Peculiar Reviewer

It took 7 years (in Tibet) to get World War Z completed, after Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the rights to the film back in 2007. To this date,  WWZ  is the largest opening weekend Brad Pitt starring film. A high octane fanboy zombie flick, World War Z is based on the Max Brooks novel about a former United Nations investigator ( Brad Pitt ) who is thwarted back on the job, on a quest to find a cure to the zombie pandemic that is threatening the world. Pitt's character is driven by the family he must leave behind when he shifts from country-to-country to find an antidote. Director Marc Forster ( Quantum of Solace , Machine Gun Preacher ) utilizes a heavily-shaky camera during the shocking zombie attack scenes, producing high anxiety that, even I, wasn't prepared for. The World War Zombies are fast - faster than Forrest Gump - and there's no time to check your swatch...

It's not a boy's game anymore, says The Heat director Paul Feig ( Freaks and Geeks , Bridesmaids ). So who can fill the seats for the first female buddy cop movie ever - Bullock & McCarthy - comic heavyweights pushing the boundaries of a new element to the buddy cop genre that's long overdue. In her feature film debut, screenwriter Katie Dippold ( Parks and Recreation ) puts it out there with her uproarious screenplay, but it ultimately takes two heavyweights to get the job done. Calculated FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn ( Sandra Bullock ) is forcibly teamed with a tough Irish Detective Shannon Mullins ( Melissa McCarthy ) to bring down a Russian mobster in Boston. McCarthy cruises the streets in her beat up classic Rambler, busting down doors, and busting up perps. She's a bonafide movie star, Boston-drifting with Bullock, who got her training in 1994 on Speed - shot calling them all. Their contrasting methods of catching smooth criminals causes some issues f...

It's a rough existence doing cheap tricks on the streets of New York, not being believed by the onlooker. At least it was for the illusionists in Now You See Me , until the four: Jesse Eisenberg (a cocky card conjurer), Woody Harrelson (a former TV mentalist who swindles people by keeping their dirty secrets for a price), Isla Fisher (who almost drowned filming her magic trick scene. What a trouper!), and Dave Franco (little bro peep of James Franco with a sleight of hand), all receive a mysterious tarot card to meet at an unknown building at the same time. The illusionists realize that they've all been handpicked by a master magician to perform an extravagant magic trick. They later land a gig at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas performing together in front of a large audience as "The Four Horsemen," which is invested by Michael Caine. The ultimate show is that the four pull off bank heists on stage and reward their audience with the money. Mark Ruffalo ...

I was fully thrilled awaiting the release (following a postponed Christmas day release teaser) of  Baz Luhrmann 's first film in five years -  The Great Gatsby . Why? Luhrmann ( Romeo + Juliet , Moulin Rouge! ) + DiCaprio. I love both and had great expectations, though possibly too great. The Great Gatsby follows the story of Midwestern writer Nick Carraway ( Tobey Maguire ), who comes to an illuminating New York in the summer of 1922. Carraway is drawn into the excess world of his rich and mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, played by the incomparable Leonardo DiCaprio . Gatsby, who gets a James Bond entrance, throws weekly extravagant parties for random people to show up to, and show up they do, while he manages to remain shrouded in mystery. Rarely does Gatsby expose his identity, yet everyone seems to have a story about who this Gatsby is, and where he comes from. We learn later that Gatsby puts on all these ...