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In the Goosebumps movie, upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination – the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it's suddenly up to Stine, Zach, and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong in the new Goosebumps movie.
I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. It was basically a family friendly Halloween type of movie. It reminded me a lot of Jumanji. The best part was that it kind of mocked itself with the author of all the Goosebumps movies being one of the main characters. That part of the whole thing brought about a lot of laughs and made the movie even more surprisingly enjoyable.
I would recommend families check this out. There are some scary parts but for the most part, it was a surprisingly enjoyable movie.
Master chef Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) arrives in London after cleaning up his act with the sole intention of earning a third Michelin star. Having made a lot of enemies including the drugdealers he owes money to, he must work with a ragtag group of old colleagues and new cooks to try to turn his long-time friend Tony’s restaurant around.
This is another one of those why movies. The acting was good. They developed the characters pretty well and I thought they did a great job of showing the chef/restaurant world. But I honestly watched the whole movie asking myself why this movie was made and why was I watching it. Not that it was necessarily bad. Just that it was pretty much pointless.
Again, I wouldn't say this was a bad movie but I'm not really sure I would recommend anyone seeing it. The movie ends up just kind of being there and you basically forget about it as soon as you are done watching it.
In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.
This was a great biographical movie. You have to value the validity of it all since Dre and Ice Cube produced it too. I totally forgot how much of this I remembered from back in the day. The feuding and the listening to each other's albums taking shots at each other was so weird because you always imagined that stuff like that was happening and then you actually saw it play out.
This was a great watch - especially for someone who was into that kind of music or followed all the back and forth drama from back then.
In The Intern, Robert De Niro plays Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Hathaway).
This movie is pretty much formula in every way. You have essentially seen the movie by seeing the trailer for it. That being said, it is still an enjoyable watch because of Anne Hathaway and Robert DeNiro. They had great on screen chemistry and that is what totally carried the movie.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend that anyone rush off to see this. It's a decent watch, especially if you like the two actors, but not a must see by any means.
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
This movie probably would have been amazing visually in the theater. The cinematography of the mountain and what not pretty much made it an extra character in the movie. The character development was awesome for both the mountain and the climbers. There were a couple of moments where it was insanely intense and they did a great job of hooking you into the battle of the human spirit versus the elements.
I would definitely recommend people checking this out. I was only somewhat interested in seeing it and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie.
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible, rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney’s safe return. Based on a best-selling novel, and helmed by master director Ridley Scott, The Martian features a star studded cast that includes Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover.
Matt Damon has officially joined Tom Hanks and Will Smith as actors that can completely carry a movie by themselves. Literally. Just them on screen with scenery for the vast majority of the movie. There was a huge cast in this and there were plenty of scenes where they were back on earth at Nasa with all of them. But what really carried this movie were the parts where Matt Damon was all alone and trying to stay alive while awaiting his possible rescue. Damon did an amazing job of portraying the desperation but also keeping it humorously light at times as well. The ending of the movie got a little bit too fluffy and feel goodish for something that was so smart throughout the movie, but that really is the only knock that I can make against it.
I would definitely recommend people checking this out. It's a great movie both visually and acting/writing wise. They manage to make a very sci-fi movie a big time mainstream hit.
The Drac pack is back for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 2! Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania... Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – “Vampa” Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. But little do they know that Drac’s grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – things are going to get batty!
This was pretty disappointing. The first movie was a surprisingly enjoyable movie. This one felt a lot more like one of those sequels that is just slapped together to take parents' money. There were not nearly enough laughs as the first one. There wasn't enough of the side characters that made the first one more enjoyable. The story was quick, lame and rushed.
I wouldn't really recommend that anyone bother with this one. Although, if you have kids you are going to end up going because there really isn't anything else out there for them.
"Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension" is the final entry in the franchise.
See how short that synopsis was? That's about how much this movie really deserved. At this point in the franchise, you know what you are getting with these movies. It's pretty much an hour and ten minutes of lame setup for about ten minutes of scares at the end. While it was cool with a lot of the links to and explanations about the previous entries, it wasn't enough to make you think that this movie franchise has not completely run its course by now.
I wouldn't really recommend people wasting their time with this. If you liked the others, this is more of the same but isn't really worth the time or money.
The sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit horror movie. In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister, a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon) and her 9-year-old twin sons (Robert and Dartanian Sloan) find themselves in a rural house marked for death as the evil spirit of Buhguul continues to spread with frightening intensity.
Not sure that the original called for a sequel. There is also a reason why this was released in August. It was pretty much garbage. The male lead was just plain awful. Actually all actors in this were pretty much awful. The somewhat original idea from the original was barely enough to carry that one and seemed just plain silly by the end of this one.
I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting their time or money on this turd. There were some cheap sight scares but nothing more than that.
In Mexico, "Sicario" means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past (Benicio Del Toro), the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.
This was a very gritty and real feeling movie. Benicio Del Toro was amazingly badass from start to finish. Josh Brolin was also great. Emily Blunt did a great job playing the moral compass but the director spent way too much time focused on her pensive face. There was no misunderstanding how she felt about the events taking place and the deep thought zoom ins just seemed too much after a while. They could have trimmed a bunch of time off the movie and kept it tighter with less of that. Outside of that - there was really not much to complain about.
I would recommend people checking this out. Its a very well done movie and very intense at parts.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.
I am speechless at how much I enjoyed this movie. When I saw the trailer for it my immediate thought was why in the blue hell does that warrant a movie being made. I saw that Robert Zemeckis was attached to it and thought that I'm sure he will do some great visual things but still - really? This is a movie that will be worth two hours of my life? It absolutely was. I thought that Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a great job and the direction of the movie was done so well that you really get hooked into the story and the plan as it develops and plays out. I'm actually kind of upset that I watched this movie online and not in theaters. I can't help but think that this in IMAX or 3D would have been amazing. Even the bootleg version had me physically tense up at certain shots with how high the tight rope stuff was.
I would surprisingly recommend that everyone check this movie out. While it didn't seem like it would be, it is an excellent story and very well directed.
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan and producer Jason Blum welcome you to The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.
Torn on this movie a little. Just because it did have some serious creepy as hell moments/images with the grandparents. Unfortunately, the kids were awful and annoying as hell. There were way too many what the fuck moments in there. Especially towards the end and not the good kind. And it was that annoying hand held camera filming kind of movie. Is that how far M Night Shymalalalalalalalalalan has fallen?
I would not recommend anyone bothering with this movie. It had creepy moments but left the whole theater walking out saying what the hell was that.
The Green Inferno, directed, co-written, and produced by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever), follows a group of student activists who travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone…and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Eli Roth has further cemented his place in my mind as to why I will never travel out of the country. Hostel definitely started it and pretty much eliminated all of Europe as far as I'm concerned. This movie did the same thing for any jungle related part of the world. This movie was downright nasty at times and it definitely made me think several times about what the hell was wrong with me that I was still watching it. The graphic violence and grossness was off the charts. There were ample points to turn the movie off because it really was just a one upper on what would they do next but I pushed through to the end somehow.
Was this a good movie? No! Should you see it? God, no! I will be wondering why this was ever made for a long time and I still think Eli Roth needs to be on some kind of a watchlist.
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
This movie was exactly what you would think it would be. Imagine the zombie apocalypse through the eyes of a couple of nerdy teenage boys. It was stupid overall but they really didn't take themselves too seriously which salvaged the movie somewhat. The campiness of it did manage to provide some laughs.
Even with the campiness, I wouldn't really recommend anyone bothering with this movie. It really was one of those "why was this made?" type of movies.
