Home is harmless fun
Movie: Home PG, 1 hour 33 minutes Grade: B In a Nutshell: Dreamworks is trying hard to keep up with Disney who has recently been pumping out hit after hit. Home doesn’t have quite the magic that Disney … Continued
See Divergent before you see Insurgent
Movie: Insurgent PG-13, 1 hour 59 minutes Grade: B In a Nutshell: Veronica Roth’s Young Adult Dystopian sequel picks up right where it left off in the first movie, Divergent. If you haven’t seen it, watch it before … Continued
Project Almanac features “found footage” of time travel
Movie: Project Almanac PG-13, 2 hours Grade: C In a Nutshell: The movie uses “found footage” as its film style, which can be slightly annoying. The camera work is so shaky that it’s more irritating than clever. Its … Continued
Jupiter Ascending is visually impressive with a messy script
Movie: Jupiter Ascending PG-13, 2 hours 5 minutes Grade: A- for visually amazing C- for story and dialogue In a Nutshell: Wow. Talk about sensory overload. The special effects are amaze balls. I went with some friends to … Continued
Penguins of Madagascar is cute and cuddly enough to make you laugh out loud at least once
Movie Title: Penguins of Madagascar PG, 1 hour 32 minutes Grade: B In a Nutshell: The zany, spy penguins from the Madagascar franchise finally got their own feature film, full of high-jinks and frivolity. No matter what age … Continued
Interstellar is out of this world
Movie Title: Interstellar PG-13, 2 hours 49 minutes Grade: A In a Nutshell: This movie will blow your mind. Either that or put you to sleep. Viewers seem to be split in their opinion on this one. The movie … Continued
My friend, James Dashner, just had his book The Maze Runner turned into a movie!
Movie Title: Maze Runner PG-13, 1 hour 54 minutes Grade: B+ In a Nutshell: I’m so thrilled for my friend, James Dashner, who is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Maze Runner Series (Maze Runner)that this film … Continued
Audiences who like sappy dialogue, music, and estrogen will enjoy chick flick “If I Stay”
Movie Title: If I Stay PG-13, 1 hour 46 minutes Grade: B- In a Nutshell: Standard chick-flick material: too cool guy falls head-over-heels in love with a shy, misunderstood girl and says all the right romantic things, risking everything for … Continued
The Giver asks great questions about life and free will
Movie Title: The Giver [HD] PG-13, 1 hour 40 minutes Grade: B In a Nutshell: If you haven’t read the best-selling young adult novel The Giverby Lois Lowry, you’ll understand the movie well enough, but also won’t know what you’re … Continued
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie review
Grade: C PG-13, 1 hour 41 minutes In a Half-shell: You’re about to get shell-shocked. OK, first of all…I have 2 water turtles. So there’s that. Secondly, I raised 4 sons who were obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles … Continued