Long Shot

Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), an unemployed journalist battered by his own misfortune, endeavors to pursue his childhood crush and babysitter who now happens to be one of the most powerful and unattainable women on the planet (Charlize Theron).

Never in a million years did I think that this would be a good rom-com pairing.  Like it just didn't make sense whatsoever but that's obviously the hook.  This movie was very enjoyable.  You believe the chemistry between the two leads.  There are plenty of laughs throughout and you find yourself rooting for them and enjoying the ride.  By definition - this is a good rom-com.

I would surprisingly recommend people checking this bad boy out.  I enjoyed it very much and was pleasantly surprised.

Uglydolls

Unconventionality rules in UGLYDOLLS, the new animated musical adventure set in the adorably different town of Uglyville, where weird is celebrated, strange is special and beauty is embraced as more than simply meets the eye.

This is not even worth me reviewing.  This is blatantly a kids movie.  This is very much NOT one of those animated movies that older kids and the adults that take them can enjoy too.  It is just for kids.  The message to the kids is great but it is not an enjoyable watch for anyone outside of them.

If you have small children - take them to see it and hopefully its in a theater with reclining seats so you can take a nap.  Outside of that scenario though - I would pass on seeing this ever.

Alita: Battle Angel

Based upon the graphic novel ("Manga") series "GUNNM" by Yukito Kishiro - From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY), comes ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment. When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past - she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she's grown to love.

I really enjoyed this movie.   I wasn't really sure what to think from the movies because it was going to be one of those science fiction movies where how good it is was totally dependent on whether they were able to transport you to their made up world or not.  This movie did a great job of taking you there.  You really bought that this world could exist and visually effects wise it was really cool.  The action was also awesome throughout.  I really liked it a lot and was pleasantly surprised.

I would definitely recommend fans of these kinds of movies checking this out.  It really had a little of everything in it and I enjoyed it a lot.

Hellboy

Hellboy is back, and he’s on fire. From the pages of Mike Mignola’s seminal work, this action packed story sees the legendary half-demon superhero (David Harbour, “Stranger Things”) called to the English countryside to battle a trio of rampaging giants. There he discovers The Blood Queen, Nimue (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil series), a resurrected ancient sorceress thirsting to avenge a past betrayal. Suddenly caught in a clash between the supernatural and the human, Hellboy is now hell-bent on stopping Nimue without triggering the end of the world.

Wow!  This was really, really bad.  Like really bad.  Like why did they bother doing this?  I was ready to pull the plug halfway through and it really just became background noise at that point.  I was a big fan of the original one and was even okay with the sequel.  I tried not to get excited about this one but I kind of did and that might have backfired on me because I thought this was total garbage

I would not recommend anyone bothering with this movie.  It was a total waste of time.

Missing Link

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost (voiced by Hugh Jackman) considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel's last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on traveling to America's Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.

This movie was a pretty decent watch.  It wasn't must see animation for all but it was worth checking out and should have done better box office wise than it did.  There were decent laughs, the story was well paced and the animation was pretty cool.  Cant really complain about the movie but can't really praise it either.  Ultimately its just kind of there I guess.

I would casually recommend families checking this out.  It is not a must see by any means whatsoever but you could definitely do much, much worse.

Shazam

We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).

This was one of those movies that is kind of hard to review.  Because superhero movies have become so much more for adults than kids you tend to watch them a certain way.  This movie went back to the roots of superhero movies and was very much for families and kids more so than adults.  It was not bad for what it was.  Honestly I can't complain about this one nearly as much as usual DC entries.  But it is nowhere near the level of most superhero movies of today.  It felt like an 80s family movie NOT your usual stuff now.

I would recommend families check this out because it is an enjoyable watch.  It's just not your usual superhero movie for those looking for something like that.

Breakthrough

Based on the Joyce Smith novel “The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s Resurrection,” based on the true story. When Joyce Smith’s fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake one winter morning, she and her family had seemingly lost everything. At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on her son. She mustered all her faith and strength into one force and cried out to God in a loud voice to save him. Miraculously, her son’s heart immediately started beating again. In the coming days, John would defy every expert, every case history, and every scientific prediction. Sixteen days after falling through the ice and being clinically dead for an hour, he walked out of the hospital under his own power, completely healed.

Usually these religious/spiritual movies are a total joke to me.  Like they are usually so blatant and forced that I pull the plug less than halfway through.  But there was something about this one.  It kept my interest straight through and found a lot of spiritually dead parts of me getting triggered a bit as I got caught up in the story.  That was pretty impressive.

I never thought I would say this but I would actually recommend people checking this bad boy out.  It's actually a very enjoyable and pretty realistic story - especially with the interactions between all the characters and what not.

Pet Sematary

An updated version of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary." The following is how the 1983 book is described:
"The road in front of Dr. Louis Creed's rural Maine home frequently claims the lives of neighborhood pets. Louis has recently moved from Chicago to Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their children and pet cat. Near their house, local children have created a cemetery for the dogs and cats killed by the steady stream of transports on the busy highway. Deeper in the woods lies another graveyard, an ancient Indian burial ground whose sinister properties Louis discovers when the family cat is killed."

The first Pet Sematary was honestly one of the scariest movies ever when I was younger.  Like that movie royally messed me up.  I actually used to have to jump off my bed for years because of the paranoia created in my head from that movie.  So I was very torn on this one thinking that they would not be able to do it as well.  But I was wrong.  They did a great job of recreating the building tension and creepiness and the third act of the movie was edge of your seat stuff all over again.

I would absolutely recommend people checking this movie out if you like scary movies.  It is a very enjoyable watch.

Little

The Universal Pictures comedy centers on a woman who gets the chance to relive the carefree life as her younger self (Martin), when the pressures of adulthood become too much.

Wow!  This movie was beyond unfunny.  I dozed off three times during an incredibly garbage first half of the movie and then decided to pull the plug.  Even without finishing it I have no doubt how the rest of the movie played out.  That's how formula it all was.

Nobody should bother with this movie.  Ever.  It was a really lame attempt at bringing back a beaten to death movie formula from the 80s and 90s that clearly should have been left alone.

The Best Of Enemies

The Best of Enemies follows the story of Ann Atwater (Henson), a civil rights activist in Durham, N.C., who battled Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis (Rockwell) for a decade until 1971, when the two agreed to co-chair a two-week community meeting to deal with a court-ordered school desegregation decree. That event changed both of their lives immeasurably.

This is one of those biographical movies that you know is good.  It's well acted.  It tells a great story.  But for some reason the movie is just kind of there.  You pretty much forget having watched it five minutes after its over.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to see this.  There really is no reason to.  You can just wait to randomly catch this one on tv randomly.