The dukes of hazard

It’s a 2005 American buddy comedy road film based on the television series, The Dukes of Hazzard. The film was directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and released on August 5, 2005, by Warner Bros Pictures.

Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke run a moonshine business for their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard County, Georgia. The cousins' primary mode of transportation is an orange 1969 Dodge Charger called "General Lee". After Rosco has the General Lee impounded after Bo and Luke’s attempt to run away from a daughter of one their many moonshine customers, Billy Prickett, a famous stock-car driver, enters Hazzard to participate in the rally. Pauline informs the Dukes that Rosco seized another farm on charges, so Bo and Luke investigate a local construction site and find geologic core samples with the help of bait-shop owner Sheev. Meanwhile, Coltrane makes arrangements to seize the General Lee as "evidence" from the local auto body shop run by the Dukes' friend Cooter Davenport, who instead turns the car into a hot rod and applies a new paint job and horn.

 The two race to the farmhouse to cause a distraction to the waiting Hazzard County sheriff's deputies and Georgia state troopers, while Daisy and Cooter rescue Jesse and Pauline. Meanwhile, the college girls head to the rally with Sheev to inform the townsfolk about the vote on the strip-mining ordinance. Because of Sheev's armadillo hat and lack of pants, no one listens, so Bo leaves for the rally while Luke and Jesse team up to foil the county and state police who are chasing Bo, interfering with the race. At the courthouse, Daisy takes advantage of the governor of Georgia's presence and TV cameras to convince him to pardoning the boys, so Uncle Jesse takes the opportunity to knock out Boss Hogg and gets a pardon for assaulting a county commissioner at the same time.

In my opinion, this is a hilarious movie with diverse racing-action scenes. In the whole movie the two cousins are inspired by the need of getting a girlfriend, which is something we can see nowadays in teenagers going out and taking pictures to show off.

                                                                   By Juan Paniagua

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

             

Hi welcome to another post, this time we are going to talk about the movie "Captain Underpants" In CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE, Captain Underpants is the creation of best friends George and Harold. They've been inseparable since kindergarten, when they bonded over their shared amusement at the word "Uranus" during a science lesson. These days, in fourth grade, they giggle over the potty-centric comic books they create and the pranks they pull at school under the nose of their by-the-book principal, Mr. Krupp. When Krupp finally ends up with proof of their hijinks and vows to end the boys' friendship, George does the only thing he can think of: He flashes his plastic hypno-ring at Krupp. Somehow, it works, and the boys tell Krupp he's now Captain Underpants, so he promptly disrobes, makes himself a cape, and dashes off to fight crime. Since the Captain doesn't have the super powers to match his superhero mindset, he causes more problems than he fixes, but the boys can't risk turning him back into Krupp, especially when a villain by the name of Professor Poopypants arrives on the scene. How can they save their school and their friendship?

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                                                    By: Gabriela Sandoval.

Captain Phillips

This movie is all about a very awesome, unbelievable and real story of a man who was hijacking by Somali pirates in 2009. Yes, ¡Real pirates!.

Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) was captaining the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama when suddenly a Somali pirate group get to the boat and threaten the crew with weapons; as you may imagine, they wanted money. This was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. The Somali pirate captain, Muse, takes Richard hostage. The ship was 145 miles off the Somali coast, they did not have anything to protect them so the ship was under the pirates control.

Captain Phillips offers them $30,000 but they wanted more, so the pirates look for all the crew members and take the whole crew hostage and hold them for ransom. Later the pirates let all the crew escape but they kept Phillips. Then U.S. Navy will try to stop them even if it means losing Phillips.

It sounds like a science fiction movie but this awesome story did happen to Richard and now he lives to tell his story.

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Freaky Friday

 
                                               


Hi welcome to another post, this time we are going to talk about the movie "FREAKY FRIDAY" which tell us the story of Dr. Tess Coleman and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna, are not getting along. They don't see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not in each other's taste in men. One Thursday evening, their disagreements reach a fever pitch - Anna is incensed that her mother doesn't support her musical aspirations and Tess, a widow about to remarry, can't see why Anna won't give her fiancé a break. Everything soon changes when two identical Chinese fortune cookies cause a little mystic mayhem. The next morning, their Friday gets freaky when Tess and Anna find themselves inside the wrong bodies. As they literally walk a mile in each other's shoes, they gain a little newfound respect for the other's point of view. But with Tess's wedding coming on Saturday, the two have to find a way to switch back - and fast.

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                                                                                 By: Gabriela Sandoval

Bring It On- All Or Nothing

This is the third one movie of a series of movies about cheerleaders, but in my case is my favorite. Is a 2000 movie, its an american comedy film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Jessica Bendiger.

