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Well, this is a re-make with a different twist. In this rendition, in the 1940' s the military tried to kill Godzilla with nuclear warheads. But, they evolved and now feed on nuclear radiation to survive. So now, Godzilla is fighting against two new creatures in this action packed and sci-fi intense movie. It has a good cast and great special effects with a surprise ending.
I recommend this movie, but it is not for young kids. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass movies, The Illusionist) as Ford Brody, CJ Adams (The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Dan in Real Life) as Young Ford, Ken Watanabe (Inception, The Last Samurai) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Argo) as Joe Brody, Elizabeth Olson (Silent House, Martha Marcy May Marlene) as Elle Brody, Carson Bolde (Mansfield Path) as Sam Brody, Sally Hawkins (Layer Cake, Blue Jasmine) as Vivienne Graham, Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Dan in Real Life) as Sandra Brody, David Strathairn (The Bourne movies, Lincoln) as Admiral William Wentz and Richard T. Jones (Collateral, Event Horizon) as Captain Russell Hampton.
This movie is about a man and a women who have an off chance meeting realize they have allot in common. The man is a fruit salesman and the women is a hair dresser who is recovering from cancer treatment, meet in a parking garage at the airport on the way to a wedding. It turns out that there kids are marrying each other and they start to fall for each other.
This movie has allot of subtitles as only part of it is in English.
This is a good date movie but it is not for children. I give it a 4 out of 5.
Starring Trine Dyrholm (The Celebration, A Soap) as Ida, Sebastian Jessen (Nothing' s All Bad, A Fish Tale) as Patrick, Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies) as Philip, Paprika Steen (Adam's Apple, Okay) as Benedikte and Kim Bodnia (Pusher, Bleeder) as Leif.
This movie is about an environmentalist that gets sent to jail because of a fight he got into and killed a man. When he makes a plea deal a man and his mentally disabled brother kidnap his two kids and he breaks out to save them.
This is an action/drama movie, and I recommend it. I give it a 4 out of 5.
Starring Brendan Fraser (The Mummy movies, Bedazzled) as Jack, Dominic Purcell (Mission: Impossible II, Blade: Trinity) as Tommy Baxter, Ethan Supplies (The Wolf of Wall Street, Chasing Amy) as Kenny Baxter, Naomi Andrews (Bad Luke) as Wendy and Holly Deveaux (His Turn, The Phantoms) as Jen.
This is the latest installment of the Marvel franchise X-Men movie series. In this movie, humans are at war with mutants using a tool they have devised from a DNA sample they got 50 years ago from Mystique. They send Wolverine back in time to change her mind on murder that will change the result of the future. This is an action packed and hi-tech movie. I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes the X-Men, marvel or futuristic movies.
I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Hugh Jackman (X-Men movies, The Prestige) as Logan/Wolverine, James McAvoy (X-Men movies, Wanted) as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Bastards, Prometheus) as Erik Lehnsherr, Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games movies, Silver Linings Playbook) as Raven/Mystique, Halle Berry (Cloud Atlas, X-Men movies) as Storm, Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, Jack the Giant Slayer) as Hank/Beast, Anna Paquin (True Blood, The Piano) as Rogue, Ellen Page (Inception, Juno) as Kitty Pryde, Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) as Dr. Bolivar Trask, Shawn Ashmore (X-Men movies, Breaking the Girls) as Bobby-Iceman, Omar Sy (The Intouchables, Micmacs) as Bishop, Evan Peters (Kick-Ass, American Horror Story) as Peter/Quicksilver, Josh Helman (Jack Reacher, Blinder) as Maj. Bill Stryker, Daniel Cudmore (X-Men movies, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2) as Colossus, Bingbing Fan (Iron Man 3, Battle of the Warriors) as Blink, Adan Canto (Mixology, The Following) as Sunspot, Booboo Stewart (The Twilight movies, The Well) as Warpath, Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings movies, X-Men movies) as Magneto, Patrick Stewart (X-Men movies, Star Trek) as Professor X, Famke Janssen (X-Men movies, GoldenEye) as Jean Grey, James Marsden (X-Men movies, Superman Returns) as Scott Summers and Mark Camacho (The Score, Barney' s Version) as President Nixon.
