What movies have you seen recently?

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American Hustle

Loosely based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. A con man and his partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent who pushes them into a world of New Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

Wadjda

the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first made by a female Saudi director. It stars a Saudi girl who signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest dispite the objections of those around her.

Kill Your Darlings.

I already wrote a synopsis about this movie the first time my wife and I saw it, so I won't bore anyone with a recap, except to say that it's a fact based story of a young Allen Ginsburg (Daniel Radcliffe doing an impossibly perfect American accent) while attending Columbia University, meets fellow future Beat literary figures William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Lucien Carr. The latter, Lucien Carr, is charismatic, hungers for experience, yet lacks his own literary ability, and uses people without a care. One such person he's been using is an emotionally unstable gay professor named Dave Kammerer who pushes the selfish Carr beyond the edge and into murder.
First rate movie, and a must for anyone interested in Beat literature.

Intolerance

Very long 1916 silent film shows four stories each taking place in a different historical era involving actual intolerance and its terrible effects.

Oldboy.

American remake of a Korean movie. An asshat businessman, Joe (Josh Brolin), finds himself kidnapped and held captive for twenty years by persons unknown, for reasons unknown. During this time, his wife is murdered and raped, for which he is framed, and his daughter is adopted by strangers. Joe is determined to escape and not only find and destroy his tormentor, but also to clear his name and reclaim his daughter's love.
Should have been a great movie, but really wasn't, considering Joe learns to become a martial arts master by watching Kung Fu and Karate movies. And as the villain's master plan seems to depend considerably on dumb luck, it just stretches credibility, even for a movie.

12 Years a Slave

Shows the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man Saratoga, New York, is abducted and sold into slavery in 1841.

I was unable to sit through the whole thing and jumped around from scene to scene due to the cruelty which includes rape and very brutal beating/whipping scenes.

Support Your Local Sheriff! and Support Your Local Gunfighter

Two comic western films starring James Garner. Both films share many cast and crew members and plot elements, but are not connected in story line.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

The Great Heep

Ghostbusters II

Father of the Bride

1950s movie about the father of a young woman about to be married, deals with the emotional, financial, and organizational pain of arranging her wedding.

Nebraska

Modern Black-and-white movie about an aging father who makes the trip from Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska with his estranged son when he believes he has won a million-dollar prize.

Frozen

Dallas Buyers Club