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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER - MOVIE REVIEW

*Director Joe Johnston *Starring Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Richard Armitage, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Samuel L Jackson, Natalie Dormer, Bruno Ricci, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Kenneth Choi, JJ Feild *SPOILER WARNING* The Plot: Steve Rogers wants to enlist in the US Army during WWII, but not having the proper physicality prevents him from doing so. However, he is soon enlisted to join in what is known to be the Super Soldier program where he soon agrees to be used in an experiment that would genetically alter his body and give him the utmost strength that he would use to fight off armed German forces in a scientific organization called Hydra lead by the unstoppable Johann Schmidt aka Red Skull. Obviously, this was an important story to tell in this Marvel franchise due to the fact that it was introducing one of the most iconic characters in the history of Marvel, Captain America. Even though not the first Cap...

A WRINKLE IN TIME - MOVIE REVIEW

The Plot: With the help of three witches a young girl named Meg, her friend Calvin, and her younger brother Charles Wallace must literally travel to the far reaches of the universe in order to find Meg and Charles's long-lost father, a scientist, who transported himself and became lost in this unknown region of time and space. In all honesty, I was slightly intrigued by this movie with the couple of trailers I've seen. Fantasy is my all time favorite film genre and so to see this abstract, but light-hearted looking fairy tale of a movie left me interested. There was mystery to the story and I liked how it was looking from a visual perspective. I do think Disney has been producing great content as of recent and it was great to see on social media that Ava DuVernay had passion for directing this project. I still have yet to see her latest films like Selma for I've heard nothing, but good things. I will say what worked about A Wrinkle In Time was the visual look of i...