44.) Safety Not Guaranteed

"It's that time and that place and that song, and you remember what it was like when you were in that place. And then you listen to that song, and you know you're not in that place anymore, and it makes you feel hollow. You can't just go find that stuff again."

Safety Not Guaranteed by


Genre:Comedy, Independent, Romance 

Honors: ALMA Awards: Favorite Movie Actress- Comedy/Musical; Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films: Best INdependant Film (nominated); Central Ohio Film Critics Association: Best Overlooked Film (2nd Place); Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Most Promising Film Maker-Colin Trevorrow (nominated); Chlotrudis Awards:Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay (nominated); Gotham Awards: Best Ensemble cast (nominated); Independent Spirit Awards: Best Screen Play (won), Best First Feature (nominated); Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards: Overlooked Film of the Year (won), Breakout Performance on Camera- Mark Duplass (nominated); Sundance Film Festival: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award-Won, Grand Jury Prize (nominated).  


Review: Darius is in a funk, life hasn't been the same after her mother passed away. She begins interning at a magazine and gets and assignment to check out a guy who believes that he can time travel and is looking for a partner to go with him. Darius with another intern and her boss infiltrate Kenneth's plan to time travel thinking that he is a complete nut, but after Darius spends some time with his she begins to fall for him. 

Opinion: This was a fun and cute movie. Audrey Plaza plays pretty much the same character she always plays, but a little less cynical in this movie. Jake Johnson also plays pretty much the same character he always plays, Nick on New Girl, but he made the movie pretty funny.  I really like independent films because they don't play to the whole big Hollywood ideas. This is a simple, cute film.

Ideas: I would recommend this book to anyone who reads any of the general fiction books like Gingerbread, or Stoner & Spaz, just because they are all about real life but have an underline feeling of hope. That's what this movie has. 

43.) Iron Man 3

"You know, it's times like these when I realize what a superhero I am."

Iron Man 3 by Marvel Studios, Paramount Pictures (2013)


Genre: Superheros, movies

Honors: Golden Trailer Awards (4 Nominations, 1 Win)

Review: The movie starts out twelve years ago on New Years Eve 1999. Stark is approached by a scientist, Aldrich Killian, who is trying to discuss an opportunity for Stark to join his company A.I.M. Stark rejects and humiliates Killian. Going forward twelve years Stark is having trouble getting over some PTSD that accompanied his after his fight with the Avengers in New York. He spends all his time working on different suits, but in the mean time a terrorist, The Madarin, keeps hacking the airwavs and broadcasting bombs going off all over the country. Stark openly challenges The Mandarin, and suffers reprocusions by having his house attacked and Pepper nearly killed. He suit flys him to safty but then fails. While Tony reboots the suit he must rely on himself without the suit to save Pepper who is kidnapped by Killian. 

Opinion: I am hard pressed to find one thing I didn't like about this movie! It was great! The thing I loved most about it was that Pepper was no damsel in distress, and instead saved Tony a couple of times. This movie looked super serious in the trailers but it was far more amusing then I anticipated. I want to see it again as soon as possible.  

Ideas: I would recommend this to anyone who really likes super heros, or action movie, or funny movies because it has all of those elements. I would recommend some Iron Man graphic novels in conjunction with this movie because it would be nice to know some background of the character of Iron Man.

34.) Oblivion

"I wonder, if I come to you, at night, in dreams, in the day, as memories. Do I haunt your hours the way you haunted mine? And I wonder if you see me, when you look at her."

Oblivion by Universal (2013)
(Series, Book #)

Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Movie

Honors: None yet

Review: In the year 2077 Jack Harper remains on Earth after the war with the Scavs have made it unlivable for the rest of humanity. The rest of humanity have boarded ships and moved to Titan, the moon of Saturn. Now only Jack and his partner Victoria remain to oversea massive hydro-energy machines that are converting the Earth's oceans into energy. Jack and Victoria have had their memories erased so that if they are ever captured they cannot give the location of the rest of the human race. But when a spaceship from Earth in the past crash lands and Jack saves the only one to survive he is shocked to find out that he knows her, but can't remember from where. Then, come to find out, the real enemy is not who Jack thought they were. 

Opinion: I really liked this movie. I was a little leery of it because I don't like Tom Cruise as a person, but I must admit that he does well as an actor, particularly in action movies. It was not bad at all, even though parts of it were rather predictable.  

Ideas:A good science fiction action film that you can recommend to anyone who likes that set of parameters, someone like myself.

33.) 21 Jump Street

"We're reviving a canceled undercover police program from the '80s and revamping it for modern times. You see the guys in charge of this stuff lack creativity and are completely out of ideas, so all they do now is recycle shit from the past and expect us all not to notice."

21 Jump Street by Colombia & MGM

Genre: Movies, Comedy


Honors: BMI Film & TV Award: Film Music Award, Golden Trailer Awards: Best Pre-show,
Best Comedy TV Spot, MTV Movie Awards: Best Comedic Performance (nominated), Best Cast (nominated), Best On-Screen Transformation (nominated), Best Fight (nominated), Best Gut-Wrenching Performance (nominated), Best "tool" Music (Won), Teen Choice Awards: Choice Movie: Comedy (Won), Choice Movie: Actor Comedy Channing Tatum (Won), Choice Movie: Actor Comedy Jonah Hill (nominated), Artios Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Big Budget Comedy Feature (nominated), People's Choice Awards : Favorite Comedy Movie (nominated), Critic's Choice Award: Best Comedy (nominated), Best Actor in a Comedy (nominated)

Review: Jenko and Schmidt despised each other in high school. But when both try to make it as cops they form an unlikely alliance and become friends. They are put on an undercover program (partially as punishment) to act as high school students to uncover a drug operation that is leaving high school kids dead. As they enter high school the two reverse roles from their previous high school lives. Schmidt is now hanging with the popular kinds while Jenko is hanging out with the nerds. 

Opinion: This movie was hilarious! I laughed the whole way through. I couldn't believe that Channing Tatum could be so funny. I put off seeing it because I thought it was going to be stupid, and the idea that it was a remake of a show from the 80s I thought was a stupid idea, but it wasn't a remake it was more of a continuation from that story. 

Ideas: I would recommend this movie to any teen who is looking for a good comedy, even though it is rated R.

32.) The Hobbit

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning? Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be a good on? Hm?

The Hobbit  by Warner Bros. (2012)

Genre: Movie, Fantasy

Honors: Academy Award nominations: Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Academy Scientific and Technical Award, Cinema Audio Society Awards: Best Live Action Motion Picture (Nominated), Nine nominations (Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Music) for 39th Saturn Awards, MTV Awards: Best Scared-as-S**t performance (nominated), Best Hero (won).

Review: This is a movie that was based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien about a hobbit named Bilbo who was quite content living his life in peace, and had no desire whatsoever to lead any kind of adventure. That is until one day a wizard showed up, followed by a group of 13 dwarves. Soon Bilbo finds himself in the mist of danger and battle, and proves himself to not be a hindrance to the rest of the band.  

Opinion: I really liked this movie, I was not a crazy realist when I heard the book was going to be broken into three movies; I knew they were going to have to add a lot of filler to make up for the time. After all the LOTRs was three longer books that made three long movies, so to make one shorter book into three movies was going to be a bit tough of Peter Jackson's part. There were some parts I was unhappy with, like the troll scene, but overall I really liked it. The misty mountain song was in my head for weeks after I saw the movie. 

Ideas: This would be a good movie to recommend to a teen who has read and liked the Hobbit, and/ or who have read and liked the Lord of the Rings movies. Anyone who likes high fantasy really should at least give both the book and the movie a shot.