Roma

Rating: Overflowing

Cast: Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira

Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Writer: Alfonso Cuaron

Producers: Nicolas Celis, Alfonso Cuaron and Gabriela Rodriguiz

Music by:  N/A

Rated: R for graphic nudity, some disturbing images and language

Release Date: 11/21/18

Favorite Character: Cleodegaria “Cleo” Gutierrez

Tagline: There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals.

Quote: “Mountains are old, but they’re still green.”- Dra. Velez

Fun Facts: About 90% of the film are from Alfonso Cuaron’s memories.

The doctors in the hospital scene are really doctors, not actors.

Roma is ‘Amor’ spelled backwards and amor is a spanish word for ‘love.’

Roma is the first mexican film to win “Best Foreign Language film” at the Academy Awards.

Summary: The film focuses on the family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970’s.

The Review: If you say Cinema is NOT art, watch Roma and it’ll prove you wrong!

Alita: Battle Angel

Rating: Half-Full

Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Writers: James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis

Based on: Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro

Producers: James Cameron and Jon Landau

Music by: Junkie XL

Rated: PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for some language

Release Date: 02/14/19


Favorite Character: Alita

Tagline: An Angel Falls. A Warrior Rises.

Quote: “I’d do whatever i had for you. I’d give you whatever i have. I’d give you my heart.”- Alita

Fun Facts: It took 15 years for James Cameron to adapt this manga.

According to Cameron, the blood was gonna be blue, not red.

Summary: In the distant future, a scientist finds a female cyborg, who has no memory of her past.

The Review: Besides the impressive effects, this is a film to skip…or see, if you want to.

2019 Oscars Predictions

Best Picture: Roma

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron; Roma

Best Actor: Rami Malek; Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Actress: Glenn Close; The Wife

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali; Green Book

Best Supporting Actress; Regina King; If Beale Street could Talk

Best Original Screenplay: Roma

Best Adapted Screenplay: If Beale Street could Talk

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Best Cinematography: Roma

Best Costume Design: The Favourite

Best Documentary Feature: Free Solo

Best Documentary Short: A Night at the Garden

Best Film Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Foreign Language Film: Roma; Mexico

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Vice

Best Original Score: Black Panther

Best Original Song: Shallow; A Star is Born

Best Production Design: Black Panther

Best Animated Short: Bao

Best Live Action Short: Detainment

Best Sound Editing: First Man

Best Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Visual Effects: First Man

Pixels

Rating: Empty:

Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad and Brian Cox

Director: Chris Columbus

Writers: Timothy Dowling and Tim Herlihy

Based on: a short film by Patrick Jean

Producers: Chris Columbus, Allen Covert, Mark Radcliffe and Adam Sandler

Music by: Henry Jackman

Rated: PG-13 for some language and suggestive comments

Release Date: 07/24/15

Favorite Character: Ludlow Lamonsoff

Tagline: Play for the Planet

Quote: “Are you guys soldiers or the cast of Magic Mike?”- Ludlow Lamonsoff

Fun Fact: Members of Adam Sandler’s Family make cameo appearences in the film.

Summary: Aliens had sent down attackers in form of video games, believing that the time capsule had declared them war.

The Review: The pixels itself is the only thing that saved this awfulness from getting Few Burnt Kurnels.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Rating: Full

Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Charlie Day, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Maya Rudolph and Will Ferrell

Director: Mike Mitchell

Writers: Matthew Fogel, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Based on: Lego Construction Toys

Producers: Jinko Gotoh, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh

Rated: PG for some rude humor

Release Date: 02/08/19

Favorite Character: Queen Whatevra Wa’Nabi

Tagline: They Come in Pieces

Quote: “The name’s Rex Dangervest. Galaxy defending archeologist, cowboy, and raptor trainer.”- Rex Dangervest

Fun Facts: Rex Dangervest’s occupations are a reference to Chris Pratt’s past live action roles (as he played both Emmett and Rex).

Jason Momoa voices Aquaman in the film, like he did in some DC movies.