This movie is about two veterans of the Bosnian war in the 90's who meet up in the woods of Tennessee. One of them had been shot and left for dead but survived and sought his killer for payback. When he finally meets him he befriends him and invites him to go hunting. When he agrees, he tricks him and attacks him with an arrow. Now he has to defend himself.
This is a great movie with a great cast. I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Robert De Niro (Goodfellas, Casino) as Benjamin Ford, John Travolta (Pulp Fiction, Grease) as Emil Kovac, Milo Ventimiglia (Rocky Balboa, Heroes) as Chris Ford and Elizabeth Olin (When in Rome, God of Love) as Sarah Ford.
This is the last movie made by James Gandolfini before he died.
This movie is about a message therapist who meets a women at a party and becomes friends and also meets a man at that same party. When she starts dating this guy she realises the ex-husband of her new patient is the man she has been seeing and allows these comments to poison the relationship. When they find out they all know each other all the relationships suffer.
This is a good date movie and I recommend it. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, A Bug' s Life) as Eva, Tracey Fairaway (Eden, The Bling Ring) as Ellen, Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense, Little Miss Sunshine) as Sarah, Ben Falcone (Bridesmaids, The Nines) as Will, Catherine Keener (Captain Phillips, Into the Wild) as Marianne, the late James Gandolfini (The Sopranos, 8MM) as Albert and Michaela Watkins (In a World..., The Back-up Plan) as Hilary.
This movie is about a terrorism case attracting allot of attention and depends on the testimony of a young boy. Two former lovers are put on the case and have to decide if they will let the judge know of the past relationship and risk getting taken off the case or say nothing.
I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5. This movie is not for kids.
Starring Eric Bana (Star Trek, Munich) as Martin Rose, Rebecca Hall (The Town, Iron Man 3) as Claudia Simmons-Howe, Ciaran Hinds (Munich, Road to Perdition) as Devlin, Julia Stiles (The Bourne movies, 10 Thing I Hate About You) as Joanna Reece and Anne-Marie Duff (The Last Station, Nowhere Boy) as Melissa.
This movie is about a college student who gets caught running an on-line gambling ring at his school to pay for college. When he gets cheated on-line he decides to confront the game owner and enters a new world of gambling. This is a good movie with a good cast.
I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Justin Timberlake (Love Actually, Get Smart) as Richie Furst, Ben Affleck (Argo, The Town) as Ivan Block, Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) as Rebecca Shafran, Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, Real Steel) as Agent Shavers, Michael Esper (A Beautiful Mind, All Good Things) as Billy 'Pet' Petricoff, Oliver Cooper (Project X, The Hangover Part III) as Andrew Cronin and John Heard (Home Alone, Big) as Harry Furst.
This is a great action/scifi movie an alien race that has invaded earth and is trying to kill our species. They have a special tool in the blood that if it gets inside of you each time you die the day starts over, and keeps happening over and over until someone wins. This movie is a mix of Elysium/War of the World. It is a great action packed movie and should be viewed in 3D.
I give this movie a 5 out of 5. This movie is not for kids.
Starring Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible movies, Minority Report) as Cage, Emily Blunt (Looper, The Adjustment Bureau) as Rita, Brendan Gleeson (Troy, Gangs of New York) as General Brigham, Bill Paxton (Apollo13, Twister) as Master Sergeant Farell, Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood, Book of Blood) as Skinner, Charlotte Riley (Entity, Wuthering Heights) as Nance.
This movie is about a man and his daughter in the film post production business who compete to fill the void for the legendary movie trailer voice over actor Don LaFontaine. It shows the family struggles between the two sisters and there father and how his life choices have effected them. This is a funny movie.
I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Lake Bell (What Happens in Vegas, It' s Complicated) as Carol, Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine, Warm Bodies) as Moe, Alexandra Holden (In & Out, The Hot Chick) as Jamie, Eva Longoria (The Sentinal, Harsh Times) as her self and Ken Marino (Wanderlust, Role Models) as Gustav.
