Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, on the tails of the elusive Syndicate.
The IMF (Impossible Missions Force) is being disavowed by the CIA, but Hunt has gone off the grid as he chases down an organization that only he believes exists.
He ropes in former fellow agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) for the ride and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) plays the typical female-in-an-action-movie.
With high-speed chases, climbing on the outside of flying planes, and holding one’s breath underwater for 3+ minutes, this movie has got it all.
Pegg is the perfect comedy partner for Cruise’s seriousness, and Jeremy Renner adds nicely into the mix.
M:I – RN is a solid action movie, and gets a 7.5 out of 10.
Here are some of the movies I’m looking forward to this fall:
9/9 — Sully — The story of Sully Sullenberger landing his plane on the Hudson starring Tom Hanks as Captain Sully
9/23 — Storks — Animation starring Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer
10/13 — Mascots — Netflix movie starring Jane Lynch, Ed Begley Jr., Zach Woods about team mascots married to each other in a falling apart relationship, yet “happy on the field”
10/14 — The Accountant — Ben Affleck is a forensic accountant for dangerous criminal organizations, also starring Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons
10/21 — Jack Reacher: Never Go Back — The second movie in the Lee Child series, filmed out of order, starring Tom Cruise and Cobie Smulders
10/28 — Inferno — Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon is back, this time with amnesia leaving Tom Hanks wondering how involved he is. Also starring Felicity Jones
11/4 — Doctor Strange — Marvel’s latest installment, just days after Luke Cage on Netflix, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel McAdams
11/4 — Trolls — The toys of our childhood coming to life in animation, with Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake and James Corden
11/18 — Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them — The Harry Potter series takes on a new trilogy with Eddie Redmayne and Colin Farrell
11/18 — The Edge of Seventeen — Some teenage movie…but it is starring Hailee Steinfeld!
12/2 — La La Land — A musical/comedy/drama starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling
12/16 — Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — Star Wars. Felicity Jones. Ben Mendelsohn. Anything else need to be said?
12/21 — Passengers — I’m not much for standard sci-fi movies…but I will watch something with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt
12/21 — Assassin’s Creed — This movie is likely gonna be terrible…but it’s based on a decent video game, and stars Michael Fassbender
12/21 — Sing — A musical animation with Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson and Reese Witherspoon
12/21 — Patriots Day — The story of the Boston Marathon Bombing, with Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons
I love a good Movie Trailer. Or TV Trailer. I’m not really particular what type it is, as long as it’s a trailer….set up a good tease, and it’ll make people want to go see the actual event.
But it’s rare that I look ahead and say “There’s a new trailer coming out next Tuesday!!!”, instead that excitement is usually held for the actual Movie/TV Show.
Star Wars has changed that in a way that Marvel never could. Marvel’s movies are drool-worthy, but their trailers aren’t always edge of your seat watching.
Last year it was the Episode VII trailers that had people patiently waiting through ESPN football for a half-time trailer release, and last night it was Olympics coverage that had a Rogue One trailer mixed in.
And it’s oh-so-glorious, bringing exactly what you need from a trailer.
It makes you want the movie to be released already, it introduces you to brand-new characters (played by amazing actors such as Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker and Felicity Jones), and it allows me to finally use the hashtag: #ImWithHer
Zootopia is a Disney animated movie about Judy Hopps, the first bunny cop.
Living in a world of animals, where Predators and Prey are supposed to get along, Judy (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) is very undersized as a bunny, but that doesn’t stop her from pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a police officer.
Being the small new one on the force she is given meter maid duty, and not given any real cases…until she stumbles onto a hustling sly fox (Jason Bateman) and the case of a missing otter, leaving her boss Chief Bogo (Idris Elba), with no choice but to leave her on the case…and a 48-hour deadline to solve it or leave the force.
From sloth’s running the DMV at top speed to mobster polar bear security guards using Android phones, this emotional/funny/cute movie is great for crowds of all ages.
Shakira has the title song and plays the celebrity Gazelle caught up in the town’s going-ons (and having the popular in-movie dance app).
This movie is over in a “Flash” and gets an 8.5 out of 10.
If you haven’t opened up the Google App on your phone in a few days (or the Google Now page for us Android users) and clicked the logo, you don’t know what you’re missing.
Google has launched the Google Olympics, with good old fruits and vegetables as the contestants.
You can also download it at g.co/fruit.
Here are a list of the events, followed by the high scores. If you score higher, send me a screenshot and I’ll add your name/score to the list!
This discussion is about MasterChef Season 7, Episode 10 – The Weakest Links.
~~~~~LOTS OF SPOILERS AHEAD~~~~~
This week’s elimination came down to a violation of rules, and I think that the rule violation should have been handled differently.
Whenever they have elimination tests they usually need to complete their tasks by the end of the timer. This time they had to have it presented on the front table at the end of time.
Andrea, a 21-year-old super chef, froze in the final seconds and came in three seconds too late to the front table…but despite that the chef’s still tasted her dish, and in fact deemed it so good that they actually handed out pieces to the other contestants to taste as well, something very rarely done.
I think that her missing the timer should’ve been handled as if she didn’t present any dish to the judges, and not a straight-out elimination.
