Its a good movie for those who like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Its about the dwarves trying to reclaim their homeland.

It starts when a dwarf named Thorin walks into a tavern and Gandalf tells him that he is the king under the mountain. Then Gandalf finds the hobbit,Bilbo to help steal what they needed to get. Thorin, Bilbo, Gandalf, and the rest of the dwarves are hiding from the Orcs and a giant black bear so they run into a cottage owned by a man/bear named Beowulf. They then leave and stop at the edge of a creepy forest and Gandalf  leaves them all to go find where the orcs are hiding. The dwarves and Bilbo go into the creepy forest and get lost. When they try to find their way out they end up in a giant spider web. They get rescued by elves and put in elf jail. Bilbo puts on the ring and saves the dwarves. They float down a river in barrels but get stuck at the gates and the elves come after them. Then the orcs show up and attack. The one dwarf gets shot in the knee as they escape down the river. The orcs follow and attack the dwarves while the elves follow and attack the orcs.  The dwarves and Bilbo stop at the end of the river and find a way across the lake. They go to a village in the lake to hide. Later they reach the mountain and send Bilbo into the mountain to get a gem they needed and he accidently wakes the dragon. They all try to get the gem but fail and the dragon leaves and goes to the lake village.

4 stars

I thought this was a cute movie.  It was about the writer of Mary Poppins Mrs. Travers and she didn't want to sell the rights to Walt Disney.

It starts when people are telling Mrs. Travers to go meet with Walt Disney and listen to his idea for making a movie about her book Mary Poppins.  She doesn't want to go but she really needs money and he is going to give her a bunch of money.  She decides to hear his ideas and agreed to make the movie but records everything. She is very hard to work with and makes everyone crazy.  She doesn't like most of their ideas and gives them a hard time.  She is not happy for most of the movie.  There are a bunch of flashbacks to when she was a little girl and the movie tells the story of her past.  Mrs. Travers is very negative to Walt Disney and doesn't ever smile until he forces her to go to Disneyland and ride a ride. She does finally smile on the ride.  She meets with the team from the movie to hear the song they wrote for the end of Mary Poppins.  She loves it and is singing and dancing with them.  Everyone is happy.  She stays happy until she finds out the are going to add animation of the penguins in the movie.  She is so angry she goes all the way back home to England.  Walt Disney shows up at her house and tells her a story about himself and then tells her he knows why she wrote Mary Poppins.  It makes her agree to sign the rights over to him and he makes the movie.

Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson are very good in this movie.  I don't like why the story of Mary Poppins was written because it was very sad.

4 1/2 stars

1/20/2014 UPDATE
This is one of my favorite new movies.  I got to see it again today and liked it even more.  If you didn't see it yet you need to go see it.  It is a good movie and you will like it.

This movie was okay but not my favorite movie.  It was about two boxers who beat each other up.

It starts when a news man is telling a story of two boxers up until their retirement from boxing.  The son of their promoter who died wants to get him to be in a boxing video game. He says no but then changes his mind. When he goes to the studio to record his moves he runs into his rival " The Kid" and they start a fight breaking everything in the studio. They then decide they want to fight each other in a real boxing fight. So they both start training really hard for the fight. While " The Kid" is training he finds out he has a son and a grandson. After having a really bad trainer he has his son train him for the fight. " Razor"  runs into the women he used to love which is BJ's mom and they hang out together. After they go out to dinner while driving home they get into a car accident. At the hospital " Razor's" dad comes in yelling at him because he didn't tell him he was blind in one eye. " Razor" then backs out of the fight because of his eye but " The Kid" acts like a baby because he wants him to fight. " Razor" then goes back into the fight. While the are fighting " Razor's" good eye is almost swollen shut so BJ's mom tells him about him being blind in one eye. " Razor" wins the match. 

I liked BJ's mom and " Razor's dad.

3 1/2 stars

I didn't like this movie.  It was about con-men. 

It starts off when three people are trying to con a politician.  Then it goes to the real beginning where Irving meets Sydney at a party and they fall in love.  He trusts her and she becomes his con partner. They con people out of a bunch of money and get rich.  A cop catches them and sets up a way to prove they are con-men.  He then makes them con politicians saying that it is for building hotels and casinos.  Irving goes home and plays with his son until his son mentions that his mom Rosalyn started a fire.  She drinks and smokes and is very crazy.  She was also very funny.  Rosalyn finds out they are conning people and thinks the cop is actually an IRS agent.  She meets a mob guy Pete at a party with Irving and he wants to date her. She tells him about the IRS guy.  Pete takes Irving for a drive and Irving finds Rosalyn's nail polish in the car.  He then hurts Irving to scare him or something and when Irving goes home he yells at Rosalyn for telling Pete about the cop/IRS guy.  She promises to keep her mouth shut from now on.  More politicians get conned and at the end when the cop brings them in to arrest them it turned out they conned him instead.  It gets very confusing.  Everyone is conning everyone.  Sydney needed to cover up.  She needed a real shirt on.

Jennifer Lawrence's character Rosalyn was the best part of this movie.  She was funny and crazy and her son was adorable.

There should be warnings when they have strobe lights in movies. I have seizures and strobe lights make me have them.  Just because it is on a screen doesn't make it less of a strobe light.

3 stars.