Reviews

Sleepless, starring Jamie Foxx, the kid who plays T, and the lady who never leaves the hospital set. Sleepless, described by the producers as "Black Taken", could not be a worse fitting title. While the taken movies are action shlock hopping onto generic trends, Sleepless breaks new ground by having an emotionally devestated main character. Jamie Foxx (whose characters name I don't know) is extremely emotionally distraught throughout the whole film. This on a surface level is why he only mumbles throughout the entire movie. But on a deeper level you can see he is drained of his energy by alot of enemies. He's got alotta enemies tryna drain him of his energy. As a matter of fact these enemies prove it ain't no easy grab, because as Jamie Foxx points out, "It ain't no easy grab... THEY GOT T." T himself is one of the best, if not the best teen characters in any film or product of media. Miles Morales, GET OUTTA HERE.BELLA SWAN? MORE LIKE BELLA UHOH VAMPIRES. FRODO BAGGINS? MORE LIKE FRODO NOT-AS-GOOD-AS-T. DEspite having only approximately 10 minutes of screen time, T goes through a massive emotional arc of being disconnected from Jamie Foxx, to after getting rescued adoring and respecting his father and hating MARK GOD MARK. In conclusion, I recommend this movie to everyone as It is not just black and white. It's Everything in between and MORE.

The time before the era of superheroes. Big Blockbusters were still trying to find a successful formula. Even Star Wars wasn't as successful as it used to be. Sure, movies like Blade and The Punisher came out but those were more aimed at Adults and still gained a bit at the box office but they weren't massive hits. Then in they May of 2002, Average moviegoers would finally see the worlds most amazing, spectacular superhero hit the big screen, spawning a new era of movie's to bust the box office. Directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as the titular character, Spider-man follows the origin and first real challenge of Peter Parker and his web-slinging alter-ego as he deals with using his powers in normal life, and fighting his first super-villain: the cruel and dastardly villain of "The Green Goblin!" Spider-Man is one of my favorite superhero movies, mainly because it shows the right way to do an origin story. The first time we meet Peter is when he's about to get his powers, putting the viewer into the inciting action right away. After this beginning scene we see Peter's home life and eventually we understand his motivation and his decision to be a good hero when part of that home life is taken away. Despite his age at the time Tobey gives an accurate performance of Peter Parker, and a stellar one as The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. The best part of this movie though is that it accepts its campiness and silliness as a comic book movie and uses that too it's advantage. This is most definitely best portrayed by Willem Dafoe's performance as Norman Osborne and the Green Goblin, staying a serious, worried, sympathetic businessman and Norman and entirely transforming into a cruel campy disastrous villain as the Goblin. While the characters seem entirely different, Dafoe does a great job linking them together and even makes the Goblin seem like part of who Norman really is. The two of these characters hit their peak at the end of this movie, where we see Norman grieve and regret everything as the Goblin but he realizes it was his fault for it happening in the first place, and Peter learns that you can't save everyone, no matter how hard you try from (of all people) his nemesis. I still believe that while Spider-Man may not be the objective best Superhero movie out there, it is the best at showing what a comic should be in a live action scenario and has a solid lesson to learn. While sure it may not be as Great as Spider-Man 2 or as ridiculous as Spider-man 3, it finds a good balance in it's characters, truly personifies the Amazing, Ultimate, Spectacular Spider-Man, and its influence can still be seen in Superhero movies- and really lots of movies- today, 15 years later.

I went to go see this movie with my little cousins. This was the first movie they saw in theaters, and they loved it. In their words, it was "Awesome!" I enjoyed it also. The movie is, of course, about based on the story that we all know and love. I went into the theater with high expectations because I'm a big fan of the Grinch movies and I have been since I was little. I appreciated that they tried to make the movie different from the others. I did like their attempt to make it more original, but there were some elements added that I did not like. The movie was funny and made me laugh, but I do think the humor was funnier to younger kids, which makes sense because it is a movie that was aimed to be for little kids. I gave this movie an 8/10 because I thought it could have been better, and I think they could have done so much more with this storyline. All in all, I think this is a great movie for the family and would highly recommend it.

The Secret Life of Bees follows the story of young Lily Owens to find out about the past of her Dead Mother and to also find herself as a person, finding some other mothers along the way. The movie provides a solid theme of the importance of motherhood and what it means to really live ones life, perfect for women of all ages. The film follows the details of the book very closely and offers some nice alternative scenes/ scenarios. This doesn't always work however, as dialogue and actions that may have seemed sweet or caring in the book just come off as unnatural in the movie. I would recommend this movie to women in their teenage or motherly years, as it has a nice lesson for both demographics and any others that hadn't read the book may not be as interested. I myself enjoyed the movie as it added a bit more character to characters such as May and June, while not taking away from the importance of August and Lily. My only real gripe with the film is it's pacing seemed a little off, but that can happen easily when you have a time jump. All in all, if your wanting a movie that is sweet but presents humanizing situations, I would recommend to watch it.