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This movie is a comedy about several people all dealing with different addictions come together in a meeting and try to help each other overcome there addictions. Some have it easier than others and some keep going around in circles.
I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Mark Ruffalo (The Avengers, Shutter Island) as Adam, Tim Robbins (Mystic River, War of the Worlds) as Mike, Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man movies, Se7en) as Phoebe, Josh Gad (Frozen, Love & Other Drugs) as Neil, Joely Richardson (Event Horizon, The Patriot) as Katie, Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous, Saved!) as Danny, musical artist Pink (Fantastic Four, White Chicks) as Dede (as Alicia Moore) and Carol Kane (Trees Lounge, Annie Hall) as Roberta.
This is a Mafia movie about the Manzoni family who is under a witness protection program and is relocated yet again, this time to Normandy France after Giovanni rats out his entire Mafia family to avoid prison. But they have a hard time fitting in with the locals so they revert back to there old ways of dealing with things, and when there location is discovered a hit is ordered on them for revenge.
This is a funny movie with a great cast of known and unknown actors. I like that De Niro encompasses his old Italian character.
I give this movie a 5 out of 5 and recommend this movie, but it is not for children to watch.
Starring Robert De Niro (Meet the Parents & Fockers, The Godfather movies) as Fred Blake/Giovanni Manzoni, Michelle Pfeiffer (People Like Us, Dark Shadows) as Maggie Blake, Dianna Agron (Glee, I Am Number Four) as Belle Blake, John D'Leo (The Wrestler, Wanderlust) as Warren Blake and Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black movies, Lincoln) as Robert Stansfield.
This movie is about four Australian Aboriginal women get discovered as a performing group and are asked to start performing for the American troops in Vietnam. But once they are there, the band manager who has a spotty past shortens there tour and have to go to the US.
This is a good family movie and I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring Miranda Tapsell (Mabo, Love Child) as Cynthia, Deborah Mailman (The Secret Life of Us, Rabbit-Proof Fence) as Gail, Jessica Mauboy (Bran Nue Dae, Underbelly) as Julie, Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, Thor: The Dark World) as Dave Lovelace and Judith Lucy (Bad Eggs, Crackerjack) as Merle.
This is a new rendition of the classical Biblical story of Noah.
A man, who is a descendant of Adam and Eve is chosen by God to build an arch and save two and every species of animals to rebuild the world after he destroys the world with a great flood and cleanses the land of man kind. But while they build the arch a clan of desperate men lead by a king try to get on board when the flood strikes but are no match for the guardian angels and the flood waters.
But when one of his own defies God' s will as he believes, he threatens to take drastic action and goes crazy.
I recommend this movie, and I give it a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) as Noah, the beautiful Jennifer Connelly (Hulk, Blood Diamond) as Naameh, Ray Winstone (The Departed, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) as Tubal-cain, Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal, Thor) as Methuselah, Emma Watson (Harry Potter movies, This Is the End) as Ila, Logan Lerman (3:10 to Yuma, Percy Jackson movies) as Ham, Douglas Booth (LOL, Romeo and Juliet) as Shem, Nick Nolte (The Thin Red Line, Warrior) as Samyaza, Mark Margolis (The Wrestler, Pi) as Magog, Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Robin Hood) as Rameel, introducing Leo McHugh Carroll as Japeth, Finn Wittrock (Winter' s Tale, Halloweentown High) as Young Tubal-cain and Madison Davenport (The Possession, Over the Hedge) as Na'el.
This movie is about a U.S. Air Marshall with a past and a habit that gets framed for high jacking the international flight to London he is on. He tries to find the person behind the threats before he kills people and tries to prove his innocence at the same time. This is an action pact movie with many twists and turns.
I give this movie a 5 out of 5.
Starring Liam Neeson (Schindler' s List, Taken) as Bill Marks, Julianne Moore (Magnolia, Children of Men) as Jen Summers, Scoot McNairy (Argo, Monsters) as Tom Bowen, Michelle Dockery (Hanna, Hogfather) as Nancy, Nate Parker (Red Tails, Arbitrage) as Zack White, Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) as Gwen and Anson Mount (In Her Shoes, Safe) as Jack Hammond.
This movie is about a women from Texas down on her luck and trying to get her son back from foster care, goes on a trip to Mexico with her dad. On that trip she discovered that he smuggles people from Mexico into the U.S. in his truck. After realizing that she could make some good money, she tries smuggling her self. When she leads her first group to a river crossing, she finds out only three people made it across. One of the survivors is a little girl who is looking for her mother. She is now stuck trying to help her find her mother, and when she realizes what happened to her she takes the girl to her grandmother.
I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Abbie Cornish (Limitless, Sucker Punch) as Ashley, Will Patton (Remember the Titans, Armageddon) as Tommy and introducing Maritza Santiago Hernandez as Rosa.
This movie features two powerhouse actors that have played major roles throughout there careers.
This movie is about a man who breaks out of maximum security prisons to prove that they are vulnerable. In his last attempt, he and his team are approached by a CIA agent to secretly go into a new maximum security prison and test its security features. But once he is in, he realises that it is not what he was told. While inside, he makes allies with several inmates who also want to break out. The end of the movie is surprising. A definite must watch.
I recommend this movie and give it a 5 out of 5. This movie is not for kids.
Starring Sylvestor "Sly" Stallone (Rocky movies, Rambo movies) as Ray Breslin, Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator, Predator) as Rottmayer, Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, The Thin Red Line) as Hobbes, Faran Tahir (Iron Man, Star Trek) as Javed, Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Win Win) as Sam Neil (Jurassic Park movies, The Piano) as Dr. Kyrie, Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Men in Black) as Lester Clark, Vinnie Jones (Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) as Drake and 50 Cent (Morning Glory, Real Steel) as Hush (as Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson).
This is an unusual movie with interesting split screen cinematography. This movie is produced by James Franco, and is based on a 1930' s work by Faulkner.
This movie is about a family who is awaiting the mothers death, and start a journey to berry her in a far off location. When one of the brothers gets injured, they race for time to get to the destination before his leg gets infected and the mothers body starts to rot. This movie has a cast of well known actors from TV and film.
I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring James Franco (127 Hours, This Is the End) as Darl Bundren, Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Holes) as Anse, Kim Parrack (Battle Los Angeles, True Blood) as Cash, Ahna O'Reilly (The Help, Jobs) as Dewey Dell, Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus, Devil) as Jewel, introducing Brady Permenter as Vardaman Bundren, Danny McBride (Your Highness, Pineapple Express) as Vernon Tull, Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men, Donnie Darko) as Addie Bundren and Jennifer Kristen Howell (The Dynamiter) as Cora Tull.
