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After the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII a group of soldiers are tasked with capturing war criminals and deciding in the Emperor is guilty of war crimes or should be pardoned. At the same time Gen Fellers, Gen. MacArthurs right hand man is trying to find a lost love he last saw in Japan five years earlier before the bombings who he met while in college.
But he finds out through her Japanese General uncle that she was killed in one of the bombings. This is a great war movie and I recommend it. I give it a 4 out of 5.
Starring Matthew Fox (Lost, World War Z) as General Bonner Fellers, Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black movies, No Country for Old Men) as General Douglas MacArthur, Eriko Hatsune (Spiral, Norwegian Wood) as Aya Shimada, Toshiyuki Nishida (Tonko, The Ramen Girl) Takahashi.
This movie is about a former DEA agent who moves with his daughter to Louisiana to get away from someone he put in jail when he was undercover starts getting into trouble with some of the locals who clearly don' t like him. When it is found out about who he really is a connection is made but some of the locals and all hell breaks loose and they come after is family.
This is an action packed movie with great fight scenes. I recommend it to action junkie and fight movies. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Jason Statham (The Transporter movies, Crank) as Phil Broker, James Franco (127 Hours, This Is the End) as Morgan 'Gator' Bodine, Izabela Vidovic (Zombieland, Help for the Holidays) as Maddy Broker, Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns, 21) as Cassie Bodine Klum, Marcus Hester (Looper, Lawless) as Jimmy Klum, Clancy Brown (Cowboys & Aliens, When the Game Stands Tall) as Sheriff Keith Rodrigue, Winona Ryder (Black Swan, The Letter) as Sheryl Marie Mott, Omar Benson Miller (8 Mile, 1982) as Teedo and Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight, White House Down) as Susan Hetch.
This movie is about a group of boys are find themselves one by one in a wooded area surrounded by a large metal wall that opens once a day and closes at night. A small group of those boys go out during the day and try to memorize the maze and find a way out but it changes every night and you don' t want to be left in it over night.
This movie has a feel of the Hunger Games movies and is also going to be a series.
I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf, The Internship) as Thomas, Aml Ameen (Lee Daniels' The Butler, Kidulthood) as Alby, Ki Hong Lee (She Has a Boyfriend, The Nine Love of Chloe King) as Minho, Blake Cooper (Prosper, Parental Guidance) as Chuck, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Love Actually, Nanny McPhee) as Newt, Will Poulter (We're The Millers, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) as Gally, Dexter Darden (Cadillac Records, Joyful Noise) as Frypan, Kaya Scodelario (The Truth About Emanuel, Clash of the Titans) as Teresa, Chris Sheffield (Transformers; Dark of the Moon, Clear Blue) as Ben, Joe Adler (Prom, The Day I Finally Decided to Kill Myself) as Zart and Patricia Clarkson (Shutter Island, The Green Mile) as Ava Paige.
A crop dusting plane wants more than his future and badly wants to fly high and fast and compete in a race but is deathly afraid of heights. He partners with an old was plane who he admires to train him on how he will have to fly. He runs into some struggles during the race.
This is a cute kids movie from the makers of the cars movies. This is a great family and kids movie and I recommend it. I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Dane Cook (Mr. Brooks, Dan in Real Life) as Dusty Crophopper (voice), Stacy Keach (The Bourne Legacy, Nebraska) as Skipper (voice), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond, Finding Nemo) as Chug (voice), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives, Coraline) as Dottie (voice), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Enough Said) as Rochelle (voice), Priyanka Chopra (Don movies, Barfi!) as Ishani (voice), John Cleese (Spud 3: Learning to Fly, God Loves Caviar) as Bulldog (voice), Cedric the Entertainer (Top Five, Planes: Fire & Rescue) as Leadbottom (voice), Carlos Alazraqui (Happy Feet, Toy Story 3) as El Chupacabra/Additional Voices (voice), Roger Craig Smith (Wreck-It Ralph, Manly) as Ripslinger/Additional Voices (voice), Anthony Edwards (ER, Top Gun) as Echo (voice), Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman Forever) as Bravo (voice), Sinbad (First Kid, Jingle All The Way) as Roper (voice) and Gabriel Iglesias (Magic Mike, A Haunted House 2) as Ned/Zed (voice).
Well, this movie is a cross between Harry Potter, True Blood and the Twilight movies. Definitely a chic flick.
A vampire princess and her guardian return to school after they are captured from running away from school for a year. When they return things are a little different then before. It is a battle between three different groups, the Dhampir, Moroi and Strigoi.
This is definitely a teen movie and if you like either True Blood, Twilight or Harry Potter than you would probably like this movie. I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures, Mayor Cupcake) as Rose Hathaway, Lucy Fry (Mako Mermaids, Lighting Point) as Lissa Dragomir, Danila Kozlovsky (Dubrovskiy, Dukhless) as Dimitri Belikov, Gabriel Byrne (Ghost Ship, In Treatment) as Victor Dashkov, Dominic Sherwood (Not Fade Away, Sadie J) as Christian Ozera, Olga Kurylenko (Quantom of Solace, Oblivion) as Headmistress Kirova and Sarah Hyland (Geek Charming, Modern Family) as Natalie.
A group of storm trackers witness what is the worst and largest tornado strike in history. Some of them even lose there lives in it s pursuit. This movie is a great movie with excellent special effects. The CG work in this movie is amazing.
The way that we have frequent storms now days it is possible that we could one day experience a massive tornado like in the movie. I give this movie a 5 out of 5.
