This Is Where I Leave You – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
As a family comes together, after the passing of the patriarch, drama from all their lives collide and many secrets are revealed.
Positive (Worth Seeing)
Whether you’ll have to go to the movies, download or stream, movies of this category are worth your time and money with few, if any, qualms from us.
The Family – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
If you know Robert De Niro is playing a mobster, then why would you not see the movie? Add on Dianna Agron, who seemingly is the only one to really break away from Glee successfully, and then Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones and a mob story which doesn’t take itself too seriously, and really what…
Things Never Said – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
A spoken word artist tries to escape her life through poetry, only to realize putting pen to paper isn’t enough.
Kimi no na wa. (Your Name.) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Boy meets girl, but not in the way you’re used to. For there is so much that separates them. Yet, by edging fate toward a favorable outcome, there is hope that neither one will become a forgotten name in the other’s life.
Pitch Perfect 2 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Pitch Perfect 2 will remind you why you fell in love with the original, and honestly, is probably one of the funniest movies released in 2015 thus far. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) [2014] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In this live-action adaption of the classic tale, CGI is used throughout to help this version stand out.
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A story, within a story, within a story, of a young man’s eccentric father figure who taught him everything he knows. Review (with Spoilers) Let it be noted I have only seen Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou when it comes to Wes Anderson’s movies and each one contains this weird…
Blue Is The Warmest Color – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Combining the romantic chemistry of young adult novels, lack of inhibition, a story which feels like a 600-page book you can’t put down, you get Blue is the Warmest Color.
God Help The Girl – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview As the summer of 2014 comes to an end, one last coming of age story is released to top the season off. Review (with Spoilers) After Plush, I must admit the idea of Emily Browning playing the role of a musician wasn’t a horrible idea. Especially since Skins alumni Hannah Murrah and Olly Alexander…
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Though a strange movie, it is also one of the most compelling ones that I didn’t go to a theater to see. Review (with Spoilers) People often wonder why actors are paid millions of dollars for movies, and the reason is name recognition. This film I never heard of, but because Shia LaBeouf is…
Neighbors – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview As with most Seth Rogen movies, the comedy is about the oddness of close male relationships, jackass style violence, and somewhere amongst that is character development. Review (with Spoilers) Whenever Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg come together, usually magic happens. The only exception being The Guilt Trip, and maybe The Watch as well. Otherwise,…
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Representation matters and as Viola Davis said, though more geared toward women of color, the only thing which separates people of color, or in this case Black people, from everyone else is opportunity. But in Floyd’s case what separates him from everyone else wasn’t just opportunity but hard work. Which, into his 80s, is…
Moonlight – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
A movie which captures the childhood, teen years, and adulthood of a young gay, or questioning, Black male growing up in poverty and tormented for most of his life.
The Fault In Our Stars – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview What surely may be this decade’s “The Notebook.” Review (with Spoilers) I read The Fault in Our Stars years ago without any idea of it becoming as big as it would. It was simply a recommended book on Amazon and I needed something to read to keep myself from going insane due to school…
The Divergent Series: Divergent – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview And so rises a new trilogy but, with this one, we get a more fleshed out hero to root for. Trigger Warning(s): Violence against women & short scene showing attempted rape Review (with Spoilers) Let me first state I did not read the books and what first drew me to this film was Zoe…
That Awkward Moment – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Three 20 something-year-old friends attempting to deal with finding “the one”
Whiplash – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
They say the best teacher you ever have is the one which pushes you the hardest, to the point of hating them, and this is one drum student’s story with the teacher from hell.
The Face of Love – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
A film in which one woman is given a second chance to physically be with her husband and get the closure she needs.
Snowpiercer – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a person plans a revolution, it is always hard to estimate the amount of sacrifices there will be. Leading one to question: Is the future you’re fighting for worth the blood it will take to run the engine? Review (with Spoilers) I have delayed seeing this film for a few weeks now, and…
Follow Me – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Who doesn’t want to experience love? Who doesn’t want to feel special? Who doesn’t want someone they can trust with their secrets, their dreams of the future, and have that person be just as vulnerable to share their own? This is the hope you walk into whenever a possible romance begins. What happens when those…
