13 Going On 30

Welcome back to another movie recommendation for this weekend, today I present to you, 13 going on 30.

On May 26, 1987, Jenna Rink, a gawky girl, yearns to be popular, but the only way she can get the ruling clique the "Six Chicks", led by the unkind Lucy "Tom-Tom" Wyman to attend her upcoming 13th birthday party is by doing their homework. Jenna's best friend, the geeky boy Matty Flamhaff arrives early to the party to give her a bright pink, dream dollhouse that he built for her. He sprinkles his second gift, a packet of glittery "magic wishing dust", on its roof.

The Six Chicks soon show up with the cutest boys in class and make Jenna play "seven minutes in heaven". While Jenna waits, blindfolded, in a dark closet, thinking a popular boy she has a crush on is about to enter, the Six Chicks vanish with all the boys, half the food and Jenna's completed homework. It is Matt who walks into the closet, to Jenna's horror. She locks herself in the closet and cries, wishing to be 30; above her, the glittering wishing dust from the dollhouse gently rains down.

The next morning, Jenna awakens in a gleaming Fifth Avenue apartment. Jenna's dream has come true: It is now 2004, and Jenna, at first utterly baffled, particularly by the handsome hunk in her shower, realizes she has magically turned 30 overnight, with no idea of what happened in the intervening 17 years.

Jenna discovers that she works for Poise, her favorite fashion magazine. Tough-as-nails Lucy is her co-editor and best friend, but the magazine itself is in serious trouble, having been scooped by a rival magazine named Sparkle so often that the editor-in-chief believes someone inside Poise is tipping them off. Jenna, freaking out like the frightened teen she still is, wants only to find Matty. She gets his address and races down to Greenwich Village where the now-grown Matt is a struggling photographer. To her confusion, he is distant and cold, and cannot even fill Jenna in on much of her missing past, because she became head of the "Six now seven Chicks", and never spoke to Matt again. She even became Prom Queen and Lucy, her only friend, is actually the original "Tom-Tom" after plastic surgery.

From this moment Jenna tries to live her life normally as if she were really 30 years old, she tries to maintain her friendship with Matt and do a good job in the magazine, but certain events in the film complicate everything.

I highly recommend this movie, it has a very good ending, its soundtrack is very good, it's fun and maintains the essence of romantic comedy, don’t miss 13 Going on 30.

by: Benjamín Mejía

DESPICABLE ME.

                       

Hi welcome to another thursday post, and today is the time to talk about the movie "Despicable me" 

Gru, a supervillain, is disheartened when an unknown supervillain steals the Great Pyramid of Giza. Gru, with the assistance of his colleague Dr. Nefario and his Minions, resolves to one-up this mystery rival by shrinking and stealing the Moon. As it would be costly to steal the moon, Gru seeks a loan from the Bank of Evil. Bank president Mr. Perkins is impressed by the plan but will provide the money only if Gru can obtain the necessary shrink ray first. Upon learning that an up-and-coming villain named Vector was responsible for the pyramid theft, Gru starts a rivalry with him.

Gru and the Minions steal the shrink ray from a secret base in East Asia, but Vector intercepts them and steals it for himself. Gru attempts to break into Vector's fortress to recover the shrink ray but is defeated by numerous booby traps. However, he notices three orphan girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes, who are able to easily walk into the base because they are selling cookies. Gru disguises himself and adopts the girls, planning on using them to infiltrate Vector's base so he can get the shrink ray back. However, Gru has trouble nurturing them properly due to their rambunctiousness, their ballet classes, and his own ineptitude as a parent.

Is a beautiful movie to watch with all your family, specially with kids, so I hope you like it.

                       

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By: Gabriela Sandoval

THE PARENT TRAP

This is a movie based in true situations in a family in the 1900. It is a children movie released in 1998 directed by Nancy Meyers and starring by Lindsay Lohan and Produced by Walt Disney Company. 

The couple fell in love and they get married, then Nick and Liz separated and they get one girl each one. One of them raices in California and the other girl in London.

During the summer Nick and Liz coincedentally send their girls to the same Camp, at first sigth they dislike to one other. After a figth between them they were separated from the all group and they were talking and they discover that they were twins. Annie and Hallie plot to reunite Elizabeth and Nick by a lie telling Liz that Nick wants too see her in San Francisco but the grandfather knows the plan and they can help to their plan. 

When they arrive at San Francisco discover that other girl wants to married withh his father, and they began to figth with her. During a campament Meredith who was the girl was really rude with their daugthers and Nick discover how she was in the real face. He left her and then he discover that he had feelings for Liz, but it was time to go, so Liz and Annie return to London and when they arrived at their house Nick and Hallie were there and they married again and their daugthers were the braidmaids. 

