This was totally adorable, but admittedly, not the greatest animated film of the past decade. The story focuses on Turbo (voiced by Ryan Reynolds), the little snail who dreamed of being in the Indy 500 and racing with the big boys. In the real world, he “works” in a tomato garden with a bunch of […]
Archive of posts and reviews for 2013 releases
Laugh with the Sinners: Get to Know The Wolf of Wall Street
This was a big movie when it came out. It was sexy, funny, terrifying, and unbelievable in many ways. It’s story about a middle class young man who finds out how to be rich and does just about anything and everything to stay that way. But out of all the guff I’d heard prior to […]
Review: Insidious: Chapter 2
I had such high hopes for this movie! Unfortunately, they were dashed about forty-five minutes in. The movie started out well enough, a similar suspenseful vibe like in the beginning of The Conjuring. The tie-ins from the previous film were actually done reasonably well throughout the story, but as the movie went on, I’m sorry […]
Review: Closed Circuit
I had higher expectations for this movie, and unfortunately, it fell a little flat. Don’t stop reading yet, it did have its merits! The story focuses on lawyers (I guess they’re called “barristers” in Britain..?) Martin Rose (Eric Bana) and Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall) as they prepare to defend a Turkish man against charges of […]
Review: Despicable Me 2
I had high hopes, and I know everyone else loved it, but I liked the first one better. I’m sorry. I thought the villain was better, I thought the story was better, and even the minions were better. I was most looking forward to Kristin Wiig as Lucy, Gru’s love interest, and she was pretty […]
Review: Red 2
Bruce Willis has still got it. I know I wasn’t very nice about A Good Day to Die Hard (believe me, I really TRIED, because I love the man and the franchise so much!), but this one is a winner. I might even go so far as to say this was better than the first […]
Review: Pacific Rim
I was not going to see this movie. I thought it was Transformers, underwater, and I thought it looked pretty lame and unoriginal, but after the reviews started coming in (and after I realized the hottie from Sons of Anarchy (Charlie Hunnam) was in it!), I decided to give it a shot. Totally. Worth. It. […]
Review: The Conjuring
I’m not a horror movie person. But I grew up when movies like Dracula: 2000, Valentine, and Halloween H20 were coming out. Not to put down any of those–they were among the better ones at the time (plus they’ve got some super people in them)–but compared to a “real” horror movie, they were a little […]
Review: 2 Guns
The title pretty much sums it up. It’s a pretty violent flick. But, it was pretty entertaining, too. Denzel Washington plays Bobby, an undercover DEA agent trying to bring down a Mexican drug cartel, led by Edward James Olmos’s character Papi, with his partner, an undercover US Navy Intelligence officer, Stig, played by Mark Wahlberg. […]
Review: Fruitvale Station
Indie movies. Some of them are done to perfection, and some of them fail and should remain out of the spotlight forever. This one was the former. Another movie based on a true story, this one told that story in wonderful detail, and raised all the right questions. I almost didn’t get to see this […]