In lieu of the Winter Olympics, I thought Miracle would be the perfect choice for this week!

Kurt Russell stars as Herb Brooks, coach of Team USA Hockey for the 1980 Winter Olympics.  This true story shows the blood, sweat, and tears shed by this underdog team going to the Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid.  A team was put together by college hockey players to go up against countries all over the world who have had more experience and practice.  The film shows the tryouts, practices and games played throughout the year for the team.  We see a bond between coach and players form, and the team that had the winning attitude to go on and win the gold medal in hockey, defeating the unbeatable Soviet Union and Finland. This film also stars Sean McCann and Eddie Cahill.

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If you love saucy romance novels, red wine, and Lifetime movies, have I got the perfect flick for you!  Obsessed is a sexy thriller that will have you rolling your eyes, scoffing, and yelling at the screen for the actor to look out behind them!  We all get a thrill out of cheesy suspenseful movies, and Obsessed is jammed pack with all the goods.

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For this movie I will say that from the very first scene you are gripped and sucked into the plot line. For this movie I will also say, the character acting and plot structure seemed to be somewhat lackluster.

Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an ex-insurance investigator whose wife has been brutally raped and murdered sometime in the past, and he had experienced some severe head trauma leading to his current condition of short-term memory loss, or Anterograde Amnesia. He’s on a warpath against the person who committed this heinous act, trying to find out who it was, and to help him do so, he takes pictures of important places or people, and even tattoos different reminders across his chest. He has many of them written backwards so they can be easily read in the mirror. It takes a few moments to really begin to understand the purpose of the repeat scenes and black and white scenes, until you realize that you, as a viewer, are also patching the pieces of the current crime together. The movie opens with a reverse shot of Leonard killing Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) — a person who seems to be genuinely interested in helping Leonard out in his journey, but is set up as someone who should not be trusted. You get to travel throughout the short period of time that Leonard is searching for his wife’s killer with him, learning pieces of the past in backwards order. He sets up his home base in a seedy motel room, and finds himself intertwined with some shady characters who he thinks are trying to help him. He discovers a photo of Natalie (Carrie-Ann Moss) on which he has written “she will help you out of pity.” This sentence has an air of hostility in it, yet he seems to trust her even without his memory. Read More    

If you love Hilary Swank, you will love her as Amelia Earhart!

We all know who Amelia Earhart (played by Hilary Swank) is and what she is famous for.  This film concentrates on her life as a pilot, and her troubled love life with George Putnam (Richard Gere).  The movie starts with Amelia setting out on her flight around the world in 1937.  The film goes into flashbacks throughout this famous flight.  We see Amelia as a young girl and why she wanted to become a pilot.  We see Amelia meet George for the first time because she wants to fly across the Atlantic, something no woman has done before.  George Putnam is publisher and publicist who wants Amelia to write a book about her journeys.  Once her first flight is completed, he arranges many dinners and talks for Amelia to attend.  Their love for each other develops and as much as she does not want to marry, she agrees to in 1931.   Read More