That is how the family look at the end of the movie.

Fatima Mendoza

Central Intelligence

This is a comedy directed by Rawson Thurber, starring Dwayne Jhonson (Robbie Wheirdicht) and Kevin Hart (Calvin Joyner).

The plot begins with Robbie taking a shower at the school gymnasium, when some bullies went to find to play a bad joke on him. Meanwhile, there was a celebration event for the school prom, where Calvin was nominee as the student of the year. Everybody was excited celebrating when the bullies pushed a naked Robbie to the floor where was seen by every student present. Instead of laughing, Calvin gave him his jacket so he could cover himself, in that moment a friendship memory took place.

Years later Calvin became an accountant and married the woman of his dreams, but he did not feel so lucky as the class expected him to be, and the school reunion was close, when suddenly, he received a Facebook friendship request from Robbie. They met at a bar and found out the incredible change he had suffered; he went through being fat to a big badass muscle machine.

He became a CIA undercover agent and needed to find his ex-partner AKA “Black Badger”, that was trying to sell very compromising information to the best buyer. But Calvin did not figure it out until he was in the middle of crossed fire between the CIA and Robbie, that was thought a traitor.

They found the exchange location and shooting started almost immediately, until he had to decide who to trust, his former schoolmate or the guy that said he was the good cop. He shot his friend on the gluteus and the Badger began talking and talking. For his surprise Robbie stoop up and cut his throat to save the day.

Personally, I consider this movie as extremely hilarious, watch it fi you want to laugh and spend a nice time, . 

By Juan Paniagua

The king's speech

Today we are going to talk about a movie based on the old real story of King George VI.

This story is all about the stammering of the King and the process in which he learned to speak clearly with the help of an Australian speech and language therapist, Lionel George Logue. They become friends through out this journey of preparing the King for his speech.

The main character of the story is forced to take control of the throne but due to his speech impediment, his wife, Elizabeth, hires Lionel to help him overcome his stammer. The therapist uses extraordinary and unconventional means to teach the monarch how to speak with confidence, because as a king he has to be able to talk to his people clearly and with confidence. 

At the end of the movie the King was able to make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain´s declaration of war on Germany in 1939.

Here you can see a real video of the real George VI giving a speech. (You can see Lionel George Logue at the back of the King).

            

           

By Paola Montano

Love Actually

A comedy/love story is interesting in a movie, but what if, instead of just one, there are several that turn out to be linked to each other? Don't you think it's possible? Actually, it is, and it happens.
My menu for this weekend, it turns out to be varied with respect to stories and characters, because let's be honest, only one is not enough. Today I presnet to you, Love Actually.

The movie revolves around the personal relationships between different protagonists, and how they manage to overcome their difficulties in time for Christmas.

Billy Mack is a rock and roll singer who is releasing his Christmas single in the hopes that it will become the no.1 single. However, he begins to despair and takes out his problems by partying.

Juliet and Peter are a recently married couple. Peter’s best friend is Mark, who does not appear to get along with Juliet. Peter is also the camera man for their wedding so when Juliet stops by at his house one day to see the recording, she realizes that he only filmed her throughout, indicating that he harbors feelings for her, hence he always tries to avoid her.

Jamie has recently been cheated on by his girlfriend with his brother. He withdraws himself to France, where he meets Aurélia, a Portugese housekeeper. They develop feelings for each other despite not being able to communicate.

Harry and Karen are a highly successful, happily married couple with children. Harry employs a new secretary, Mia, who is much younger and begins to flirt with him. He likes the attention so much that he buys her a Christmas gift that she asks for, an expensive jewelry, which Karen discovers and assumes, is her present for Christmas. 

David is the new Prime Minister of the UK and Natalie is a member of his staff. He feels attracted to her and her to him. However, the President of the US comes on a visit and makes sexual advances towards Natalie. David then begins to think it is best if Natalie were removes from her position as she is a distraction to him.

Daniel's wife has recently died and he is attempting to raise his stepson Sam. Sam is in love with a classmate, Joanna, and Daniel urges him to tell her how he feels.

John and Judy are body doubles taking part in a sex scene for a film. However, they have a connection and end up pursuing a relationship off screen.

All these stories and others have a very fun and interesting development, and as I said before, yes, they intertwine with each other, but to find out how this is possible, I invite you to see it, if you have not done it yet, enjoy it and recommend it, I really liked this movie in particular, it's out of the ordinary.

By: Benjamin Mejia.

