Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
Gone Baby Gone
{4.5/5} “Where I come from, you die with your secrets.” Patrick and Angie are private detectives who have been hired to find a missing girl. The girl has been kidnapped and the police are doing everything they can to find her. But Patrick and Angie know everyone in the neighbourhood, and they might just be […]
Pitch Perfect
{4.5/5} “Not liking movies is like… not liking puppies.” Beca is starting college but isn’t particularly giving it a chance — she’d rather move to LA and produce music. Her dad, who’s a professor at the college, wants her to get an education first. But he makes her a deal — join one club, and […]
Be Kind Rewind
{3.5/5} “I didn’t sabotage the power plant. The power plant sabotaged me.” Mr. Fletcher runs a video store, and when he goes away on a trip he leaves Mike in charge. Mike is doing his best to run the store but he’s shocked to find that all of the videos are blank. His not-so-sane friend […]
Megamind
{4.5/5} “Imagine the most horrible, terrifying, evil thing you can possibly think of… and multiply it by 6!” Metro Man and Megamind have been fighting each other for a long time. On the day that Metro City is opening a new museum devoted to its defender Metro Man, Megamind puts his new plan into action. […]
Now Is Good
{4.5/5} “One of you is this cancer obsessive and the other one can’t face showing up at the hospital. Which is fine, I get it. But neither of you are what I need. You’re just wasting my time.” Tessa is 17 years old and dying of leukemia. She’s understandably angry, and the people around her […]
Janie Jones
{4.5/5} “I appreciate your initiative and can-do spirit but the driving thing has to end now.” Janie’s mom has to get herself clean of drugs so she leaves her with her dad. But Janie, 13 years old, has never met her dad before. Ethan is on tour with his band. He’s not sure Janie is […]
The One Percent
{4.5/5} “There’s nothing wrong with nepotism as long as you keep it within the family.” The One Percent was released in 2006. It’s a documentary about the huge gap between the rich and the poor in the US. The title refers to the fact that one percent of the people in the US control roughly […]
Mission: Impossible
{4.5/5} “If we’re going to Virginia why don’t we drop by Fort Knox? I could fly a helicopter through the lobby and set it down right inside the vault.” Ethan Hunt is part of a team of covert operatives who are members of a top-secret organization called the IMF. On a mission in Prague, his […]
Man of Steel
{4.5/5} “Your mother and I believed Krypton lost something precious — the element of choice, of chance. What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater? You were the embodiment of that belief, Kal.” Clark Kent is not an ordinary man. He […]
The Sound of Music
{5/5} “Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling.” At the convent everyone likes Maria — except when she’s difficult. The Mother Superior decides to send Maria out into the world to be a governess, to see how she does at that. So Maria becomes a […]