This is a movie about a "juicer" from Jersey who in all into himself, girls and working out. One day, he meets a girl who makes him want to settle down. Except she finds out his affliction for watching porn that she dumps him for it. He then meets an older women in school who recently lost her family, and she ends up showing him error o his ways.
This is an explicit movie and is not for children as it has lots of sexual content. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, Looper) as Jon, Scarlett Johnson (The Avengers, The Prestige) as Barbara, Julianne Moore (Magnolia, The Big Lebowki) as Esther, Tony Danza (Crash, Taxi) as Jon Sr, Glenn Healy (Dick Tracy, Mr. Holland's Opus) as Angela and Brie Larson (21 Jump Street, Short Term 12) as Monica.
This is another Ben Stiller movie about a man who lives a boring life working for Life magazine. When he decides to join a dating site so he can meet a women he works with he is asked about anything special he has done in life. When he realizes he hasn' t done anything, he imagines great things and adventures and finally takes a real adventure to find a missing slide given to him by a photographer for the final issue of his magazine.
This movie is OK, I give it a 4 out of 5.
Starring Ben Stiller (Zoolander, Tropic Thunder) as Walter Mitty, Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, How to Train Your Dragon) as Cheryl Melhoff, Jon Daly (Coke, Bride Wars) as Tim Naughton, Kathryn Hahn (We're the Millers, How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days) as Odessa Mitty, Adam Scott (Step Brothers, The Aviator) as Ted Hendricks and Paul Fitzgerald (Forgiven, Arbitrage) as Don Proctor.
This movie is about a best man in a wedding dies after getting too drunk at his friends wedding. When the bride and groom find out they postpone the honeymoon so they can go back and plan the funeral. When they try to contact his family they meet a young girl who turns out to be his girlfriend. They find out the there friend had allot of secrets they didn' t know about including a lingering health problem. This is a rather strange movie and is OK.
I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring Justin Long (Live free or Die Hard, Accepted) as Scott, Jess Weixler (Teeth, Peter and Vandy) as Kristin, Tyler Labine (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Reaper) as Lumpy, Addison Timlin (Derailed, Stand Up Guys) as Ramsey and Shelley Long (Cheers, The Money Pit) as Gail.
This movie is about a young man who looses his mom and decides to travel abroad. While on the plane he meets a man who has an interesting life and gets involved with his daughter after he is asked to deliver a gift to her upon his passing. He is taken on a wild ride when he meets her.
This is not a movie for kids. I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Shia LaBeouf (Transformer movies, Lawless) as Charlie Countryman, Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Thirteen) as Gabi Ibanescue, Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, The Hunt) as Nigel, Til Schweiger (Inglorious Bastards, This Means War) as Darko, Rupert Grint (Harry Potter movies, CBGB) as Karl, James Buckley (The Inbetweeners, Veronique) as Luc and Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Ed Wood) as Bill.
This is a great Disney movie about a vindictive fairy who tries to get even with an old friend who becomes King by cutting off her wings and presents it to his dying father, the King. When the new King has a daughter, he curses her to fall asleep when she pokes her finger on her 16th birthday can only be awakened by true loves kiss.
This is a great family movie but can be scary to kids under 10. I recommend this movie and give it a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Angelina Jolie (Salt, Wanted) as Maleficent, Elle Fanning (Super 8, Deja Vu) as Aurora, Sharlto Copley (District 9, Elysium) as Stefan, Lesley Manville (Another Year, Vera Drake) as Flittle, Imelda Staunton (Chicken Run, Much Ado About Nothing) as Knotgrass, Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises, Atonement) as Thistletwit, Sam Riley (Control, 13) as Diaval, Brenton Thwaites (Oculus, The Signal) as Prince Philip, Kenneth Cranham (Layer Cake, Hot Fuzz) as King Henry and Hannah New (Black Sails, ReVersion) as Princess Leila.
