"Ghostbusters" is often referred to as a cult classic, about three misfit paraphsycologists, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) who eventually are called to investigate an unusal happening at the New York Public Library. They soon discover that they are  no match for the ghost of the dead librarian by themselves so they eventually show up with "equiptment" that they made themselves and defeat the librarian. But they have bigger fish to fry when  they gain noterity and are retained by Dana Barett whose apartment is haunted by an evil spirit called "Gozer" and they eventually go on to save all of new York from the forces beyond the grave.

I love Ghostbusters, my father got me into it as a child and it hasn't really ebbed.

Howling at the Box office, "Wolf Of Wall Street"

In Leonardo DiCaprio's new film, "The Wolf of Wall Street it follows the life and loves of Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio), a con man on the Stock Market  that conned his way to the top and eventually lost everything as a result of Black Monday. This movie was the perfect example of having everything you could ever want and then getting it taken away from you by a swift dose of reality. I really think the story would have been better percived if it were written better and didn't drag on forever. I quite honestly lost intrest after the second use of the word "fuck" which was early on in the movie and there was so much going on all the time it was hard to keep track of what story line began where and when a story line actually ended.

The Lost Art- "Monuments Men"

"Monuments Men" was about the mission to retrieve the "lost" art taken by Hitler's men in the 1940's, they succeeded in bringing everything together for the art world in the end. Because America is awesome and we kicked some Nazi tail in WWII, but as Frank Stokes (Clooney) so eloquently put it, they were fighting for a way of life a culture that could not save itself. So he got a band of artists, and art critics together to go and find the Lost art and this team included Bill Murray, Matt Damon, John Goodman, and Cate Blanchett to name a few, The movie showed a lot of humanity as well, that you don't just have to be soldiers to fight in a war, some wars are waged on a culture and preserving it as a whole. I think "Monuments Men" was a beautiful contribution to all the "Inspired by a true story" films ever.

So I just went and saw Monuments Men, and that movie was really well done and kept my attention with all the fast paced action within it, I loved the story, and could follow everything which is normally very hard to do when it's based on something as historically significant as The Holocaust, I thought the actors in it were perfect for the job they were asked to do, and completed their mission of keeping the audience enthralled. Monuments Men is one that will be on my shelf when it comes out to own, for it is truly monumentally beautiful.

"Frozen"

Frozen is an animated musical comedy  that follows the epic of two sisters one of which, has magical powers and the power to freeze anything and everything she wishes, after a day playing in the snow with her sister Anna, Elsa accidently freezes her sisters heart and as a result,spends the rest of her young life in isolation, afraid for her sisters life and the lives of those around her, until one day her parents die and the kingdom needs a queen, so on the day she gets coronated as queen, things go awry and she ends up freezing the entire kingdom.  Indefinately. Fantastic. Elsa runs away and holes up in her ice castle (that she made herself, obviously). Thus, this leaves Anna to find her and to eventually  reverse the eternal winter, and naturally, chaos ensues. Anna still has the ice in her heart, because they couldn't remove it when she was little  and it eventually leads to her being a frozen ice scuplture for about 5 seconds until, her sister Elsa reverses the spell by crying over her Han Solo'd sister.

 I was really surprised by Disney's choice not to have the ending be a "prince meets princess and they fall in love" and instead opted for a more kind of realistic view and the fact that a sisters bond is very strong and that love doesn't always have to be romantic, it can be selfless and familially related as well.

"Better than Chocolate"

This movie is by far my favorite, it follows Maggie a closeted lesbian as she settles into her new life in Vancouver, there she meets Kim an out and proud lesbian, and the two start a relationship. Unfortunatley something Kim was not expecting shows up and disrupts their "honeymoon phase" Maggies mother. So as Maggie struggles to come out to her family, Kim struggles with not having a place to live and lives out of her van, and finally gets so fed up with Maggie waiting to tell her mother Kim eventually leaves. Then someone tries to blow up the bookstore where Maggie works, which is, evidently a gay bookstore, and her mother finds out and Kim comes back when she hears about the explosion to make sure Maggie is okay the two of them make up and end up kissing in the street as her mother watches. I love this movie because it has merit in the gay and lesbian community, because it teaches people in the community not to be afraid of themselves or their sexuality. Furthermore the people that we think will be shocked by our admission, can surprise us by being accepting.

"Cargo" Short film

The movie opens with a man coming to from what was most likely a dizzy spell he is inside of a car, and he sees a silhouette of a woman, who was most likely (at one point), his wife. But she has turned into a zombie when he looks closer and tries to attack him. He manages to escape and he tries to get something out of the backseat but he fails and runs away, presumably to find something to break the window with. the screen fades to black for a minute displaying "Cargo" as the title. Cut to a man holding a crying baby in his arms and looking at a wound on his arm, he grabs a permanent marker and writes on his arm "3 Hours" probably before the infection sets in. and he starts walking with his daughter on his back, to find shelter for her, we then see him collapse on the ground and see him try to fight off the infection, but eventually his walking slows and, what once could have been words, come to a growling, pained moaning way of speech (as most Zombies tend to have). We see the father/daughter combo then joined by three other survivors who kill the "walker" dad before he even has a chance to get the child to safety. We see a college age girl gather the infant in her arms, as if sensing the struggle of the father to stay as lucid as he possibly could for his daughter, the "movie" ends as the woman walks away with the crying baby in her arms.

It was very interesting to see that short film play out with no dialogue, it takes a lot of skill to be able to do that as a director in a movie. I thought it was very well done indeed. It did succeed in giving me the creeps for awhile there.