Starring Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Captain America: The First Avenger) as Gary, Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead, Faces in the Crowd) as Allison, Matt Walsh (Ted, The Hangover) as Pete, Max Deacon (I, Anna, Summer in February) as Donnie, Nathan Kress (Chicken Little, Babe: Pig in the City) as Trey, Alycia Debham Carey (Martha' s New Coat, The Branch) as Kaitlyn, Arlen Escarpeta (Final Destination 5, Star Trek Into Darkness) as Daryl and Jeremy Sumpter (Friday Night Lights, Peter Pan) as Jacob.
This movie is about three friends and the twists and turns they all experience in differing relationships. They all hit that awkward moment in a relationship when a women asks "so....where is this going?".
This is a funny date movie but not for kids because of sexual content.
I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring Zac Efron (The Lucky One, Parkland) as Jason, Miles Teller (21 & Over, Divergent) as Daniel, Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle, Fruitvale Station) Mikey, Imogen Poots (Need for Speed, Filth) as Ellie, Mackenzie Davis (What If, Smashed) as Chelsea, Jessica Lucas (Cloverfield, Evil Dead) as Vera, Addison Timlin (Stand Up Guys, Odd Thomas) as Alana and Josh Pais (Phone Booth, Syrup) as Fred.
Three old friends get together for another friends wedding in Vegas and after hashing out some old issues they have a great time but with a surprising ending. This movie has a great cast and is a great date movie.
I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5. I recommend this movie.
Starring Michael Douglas (Haywire, Solitary Man) as Billy, Robert De Niro (Grudge Match, The Family) as Paddy, Morgan Freeman (Dolphone Tale 2, Lucy) as Archie, Kevin Kline (My Old Navy, The Last of Robin Hood) as Sam, Mary Steenburgen (Song One, Brahmin Bulls) as Diana, Jerry Ferrara (Entourage, Lone Survivor) as Dean, Romany Malco (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Blades of Glory) as Lonnie, Michael Ealy (Seven Pounds, Think Like a Man) as Ezra and Bre Blair (Quarantine 2: Terminal, Cherry Falls) as Lisa.
This movie is about a man living on a sail boat who's ship gets overrun by a violent sea storm and his ship sinks. He survives a couple of days in a life raft. After several attempts at getting the attention of passing ships he gives up but gets rescued at the last minute. There is not much dialogue in this movie.
I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring Robert Redford (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) as Our Man.
A group of art historians and dealers get recruited to join the Army and find stolen art and statues stolen by the Germans at the end of WWII. Everyone thought they would not make good soldiers but they suffered there own losses and also had to fight.
This movie has a great cast and I recommend it. I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring George Clooney (the Oceans movies, Gravity) as Frank Stokes, Matt Damon (The Bourne movies The Departed) as James Granger, Bill Murray (Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters movies) as Richard Campbell, Cate Blanchett (The Lord of the Rings movies, The Turning) as John Goodman (Argo, The Big Lebowski) as Walter Garfield, Jean Dujardin (The Artist, The Wolf of Wall Street) as Jean Claude Clermont, Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Iris) as Donald Jeffries and Bob Balaban (Gosford Park, Ghost World) as Preston Savitz.
A man that writes letters for other people through an auditory system discovers a new computer program based on artificial intelligence that constantly evolves begins a relationship with the personality behind this new system. After finally deciding to sign the divorce papers with his ex-wife, he realizes that this new friend has relationships with many other people.
This is a strange movie with some intense sexual scenes, not for children. I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line, Gladiator) as Theodore, Lynn Adrianna (Loaded, Godspeed) as Letter Writer #1, Lisa Renee Pitts (Showtime, The Rally) as Letter Writer #2, Gabe Gomez (Twiharder, The Junkyard Willie Movie: Lost in Transit) as Letter Writer #3, Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Moneyball) as Paul, Rooney Mara (The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as Catherine, Bill Hader (Superbad, 22 Jump Street) as Chat Room Friend #2 (Voice), Kristin Wiig (Bridesmaids, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) as SexyKitten (voice), Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers, Lost in Translation) as Samantha (voice), Amy Adams (Man of Steel, American Hustle) as Amy, Olivia Wilde (Rush, In Time) as the blind date and Laura Kai Chen (Eden, Junk) as Tatiana.
This was a great movie. Great expanded all star cast, action packed sequences.
This movie is the third installment of The Expendable series. In this movie a group of mercenaries is hired once again to capture a criminal but things go wrong and one of there own is gravely injured. The leader than decides that his old crew is too out of shape to finish the job so he decides to hire new more youthful guns to finish the job.
I definitely recommend this movie to any action movie junkie. I give this movie a 5 out of 5.
Starring Sylvester Stallone (Rocky movies, Rambo movies) as Barney Ross, Jason Statham (The Transporter movies, Snatch.) as Lee Christmas, Harrison Ford (original Star Wars movies, Indian Jones movies) as Drummer, former Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator movies, Predator movies) as Trench, Mel Gibson (Braveheart, Lethal Weapon movies) as Stonebanks, Wesley Snipes (Blade movies, Demolition Man) as Doc, Dolph Lundgren (Universal Soldier, Masters of the Universe) Gunner Jensen, UFC fighter Randy Couture (Ambushed, Hijacked) as Toll Road, Terry Crews (Bridesmaids, Get Smart) Caeaser, Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, X-Men: The Last Stand) as Bonaparte, Glen Powell (The Dark Knight Rises, Stuck in Love) as Thorn, Antonio Banderas (Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) as Galgo, boxer Victor Ortiz (Dancing with the Stars, I Love Jenni) as Mars, MMA fighter Ronda Rousey as Luna, Kellan Lutz (Twilight movies, The Legen of Hercules) as Smilee, Jet Li (Hero, Unleashed) as Yin Yang, Ivan Kostadinov (Thermae Romae II, The Legen of Hercules) as Krug and Robert Davi (Die Hard, The Goonies) as Goran Vata.
