Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young kid with a special ability: He sees dead people. His family and the people of his town fear and hate him for this, all except for a chubby, dim-witted kid named Neil (Tucker Albrizzi). After the passing of Norman's uncle (John Goodman), he comes back to warn Norman that a local legend about a witch's curse is true and that he must stop her from wreaking havoc.

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In a southern delta community, a girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father Wink (Dwight Henry) live in separate homes made of pretty much whatever was lying around. As her father's health declines, the two live through a storm and a flood together as Wink tries to teach his daughter how to care for herself while she sets out to find her long-lost mother.

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In the third and final chapter of director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, we find Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, now a recluse. Batman has been absent and the streets of Gotham have been assumed clean thanks to the spirit of the late Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). But a new villain, Bane (Tom Hardy), has come to Gotham in the hopes of fulfilling the destiny of Ra's Al…

Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is an average kid in high school with an above average I.Q. He finds himself helping Dr. Curtis Connors (Rhys Ifans), an old friend of his father's, on a regeneration chemical that could bring back Connor's arm. But things go awry as Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider and gains super strength and agility. He, as any kid would, uses this power to goof off until Connor's chemical…

Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) spent her entire life wanting adventure and excitement, but her mother Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) forbid such nonsense as being unqueenly. One day Merida finds a way to change her fate forever, but it comes at a price that she is unwilling to pay and she has to put a stop to what she began.

I absolutely love the premise of this movie. The first act of the film sets things up…

Sam (Jared Gilman), an oddball boy scout, and Suzy (Kara Hayward), a violent young girl, decide one day to run off together and leave their worlds behind. But their worlds come back for them as Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton) and Police Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis), along with Suzy's parents Walt (Bill Murray) and Laura (Frances McDormand), set out to find the lost children.

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Years before the Nostromos is attacked by an alien in, well, Alien, scientist Elizabeth Shaw (Naomi Rapace) and her partner Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) set out on an exploration of a moon far from Earth with the hopes of finding answers to their research. Their discoveries however are far more disturbing than they were expecting as they find a hostile environment and two very deadly races that both want the…

In a year of multiple twos (two Lincoln movies, two musicals), we finally have the second Snow White movie, the other being Mirror Mirror. This one takes a darker tone with Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Charlize Theron as Ravenna, the queen, and Chris Hemsworth as The Huntsman. It's the usual tale, but with much more magic and mystery and a lot less fun and enchantment. It's an incredible dull movie made only worse by…

It's been ten years and the Men in Black are back. Coming along with them is a villain from the past, Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement), who was imprisoned on the moon by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in the 1960s. After learning how to travel through time, Boris goes back and murders K, leaving his partner Agent J (Will Smith) to jump back himself and try to stop Boris.

After the embarrassing money grab that was the…

Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) is down on her luck and down on cash, so she takes a job as a bounty hunter. Her first case it taking in an old bedmate, Police Officer Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara). But in her search for Morelli, she finds herself getting wrapped too deeply into a very dangerous situation and she needs to find a way out.

I think what I find charming about this movie is how incredibly basic it is.…

Arthur Kipps (Danielle Radcliffe) is a lawyer who has been sent to a small village to settle the estate of a woman whose family died tragically. While in their home, he begins seeing her ghost as well as the deaths of several local children. He realizes the he is the one who must put an end to this.

If Daniel Radcliffe wants to make a name for himself and get past the Harry Potter thing, he needs to pick better…

Battleship is pretty much exactly what I was expecting. I could just see the writers shrugging when handed the premise and saying, "We got nothin'." It was a complete waste of two hours of my day sitting through this mess of boring CG propaganda.

The movie centers on Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch), a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy who encounters an alien invasion on what was to be his last day before they kicked him out of…

Sacha Baron Cohen is back, this time as Admiral General Aladeen, ruler and dictator of the African Republic of Wadiya. After being threatened by the rest of the world to stop oppressing his people, Aladeen travels to the United States to speak to the United Nations. But he is forced into a life of American mediocrity when his right-hand man Tamir (Ben Kingsley) attempts to murder and replace him. Aladeen now has to rise…

Twenty years after her mother murdered several members of the cloth during her own exorcism, Isabella Rossi (Fernanda Andrade) decides to bring a film crew (namely one camera man, Michael (Ionut Grama)) to Italy and see if she can perform another exorcism on her mother. She inducts the help of Fathers Rawlings (Simon Quarterman) and Keane (Evan Helmuth) who work outside the Catholic church's endorsement.

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In the late 1700s, wealthy businessman Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is turned into a vampire and his family cursed by a witch (Eva Green) until Barnabas learns to love her. He is buried and then unearthed in 1972 and must adjust to life in the new century while rebuilding his family name.

I don't feel like I'm in a minority when I say that I've never seen the original Dark Shadows soap opera upon which this movie…

It's been five years in the making and it's finally here: The Avengers. It was a daunting task to say the least, to bring together some of the most iconic superheroes in one franchise, but they succeeded. And by "succeeded," I mean they did in fact make all of those movies. Unfortunately they gave the payoff to somebody completely unrelated to the project and let him do what he normally does, which in my opinion is waste…

I never watched 21 Jump Street when it was on, mainly because I was three when the last season aired. I haven't watched it since then either but even I was pretty hesitant about this new movie based on the TV series. They could have done a lot of really terrible things with this movie, but somehow they were able to find a way to update the concept without being insulting to the original material. Well, at least I assume it…