If you consider her as having not presented any dish, calling it “food not presented”, she would’ve lost points…consider if they are graded on a scale of 1-10, she’d have gotten a 1 for bringing no dish.
But Diamond would have gotten a 0.
One of the golden rules of any cooking show, and one that anyone who has watched any part of the 30+ seasons of Gordon Ramsay shows in the U.S. knows, you CAN NOT SERVE RAW CHICKEN.
Raw chicken is the cardinal sin of cooking.
And Diamond’s chicken-wurst was pink and completely unedible.
So while Andrea didn’t serve any dish, serving raw chicken (in my eyes) is even worse. I think anyone who has ever been served raw chicken would agree they’d rather have been served nothing.
I hope Andrea comes back in some sort of “redemption episode” later this season, with multiple eliminated chefs fighting for a fresh position…or tries out for another season, because that was some serious lost talent!
The Rio 2016 Olympics officially kick off tomorrow, but we all know that yesterday was the real beginning, as the women’s soccer competition got under way, with the men starting today.
With a little help from Sports Illustrated, here is a list of the thing you should try to keep an eye on each day of the games:
Friday – August 5 – Opening Ceremony – Michael Phelps carries America’s flag as the torch gets lit in Rio — 7:30 PM – NBC
Saturday – August 6 – USWNT vs France – Carli Lloyd and the US Women, off of a 2-0 win, face off against France, who took their first game 4-0 — 4PM – NBCSN
Sunday – August 7 – Men’s Soccer Brazil vs. Iraq – Neymar skipped Copa America so that he can play in the Olympics, and being the host country Brazil will try not to fail like they did in the 2014 World Cup — 9PM – NBCSN
Tuesday – August 9 – Women’s Gymnastics – Simone Biles will be the one to keep an eye on in this years talented US Women’s group — 8PM – NBC
Wednesday – August 10 – Men’s Basketball USA vs. Australia – Living off a cruise ship, the US men’s team faces the team from down under — 6PM – NBCSN
Thursday – August 11 – Women’s Archery – American Mackenzie Brown is our hopeful contender for a medal — 2:30PM – NBCSN
Friday – August 12 – Men’s Swimming – Phelps continues his quest to be the greatest Olympian of all-time — 8PM – NBC
Saturday – August 13 – Women’s Tennis Final – Serena Williams will likely be shooting for another Gold — 11AM – Bravo
Sunday – August 14 – Men’s Tennis Final – Nadal? Murray? Djokovic?…whoever it is, it’s bound to be outstanding! — 11AM – Bravo
Men’s 100-meter final – Usain Bolt will be on your screen for about 10 seconds…if you’re lucky! — 8PM – NBC
Wednesday – August 17 – Women’s Beach Volleyball – Kerri Walsh Jennings is no longer paired with Misty May-Treanor, but April Ross is more than up for the task — 8PM – NBC
Thursday – August 18 – Women’s Golf — Lexi Thompson made records nine years ago as the youngest women to ever make the US Open, and now she’ll try to get a medal — 6:30AM – Golf Channel
Friday – August 19 – Men’s Track and Field – He went so fast on Sunday, that it’ll be worth watching Usain Bolt again — 8PM – NBC
Saturday – August 20 – Women’s Basketball Gold Medal Game – Quick, name the last time the US Women’s team lost an Olympics game. The answer? 1992. So it’s good odds they’ll be playing in this game — 2:30PM – NBC
Allegiant is the third installment in the Divergent series, and what was supposed to be Part I of II (more on that in a minute).
With Janine dead, the Factionless lead by Four’s mother and the Allegiant take over what we now know to be Chicago, killing all those that had betrayed the others.
So we see our main characters (Tris, Four, Caleb, Peter, etc.) head out over the wall to explore what lays out in the real world.
After getting picked up by the government, now run by a council, our team of heroes are put to task. Everything from defriending the fringe outside Chicago, surveillance and reporting of the going-ons within the city, or even exploring the Divergent’s DNA to figure out the perfect genes.
Which side will Tris and the gang end up on? Factionless…Allegiant…or the Government?
When The Hunger Games did their two-part finale it was done very poorly with Part I feeling like a giant ad for Part II…and Part II just very lackluster.
In this case it is the polar opposite.
Allegiant is good enough to be a standalone movie, keeping viewers engaged throughout, and not seeming like it’s missing details just to get you to come back for the next one.
Speaking of the next one, Ascendant, in recent weeks it has come to light that it will possibly be released as a TV movie, and then spun-off into a TV show.
Harry Potter’s birthday, as well as that of author J.K. Rowling, came and went this past Sunday, and with it the release of the newest book in the Harry Potter timeline.
We’ve had the 7-part series that has since been turned into movies, as well as a library collection of other books, one of which is coming to theaters this November (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them).
And now we have Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which takes place 19 years after we last saw Harry in the Deathly Hallows, but right where the epilogue left off.
This story is not your typical book, but rather a script, as seen on stage at the Palace Theatre in London. And while I was nervous that it would be difficult to read in this format, it couldn’t be further from the truth.
The book was simple and quick to read, one of the fastest reads that I’ve devoured in years.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is very different from the world we are used to, but enjoyable nonetheless and gets a 9 out of 10.
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