One of my best friends is getting married this weekend, so it's a perfect time to reminisce on the period in time where I formed my closest friendships: high-school! "Fortes in Fide et Opere" was the school motto, or "Strong in Faith and Work".
Perhaps it would have been perfect to watch Dracula Untold on Halloween, but this first instalment of Universal Pictures' "Monsterverse" wasn't a bad way to start November. Starring Luke Evans as our protagonist Vlad Dracula (AKA: Vlad the Impaler), Sarah Gadon as his wife Mirena, and Dominic Cooper as Sultan Mehmed, this is the story of how Dracula became the vampire we all know and love fear.
The last prequel in the series, Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 4 - Ghost Stands Alone completes the saga showing the formation of The Major's Section 9 team. All the regular stuff is there: interesting characters, cyber-hacking, gunplay, martial arts fighting, explosions... But the curse of being a prequel seems to have carried on.
So DreamWorks has trotted out a new animated feature: The Croods . A caveman family set in a time before Pangea breaks up into the various continents we have now. It features the voice talents of Nicolas Cage , Emma Stone , and Ryan Reynolds .
Transformers: Age of Extinction is a very appropriate title, for it was the extinction event for what little believability and plot that remained in this series. Oddly enough, this coincides with the cast being its best ever: Mark Wahlberg , Stanley Tucci , Kelsey Grammer , Nicola Peltz , and Jack Reynor (ignore the last two).