Another film that I didn't know much about going into, except that the reviews had generally been positive. The story follows a 17 year girl (Jennifer Lawrence) whose father is out on bail and she has to find him or she, her two siblings, and mentally ill mother are going to get kicked out of their house. The rest of the film deals with her journey into the backwoods of Kentucky (or thereabouts) where helpful people with no dark secrets help her as much as they can, and no age old resentments come to the fore. Or Not. Yeah you can throw Winter's Bone up there in that Genre of films that makes me scared to death to ever stop my car when driving through the Ozarks. Anyway the film is well executed and performances are solid. It keeps a tight focus and doesn't feel the need to explain everything to the audience. Plus if you're already fully behind the idea that people living in the hills are crazy and will beat the crap out of you this will fit into your wheelhouse nicely.
Despicable Me
I don't have a lot to say. Its funny, well paced, and doesn't have an abundance of pop-culture gags or extraneous musical numbers. It doesn't have quite the depth of Pixar's best work, but then again neither did Rush Hour 3. There are definitely worse ways to spend 90 minutes.
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