Lilo & Stitch

                             

                           

Hi everyone, today I'm going to talk about the movie Lilo & Stithc, which is my favorite movie of all the time. This is a story of a little creature created by genetic experimentation and bound to prison with his evil creator. Stitch escapes and heads for Earth where he tries to impersonate a dog and gets adopted by little Lilo, whom, bent on self preservation, he plans to use as a human shield to protect him for the aliens sent to recapture him. But without a greater purpose in life, no friends, family or memories, Stitch does a little soul searching and begins to understand the meanings of "love" and "family" and his feeling for Lilo begin to change.

You can see this movie with your family, friends, boyfriend/girlfiend and even your niece or nephew, I´m pretty sure that if you see this movie, you will fall in love with all the characters that it have, specially the main characters.

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                                             By: Gabriela Sandoval.

Mall cop

This is a comedy written and directed by Kevin James (Paul Blart), also starring Raini Rodriguez as his daughter Maya Blart.

It all starts when Paul dreams about being a real cop, saving lives and protecting people no matter what. Unfortunately for him, his got sugar problems, so when he lacks sugar he faints for a couple of minutes. This same problem has costed him the police academy graduation certificate and he is not able to become a real hero. In the mall where he works everything is quiet and the most dangerous event for him was when he gave a ticket to a man in wheelchair, and constantly fall in love of the girl with red hair.

One day he is assigned a trainee; his duty is to teach him to take care of the mall when all closes up. What nobody knew was that he was planning on getting the stores account codes with a well prepared team of skillful teenagers, that same day. So when the mall is closed and they believe everybody is out, except the people in the bank, they cut the light and get off the good boy’s mask.

Blart was checking the videogames store when it all happened, and he was the only one that could call the police, until he saw his beloved one as a hostage. He made it personal, and he was decided to take them down one by one until the danger is gone. But that was not it, his daughter brought him dinner and was caught by a guy that recognized later and used her to negotiate.

A long and funny fight takes place later in the airport when all is almost over, when suddenly the chief of SWAT forces took the codes and wanted to keep them for himself. He was disarmed later by an old man in charge of the mall security, and Blart becomes a hero and keeps the girl.

In my opinion this is a hilarious movie that you should see on a weekend off, it’s guaranteed that you’ll laugh with white humor and there is not a single boring part.

                                                                                 By Juan

The Little Rascals

The Little Rascals

This is real a funny movie family. It was released in 1994 by Amblin Entertaiment, and released by Universal Pictures on August 5, 1994, which centered of a group of neigboorhood children. 

There's a group of children that avoid all the girls, but Alfalfa was in love with a girl that was named Darla, and he invited her to a date and all the boys were near the club and he began to be rud with her. She abandont him and he was sad because he didn't have his gilfriend and his friends. But there was a rich boy and he date Darla and they were together for a period of time. Alfalfa saw her but he apologize with their friends for the problem that they had before.

They were registered in a racing contest and Waldo who was the rich boy registered too. During the time past the Little Rascals were in a fair trying to get some money to buy the parts to assemble the car; and the end of the day they had a bottle complete with money and the woman who organice the racing decide to donate for the winners. 

Waldo did some things fake to win Darla's heart and Alfalfa was sad but he still had a good positive. Spanky who was Alfalfa's bestfriend give his support to conquer Darla's heart. And they were together in the racing but, Waldo still have doing fake and they were in the wrong way but Darla saw how was Waldo, and she left him and Alfalfa won and at the end of the movie Spanky accept the girls in the group and everybody was happy.

I would like that you enjoy it with all your family!!

Here are Alfalfa and Darla in their date:)

Fatima Mendoza

The pursuit of happiness

If you want to cry a little bit, or maybe a lot, you have to whatch "The Pursuit of Happiness".

This is the real story of the struggle that Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a single father, with his son had to face before to reach susccess. Even when Chris gets a job as an intern at a prestigious brokerage firm, the position pays no money so they were still un difficult sittuations.

This movie relates everything they had to go through when Chris did not find a job and they did not have where to live.

The pair must live in shelters and endure many hardships, but Chris do not want to give in the searching for a better life for himself and his son.

By Paola

Welcome back to another Monday of true stories. 

Today we are going to talk about "Only the brave", and as the title says, it is a tough story about firefighters who fought to death. This movie is based on the real forest fire that happened near Yarnell Arizona, on June 28, 2013, where Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters lost 19 of 20 members.

The film tells everything they had to go through, all the fight against the fire, decitions they have to take, suffering, losts and family pain. If you are interested in history and natural disasters, you should definitely have to whatch this movie so you can have an idea of how hard it was. 

Here we can see all the 20 Granite Mountain Hotshots members. 

