You’re Next
A family reunion turns into a home invasion of cute animal masks. Home invasion movies aren’t scary to me. Yes, I will jump from time to time, but it doesn’t stay with me like ghost stories or haunted house movies. I think why those scare me more is because...
The World’s End
Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, a 40-year-old Gary King rounds up his high school friends so they can go back to their hometown and finish the Golden Mile. This would be the last part of comedy trilogy that started with the zombie satire Shaun of the Dead...
Elysium
Director: Neill Blomkamp Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Wagner Moura In the year 2154, Earth has been divided between the rich living in a space station utopia where any disease can be cured instantaneously and the rest of the poor population has been...
Snow White and the Huntsman
A reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale that is darker and leads to Snow White doing some battle herself. I saw this movie with Marci and Stacy. I got together with Amy and Sharon to discuss it and threw in Marci and Stacy’s thoughts on their behalf. We also...
The Avengers
After having separate movies for Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk, along with Black Widow and Hawkeye hanging out in other movies, all the superheros come together because Thor’s brother is throwing a tantrum on Earth. It is usually just Amy and I reviewing, but this time...
The Hunger Games
Hunger Games is based on a book series about a dystopian future where a civil war led to the government cordoning off areas of the United States, now called Panem, into districts. To remind the citizens to not rise up against the government, each district has to supply one girl...
This Means War
Two CIA agents end up dating the same woman. When they find out, they make a pact to keep dating her until she makes her choice, which makes them go to war with each other trying to win her over by spying on her and each other. This was...
Haywire
Haywire stars a real-life mixed martial artist that Steven Soderbergh saw fight and built a film around. Gina Carano is Mallory, a contracted black-ops type of agent hired out by the government to rescue someone but then ends up with the people coming after to kill her. She doesn’t know...
We Bought a Zoo
We Bought a Zoo is about a recent widower with two children who wants to start over so he finds a house out in the country that happens to be connected to a zoo. It then turns into a guy with no experience trying to run a zoo while...
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
A New Year’s Resolution that I created with the help of Amy is to watch more movies! I have really been slacking on watching movies the past couple of years, so we are going to change that. Not only will we watch movies, we are going to get together...