If you watch Cartoon Network’s “Unikitty” you will notice his brother, Unipuppy, making a cameo appearance in the film.

Bruce Willis makes a appearance as a lego version of himself.

Summary: Five years after the first film, Master Builder Emmet must rescue his friends from a mysterious Sweet Mayhem and the Syster System.

The Review: Awesome continuation, awesome jokes, awesome music and awesome message (okey i admit, not as awesome as the first one).

The Hurricane Heist

Rating: Empty

Cast: Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten, Melissa Bolona and Ralph Ineson

Director: Rob Cohen

Writers: Carlos Davis, Jeff Dixon, Anthony Fingleton and Scott Windhauser

Producers: Karen Elise Baldwin, Moshe Diamant, Christopher Milburn, Danny Roth, Michael Tadross Jr and Damiano Tucci

Music by: Lorne Balfe

Rated: PG-13 for sequences of gun violence, action, destruction, language and some suggestive material

Release Date: 03/09/18

Favorite Character: Conner Perkins

Tagline: The Ultimate Storm for the Perfect Heist

Quote: “I hate old money. Been up too many noses and down too many G-Strings.” Casey Corbyn

Fun Facts: Even though viewers are told that the hurricane winds is going to 600 mph, in real life, the highest speed of hurricane is 190 mph.

Summary: During the Hurricane, a group of theives plot a heist toward the U.S. Treasury.

The Review: This film is both Fast and Furious and Twister combined, a combination in which we REALLY don’t need.

Step Brothers

Rating: Half-Full

Cast: Will Farrell, John C. Riley, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott and Kathryn Hahn

Director: Adam McKay

Writers: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and John C. Riley

Producers: Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller

Music by: Jon Brion

Rated: R for crude and sexuel content and pervasive language

Release Date: 07/25/07

Favorite Character: Dale Doback

Tagline: They Grow up so Fast.

Quote: “You and your mom are hill-billy. This is a house of learning doctors.”- Dale Doback

Fun Fact: The fake testicles used in the film is worth around $20,000.

Summary: Two middle aged men who still lives at home, had their lives upside down when their parents married each other.

The Review: Slows down as it goes, which is a real shame because the first half hour of the film is a riot!

Turbo

Rating: Half-Full

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Pena, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Luis Guzman, Bill Hader, Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong and Samuel L Jackson

Director: David Soren

Writers: Darren Lemke, Robert Siegel and David Soren

Producer: Lisa Stewart

Music by: Henry Jackman

Rated: PG for some mild action and thematic elements

Release Date: 07/17/13

Favorite Character: Guy Gagne

Tagline: He’s Fast. They’re Furious.

Quote: “You’ve just been White Shadowed!”- White Shadow

Fun Fact: The monkeys from Madagascar makes an appearance in the newspaper.

Summary: A ordinary snail received speeding powers and dreams of entering the Indy 500.

The Review: This cartoon takes the impossibility to the new level yet, it is awfully similar to Cars.

Aquaman

Rating: Full

Cast: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Nicole Kidman

Director: James Wan

Writers: Will Beall, Geoff Johns, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan

Based on: DC comics by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger

Producers: Rob Cowan and Peter Safran

Music by: Rupert Gregson-Williams

Rated: PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for some language

Release Date: 12/21/18

Favorite Character: Arthur Curry/Aquaman

Tagline: Home is Calling

Quote: “My father was a lighthouse keeper. My mother was a queen. But life has a way of bringing people together. They made me what I am.”- Arthur Curry/Aquaman

Fun Facts: Annebelle, a doll from James Wan’s The Conjuring series can be seen on the sea floor.

The underwater scenes are obviously NOT filmed underwater.

This is the first and only DC movie to reach $1 billion.

Jason Momoa appeared in Baywatch (and he still has the abs).

Summary: A man, half-human, half atlantis citizen, heads out to prevent the war between the ocean and the land from happening.

The Review: This is one of those DC movies that is found in the treasure chest at the bottom of the sea.