The Cutting Edge: I really liked this movie, now that I try to think about why it's a little hard to put my finger on. I like the wit and humor of the movie. I enjoy watching the ice skating. It's just an enjoyable movie.

Million Dollar Arm: I liked this movie, an interesting and different kind of sports movie. This sports agency, trying to get by, they decide as a last effort, to search for a baseball pitcher in India (with the thought that a cricket bowler could transition to pitching). I don't know that this is a movie that I could watch again, part of the movie is the agent learning how to get out of his selfish existence. It's a good movie and a good message, but he's a super jerk and I don't think I could watch that a lot. Oh, also it's based on true events...as I think all these inspirational sports movies are.

Captain America The Winter Soldier: I didn't think that I would like this movie, I mostly needed context for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, you were supposed to watch Captain America right when it came out before a certain episode. I didn't do that but now I have all kinds of context and understanding for what I've already seen and I already knew some of the crucial and intense information in the movie. It was a pretty good movie.

Monuments Men: I've really been looking forward to to seeing this movie, I'm an artist and I love learning about WWII. Monuments men is about men and women who worked to regain art from Nazi looters. Honestly I haven't given a lot of thought previous to this about how the great art and buildings of Europe made it through the war. I don't know how many people know this, it's mentioned in the movie but Hitler was a failed art student, as such he was creating his own huge art collection, from Europe's museums and from Jewish private collections. The Monuments Men were a small unit, working against the odds, architects and art historians or collectors. They went to Europe to protect and recover stolen art to return it where possible to it's rightful owners. This movie is important, so few people today have enough appreciation for art and what it means for us as humans.

The Last Reef: So this was a "4D" movie at the aquarium that I visited today. I can't say that any of the party were too impressed with the 4D part, 3D glasses, the seat shakes, smells, air and water get blasted at you sporadically mostly it distracted from the movie. The movie itself was interested and one of those guilt/panic inducing movies about how we're killing the planet. There were a lot of beautiful images though.

The Book Thief: This movie was so good, so beautiful. It was sad but it was a really great story. I love movies like this. I like that it's a different kind of WWII story, it's about good people in a horrible time/situation. I also appreciated that the accents were German rather than the standard British = foreign accent. I really recommend this movie!

Thor The Dark World: So I watched this to gain added context with Marvel's Agent's of SHIELD, I don't know that it really brought a ton of that though. I did have the realization though that if you combine Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, you might get Thor's world. Favorite part of the movie was when Loche (sp?) took the form of Captian America, pretty much worth the whole rest of the movie, which was okay. Ps, those dark elves are creepy.

Iron Man 3: I said after Avengers that I was done with the Marvel movies, but I still have been watching Marvels Agents of Shield and the connectivity between the show and the movies has made it so I need to get back on top of them. Anyway I liked this much better than I've liked other Iron Man movies, Tony Stark gets more likeable with every movie.