- Cars 1 & 2, ****These are Pixar films, do I have to tell you more? The first one tells the coming of age of Lightning McQeen a self-centered racing car that goes through a life-changing experience in a small all-american town at route 66. The second tells how Mater, McQueen's simpleton best friend, saves the world by chance, the Jhonny English way.
- Super 8, ****In the beginning I thought it will be a retold of the Cloverfield story with the difference of being locate in rural America, but it actually surprised me with quality of the scenery and the good acting of the teens.
- Captain America: The First Avenger, ***This Marvel film telling the story of super soldier Steve Rogers hits the spot big time! I really don't want to say much about this film, I think it was good and is a must in order to prepare for The Avengers movie.
- Love and Other Drugs, ***It's Pittsburgh, it's the 90s, and Pfeizer is about to launch Viagra. This is the backdrop for the romance between a stage one Parkinson girl, Anne Hathaway, and an upstar pharma rep, Jake Gyllenhaal. The story a little bit of a movie I saw a few months ago with the same sick girls meets successful boy theme whose name I cannot remember.
- Real Steel, ***I'm a big Hugh Jackman's fan, he can sing, he can do theater and, most important, he's Wolverine! The movie tells the story of a father meeting his 11 year old son for the first time and resetting his life's values.
- Horrible Bosses, **I guess that sooner or later everybody has to deal with a horrible boss and plot to kill him/her. Uhm, well, not the kill part... maybe... It is a comedy, not so good, not so bad, about three friends suffering from that kind of bosses that you don't want to have but you find yourself having.
- Friends with Benefits, **Can you have monogamous and frequent sex without a relationship? Well, Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis explore that kind of relationship in this romantic-comedy. I was really surprised by Timberlake's acting, I was expecting a cartoonish character like the one he played in Bad Teacher, but actually he managed to play a nice role.
- The Invention of Lying, **Imagine a world where everybody tells the truth. Then, one day comes the first liar and, among other things, religion is born. This is my second comedy of the year with Ricky Gervais playing the main character.
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon, **One of the stars is because I really liked transformers when I was a kid and the other is because the CGI is just fantastic. Otherwise, please let it be the last one in the series, unless they really put themselves into it.
- Mr. Popper's Penguins, *Jim Carrey plays Mr. Popper, a motivated real state agent that can close any deal and tries his best to get partnership in the firm he works for... at the cost of his family. During the film, we find out about Mr. Popper's childhood, while six penguins change his life and make him meditate about what's important in life.
- Green Lantern, *These years, the last 5 and most probably the next 5, have seen a bonanza of super-hero movies picturing our favorite uber-men from the Marvel, DC and independent universes. In my opinion, and I have to disclose that I was an avid Green Lantern Corps reader during junior high, Green Lantern does not live up to the standard set by the GL and GLC comics.
- Bad Teacher, *Gold digger Elizabeth Halsey, portrayed by Cameron Diaz, looses the life-chance of marrying a super-rich guy due to her lack of self-control, and goes back to her school teacher job where she hopes to catch the new super-rich teacher, portrayed by Justin Timberlake, but ends ups learning about life, love and laughs from the PE teacher, played by Jason Segel.
- The Three Musketeers, *I love both the three musketeers novel and the steam-punk genre, but I hated this film. Don't get me wrong, I loved the steam punk weaponry and air ships, Mila Jovovich playing Milady. Also, Aramis and Porthos are nicely portrayed by Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson, I could say that Waltz and Bloom are not so bad Richelieu and Buckingham. But, and this is a huge but, everything else sucks big time. I really hope production improves greatly for the sequel if ever make it.
Relax time requires relax tv-series, it is a good thing that Big Bang Theory is running its fifth season. We managed to watch the last three episodes where Howard learns that he's going to the ISS, Sheldon finally makes peace with Will Weaton, and Leonard finds out that Priya is having fun in India. We also discovered Terra Nova, a science fiction series dealing with a colony of futuristic humans living in a pre-historic world. It has just started running its first season and Lyx and I are already hooked.
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