Red

Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Bruce Willis, Hellen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman
Running Time: 111 minutes

Bruce Willis stars in this movie as Frank, who is a retired CIA agent who leads a boring lonely life and collects his pension from the CIA. Frank notices that there is a hit out on him and he gets his old team back together to find out why they are being killed off. He kidnaps a girl Sarah, who he has a thing for and she travels with him through out the movie.

Frank is able to break into CIA HQ with a little help from Sarah. He finds his file which is now marked "RED", which means "retired extremely dangerous". He soon finds out that there is a list of retired agents who are labled RED. These retired agents have hits on them, they are supposed to be killed to cover up a mission that they were all involved in before they retired.

Bruce Willis goes through the movie trying to get to the bottom of the mess he found himself in so that he can live a normal life.

I liked this movie a lot. There was some violence so if that bothers you then you may want to consider not watching this. However it is not to graphic i would recomend this movie to everyone.

You Again

Director: Andy Fickman

Starring: Kristen Bell, Odette Yustman, and Sigourney Weaver

The movie You Again is about a girl named Marni was tortured and bullied in high school. It starts as a time capsule video from when Marni was in high school. It tells about her horrible high school experience and the people who were mean to her. The video focuses on one girl in particular, who went out of her way to be cruel Marni, this was the head cheerleader Joana.

Marni gets on the airplane to go to her brother’s wedding. She is talking on the phone to her mother when she finally realizes it is Joana from high school that her brother is marrying. She gets very upset and freaks out about this. Upon arrival she is very cautious and untrusting of Joana; to her surprise Joana pretends she does not remember her.

Throughout the film Marni tries to find ways to get back at Joana and ruin the marriage. She eventually gets it done with a video that shows a scene in high school of bad things Joana said and did. Later on in the movie every one forgives each other and everything is fine again.

I thought this movie was ok. It was not really funny though it had some parts that were. It was a pretty generic movie where everything is perfect in the end. It is rated PG so it is appropriate for everyone, though I’m not sure I would recommend it.

Secretariat

Directed by: Randall Wallace

Starring: Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, and James Cromwell

Running time: 123 minutes

The movie Secretariat is based on a true story. This movie starts when Penny Chenery, Diane Lane, goes to the ranch where she grew up because her mother has died. While she is there she ends up firing their horse trainer, she is now the boss because her father was no longer able to make executive decisions due to dementia and other health issues. In fact, the reason the trainer was fired is because Penny found out about a deal he was trying to make with another ranch. This crooked horse trainer was attempting to get penny’s father to sign off on a sale of several of their horses at a third of their actual value.

Penny realizes she can’t leave the ranch; she gets involved in the races and starts to get back into the family business of racing horses. She does all of this without the support of her family back home. Penny realizes that two of the best mares in her stables are pregnant by the best stud around, she does some research and finds that the one who seems to be obviously the better horse may actually not be the best horse of the two, she is pleased to know this because she is about to flip a coin with the man who owns the father of the colts to be born to see who gets to choose their colt. She loses the toss, but she does get the horse she had really wanted. This horse becomes known as “Secretariat”

I personally liked this movie. I had thought I wasn’t going to like it when I started watching it, but it is a good movie. This is a movie that you can watch with the whole family, as it is rated PG13. It is a pretty interesting story, and it goes through the life of this legendary race horse pretty well.