and brother Rachel and Edward (Charlotte Vega and Bill Milner) live their lives alone in the home their family has had for centuries. Living in fear of a supernatural force that makes them live by three rules. Be in bed by midnight, don't let a stranger in the door and never leave each other all alone. Since their parents died, they have lived by these rules living off their trust in isolation. That is until they turn eighteen when things begin to change. Rachel who longs for freedom of this life meets a soldier in the nearby village named Sean (Eugene Simon) who she begins to fall for. Though with this budding romance, the dark forces that watch them start to show their wrath pushing Rachel and Edward closer to ...

You hear the stories of obsession. A man meets a girl that's much younger and can't help but be drawn to them. Yet those stories don't tend to come with past dark secrets. Hank (Dylan McDermott) is a solitary man living in a small southern town has his world turned upside down when a young high school transfer Josie (Sophie Turner) moves in across the way at the Pink Hotel where he lives. Developing a friendship with her, Hank soon finds himself attracted to Josie and it gets intense when Marcus (Jack Kilmer) a high school boy who gives Hank a hard time at his job observing the school grounds begins spending time with Josie. As people begin to talk, the feelings turn into obsession and puts Hank at risk of losing all he has built and his past coming back to haunt him. While this looks like your standard pervert wants teenage girl, it is not so straight-forward as that. The relationship between these two characters plays out slowly while having moments of tempting fa...