Rated R for disturbing violent content and terror.Directed by Chris Kentis; Laura LauStarring Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer StevensWhen I was a little boy, I wasn’t really afraid of the dark. That is to say, if I started to get scared of something that I imagined in the dark, 83% of the time I could reason my way...
Rated PG for brief mild language.Starring (the voices of) Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito and Betty WhiteDirected by Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda (Despicable Me)Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is the perfect movie to watch with the family. A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of...
Rated R for brief strong language.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Donovan and Josh LucasDirected by Clint Eastwood (Hereafter, Invictus, and Gran Torino)“Most of what you wrote was exaggeration and blatant lies.” Not only is that a quote from the film but I wondered how much of what I was watching was exaggeration and blatant...
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action.Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West and Thomas Haden ChurchDirected by Andrew Stanton (WALL-E and Finding Nemo)John Carter is a great movie the entire family can enjoy.John Carter is a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (or...
Rated PG-13 for some language. Staring Bill Courtney, O.C. Brown and Montrail 'Money' BrownDirected by Daniel Lindsay, T.J. MartinUndefeated is undeniably inspiring. Set in the inner city of Memphis, Undefeated is the Oscar-winning documentary that chronicles the Manassas Tigers' 2009 football season, on and off-the-field. Their goal: to win the first playoff game in the high school's 110-year...
Rated GDirected by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Studio Ghibli)Starring Bridgit Mendler, Will Arnett, Amy PoehlerThe Secret World of Arrietty is the latest from Studio Ghibli, who have made some truly great films in the past like Sprited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Howl’s Moving Castle. Arrietty centers around the Clock family, tiny people who live in the floorboards of a regular-sized house....
Rated PG-13 for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language.Directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow)Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Andi MacDowell…This is going to be the shortest movie review I’ve written in our website history. Not because there’s nothing to write about… the complete opposite, in fact.When I first saw this movie...