Film Review - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie

*This is a SPOILER-FREE post, so read away*

Summary: Following the events of the disavowed IMF team and the wake of their destruction in the past film, the CIA has decided to shut down the IMF. However, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) believes there is a rogue syndicate, an IMF of sorts run by a terrorist network, and decides to operate on his own accord to bring down the syndicate. Meanwhile the CIA is hunting him down, alive or dead.

10 Comic-Con Inside Jokes

10 Comic-Con Inside Jokes

These are the 10 things every San Diego Comic-Con goer is well familiar with. If it's not the lines, it's the crowds. There are so many things to love and hate about SDCC, but I find that even though it may sounds like I'm complaining, I kind of love it all. Here are the 10 best inside jokes understood by Comic-Con attendees.

The Best and the Worst of Jurassic World

The Best and the Worst of Jurassic World
Jurassic World
Directed by Colin Trevorrow

Smashing box office records, it was only necessary to compile a list of the best and the worst parts of this incredibly financially successful film.

Summary: Some 20 years after the destruction of Jurassic Park, the park has been rebuilt under new management and is now fully functioning and operating. Until a genetically modified dinosaur breaks out of its cage and wreaks havoc on Jurassic World.

*Minor SPOILERS follow*

11 Movies to Look forward to in 2015

This is going to be a HUGE year for movies. We're talking some of the biggest numbers the box office has seen in a decade. Sequels galore, two brand-new Pixar films, and a few others.

Really these are just movies that I'm looking forward to, but you should too.   Here are my picks, starting with least excited (although it's still in my top 11 movies to look forward to!)

2014 Film Awards

Recognizing the Year's Best Films... according to I AM HOLLYWOOD
Oddly enough, I actually had a lot in common with the Academy this year. Perhaps it's because I saw a lot of films that they ended up nominating, or perhaps it's because they selected some decent films this year. The greatest struggle I have in evaluating the art of film is in the difference between a museum and a home. Allow me to elaborate: in a museum we have relics, achievements in history, great and masterful works, but even if I could afford those paintings, photographs, and sculptures, there's very few I would ever want in my home. There's very few that would stick with me, inspire me, entertain me, and keep me looking at them to the point that I'd want them in my home. And this, for the most part is my criteria for what I see as the best picture of the year. There were many movies that were masterful works of art. Maybe they taught me, maybe they challenged me, but I'd never want to see them again. I'd never buy them and watch them again over the years, they're not tales that cause me to go forward in life. Stories I'd want my children and the following generations to cherish. I want to pick movies that I think should be remembered, not in a museum, but in a home. Not as a relic, but as a part of life. With that being said, here are my choices for the best (and worst) films of 2014:

Film Review - Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy
Directed by James Gunn

*This is a SPOILER-FREE post, so read away*

Summary: When the rogue outlaw, Peter Quill, comes across an item that has the power to destroy the universe, he is forced to team up with a group of renegade criminals to keep the item from the hands of an evil psychopath.

Sounds crazy, huh? It is, and you will love it.

10 of The Best Netflix Films You Haven't Seen

Netflix is often changing their lineup (for better or worse), so hopefully all of these will stay up for a while.  I think the problem that most of us run into with Netflix is that it has some good movies on there, but we've all seem them... recently and too many times.  And then there is this surplus of low budget indie films that no one's heard of and aren't worth the painful two hours that it takes to watch it.  HERE are 10 movies that I can guarantee will be worth your time (in no particular order... but the genre is listed to best suit your mood):