Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a widowed lawyer whose grief has put his career in jeopardy, is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost… and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance.

I am not a big fan of horror films.  I think they are so dumb!  I normally go into horror movies and make fun of them because they are so lame.  I do have to say that the trailers for The Woman In Black intrigued me.  The main thing that made me want to see it was the fact that it was Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Harry Potter role.  The trailer looked so scary too!  I was excited to see it.

The Woman In Black is honestly the scariest movie I have seen in a long time!  My friend and I were pretty scared the whole entire film.  I will be honest, I watched most of the movie with my hands over my eyes, peeking through my fingers.  Events in the movie had me constantly jumping out of my seat!  The ending was also unexpected.  It is not the ending you normally see in a typical ghost movie.

The film pretty much had to be carried by Daniel Radcliffe.  He did a fabulous job.  In many of the intense moments in the film, there is no dialogue.  Daniel Radcliffe’s reactions to the chaos going on around him is what moves the film forward and make you freak out even more.  Not once in this movie did I think about Daniel being Harry Potter.  He was the character, Arthur Kipps, in this film and he did it well.

I honestly do not know if I will ever watch this movie again.  It scared me so bad!  If you are a horror film fan, The Woman In Black is definitely a movie you should probably check out. 

The Woman In Black gets bragging rights!

The Woman In Black in now open in theaters.  It is rated PG-13.  For more informaiton about The Woman In Black, you can visit the film’s official website.

An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiator (Elizabeth Banks)tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective.

I was excited to see Man On A Ledge.  I am a fan of both Sam Worthington and Elizabeth Banks.  That was enough to get me there.  I did think that the trailers and advertisements for this movie made it look very intense.  In addition, I was curious to see how they could make a full length movie about a man standing on a ledge.  I will admit, Man On A Ledge was definitely a crowd pleasing movie.

This movie is just not about a man standing on a ledge.  Without spoiling too much, Sam Worthington’s character, Nick, is a distraction for a robbery that is happening at a building not far from him.  Some of the major plot points in this movie were very predictable but there were a few moments that definitely surprised me.  The climax of the movie was something that I did not expect.

There were a couple of moments that did scare me a bit.  I am really short in real life and heights scare me.  Seeing over the ledge from Nick’s point of view was sometimes a bit unnerving.  There was one point in the movie that the crowd of people are yelling for Nick to just to jump.  I hope people in New York City are not that mean!  I would never yell at someone to jump.

My favorite part of this movie was Elizabeth Banks’ performance of the police negotiator.  In my opinion, she stole this movie from Sam Worthington.  I was always looking forward to when she would be back on the screen.

This weekend, if you are looking for a fun, action packed movie, Man On A Ledge would be a great choice!  Overall, I had fun watching it!

Man On A Ledge is rated PG-13.  It opens in theaters today.  For more information about the movie, you can go the film’s official website.

1944. To help win the war, the Pentagon brass has no choice but to consider the untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are about to be shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. These intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country – and the fate of the free world.

I really did not know much about this movie when I was asked to preview it.  I knew that George Lucas was a producer and that it was about fighter pilots.  When I got to the theater and found that it was about the Tuskegee Airmen, I was excited to see it.  This is a story that has not been told on film before.  It is about time that the story of these brave men was done on film.

In my opinion, this is a more mild war film.  It is not gritty and harsh like Pearl Harbor.  I would compare it to more of the feeling you have watching Top Gun.  There were some very funny moments in this film.  Many of the characters in the movie have such fun personalities and had me smiling several times during the film.  The action moments in this movie was great.  They really put you into the action during the many aerial sequences in the movie.

As I was watching this movie, it was definitely a crowd pleaser.  The guys behind me were commenting the whole movie about how awesome it is.  I think that this is a movie that most men, and hopefully, most women will enjoy as well.  If you like action movies with pilots and planes, this is a movie for you!

Red Tails in now playing in theaters.  It is rated PG-13.  Make sure to check out the film’s official website for more details about the movie.

Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can’t be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father’s closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.

I still remember where I was on September 11th.  I arrived home from an early morning high school sports practice and my mom told me that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.  I do not remember much of school that day.  The teachers finally gave up on their lessons for the day and turned on the televisions to let us watch this horrible event in American history unfold.  Although it has been 10 years, September 11th is a tough subject to discuss.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a very well acted movie with amazing visuals.  Many people are interested in seeing this movie because of Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.  This is not their movie.  They are hardly in it.  This movie belongs to Thomas Horn, who plays Oskar.  This young boy was fantastic in this movie.  Oskar is a very socially awkward character.  Many things frighten him.  During the movie, you really get into his mind.  Noise and sights are amplified.  This would be a very difficult character to portray and Thomas Horn does well at it.

I will say, this movie was very difficult to watch.  September 11th really affected so many people.  What made this different from the others is that you are seeing this horrible event and its aftermath through the eyes and experiences of a child.  This is a point of view we have not seen done on film until now.  Take a lot of tissues to this movie and plan on needing some ice cream at the end.  This movie is very sad.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close opens in theaters nationwide starting today.  The film is rated PG-13.  For more information about the film, you can go to the film’s official website.