Movies – A cheat sheet for RMs.

Hugo is a movie based on Brian Selznick’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” The film, geared towards older children, follows the adventures of Hugo, a young orphan, who lives in the clock tower of a train station in Paris. The film has spectacular visuals which were made specifically for 3-D (it won several Academy [...]

Two Brothers is a documentary that follows the coming of age of Sam and Luke Nelson. For 10 years, director Rick Stevenson recorded interviews with the Nelson boys as they experienced the challenges of childhood and adolescence. The result is a remarkable story filled with emotion. The Nelsons are LDS, so the film culminates with [...]

Disney’s traditional animation department still exists. It’s is even capable of producing enjoyable movies, like Winnie the Pooh. The plot, in classic Pooh style, is simple: Eeyore loses his tail, prompting his friends to search for a replacement. Naturally, Pooh is distracted by the thought of honey at every turn. The animation is beautiful, and [...]

Fifteen minutes into Cars 2, I had gotten over the fact I was watching talking cars and was engrossed in the humor of the movie. The plot is similar to that of The Man Who Knew Too Little, (i.e., the innocent bumbling fool becomes the unwitting, yet unstoppable spy). If you liked the original Cars [...]

Origin stories are all the rage. How come snakes don’t have legs, why do tigers have stripes, how did the man on the moon get there, and most importantly, how did those X-Men people get all mutated up? Despite itself, X-Men: First Class succeeds at developing the backstory of the relationship between Magneto (Michael Fassbender) [...]