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I was pleasantly surprised after watching this film. It follows a baker and his wife as they are given magical items from different fairy-tales to find by a witch to reverse a curse placed on their family. The classic tales are weaved and and looped together with enchanting music to create a beautiful and witty motion picture that viewers young and old will enjoy. My favorite part of the fairy-tales were how they kept in line with the Brothers Grimm versions of the tales (toe-severing and all) making the story delightfully darker. There are many familiar faces in this movie including Anna Kendrick playing Cinderella, Johnny Depp as the bad Wolf and the always fantastic Meryl Streep playing the witch in a mesmerizing performance that made me feel as if I was in the woods with her. I am not the biggest fan when it comes to a musical, especially when it comes to a sung through style one, but Into the Woods had a fluid and easy to follow sequence that had no sort of "dragging on...

Still Alice has been called Julianne Moore's Oscar worthy performance and with great reason. It follows the story of Alice Howland, a successful professor of Linguistics at Columbia University. Her life takes a sharp and devastating turn when she is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. With the help of her family which includes her daughters played by Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth and Alec Baldwin as her husband, she struggles and fights for what she is losing and continue a relatively normal life.  I am going to be honest, I was in tears after the first 10 minutes and stayed that way until the rolling credits. I do not have anybody in my family with this disease, but I felt immense empathy for Moore's character. That is when you know you have done your job as an incredible actress. That being said, with a great supporting cast and story line, it is incredibly depressing to watch and individual's life fall apart in this way. It was a beautiful and eye o...

My dad told me that when the first Star Wars movie came out, he watched it about 10 times at the movie theater. Well, that was in 1977 and movie tickets were about $2.50.  The trailer for the upcoming Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens got mixed reviews as does any film these days. I am a big Star Wars nerd so I am definitely looking forward seeing this. Since it's only teaser, there isn't much to discuss except the eerie red cross-like light saber and flashes of new (and old?) characters. I am also a fan of J.J Abrams so I am very excited to see what he does with this franchise. It has been made into Legos and spin off cartoon shows, but I am hopeful that this first chapter in this new bundle of Star Wars movies will be one that my dad and I can watch over 10 times and not get tired of. When it comes out on DVD of course. What do you think about the new trailer?