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Three high school friends in mid-life crisis are brought together by circumstances and in the process they realize they need to start spending more time together. Adam and his nephew Jacob travel with Adam’s friends Nick and self-destructive Lou to relive their best times from the 80′s at a winter ski resort. The group of [...]

Alice In Wonderland is the film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s well known story. This time Alice is older and making life decisions, many of which she’d like to escape at the moment, including a marriage proposal. Alice succeeds in escaping her problems by falling down the rabbit hole into an other worldly adventure. How magical [...]

After a young girl is murdered, her family tries to cope with the loss of their daughter and come to terms with the slow progress of apprehending the perpetrator of the crime. The story follows Susie Salmon in the afterlife, where she watches her family and tries to communicate with them as they work through [...]

I rented 2012 because the special effects in the promos looked promising and John Cusack was in the movie. The film follows Jackson Curtis (Cusack), an author who is down on his luck and trying to form a better relationship with his kids. Curtis takes his kids on a camping trip and discovers more on [...]

Cold Souls will at first remind movie goers a bit of Being John Malkovich in that this is an abstract idea for a film, but this movie lacks the brilliant screenplay of Being John Malkovich. Paul Giamatti plays himself (or his version of himself), cast in the title role of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”. Actor Giamatti [...]

Having been a fan of the original Star Trek and Star Trek Next Generation I enjoyed this new version of the series. The screenplay follows the Star Trek crew in their early years, updating the feel of the movie with excellent special effects and a young cast while paying tribute to the original concept of [...]

“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” is a sci-fi musical comic with great music and unexpected twists. Dr. Horrible’s vision is to become a supervillain crushing his nemesis Captain Hammer, who is more interested in his own reflection than hero accomplishments. In reality Dr. Horrible is a shy computer nerd with a video blog who is in [...]

This dark, futuristic sci-fi thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat. The movie has an interesting plot with the original story adapted by the director from a novel by the same name, then adding to the original storyline. The plot centers around a world in the future that is at war with [...]

“Penelope” stars the ever watchable Christina Ricci. She always chooses interesting roles in interesting movies. Ricci plays Penelope, a young woman whose family has been cursed. Penelope has a pig’s snout for a nose and has been hidden away by her family, finding herself longing to go out in the world and experience life. James [...]

This early career fable from Tim Burton is the perfect untraditional Christmas movie for the holidays. Yes it’s dark and yes it is different but then what Tim Burton movie isn’t? “Edward Scissorhands” presents a fable with a remarkable, fascinating character played perfectly by Johnny Depp. If you didn’t know Depp was an exceptional actor [...]