Quarantine was definitely worth a scream!

Due to snowy weather, Wub and I decided that yesterday was a great day to rent movies and hang out indoors. So we went to Blockbuster and to my surprise, the movie Quarantine was out in the New Release section - woohooo! As many of you know, I am a total scary movie genre freak, so this absolutely made me a happy camper yesterday. I mean, snowy conditions, my best friend, a $5 foot long from Subway, and a scary movie - BEST DAY EVER! So let's dive into my thoughts about this flick.

From the start, Wub and I were very unsure of how this movie was going to pan out, because the first 20 minutes are definitely a snoozer. You start off with a night time reporter and her cameraman filming a story about the lives of firemen. As you can imagine - it was completely boring footage. However this piece does set the stage for the movie, as the viewer comes to realize that this whole film is shot from the view of the cameraman. So WARNING - if you don't like movies that are shot like this (like Blair Witch), then I highly advise you stay away from this one. I mean, luckily the cameraman is pretty steady handed, so you won't feel like you are sea sick like I did when I went to see Cloverfield.

So the story surrounds an apartment building in Los Angeles, CA that has suddenly been quarantined by the government. The tenants along with 2 police officers, 2 firemen, and the small camera crew are trapped in the building. The camera woman (played by Jennifer Carpenter of Dexter) decides that the public should know what is going on in the building, so she advises her cameraman to continue shooting throughout the whole ordeal. You soon find out that there is a reason that this building is being quarantined - there is something spreading throughout the blood of anyone infected that turns them into rabid, crazy, flesh-eating people. My personal thoughts on this movie? Well for something that started off so slow - it definitely picked up speed quickly and consistently. When the movie goes into full swing, it really picks up with tons of drama between the tenants, gruesome and bloody scenes, plenty of questions as to what this is and what the government is hiding, and of course the desperation of the apartment's current inhabitants to break free of the building. In all, I would recommend this movie for those of you who are sick in the head like me and enjoy bloody horror movies. This one was definitely pretty good! Happy movie watching kiddos!

Changeling won awards for a reason, and I totally get it now!

The combination of Clint Eastwood directing and Angelina Jolie acting made it easy for me to rent this movie once it came out on DVD. Honestly, the only reason I didn't see it when it was in the theaters was because of how busy I was at work at the time (what a joke that turned out to be by the way).

Changeling is what I would call a work of theatrical genius. Angelina Jolie's character Christine Collins is a strong and persistent woman who fails to roll over and take whatever the corrupt 1920's LAPD threw at her. Five months after her son Walter goes missing, she gets a call stating that the cops have found him; to her surprise, the boy that she is presented with is not her son.

I will save the rest of the story for you to watch, but what you can be sure of is that you will be completely disturbed at the end of this movie. The despicable behavior of the LAPD towards a woman who is just looking for the truth about her son will make you shutter - especially once you realize that this was actually a true story. I highly recommend that you rent this movie if you get the chance. Happy movie watching kids!

Taken took my breath away...

Today I went with the boy-toy to go see the thrilling movie Taken. After hearing such wonderful reviews about it from my friends and from the news, I decided that I was ready to go see it.

The story is about an ex-government agent Brian (Liam Neeson) and his journey to find his kidnapped daughter after she is taken and sold to a slave dealer. The movie supplies the viewer with plenty of suspense with the hand-to-hand combat scenes, the car chases and the gun fights. My favorite scene of the entire movie I will say is when the daughter is actually taken - the way they give you a moment of false hope that she won't get taken and then BAM! She is dragged by the legs out from under the bed.

So for those of you who love movies that are suspenseful, thrilling, and have a well developed storyline - this is your movie. Cheers to its director Pierre Morel for doing such an amazing job. I was definitely impressed. Happy movie watching kids!

The Wackness - not as wack as I thought it would be!

Since I have that fabulous Blockbuster 2-week free membership, I decided to maximize my movie watching these past couple of weeks. The most recent arrival to my mailbox was the drug-pusher movie The Wackness. Although most people know this as "the movie that one of the Olsen twins was in", there was so much more to the story than meets the eye.

It's true, Mary-Kate Olsen does have a small role in the movie as a spaced out, drugged up hippie who nearly screws an old man in a phone booth, but aside from that, she is basically non-existent to the overall plot.

What you need to know about this movie is that it is set in NYC in 1994, it is about an 18-year-old pot pusher (who in my opinion is quite a cutie) and his quest to figure his life out during the summer before he leaves for college. He was a loser in high school and his only friend in life is his psychiatrist (whom he pays with weed).

What I found to be interesting about this movie is that everything doesn't totally wind up hunky-dory at the end. I will say that the lead character does figure out his life at least for the time being, but more importantly he realizes that it isn't he who was the loser in life, but the people around him.

My thought is that most of you will actually hate this movie after you watch it; however to those of you who actually look deeper into a movie than just the top layer, you will get this movie more than some of the critics did. I give it an overall thumbs up - but if you are part of the crowd who can't dig deeper into the meaning of movies - stay far away from this one. Also - for those of you who are into the old school hip-hop scene (I'm talking Notorious BIG type stuff), if you don't feel the need to see this movie, at least download the soundtrack. It features hits from Faith Evans, R. Kelly, Notorious BIG, Method Man (who stars in the movie as a Jamaican drug dealer), Craig Mack, and more. I just downloaded the entire thing myself - totally worth it! Below I have posted the trailer to the movie for all of you who aren't familiar. Happy watching kids!

Pathology - MUST SEE!

I recently went to Blockbuster and my other boyfriend (aka Ryan - the blonde haired, pony-tail wearing man who works behind the counter) told me I definitely needed to pick up the movie Pathology starring Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano and Michael Weston.

The movie begins as a love story between Alyssa Milano's character and Milo's, but soon turns completely dark and twisted. Milo's character Ted Grey leaves his fiancee behind to finish out his residency to become a board certified Pathologist in New York City. He soon finds out that some of his fellow residents are part of a dangerous game with the sole purpose of being the best in the business. I don't want to give too much away but I will say that this movie has a ton of sex, drugs, and definitely murder. For a movie that I thought was going to be similar to an episode of House, I was pleasantly surprised. I give this movie a whopping 4 out of 5 stars for it's originality, gore, and stellar ending. Happy movie watching kids!