The Art of Flight

This is a short documentary film based upon some riders (aka snowboarders) who tear up the mountains.  This film is wildly entertaining and will put you in the mood to snowboard even if you've never snowboarded before.  The boarders are all sponsored by Red Bull and they are dropped into mountains that   have any snow at all  to board (snowboard).  The movie is about 90 minuets.  About halfway through there is a gruesome seen with some blood but if you ended up watching The Crazies then this is nothing.  I watched this movie on campus at Fairfield University in the Gonzaga auditorium and the event was sponsored by Red Bull.  At the end of the showing the man in charge of this event, Dom, gave away  few prizes in a raffle.  An interesting watch and i recommend you watch it.  You can watch the trailer for Art of Flight @ http://artofflightmovie.com/. 

The Crazies

Staring Timothy Olyphant, The Crazies is a movie that portrays the life of people getting infected because of the drinking water.  It all starts when a man walks onto a baseball field as a game is going on carrying a shotgun.  Olyphant playing David has to resort to shoot this man thinking he was drunk.  Olyphant is a deputy of the sheriff Russell.  Next thing they know everyone is being brought to a condemning place.  Here Russell gets split up from his wife, Judy.  He finds Judy right as she is about to get killed by one of these crazies.  There were four of them trying to escape, David, Judy, Russell and Becca.  Becca got killed by some crazies along the way and Russell ended up becoming infected by the disease so he distracted the authorities while David and Judy made a run for it.  The two of them made it into a 18 wheeler cab and drove as fast as they could away from the city meanwhile they hear on a radio the count down.  The count down for what?  The count reaches zero and the whole town was nuked.  The truck got destroyed and they walked the rest of the way to another town. This is a very violent movie but was gripping when I had watched it.  If you don't like blood and guts don't watch this movie.

The Aviator

This movie, The Aviator, took flight in 2004.  This is a story about Howard Hughes, staring Leonardo DiCaprio.  Hughes inherited a lot of wealth and had a passion to make movies and build the best airplanes since he was a child.  When he was a child his mother made him afraid of germs and this made him go crazy throughout the film.  Once he grew up he directed his first film, Hell's Angels.  This film goes on to be a three year production.  He used over 24 cameras in the making and made the film have sound after the first screening which took that third year.  This film almost put hughes in debt making it.  Then he decides to make one of the planes better by knocking off the top wing and making the whole plane wind resistance.  Then he opened up an airline called TWA.  The production of the Hercules was another plane designed to hold jeeps and tanks for the war.  Hughes got funded for this plane by the US government.  Meanwhile he was making the production of an exposed woman and the TWA airline got closed down.  There were laws put in place that allowed the competing airline to be a monopoly.  A senator took Hughes to court to try to find him guilty of something, hughes owned the senator in court, and said if the Hercules didn't fly then he would leave the country.  It was surprising that Hughes won in court due to his mental state.  The scene parallel to the court scene was the taking off of the Hercules.  It flew and the next invention was to make jets.

Paycheck

The movie Paycheck stars Ben Affleck and is a suspenseful film.  This movie is about a man who works backwards to solve love, friendships, and his job.  His job entails taking a newly developed item deciphering it and make it better.  He works for his jobs for a set period of time and can only get a paycheck in exchange for the loss of his memory on a particular project.  He was offered a job paying $90,000,000 but in exchange he had to erase three years of his life.  Taking this job he meets a woman and is able to see the future.  At the end of the three years he gets his memory erased, has no money to take from the job and in exchange he sent himself an envelope with twenty items.  A time machine, twenty items, can this man decipher his future end up with the girl of his erased memories and get the cash.  Watch this movie in order to find out.  This film is suspenseful, insightful, and will have you predicting the future of hope.  A must watch at least once.

Zombie Land

Zombie Land is a movie of where a world of humans is slowly being taken over by a zombie apocalypse. In order to survive the main character, Columbus, needs to kill the zombies that get in his way to try to reach his family.  Along the way he meets a few people a woman his age, a older man and a younger girl.  The girls are sisters and the older man was single before this apocalypse with a son.  The four of them but heads but eventually work together.  Do they survive.  The answer is yes, they head to an amusement park with the hope of it being zombie free.  However, it is not Columbus and the other man go and save the girls. Columbus falls in love with the one his age and everything ends up turning out fine. A classic movie i recommend watching at last once.  Oh yah Bill Murray's in it too. Check out the review of Zombie Land at Rotten Tomatoes.

The Adjustment Bureau

A man named David is facing reality.  He meets the girl of his dreams but the Adjustment Bureau (God) will not allow them to meet again.  This story portrays the mystery of faith.  In order to live he can't tell anyone that he is talking to the adjustment bureau but he needs to find this girl.  He saw behind a curtain that he wasn't suppose to know existed. (Trailer)  He doesn't give up until he finds this girl, searching the place he last left her, while fighting off the adjustment bureau.  I am not giving up the ending on this one ladies and gents.  Your going to have to watch this one.