Time travel, rom-com, Rachel McAdams. Check, check and check. It really was one of the feelgood movies of the year. Plus, it’s a great movie to see until you can get into a showing of Hunger Games: Catching Fire where you don’t have to sit in the first three rows.
About Time
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams
Director: Richard Curtis
Ratings:
Julie
Traci
Remember when we used to do movie reviews? We know it’s been awhile, but we’re back! Bringing you our thoughts on the dark thriller Prisoners.
Prisoners
Starring: Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Ratings:
Julie
Traci
It’s that special time of year when we get to guess how long new shows will remain on the air. We’re here to help you figure out which shows you shouldn’t get attached to. Some shows we will watch all season others might not be as lucky.
First off, the new CBS thriller Hostages. Or as we like to call it Homeland Light.
Rogue FBI agent Duncan Carlisle and his band of bad-ass agents hold Dr. Ellen Sanders and her family hostage. They give Ellen a fun choice: kill the President (who she happens to be operating on) or they will kill her family. Kidnappers can be so demanding. And so it begins…
Well hello cowboy
Duncan is played by handsome Dylan McDermott (he might look a bit like a camel, but that is one dreamy camel). We learn everything we need to know about Duncan when they introduce him in a slow, dramatic turn. He’s a man who makes his own rules and will decide on the pace of his turns.
Super cute right?
New bangs are always a struggle to style, such realism
Ellen is played by the ridiculously talented Toni Collette. Not her most amazing performance (thus far) but she’s keeping pace with her TV husband, Tate Donovan, who’s also a little lackluster. We really like Toni with bangs. Even if she’s not making strong acting choices she’s killing it with her hair choices.
She looks as upset by her nickname as we are
Overall, the acting on this show is surprisingly awful. Especially the kids. Speaking of kids, Duncan has a daughter named Sawyer. Her mom/his wife is in the hospital undergoing chemo. As if this poor girl doesn’t have enough tragedy in her life her nickname is Soy Soy. She sounds like a condiment.
Trying to come up with ways to avoid having to kill the President, Ellen takes a pair of scissors and attempts to cut her pinky finger (off?!). She ends up just slicing her finger, but was the plan to amputate it so she didn’t have to to operate? That seems like a crazy move and one she wouldn’t be able to explain to the kidnappers without them offing a family member. We didn’t include a picture because it was gross.
We are committing to this one for the season. We hope it gets better. It’s billed more like a mini-series so we feel at the very least it will be a short relationship.
Ellen’s family ends up being not as perfect as they seem. Her son is involved in some drug dealing (we can’t wait to meet the head dealer Nico). Her teenage daughter is pregnant, by some dude whose acting would be bad even if this was on the CW. Her husband is cheating on her (obvi how else can we set up sexual tension between her and Duncan). At the end of the episode she does not kill the President, she tells the media – thus telling Duncan – that she doesn’t give up that easily. Oh it’s about to get crazy up in here!
Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. on CBS – that’s right, tonight! We’ll recap tonight’s episode shortly.
We love you all so much that sometimes we hold our reviews until the movie is out of theaters so you aren’t able to see it. Now and again we are more about the community service than the review. Here’s some reasons to avoid The Bling Ring, even on video.
The Bling Ring
Starring: Katie Chang, Israel Broussard and Emma Watson
Director: Sofia Coppola
Ratings:
Traci
Julie
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This movie was so inspiring. Now we want to work at Google and hire And Seen interns.
The Internship
Starring: Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn
Director: Shawn Levy
Ratings:
Julie
Traci
While the gals were away Ryan decided to play. He created his own movie review compilation. His critiques might be short but they are extremely deep an intuitive.
Our tribute to 90’s movies continues as we learn that the fashion was not as handsome as we remember it. But we swear, back in the day combat boots and shapeless dresses seemed like a really good idea. This week we watch a movie that is very special to us. We can hardly wait for you to find out why.
Can’t Hardly Wait
Starring: Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lauren Ambrose and Seth Green
Directors: Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan>
Velociraptor’s, Dilophosaurus’ and a T-Rex…oh my! We headed back to Jurassic Park this week to figure out if this film is as good as we remember. We also found out that Ryan believes the dinosaurs in the movie are real, we didn’t have the heart to tell him otherwise.
Jurassic Park
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum
Director: Steven Spielberg
We apologize for the lack of reviews, we’re off on our Spring Break! As you can imagine our time share in Lake Havasu needs our immediate attention. And as the saying goes, “All this alcohol won’t drink itself!” Plus, we were pretty inspired by Spring Breakers starring our favorite he-might-smell-weird friend (Franco) and some Disney darlings (Gomez, Hudgens). While we’re away please enjoy our rerun of Pitch Perfect. If you haven’t seen it, please do so immediately. If you have, have a slumber party and watch it again! We’ll be back with new reviews in a flash! xoxo
This movie had huge shoes to fill. Specifically some ruby red slippers. It did a spectacular job. Prequels of Oz may fare better than sequels (Return to Oz). And we’ll probably get to see how a sequel to the prequel fares since it’s already been approved by Disney. Fun. We found this movie to be simply enjoyable.
Oz the Great and Powerful
Starring: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams
Director: Sam Raimi
Ratings:
Julie
Traci
And Seen...with Julie and Traci 