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A forger contacts a friend to get him out of jail early and now he owes him a debt. He now has to make a fake copy of a famous art piece to pay off his debt, and he finds out that his son has brain cancer. He has to balance these two things in his life.
This is kind of a depressing movie, I give it a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring John Travolta (Pulp Fiction, Grease) as Raymond J. Cutter, Christopher Plummer (Up, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as Joseph Cutter, Tye Sheridan (Mud, Joe) as Will Cutter, Abigail Spencer (Cowboys & Aliens, This Means War) as Agent Paisley, Anson Mount (Safe, Hell on Wheels) as Keegan, Marcus Thomas (You Kill Me, Drowning Mona) as Carl and Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty, The Ides of March) as Kim.
A high school football coach gets fired for hurting a student in the locker room. He gets a job as a coach/PE teacher in a small rural school in California and moves his family there. He realizes that some of the students are great runners and persuades the principle to let him create a cross country track team.
After training them, they make it all the way to state finals and they win. He also decides to turn down a job at a better school when he realizes that this is his families home.
This is a great Disney family movie and I give it a 4 out of 5.
Starring Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, Waterworld) as Jim White, Ramiro Rodriguez (Made in Hollywood) as Danny Diaz, Carlos Pratts (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Coyote) as Thomas Valles, Johnny Ortiz (Ali, Play It to the Bone) as Jose Cardenas, Maria Bello (Prisoners, Secret Window) as Cheryl White, Morgan Saylor (Homeland, Jamie Marks is Dead) as Julie White and Elsie Fisher (Despicable Me movies, Bad Behavior) as Jamie White.
A couple use an agency to adopt a little girl from Haiti, and take a trip out to go meet there new daughter. After meeting at the agency office, they meet there new girl and are taken to a villa where they will stay a couple of days while they wait for her passport.
But after the girl disappears and they can' t get a hold of anyone at the agency they know something is up. This is a great mystery/suspense movie. I recommend this movie and give it a 4.5 out of 5.
Starring John Cusack (2012, High Fidelity) as Benjamin, Ryan Phillippe (The Lincoln Lawyer, Cruel Intentions) as Steven, Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight, Under the Dome) as Shannon, Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook, Stoker) as Reigert, Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights, Anger Management) as Superintendent, introducing Briana Roy as Nina, Jandres Burgos (The Losers, Actor for Hire) as Salo and Veronica Faye Foo (Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame) as Paola.
This movie has a dark Dick Tracy type of feel to it.
A man that works for a government agency meets a new employee who turns out to be a double of him but better with people and women. It turns his world upside down.
This was a real weird movie and I do not recommend it. I give it a 1 out of 5.
Starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Now You See Me) as Simon/James, Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Stoker) as Hannah, Wallace Shawn (Toy Story movies, The Princess Bride) as Mr. Papadopoulos, Yasmin Paige (Ballet Shoes, Submarine) as Melanie, Noah Taylor (Edge of Tomorrow, Almost Famous) as Harris and James Fox (Sherlock Holmes, Patriot Games) as The Colonel.
An orphan so desperately wants to be adopted and tries to impress his potential parents by his experiments but they go wrong. At his science fair his experiment is sabotaged by a mad man from the future and is saved by a future family member.
This is a great family movie and I give it a 4 out of 5.
Starring Angela Bassett (Malcolm X, Strange Days) Mildred (voice), Daniel Hansen (Buying the Cow, Stuart Little 2) as Lewis (voice), Jordan Fry (Gone, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Lewis (voice), Matthew Josten (Chicken Little, Rodney) as Michael "Goob" Yagoobian (voice), John H H. Ford (Long Day's Nightmare) as Mr. Harrington and Dara McGarry (Frozen, Bolt) as Mrs. Harrington/Receptionist (voice).
A group of writers have a club and get together weekly to review each others work. When one of them gets a book deal they all get jealous. And, one of them admits that he likes one of the others but did not work out the way he had hoped. This is a good date movie.
I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.
Starring Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting (The Bing Bang Theory, The Wedding Ringer) as Hannah Rinaldi (as Kaley Cuoco), Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica movies) as Sigrid Hagenguth, Jonathan Banks (Beverly Hills Cop, Airplane!) as David Kelleher, Teri Polo (Meet the Parents movies, The Fosters) as Colette Mooney and Jonathon Bennett (Mean Girls, Cheaper by the Dozen 2) as William Bruce.
This movie is about a high school senior with a drinking problem decides to date a quite girl after his popular girlfriend dumps him for not having a plan for the future. But this new girl changes him to the surprise of his friends and family. He encouraged her to go to college and live life for herself instead of her mom and she did the same for him.
This is a good date movie but not for kids. I give this movie a 4 out of 5.
Starring Miles Teller (Divergent, Whiplash) as Sutter, Shailene Woodley (Divergent, The Fault In Our Stars) as Aimee, Brie Larson (21 Jump Street, Don Jon) as Cassidy, Masam Holden (Elizabethtown, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) as Ricky, Dayo Okeniyi (The Hunger Games, Terminator Genisys) as Marcus, Kyle Changler (The Wolf of Wall Street, Zero Dark Thirty) as Tommy and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Machinist, Road to Perdition) as Sara.
This movie is about a TV talk show host and his producer being invited by the North Korean leader to visit him and do a scripted interview. Once they arrive, they are greeted by a very different looking North Korea than what they always hear about. Before they leave for the trip though, they are contacted by the CIA and are told the CIA wants them to help kill the leader.
This is a funny movie with gruesome scenes and allot of curse words. I give this movie a 4 out of 5 and do not recommend it for kids.
It should also be noted that before the release of this movie North Korea threatened to attack anyplace that play the movie, saying it was a disgrace to the leaders image.
Starring James Franco (127 Hours, This Is the End) as Dave Skylark, Seth Rogen (This Is the End, Superbad) as Aaron Rapaport, Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield, 127 Hours) as Agent Lacey, Randall Park (Larry Crowne, Neighbors) as President Kim, Diana Bang (Tom Dick & Harriet, Sorority Wars) as Timothy Simons (Veep, Draft Day) as Malcolm and Reese Alexander (Fifty Shades of Grey, Horns) as Agent Botwin.