 This movie is based on the life of Britney Allen who is the leader of a group of cheerleaders and her boyfriend is the captain of the group of soccer. Her life was perfect at that time but, suddenly sometimes changed her life dramatically. Her father lost his job, so she has to move to Crenshaw Heigts a highschool in which she is the white girl.   

First, she meets Camille who is the leader of this high school and she and her friends were really rude with Britney, and she cries because she missed their friends and everything that she had before. Everything in this school was new for her, and Jessie who was a part of the cheerleaders help her and he invites her to prove what she can do. Britney impressed everyone that were there, and everyone wants that she helps the group to improve. 

During those times, was a compete for cheerleaders, and Crenshaw and the previous school of Britney compete but they did not know that Britney were there. Once, Britney lies to her new friends and they take out of the squad because she was telling lies to them. Also, Britney and Jessie likes each other and they felt in love, and those times Britney finished the relationship with her boyfriend because he was in a relationship with the bestfriend of Britney. So, she gives her another opportunity and Crenshaw wins the competition because the other group was racist. 

Fatima Mendoza.- 

Lucy

Today we won´t talk about a real life story. I wanted to be out of the ordinary and tell you about a science fiction movie called "Lucy".

As you imagine, Lucy is the main character around who turns the whole plot of this movie. She is a American woman living in Taiwan, where she was unfortunately used as a drug mule by her boyfriend, and this is where everything else begins. 

Lucy is captured and one of her captors kicks her in her abdomen, where she had four packets of CPH4, a highly valuable synthetic drug, sewed into her abdomen, so  the bag broke releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. It is so interesting to see all physical and mental capabilities she starts to acquire due to the drug: telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and the ability not to feel pain or other discomforts. Her personality also changes. After killing many people, she gets in contact with well-known scientist and Professor Samuel Norman hoping he can save her. Did she survive? Does she stays in this condition forever? If you want to know what happen to Lucy, go and watch the movie.

By Paola Montano

“Crazy, Stupid, Love”

Cal Weaver is a middle-aged man who is told by his wife Emily that she has cheated on him with a co-worker, David Lindhagen, and wants a divorce. After moving into his own apartment, his son Robbie and daughter Molly staying at the house with Emily, Cal goes to a bar night after night, talking loudly about his divorce, until he attracts the attention of a young man named Jacob Palmer, a womanizer who beds different women each night, although a young woman named Hannah has recently rejected his advances. Jacob takes pity on Cal and offers to teach him how to pick up women. Using Jacob's teachings, Cal seduces a woman named Kate at the bar. After the encounter, Cal manages to successfully seduce other women at the bar. He sees Emily again at their 13-year-old son Robbie's parent-teacher conference. The interaction goes well until they discover that Robbie's teacher is Kate, who reveals to Emily that she and Cal have had sex together. Cal then confesses to having sex with nine women since their separation. Emily leaves in disgust and begins actively dating David. Meanwhile, Hannah, a recent law school graduate, is expecting her boyfriend Richard to propose marriage while they celebrate her passing the bar exam, but he does not, instead, offering her a position at his law firm. Offended and hurt, Hannah returns to the bar where she originally rejected Jacob's advances and kisses Jacob passionately. The two return to Jacob's home to have sex, but end up talking to each other all night and making a connection. Jacob starts a relationship with Hannah, and he becomes distant from Cal.

Cal and his kids create a makeshift mini golf set in their backyard to remind Emily of their first date. During the gathering, Jacob and Hannah show up at the house, and Hannah is revealed to be Cal and Emily's first daughter born to them right out of high school. Cal is appalled that Jacob is dating his daughter, and forbids her from seeing him. Then David arrives on the scene to return Emily's sweater from a previous date. Jacob asks David if his name is Lindhagen and when David replies "yes," Jacob punches him in the face for the pain he caused Cal. Cal, Jacob, and David then get into a scuffle which is soon broken up by the police. 

“Crazy, Stupid, Love” is, on balance, remarkably sane and reasonably smart. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, this movie, packed with appealing stars, is a smooth blend of modern comic genres with a surprising undercurrent of dark, difficult emotion. Essentially a study in the varieties of masculine sexual confusion, it travels the circuit from bromance to a kind of Y-chromosome weepie that might be called male-odrama, with a detour into the briar patch of adolescent awkwardness.

by: Benjamín Mejía.

Mulan

Welcome to another post, this time, we are going to talk about MULAN, Mulan is a girl, the only child of her honored family. When the Huns invade China, one man from every family is called to arms. Mulan's father, who has an old wound and cannot walk properly, decides to fight for his country and the honor of his family though it is clear that he will not survive an enemy encounter. Mulan, who just got rejected by the matchmaker because she had set her on fire, decides to prove that she is worth something and steals away to fit her father's place in the Chinese army. She prays to her family's ancestors for protection and luck before leaving as a man in her father's armor with her family's horse. The ancestors awake and decide to send Mushu, a little dishonored dragon to aid Mulan in her quest. Weeks later, Mulan and the other troopers have survived the training camp and are on the way north to stop the Huns. After being spotted and pursued by the enemies, an impass situation in the mountains forces Mulan to come up with an idea. But then, her real gender will no longer be a secret. She decides to risk everything in order to save China.

