Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)

Reviewed February 25, 2017 Following the previous review of Mockingjay pt 1 being compared to Harry Potter ATDH pt 1, this one matches Mr. Potter by going balls to the wall in part 2. Plenty of action, some surprising suspense and horror sections, great plot twists and turns, some gut-punches, and an ending that should

Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)

Reviewed February 25, 2017 Following in the Harry Potter theme, the final book of the Hunger Games series was split into two movies. And just like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1, this movie suffers from too much exposition and not a whole lot actually happening. From a story perspective, it works well

Movie Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Reviewed February 18, 2017 Fresh off his stunning success directing Jaws, Steven Spielberg helmed a ground-breaking sci-fi movie about a group of scientists chasing an alien encounter, in addition to two ordinary people that were visited by aliens and began to see visions of a meeting place. Visually stunning for the era, accompanied by a

Movie Review: The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

Reviewed February 17, 2017 Following in the footsteps of the quirky, hilarious, and “right in the feels” The Lego Movie, this spinoff features the dark and brooding Batman and his battles against various villains and his own personal issues (it has a few layers). Amazing voice acting from Will Arnett, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, and

Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

Reviewed February 16, 2017 John Wick was a movie that seemingly came out of nowhere, with little hype, and ended up as one of the greatest pure action movies ever made; with a vibrant and interesting world spun amongst the mass badassery of Keanu Reeves and realistic fights and gunplay, it just worked. The sequel

Movie Review: 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (2015)

Reviewed February 5, 2017 WWE has a studio that makes, on the whole, really bad movies. This is the third in a series that started with John Cena, went to Randy Orton, and now stars Dean Ambrose as a cop fighting a whole roster of dirty cops inside a locked-down police precinct. Kind of a

Movie Review: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)

Reviewed February 2, 2017 This is a wonderfully animated movie about teenage owls kidnapped by an evil warlord; one escapes and forms a crew of misfits while escaping to good guys, while the other stays and becomes evil. Directed by Zack Snyder and features some famous voice actors (Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, among others), although