MOVIE REVIEW: THE BIG SHORT (2015)

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Four denizens of the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.

 Ratings: 8.1/10 from 16,074 users Metascore: 81/100 

Reviews: 89 user | 153 critic | 44 from Metacritic.com

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Writer/director Adam McKay joins forces with Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment to adapt Michael Lewis' best-seller The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which centers on the housing a credit bubble of the 2000s. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rating: R (for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity)

Genre: Drama

Directed By: Adam McKay

Written By: Michael Lewis, Adam McKay, Charles Randolph

US Box Office: $33.1M

Runtime: 2 hr. 10 min.

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TOMATOMETER 87%

Average Rating: 7.8/10 | Reviews Counted: 170

Fresh: 148 | Rotten: 22

Critics Consensus: The Big Short approaches a serious, complicated subject with an impressive attention to detail -- and manages to deliver a well-acted, scathingly funny indictment of its real-life villains in the bargain.

AUDIENCE SCORE 90% liked it

Average Rating: 4.2/5 | User Ratings: 30,219

THE BIG SHORT OPENS IN MALAYSIA ON THE 7th OF JANUARY BUT FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD FIND OUT HERE!

When the 2008 financial crisis hit a lot of people probably ended up like this... ©Paramount Pictures

A story that affected everyone around the world whether they realize it or not... 

MOVIE REVIEW: MINIONS (2015)

MOVIE INFO

The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters-from T. rex to Napoleon-the Minions find themselves without someone to serve and fall into a deep depression. But one Minion named Kevin has a plan, and he-alongside teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob-ventures out into the world to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow. The trio embarks upon a thrilling journey that ultimately leads them to their next potential master, Scarlet Overkill (Academy Award (R) winner Sandra Bullock), the world's first-ever female super-villain. They travel from frigid Antarctica to 1960s New York City, ending in mod London, where they must face their biggest challenge to date: saving all of Minionkind...from annihilation. (c) Universal

Rating: PG (for action and rude humor)

Genre: Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

Directed By: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda

Written By: Brian Lynch

In Theaters: Jul 10, 2015 Wide

ALREADY OUT WORLDWIDE AND IF YOU'RE A FAN YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT!! OR IF IT HASN'T YET FIND OUT HERE!

The early days of the Minions. Well, not exactly, they started back in the oceans. ©Universal Studios

So another movie with secondary characters from a popular animated movie series...

So yeah, this is the second after last years Penguins of Madagascar movie. As you you know the penguins weren't the main characters in the Madagascar series but were in fact side or secondary characters who's antics provided additional laughs. They were just lucky enough that the audience liked them more than the lemurs otherwise I'm sure we'd have gotten the Lemurs of Madagascar movie instead. But as much fun and cute as the trailer promised the Penguins of Madagascar was going to be when it finally came out it was sort of a disappointment to me. You can read my review of it HERE. I think I said it was too much of a good thing or something along those lines.

MOVIE REVIEW: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

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For 12 year old Alexander Cooper, everyday is a bad day. And his family thinks he's being silly because they never have a bad day. On the day before his 12th birthday party, he learns that another boy is having a party of his own and everyone is going to it. And another kid punks him online. So at midnight of his birthday, he wishes that his whole family can have a bad day. And things for the whole family go bad, his mom's car is broken so they have to share a car, his sister has a cold and has to go on stage, his older brother, who's hoping to get his driver's license and to bring his girlfriend to the prom, has to deal with his girlfriend's snootiness and fails to get his license, his mom has a crisis at work which could cost her her job, and his dad who has a job interview has to bring his younger brother with him but because his pacifier is broken he can't stop crying. Alex feels responsible.

Ratings: 6.5/10 from 3,608 users   Metascore: 54/100
Reviews: 32 user | 69 critic | 28 from Metacritic.com