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                                                                                -Gabriela Sandoval

Avengers: Age of Ultron

American superhero movie based on the comic  superhero team Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney. The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans. In the film, the Avengers fight Ultron, an artificial intelligence obsessed with causing human extinction.

Stark and Banner discover an A.I (artificial intelligence) within the gem and secretly decide to use it to complete Stark's "Ultron" global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron, believing he must eradicate humanity to save Earth, eliminates Stark's JARVIS and attacks the Avengers at their headquarters. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron uses the resources in Strucker's Sokovia base to upgrade his rudimentary body and build an army of robot drones. 

The Avengers fight amongst themselves when Stark secretly uploads J.A.R.V.I.S.—who is still operational after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet—into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on its brow—one of the six Infinity Stones, the most powerful objects in existence—was part of his vision. This "Vision" and the Maximoffs accompany the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift a large part of the capital city skyward, intending to crash it into the ground to cause global extinction. Banner rescues Romanoff, who awakens the Hulk for the battle.

In mi opinion this movie contains a lot of action that must be supervised by the parents, even though it is a movie that contains a moral dilemma about what is the solution to stop destroying human race, the movie gives solid arguments about how to change beginning by oneself.

                                                                                 By Juan

She is the Man

This is a romantic comedy sports film it was realeased in 2006, its a funny movie and you can see it with all your family.

Viola has a boyfriend in college who is the leader of the soccer player and she is the leader of her group too, but it was iliminated and she was so angry with the teacher and with her boyfriend, so she broke the relationship with him. She has a twin who is going to enter to Ilyria a boarding scholl, but his brother decide to go to Europe and leave the school for a week, during this week she pretends to be Sebastian and she can enter to the soccer player group and shows that the women can play it too.
Her rommate was Duke who was the captain of the group and he helps her to improve and plays in the final game. Viola was in the kissing both and kiss Duke and they did not know that her ex boyfriend and Duke are enemies. But, since that moment Viola felt in love with Duke, Duke was in love with Amanda and Amanda with Sebastian, who was Viola. Everything was confused.


Finally the final game arrive and Sebastian arrive early in the morning and he was surprise because a girl kiss him when he arrive and he plays the half of the game, then Viola and Duke were figthing in the middle of the game and Malcon who was a man in love with Amanda discover everything and the the people did not want that Viola plays, but the team at the end left her plays and they win the game. Viola felt in love with Duke and Sebastian with Amanda.
Its an interesting movie and you can enjoy it with all your family.

Fatima Mendoza.- 

Reviving Ophelia

This movie is not based on an specific real story of someone but there is no doubt that it could be a reality. The title of the movie is a reference of the book "Reviving Ophelia" which talks about the effects of the pressures from society on American adolescent girls. 

Elizabeth Jones is a a 17 years old girl who is very loved by her family, but her relationship with her cousin Kelli was not very good after the reputation Kelli had at school for something she did with a boy. Elizabeth was in a relationship with Mark Stenwyck; since the begging of the movie we can notice the kind of man Mark is: controlling, jealous, aggressive and dangerous. His mother had left the house after being hit and abused by her husband, so we can relate Mark´s behavior to his dad´s. Kelli began to worry about Elizabeth´s relationship and Mark´s behavior, she tries to advise her family about it but no one believes her. 

Mark control everything Elizabeth does, he gets mad often and it gets worse to the point of hitting it. The most unbelievable thing of the story is that he makes her believe that his violent behavior is her fault and even if he punches or hit her he loves her, and she insist on defending him.

After visiting a psychiatrist she decides to break up with him, but he refuses to accept it. It won´t be that easy to get him out of her life, Mark sends her a text message that says she doesn't deserve to live. If you want to know what happens next, go and watch it. 

By Paola Montano

No Reservations

Kate Armstrong is the head chef at the trendy 22 Bleecker Street Restaurant in West Village of Manhattan, New York. She runs her kitchen at a rapid pace as she coordinates the making and preparation of all the fantastic meals, and personally displays the food to perfection on every dish. She intimidates everyone around her, including her boss Paula, who sends her to therapy. Kate hates to leave the kitchen when a customer wants to compliment her on one of her special dishes; however, she is ready to leave the kitchen in an instant when a customer insults her cooking.

