Juno.

5 out of 5 stars.

I cannot say enough good about this movie. It was awesome! You laugh, you hold your head in amazement and your jaw drops at least once (for those that have seen it, the meat sausages part!). And on top, this movie has one of the best soundtracks I’ve heard in a long time. I had to buy the soundtrack almost immediatly after the movie credits started rolling.

I highly recommend seeing this as soon as you can. Go. Now.

The Golden Compass.

4 out of 5 stars.

So I finally got to watch The Golden Compass. When it came out I was right smack dab in the middle of Biggest Loser stuff, so it just never happened for us to see this in the theatre.

I am glad I got to see it, I can totally see why the religious right had such a huge issue with it. Other than the fact that a reputed atheist wrote it and has admitted it was geared towards knocking the church down a few notches. It was very good. The worst part of the movie was keeping track of names and who’s who and what’s what.

You really don’t get to learn as much about the characters as I’d prefer in the first movie of a trilogy. I really enjoy the first of a series cause typically they go into alot of depth with the characters, in this flick that did not really happen.  Maybe they go the route of Harry Potter and just let you in little by little…but the difference is Harry Potter is seven movies, and the author has already said this will only be three. So when will he go into more detail on the people within the story? This is the main reason I knocked the stars down to four. This movie is solid as far as everything else goes, and is kind of a who’s who among top actors.

I look forward to the remaining installments of the series.

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

This was a very powerful movie, I am sure I will still be thinking about it come tomorrow morning. It revovles around two brothers, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke, robbing a jewlery store. Come to find out, the store was owned by their parents, in which people get shot and killed. It shows the downward spiral that happens after the brothers find out it was their parents.

It goes to show what a stupid idea that goes awry can do to your life and how it can spiral out of control.

I love the quote at the begining of the movie, “May you have thirty seconds in heaven, before the devil knows your dead”.

There Will Be Blood

3 out of 5 stars.

Not quite as much blood as I thought there would be from the title…but what blood there was, was quite graphic! Daniel Day-Lewis was AMAZING to say the least in his role as the prospector, he was cold, ruthless and very much so someone you did not want to like, but could not helping loving him! He was a horrible person, horrible father and human being in general…but you catch yourself really liking him and not wanting anything bad to happen. Almost the same as Tony Soprano was in The Sopranos.

Run Fatboy Run

3.5 out of 5 stars.

This was a very funny movie, but it was a bit predictable. It stars Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.

Dennis (Pegg) runs out on his wedding to a very pregnant Elizabeth (Newton), regrets that decision 5 years later and tries to win her back by competing in a full marathon. Whit (Azaria) is Elizabeths current boyfriend who is also running in the same marathon. The story follows the few weeks that Dennis has to train for the marathon.

For sure worth the watch, it was extremely entertaining and funny!