PG-13  |  89 min 

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director:  Chris Evans
Writer: Ronald Bass, Jen Smolka, Chris Shafer, Paul Vicknair
Stars: Chris Evans, Alice Eve

Plot: Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.


Before We Go is Chris Evans directorial debut and as a first debut it wasn't that bad of a film. It follow Chris Evans character who is a trumpet player in a station who helps out a women who's bag was stolen, he trys to help her find it but as they search for it they begin to learn new things about each other. 

I did enjoy how it was small and wasn't trying to go big for being in New York, most of the scenes in this movie are just small situations the two main characters go through. For taking place at night you never know what time is giving it a feel that night never goes away, which goes with the theme of the film. 

The problem I had with the film was that because this is a romance film, it does fall into the typical cliches you see from all kinds of romantic films. You can mostly tell this from the dialogue and the way the two main characters talk to each other. You can tell that the biggest inspiration for this film was Before Sunrise, but the one thing I noticed what that movie had unlike this one was more natural dialogue that felt real. 

The cinematography was a bit of a mix bag for me. Almost every shot had a blurry background which is common with most digital camera's these days, it fine for style depending on what you are doing, but the problem here was that it was used constantly for the whole duration of the movie. This removes the sense of space you have making everything more claustrophobic and in a setting like New York you kinda would want to show off the city especially at night. 

Before We Go is a nice debut of a film, but I think its biggest problem is that it feels like a debut, which can turn some people off and not enjoy the film. If you can check this out try it on a VOD service and you will enjoy it nicely at home.

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PG-13  |  100 min

Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi

Writer & Director: Mamoru Oshii 

Plot: In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence takes place years later after the first film and this time our main protagonist is Bauto as we follow his investigation on doll like robots being controlled by someone. His new partner is Togusa this time who he has to learn to get along with as well. They both try to solve this mystery while trying to keep everything as quite as possible because they are let off the case. This is how a great sequel is done that stands on its own in animation, style, and story and doesn't have to rely on its original film.

Ghost In The Shell 2 has some of the best animation I've seen out of a anime film. I personally do prefer the original films animation due to its use of being all hand drawn and shot on film, but this movie really does prove that its really about how you use the CGI and animation. There is CGI in the movie, which sometimes doesn't fit the most in animation, but here its almost not noticeable at all, its blends in perfectly with the hand drawn animation and even was hard to distinguish the two.  I tend to not like CGI but the way its used here is definitely something that stands out and stands on its own from the original film.

My only real mixed feeling on the film is the plot. Mostly the execution of the story. Its done in such a stylized manner that its becomes hard to follow, even at times hard to tell what is even going on. I understand that it was going for a more slow paced philosophical approach but it was bordering on the line of almost becoming not interesting. 

Now for the overall style of the film, its is noticeably different from the first film, but thats not necessarily a bad thing here. The first film was very cold and dark and mostly took place in the city which match the tone perfectly. This film however is much more warm and much brighter, its works for the scenery and the locations and does add to a different feel that stands on its own. I like that a sequel to a film can make enough changes to make it feel like something original than just riding off the original. 

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PG-13  |  119 min

Genre:  Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Robert Schwentke
Writers: Brian Duffiel, Akiva Goldsman, Mark Bomback
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney

Plot: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.

Insurgent is the first of what I'm sure to be many more sequels in the Divergent series.

Most of the movie feels like a build up for its next sequels films to come. At the same time feeling just like the first movie. There are a lot of good actors in the movie, but the characters themselves aren't much more developed at all. Shailene Woodley is good in the movie and is anything, the one thing that keeps the movie watchable at times. 

Its very repetitive and boring at time even with all the action in the film. But there really isn't much more that this movie has to offer.

This just kinda blends in with all the other movies based on books that take play in some sort of post-apocalyptic future. That kinda puts this series back especially with Hunger Games leading this genre.

The film is not bad, but I personally am not looking forward to what this series leads to. That could just be me, but for those who haven't seen the previous movie and haven't read the books, its a skip. But if you have seen the previous film and are interested in this one, its better to wait to rent it. 

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Episode: "The Arcanum Club"

In this weeks episode, we followed to the events from the last episode with Norma being worried about the women, Annika who had mysteriously disappeared.

You get the feeling that she deep downs knows that Norman is responisble but she trys to figure what happened on her own. Whether its for not wanting to think that he is resonpible for her disapearance or that she wants to help cover up evidence.

This leads to Norma going to a party that Annika was meant to attend. Because she doesn't know that password she if forced to sneak in. She does run into Sheriff Romero and she tells him everything that she know about Annika, hoping that he would help.

After that she ends up driving to the pass that will ultimatly lead to the motel no longer receiving anymore business. In a rage she decided to run over the side and a few of the cones used in the consruction. 

We also focus on Dylan and his father, Caleb as one of their guard dogs gets attacked by a random dog that at was trying to start a fight. This leads to Caleb shooting that dog and the next day the presumed owner comes to look for it. 

His name is Chick Hogan and he meets with both Dylan and Caleb to discuss about the new marijuana crop. Which could mean he was somehow involved with them beforehand and possible could in the future. 

