Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team faces their most impossible mission in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Following the capture of Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), a new shadowy organization known as The Apostles have formed out of the remains of The Syndicate. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames)…

Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups

A writer searches for love and self in Los Angeles and Las Vegas in Knight of Cups. Rick (Christian Bale) is a screenwriter, who feels an emptiness in his life and has a rough relationships with his brother Barry (Wes Bentley) and father Joseph (Brian Dennehy). Rick has encounters with various women, including ex-wife Nancy (Cate Blanchett)…

Welcome to Me

Welcome to Me

A woman with borderline personality disorder becomes a talk show host in Welcome to Me.  Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) is a bi-polar woman, who only has one close friend in the form of Gina (Linda Cardellini) and Alice spends most of her time watching videotaped episodes of Oprah.  Unexpectedly, Alice wins an $86 million lottery…

Best of Enemies

Best of Enemies

An intense series of political debates is at the centre of Best of Enemies.  In the summer of 1968, ABC News decided to air series of debates between left-wing novelist Gore Vidal and the ultra-conservative William F. Buckley Jr.  Bitter enemies with each other, Vidal and Buckley debated the issues surrounding the Republican and Democratic…

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

OK, now for the main film I saw last night.  The Hunger Games is probably the most anticipated film of the spring and I went to go see it at a midnight screening. The film takes place sometime in the future, where the land is split up into twelve districts and ruled by a somewhat totalitarian government.  After…

Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex

A good way I would describe Johan Hex is that the film came off as Ghost Rider without any of Nicolas Cage‘s charisma.  I was quite bored for the bulk of the film, which featured a formulaic plot that was over before you know it. There are the fact that Megan Fox was in the…