When Kate's sister Christine is killed in a car accident, her nine-year-old niece, Zoe, must move in with her. Kate is devastated by her sister's death and with all of her problems, Paula decides to hire a new sous chef to join the staff, Nick Palmer, who is a rising star in his own right and could be the head chef of any restaurant he pleased. Nick, however, wants to work under Kate. The atmosphere in the kitchen is somewhat chaotic as Kate feels increasingly threatened by Nick as time goes on due to his style of running her kitchen. Nick loves to listen to opera while he cooks and he loves to make the staff laugh. And Kate finds herself strangely attracted to Nick, whose uplifting personality has not only affected her staff but Zoe as well, who has been coming to work with Kate.

With all that is happening in Kate's life, the last thing she would want is to fall in love with this man, as she has pushed away all others prior. Nevertheless, there is some kind of chemistry between the two of them that only flourishes with their passion for cooking. Yet life hits her hard when Paula decides to offer Nick the job of head chef and Kate's relationship with Nick turns a sour note due to Kate's pride. Nick also develops a special bond with Zoe.

by: Benjamín Mejía 

The Smurfs

welcome to another post, today is time to talk about "The Smurfs" As the Smurfs get ready for the Blue Moon Festival, Papa Smurf sees in his cauldron a vision of Clumsy Smurf reaching for a dragon wand and the Smurfs in cages while Gargamel laughs. Not wanting this vision to come true, Papa Smurf disallows Clumsy to pick Smurf Roots. Clumsy disobeys Papa and ends up unintentionally leading Gargamel and Azrael to the village. The Smurfs all flee for their lives while Clumsy unknowingly runs towards the Forbidden Falls, with Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Grouchy, Brainy and Gutsy running after him. They find him at the edge of a cliff, and while trying to help him up, they are sucked into a gigantic vortex that spirits them to present day New York City. To make matters worse, Gargamel and Azrael follow them through the vortex. The Smurfs end up in the apartment of Patrick and Grace Winslow, a married and expectant couple, and their Basset Hound Elway. After introducing themselves and explaining their situation, the Winslows befriend them and allow them to stay in their apartment. 

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Ant-Man

This action movie is directed by Peyton Reed and it is based on the comic written by Marvel Studios. In the movie Stars Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd.

The Plot starts when a scientist called Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, burst into a meeting in his own company to stop the research to duplicate his formula to shrink, thus he quit the company because he believes the world is not ready to know his secrets.

Years later, he found out his daughter Hope and student Darren had created a suit called the-yellow-jacket specified to shrink with the formula that Hank used whit his suit long ago. For this reason, he had a special interest in a guy that just came out of prison for burglar a millionaire’s house and made a big deal of it. Just like Hank, he had a daughter and was struggling to spend time with her after the divorce, so he needed a job to get enough money and pay the monthly fare.

He was living with his best friend and thief mate, who told him about a job that required no effort and the payment would be really good for him. What they didn’t expect was to get into Hank’s house and that he had planned it all since the beginning. He believed Scott was the ideal new Ant-Man. It took some time and really hard work to make Scott a good fighter and to control the suit, but they were running out of time to stop Darren’s plan of selling the suit as a mortal weapon to very dangerous people.

In the middle of the fight, Darren makes a coward move and visits Scott’s six-year-old daughter as a threat to get him killed. He had been recently captured and was on the way to a cell when the police received a call with his address and had to escape the police patrol to get there first. In the end, he had to shrink too much that almost got stuck in the quantum world, but he managed to get out of there alive.

Personally, this movie contains hilarious moments and really great plot. Marvel really gave us a master piece of a movie. This is recommended for all public, it contains moderated violence, white jokes and life lessons.   

                                                                            By Juan

Just Go With It

Just Go With It

This is a family movie, is really interesting is romantic movie that you can see with all your family, and easily you can spend a really good time together. It is starring by Adam Sandler who is the best actor in comedy. This movie is an adaptation of a play in Broadway. 

Dany who is a surgeon that suffer a lot when he was young, became really succesfull and a lot of women want to stay with him, but one of them was really interesting and he felt in love inmediatly with her too but, she found a ring in his pants and he told her that he is in process of divorce. His assistance has two kinds and he paid to those kids to pretend that they are their children. The kids ask for a travel to Hawai and there everything change, because they realise that Dany felt in love with Kathe who is his assistant.
I would like that you watch that movie with your entire family and have a great time. 

Corageous

This movie will make you cry, laugh, learn, cry, reflect, laugh and cry again.

It is all about the life of five men, four of them are police officers but all become good friends after working together. They got along well and knew each other's life well.

Each of them started to face different situations in their job and their families; that makes that one of them ask himself what beign a man and a father really means based on the Holy Scriptures, and how he has developed that role. He starts talking to the others about what God says and what God wants him and them to do.

Even after this, they kept facing problems but knowing what God wants and trusting Him. 

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen, you won't even notice it last 2 hours.

By Paola Montano