Andrew Ashcraft, 29

Robert Caldwell, 23

Travis Carter, 31

Dustin Deford, 24

Christopher MacKenzie, 30

Eric Marsh, 43

Grant McKee, 21

Sean Misner, 26

Scott Norris, 28

Wade Parker, 22

John Percin, 24

Anthony Rose, 23

Jesse Steed, 36

Joe Thurston, 32

Travis Turbyfill, 27

William Warneke, 25

Clayton Whitted, 28

Kevin Woyjeck, 21

Garret Zuppiger, 27

Brendan McDonough, 21 (the only one who survived)

Yarnell Hill Fire.

By, Paola Montano

Just Like Heaven

Do you think love stops when someone dies? Well, ask again when you look at my next recommendation, Just Like Heaven.

Elizabeth Masterson, a young emergency medicine physician whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott, a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth's, after 'discovering' it in what seems to be a fateful happenstance.
Elizabeth's spirit begins to appear to David in the apartment with ghostly properties and abilities that make it clear that something is not right. She can suddenly appear and disappear, walk or move through walls and objects, and once takes over his actions. When they meet, they are both surprised, as Elizabeth is still unaware of her recent history and refuses to think she is dead. David tries to have her spirit exorcised from the apartment, but to no avail. Since only David can see and hear her, others think that he is hallucinating and talking to himself.
Together, assisted by a psychic bookstore clerk, Darryl, Elizabeth and David find out who she is, what happened to her, and why they are connected. She is not dead, but in a coma, her body being kept on life support at the hospital where she used to work. When David discovers that in accordance with her living will, she will soon be allowed to die, he tries to prevent this by telling Elizabeth's sister, Abby, that he can see her and what the situation involves.

Abby thinks David is mentally disturbed and drives him out of her house. Desperate, David decides to prevent Elizabeth's death by stealing her from the hospital.

So romantic, don’t you think? This movie is very beautiful, it is the proof that it doesn’t matter if two souls are separated in reality, when they are destined to be together they will do their best to meet each other. I recommend it in its entirety, now you have plans for this weekend.

by: Benjamin Mejia

OVERBOARD.

                         

Hi everyone, welcome to another thursday blog, today is the time to talk about "Overboard".

This movie is a remake of 1987 film of the same name, with a similar plot, but with the gender roles reversed. This is a comedy film, and it will give you a lot of laughs, and a good moment when you watch the movie.

Overboard focuses on "Leonardo" (EUGENIO DERBEZ), a selfish, spoiled, rich playboy from Mexico's richest family and "Kate" (ANNA FARIS), a working class single mom, that is hired to clean Leonardo's luxury yacht. After unjustly firing Kate and refusing to pay her, Leonardo falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital and, to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work - for the first time in his life. At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually he earns the respect of his new "family" and co-workers. But, with Leonardo's billionaire family hot on their trail and the possibility of his memory returning at any moment

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BY: Gabriela Sandoval

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Pixels

This comedy is directed by Chris Columbus and starring by Adam Samdler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage and Michelle Monaghan.

The plot starts when a kid with excellent arcade skills tries to prove he is the best doing something and that his life is made to do something important. When this kid finds out there will be a national arcade tournament he immediately enrolls himself. He made it to the finals, but he lost because the other guy cheated, which he found out when they were adults and aliens invaded earth, because they sent the competition video to the space seeking to communicate with other beings.  

He grew up and became a mechanic that installs hardware everywhere, and his best friend that supported him all the time became the president of the US. One day when he was about to install a software for a kid, he met a beautiful woman that worked for the president’s intel military, when suddenly they received an alert of attack in one of their air bases. The enemies that witnesses described used special weapons leaving pixels instead of a fallen wall.

Concerned by the unknown forces that attacked them, they go home. In that moment when he is driving the van, somebody hidden in the back scares him and suddenly breaks, ejecting the gay of the back. He was Ludlow an old friend that had always thought the government had all kind of conspiracies. This time he is right about an alien attack, and got a communicate giving the coordinates of the next attack.

Violet, the woman he met recently, gathered intel to create light canons capable of destroying the new enemies. Everything was fine until they realized they needed one more player, the ‘flamethrower’, that was in jail for different reasons. As in the tournament, in one of their fights against Pac Man, he used a high speed code and the aliens said they had lost their planet because of that.

In the last fight they had to beat Donkey Kong in the mother spaceship, the game Sam could never have achieved to win, until this important day when the world was in his hands.

In my opinion, this movie gives a message to kids and adults. This one says that you can be good at something and accomplish your dreams when you grow up, but you don’t have to quit. To the adults, this movie shows that it is never too late to try to accomplish your dreams, even if you thought everything was lost. With your family and friends alongside you there is nothing you can’t do.

                                                                      By Juan