The Counselor

All star cast makes this an entertaining but confusing movie. Hot shot lawyer becomes involved unintentionally  with drug dealers by way of a client. From there, multiple plots and bizare deaths loom for all associated with him. You never really know who is controlling what and the ending leaves many questions, still a movie worth seeing. 3 bananas

Carrie

Remake of the Stephen King  70's movie but with better looking blood. High school girl bullied by her peers finds she has super natural powers. Invited to the prom she is humiliated and she unleashes a fire storm. Not much of a plot and takes to long to get interesting. 1 1/2 bananas

12 Years A Slave

Educated black man in the early 1800's is kidnapped from his family in Washington DC and sold into slavery outside of New Orleans. True story taken from the book this mam wrote about his 12 years being brutalized by various plantation owners. Hard to watch but also a must see as to where this country was not very long ago. 3 1/2 bananas

Escape Plan

Sly and the Govenator team up to break out of a super max prison that has been designed to prevent escapes. Sly runs a security firm whose job it is is to place him inside of prison systems to expose vulnerabilities. Little goes right with his newest assignment as this prison is not like any other. Interesting idea on a prison location but if you aren't into fantasy miss this one. 2 1/2 bananas

Fifth Estate

Docudrama based on two recently published books of the story behind WiKiLeaks. If this is anything close to the true story this is one fascinating movie. Julian Assange founder of WiKiLeaks and Daniel Berg, Julian's right hand man, found the website so that corporate and government corruption can be exposed by unnamed whistle blowers. Site grows from  minor to major when world wide newspapers begin publishing top secret documents stolen from the US Government. This is to good a movie to pass up  true or not.  3 1/2 bananas

Enough Said

Divorcees James Gandolfini and Julia Louis Dreyfus meet at a cocktail party and find that they have much in common, after hooking up she discovers that one of her clients is the ex to who she is seeing. Definitely more of a chick flick, fairly entertaining but moves slow and  awkward at times. 2 1/2 bananas

Machette Kills

Continuing the Robert Rodrigues trilogy of the meanest, badist, uglist super hero, we find our ex Mexican Federale hero(Danny Trejo), enlisted by the President of the U.S.,  trying to shut down a plot to blow up Washington with a missile controlled by  bad guy Mel Gibson. As the title suggests, expect to see large quantities of separated body parts in this to good to miss spoof of all super agent movies. See it for the entertain factor not for any acting. Great group of supporting actors. 3 bananas

Captain Phillips

What a movie. Intense drama from beginning to end. Based on actual events, Tom Hank's sea freighter is attacked and he is taken hostage in one of the ship's life boats by Somali pirates. Stand off between US Navy and crazed pirates keeps you on the edge of your seat. Probably best picture of the year. 4 bananas

Runner Runner

Brilliant college student, Justin Timberlake, who gambles over the Internet determines the system is rigged and sets out to inform  Ben Affleck,the man behind the system what he knows. Well, things don't go according to plan as the FBI and Affleck see things differently. Affleck's smoking hot babe makes this movie worth seeing. 2 bananas

Gravity

Spectacular special effects and beautiful video along with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney make this a see movie. Both are astronauts working outside their space station when a Russian space station blows up and sends debrea smashing into their station leaving them without a base. Story is a little hard to believe but fun at the same time. How can this be bad with Sandy and George! 3 bananas

On the Job

Film based on true events in the Philippines. Corrupt politicians,police and prison officials all conspire to use prison inmates to perform murders outside of prison. Inmates are allowed out to perform murders as well as spend time with their families. A few good cops try to expose the system that has been set up for years with deadly consequences. Sub-titled but easy to follow; interesting part of history. 3 bananas