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.

Austenland: So I had very low expectations for this movie, I'd read the book and not been impressed but my friend thought we should watch it, so we did. It is what it is, but it was better than I expected, some high points, some cringe points.

Saving Mr. Banks: I have been wanting to see this movie since I heard about it. It's made it to the dollar theater and I got to see it with a friend. It was such a fantastic movie! I love Mary Poppins as I believe I've stated previously and it was fascinating learning more of the back story of getting the movie made. Emma Thompson was of course wonderful as was Tom Hanks as P. L. Travers and Walt Disney and the rest of the cast was really great too. The movie was both very funny and happy as well as incredibly tragic, but as a good Disney movie should, it ends on a happy note (and raised on Disney, I believe very much in happy endings.) I would now really like to learn more about both Mrs. Travers and Walt Disney. I highly recommend the movie.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2: Um, so first off, I haven't seen the first movie, there were things I liked about this movie, and things I didn't love. It's interesting and the kids I was watching it seemed to enjoy it. There were way more food puns than I really needed.

Catching Fire: A preface, I am not really a fan of dystopian things, that being said I liked the first Hunger Games enough to see it twice. I did not enjoy this movie at all, there's a lot of unhappy and ugly in this movie, it's almost all there is. I have a really hard time getting more of that in fiction when there's already so much in the world. By the end of this movie I felt like I did after watching GATCA (don't watch it, it sort of scarred me), needing something desperately to make me laugh so I could go on. I have no desire to have anything more to do with the hunger games.

Victor Victoria: I will first note that this movie may not be for everyone, but I find it quite funny. Victoria (Julie Andrews) is destitute until she meets up with Toddy and they concoct a plan for her to become Victor, an amazing female impersonator. That's going great until a handsome man shows up.

Kon Tiki: This was on the list of International Cinema movies for the semester and it sounded interesting. The film was listed as Norwegian (which it is)(as was a lot of the crew of the expedition) and so I assumed that the film would be in Norwegian and I'd be watching with subtitles, I was surprised when I found that the film was made in English (which was nice because reading subtitles isn't really anyone's favorite I would guess). I guess it makes some sense in this day in age, so many Scandinavians speak great English and it gives the film a wider market. Anyway it was a really good film, I don't know that much about the Kon Tiki voyage and so I couldn't say how historically accurate the movie is but it is really good. I was kind of ridiculous actually, as a historical event I knew roughly how the movie would end but the movie got so intense at one point that I had to stop for a little while. I really recommend seeing it, you'll learn something, it's beautifully filmed and just an all around good movie.

The Avengers: I guess I forgot to write about this movie, I really liked it, much more than any of the other Avenger movies, it was nice to have the background though and to be able to put some things together. It was fun to see that the diva attitudes come together. Recommend it.

From Up on Poppy Hill: I've really been excited to see this latest Miyazaki movie, it's not as fantastical as the average Miyazaki movie but it was really good. It is helpful to have background knowledge of Japan in the time period, which one of the friends I watching with was able to provide (history majors are pretty useful to have around).

Schultze Gets the Blues: I had high hopes for this movie, a German polka man retires and discovers zydeco. As I watched it though I found myself thinking back to when I watched Waking Ned Divine, it was a nice, sweet story but the pacing and filming style are radically different from what I'm used to. I probably wouldn't watch it again but it was a nice show.  Oh, ps, this is a German movie if I didn't mention that before. Note: I was both shocked and unimpressed by the use of the "N" word in this movie at one point.