This episode did feel like another set up episode, but its fine for only being the second episode of the season. Based on the way this weeks episode ended, I have a feeling much more interesting things will happen next week.

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Episode: A Death in the Family

Season 3 of Bates Hotel is off to a great start. Picking up relatively after a view months from where season 2 left off. Norman is going back to school again for his senior year of high school.

But because of the guilt, he can't seem to really function being at school without thinking of his teacher. This ultimately leads to Norman being home schooled for his Senior year which I think will play into how this season turns out. Especially now that he will be closer to Norma more than ever now as well as working in the motel full time from now on.

We also focus on Dylan who is trying to figure out what to do now that the business he was running is now ruining. He does discuss it with Romero about how he wants to stay on the legal side of things from now on but we do get the feeling that not what Romero wants. Seeing how he gives him a small plan on getting the business back up and running.

Dylan later runs into his father who wants to give him money that he received from his mothers death. Dylan wants nothing to do with him, but as the episode progress, we see that they might just end up getting closer as the episodes go on.

Finally Norman and Emma start going out, even though it is a bit random when it happens seeing how Norman for the most part never cared about Emma that way. I think it is just set up for more tension in the future.

I am looking forward to seeing how this season plays out especially with the situations that were set up in this first episode. The series continues to get better and better and I already can't wait to see what happens in the next episode.

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R  | 120 Min

Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
 
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writers: Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell

Stars: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, & Sigourney Weaver

Plot: In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

Now I like Distict 9 when I first saw, but After my first view of the movie I haven't had the erge to watch it again. I saw Elysium and while it wasn't as good as District 9, it very much felt like the  same movie from the style and story and the way the message of the film is presented. Unfortunately Chappie is the third movie in a row to continue that trend.

The movie has a good premise but the follow through isn't anything interesting and thats where the movie kinda goes down hill. There really isn't any likable character in this movie, including chappie and a lot of the goal of these character doesn't make any sense like the goal of getting a robot like chappie. 

The biggest problem all lies in the script where the dialogue is cheesy to just plan bad. To the story and plot and motivations just not making any sense and are just dumb in many moments. You see a lot of the cliches of villains and if you've seen one Neil Blomkamp movie, you will feel like you've seen Chappie. 

I was hoping that Chappie would be a return to District 9 but it ends up be his worse film to date. I'm somewhat hoping that this ends up be his worse and his streak of bad films ends here and improves from now on with the next Alien film.

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PG-13  |  109 min

Genre:  Action | Crime | Thriller

Director: Olivier Megaton
Writer: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars:Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, & Forest Whitaker

Plot: Ex-government operative Bryan Mills is accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed. As he is tracked and pursued, Mills brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name.

The first Taken movie was a big surprise by being a movie that was actually more than just another action movie, but so far the Taken sequels haven't been on par with the original nor have they even made an attempt to be anything more but just bad sequels. Anyone who has seen the sequels know that there has been a significant downgrade in the quality. The plot of Taken 2 and 3 are either taken from most action movies, or just a plot that just not believable even in the Taken world.

Taken 3 flips the roles to now the main character, Bryan Mills is now on the run for a crime he is framed for. He has to solve the mystery while the police are chasing him down at the same time.

The problem with this movie is that it actually has less action than the previous movies, not that the action isn't happen, but the way it was edited, you actually don't see anything of what you want to see from a Taken movie. It ends up being boring in some parts and lacks any excitement that you come to expect from a Taken film. 

This is a movie that is better to skip, and just watch if you happen to catch on TV in a bout a year or less.

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It looks like 'The Hateful Eight' is actually going to be a reality. Today we got a poster for the movie that is due to start filming early next year in 2015. The movie will be filmed in 70mm Super CinemaScope, which is what Tarantino had promised when he wrote the script.

Earlier this year the script for Tarantino's screenplay was leaked online and that caused the film's production to be put on hault. But last week at Comic Con, the director anounced that the film will be his next project he is working on.

This is definitly a movie I will be looking foward to next year.

What do you think about the poster we got? and are you looking forward to this movie?

Source: EMPIRE

    2015 is definitely shaping up to be the biggest movie season in probably forever! with Batman Vs. Superman, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, Terminator 5 and Independence Day 2, all sequels that have official release dates, as of right now. Just a couple of weeks ago, Alan Taylor was announced to be the Director of the next Terminator installment which is slated to go under production sometime in the first quarter of 2014. 

    Originally Paramount had originally planed the film to be released in theater the last Friday of June 2015, which would have been just a week ahead of Independence Day sequel. The studio had now pushed back the film back a week to July 1st. The next Terminator, will bring back Arnold Schwarzenegger back to his iconic role, where based on rumors Dwayne Johnson will be a new threat programmed by Skynet in the movie. 

Souce: Screenrant 

Edgar Wright's Ant-Man has been moved up in Marvel's schedule for 2015, now arriving on July 31, 2015. 

Originally the film had been slated for November 6 2015 but now looks to be going head-to-head with Warner Bros. Batman Vs. Superman, which is opening just two weeks earlier on July 17. 

The original release date would've put the film up against the next James Bond film, which means Marvel could be more confident in going against DC superheros. Now with a release date, hopefully there will be casting news for the film soon. 

Source: Deadline

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