Movie Reviews by Fathan

Action, Adventure, Comedy One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Their only hope is to perform one last unprecedented stunt to clear their names and reveal the mastermind behind it all. Follow the Four Horsemen in another crazy adventure as they take to the streets of Macau to pull off the craziest stunt yet in order to expose a new threat that tried to end them for good. Will they succeed again and expose this man or fail hopelessly and spend the rest of their years locked in jail? The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet.

Action, Adventure, Family When teenage Max McGrath discovers his body can generate the universe's most powerful energy, he must bond with the only being able to contain it - a mysterious techno-organic extraterrestrial named Steel. United as the superhero Max Steel, the two friends must combat an alien menace and unlock the secrets of their past. The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and his alien companion, Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.

Thriller The Thinning is set on a earth suffering from overpoplulation. To control the population, every year students from 1st to 12th grade have to take an aptitude test and only the smartest will pass. If you fail, you will be killed. A girl named Laina Michaels will fight her way to show that she passed even when she is told she had failed the test with help from Blake Redding. Set in a not so distant future where the earth is becoming overpopulated and in order to control the population students have to take a test and the ones that fail are euthanized. Laina Michaels and Blake Redding discover that the tests were rigged so they need to work together to expose and take down the system. It takes place in the future where a student aptitude test decides whether you continue to live your life. Two high school students, Blake Redding and Laina Michaels, are against it and are willing to do whatever it takes to take the system down before it's too late. 

Action, Adventure, Comedy In a post-apocalyptic future, THE KID, a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books must face his fears and become a reluctant hero when he meets a mysterious girl named APPLE. Despite their efforts to keep to themselves, ZEUS, the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland, plagues THE KID and APPLE. Armed with little more than blind faith and an ancient turbocharged weapon, THE KID learns of justice and friendship and embarks on an incredible journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl of his dreams. It's 1997. In a ruined post-apocalyptic world, the orphaned Kid survives on his own through drought-ridden nuclear winter, traversing the Wasteland on his BMX, scavenging for scraps to trade for a scant supply of water. When his perpetually chipper, pink-haired new best friend Apple is kidnapped by a minion of evil overlord Zeus, the Kid summons the courage of his comic book hero and prepares to deliver turbocharged justice

Drama, Mystery, Romance Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed-to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can...but if they should. Their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him. In New York, Dr.

Action, Fantasy, Horror   Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadow Hunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. When her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World.

Adventure, Family, Fantasy On the occasion of the arrival of a lumbering load of steampunk-drenched, whimsy-drained wrongheadedness disguised as family entertainment known as “Pan”—someone is really baiting headline writers with that pun-ready title—let us ponder this conundrum: Why do filmmakers continue to feel the need to squeeze all the joy and magic out of such a remarkably enduring figure of Edwardian-era make-believe as J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan? The whole “I won’t grow up” ethos of this aerodynamically gifted lad resonates today as proven by NBC’s live presentation of the stage musical version last year. But many current movies and TV series are already rotten with lost boys who act their shoe size instead of their age. Who needs another “Peter Pan” movie when you have the man-child-riddled oeuvres of Judd Apatow, Joe Swanberg and the Duplass brothers? Then again, not even Steven Spielberg could resist squeezing Robin Williams into the role of an adult Peter in the midst o

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi   Alton Meyer is a boy unlike any other in the world with bizarrely powerful abilities and strange weaknesses. In the middle of the night, his father, Roy, spirits him away from the isolated cult that practically worships him and is determined to regain him at all costs. At the same time, Alton's abilities have been noticed by the US government as well and they are equally insistent on getting to the bottom of this mystery with Paul Sevier of the National Security Agency leading the Federal pursuit with his own questions. These rival hunts force father and son into a desperate run towards a looming date with destiny that could change everything. A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.   

Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi A team of explorers must find the human race a new home after earth is struck with worldwide food shortages and corn is the most valuable food. Utilizing a mysterious wormhole they explore strange new worlds and could find a home to save the human race. Murphy's law suggests that "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, plays with the idea space exploration, time and gravity as Earth and the human race is on the verge of extinction. NASA's last hope looks to Coop, Brand, Romilly and Tars under the direction of Professor Brand to search for answers in the deepest corners of space while dealing with Murphy's Law. Coop leaves behind his family in search of new horizons as Christopher Nolan explores the eternal bonds of love between a father and his daughter. In Earth's future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand, a brilliant

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi In 1988, on Earth, the boy Peter Quill is abducted by a spacecraft after losing his, is a ravager searching a valuable orb on the surface of the dead planet Morag. When Peter finds the orb, he is hunted down by the Kree warship The Dark Aster of the powerful Ronan the Accuser but he flees. Peter also double crosses his partner Yondu Udonta that puts m. Peter Quill arrives on the Xandar city Nova Empire and is chased by Ronan's warrior Gamora and by the bounty hunters Rocket and The Groot. They are arrested by the police officer Corpsman Dey and his men and sent to the prison end the strong Drax. Soon they learn that Gamora wants to orb to a dealer for a huge amount while Drax wants to kill Ronan, who killed his wife and daughter. They plot a plan to escape from The Kyln to sell the orb and split the money. But soon they also learn that the orb keeps the infinity stone that gives immensurable destructive power to the owner. They self-proclaim Guardians

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Ten years after the worldwide pandemic of the deadly virus ALZ-113, the human civilization is completely destroyed. In San Francisco, Caesar has become the leader of evolved apes and has a son, Blue Eyes. When Blue Eyes and his friend Ash stumble with a group of humans under the command of Malcolm, there is a friction between them. However, Caesar orders the human to return to the derelict San Francisco City. Then he goes with a group of apes to the city to tell them to stay there since they do not want war against the human, despite the hatred of his second in command Koba against humans. However Malcolm returns alone to the woods to meet Caesar to explain that they need to repair the hydroelectric dam to recover power in the city to save the survivors. Caesar accepts his argument and let him work with his family and a few technicians in the dam. Meanwhile the leader of the humans Dreyfus decides to arm the survivors since he does not believe in the

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi 20 years after defeating the aliens who invaded the Earth, the world is almost a Utopia wherein technology taken from the aliens have made the planet a paradise. They built a base on the moon. And just as the anniversary is approaching, strange things are happening. President Whitmore who led the attack on the aliens 20 years ago is acting strangely and is drawing some strange symbols. David Levinson the man who figured out how to defeat the aliens travels to Africa to inspect one of the alien ships that crashed. The leader who is on possession of the craft, takes Levinson and they discover they sent a distress signal before it went down and apparently it was drilling through the Earth's core. The leader is also drawing the same things that Whitmore is. At Area 51, Dr. Okun who fell into a coma 20 years after being attacked telepathically by an alien wakes up and starts drawing the same thing Whitmore is. Whitmore tries to warn everyone that the alie

Adventure, Family, Fantasy Alice is back in Wonderland - but this time it was not an accident. She is on a quest to go back in time and rescue the Mad Hatter's family, but in order to do so she needs the Chronosphere - a device that enables time travel which only the human manifestation of time itself, Time has. As she journeys through time in a thrilling and dangerous adventure she learns more about why the Red Queen and the White Queen don't get along, and the actual truth about the Mad Hatter's family, but little does Alice know that you shouldn't try to change the past, but rather learn from it. Alice has just returned from an adventure in which she captained a ship to China and back. She now discovers that Hamish, her former fiance, has taken advantage of Alice's mother's poor financial situation, forced her to either lose her house or Alice's ship. To escape the situation with Hamish, Alice follows Absolem, a talking bug, through the mirror into an

Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi When the last day of school comes for a group of students in a philosophy class, their instructor, Mr. Zimit, challenges them to different sorts of exercises that take place in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world. While there, they each get chosen professions and have to decide whether who is valuable or not because the bunker they will be staying in for a year has only enough oxygen for 10 people. Mr. Zimit challenges them in different rounds to see how they could survive. Issues arise when they notice Mr. Zimit is disruptive to the game. Mr. Zimit, a philosophy teacher challenges his 20 students on the last class with situations in which they have to choose 10 students from the class in order to survive in a shelter for a year during a apocalypse.But, Mr. Zimit brings a little twist to the games. At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter undergr

Drama, Family, Fantasy Ella (Eloise Webb) lives with her wealthy parents in a beautiful estate in a peaceful kingdom. From a young age, she is taught by her mother (Hayley Atwell) to believe in the existence and presence of magic, allowing her to befriend the many animals on the estate, particularly the mice. Everything is perfect until her mother contracts a fatal illness. On her deathbed, she makes Ella promise that she'll always have courage and show kindness to others. Years later, Ella's (Lily James) father (Ben Chaplin) reveals that an old acquaintance, Lord Tremaine, has passed away and that he has chosen Tremaine's widow (Cate Blanchett), who has two daughters of her own, Drizella (Sophie McShera) and Anastasia (Holliday Grainger), as his second wife. Ella welcomes her stepfamily warmly, despite the stepsisters' less than pleasant attitudes and her needing to protect her friends from her stepmother's cat, Lucifer. Soon after, Ella's father goes abr

Adventure, Comedy, Family The teenager Zach moves from New York with his widow mother Gale to Greendale, Maryland, where she will be the vice-principal of the local high-school. Zach is bored and upset and while bringing his cardboard boxes with his belongings home, he meets his gorgeous next-door neighbor Hannah that welcomes him. But soon her creepy father R.L. Stine threatens him if he gets close to his daughter again. Zach befriends the clumsy Champ at school and they schedule to go to a party together on Friday. However, Zach meets Hannah again but they are caught by Stine. Zach believes that Stine is an abusive father and he breaks in his house with Champ to seek out Hannah. When Zach opens a book in Stine's library, he accidentally unleashes a monster from the book. Soon he learns that the weird Stine is a famous writer of horror stories that keeps his imaginary friends that are monsters locked up in each book. But Zach released the evil Slappy that promises to bring hav

Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi  In Another Earth, director Mike Cahill used the language of science fiction to explore indie-inflected themes of love, loss and guilt. I Origins treads a similarly (over?) ambitious path, building its three-way romance around scientific investigations of the evolution of the eye, which will, according to Michael Pitt’s cocky rationalist, disprove the existence of God. What starts out as an irritatingly quirky portrait of love at first sight gradually mutates into a debate about the singularity of the soul, the spectre of reincarnation rearing its unexpected head under laboratory conditions. While the last act falls into sub-Audrey Rose hokum, Pitt and Brit Marling play the existential tech discussions with an admirably straight bat, hooking more cynical viewers (myself included) at key points in the increasingly outlandish narrative. There are surprises too, one startling enough to draw gasps from the audience, suggesting that Cahill’s organic instinct fo

Adventure, Family, Fantasy The boy Pete is e traveling with his parents, however there is a car accident in a lonely road and only Pete survives. He runs to the forest and is surrounded by a pack of wolves, but a dragon saves him and Pete calls him Elliot. Six years later, Pete is found by the ranger Grace and her family and she brings Pete home. He is welcomed by her father Meacham: her daughter Natalie; and her husband Jack, but he misses Elliot. Meanwhile the dragon seeks Pete out and Jack's brother Gavin sees him. He organizes a posse to capture the dragon while Grace drives Pete, Natalie and Meacham to the place where the boy was found. What will happen to the dragon Elliot?

Adventure, Family, Fantasy In London, the insomniac orphan Sophie is awake late night at 3:00 AM afraid of the witching hour. Out of the blue, she sees a giant from the window of her orphanage and she hides in her bed. However the giant snatches Sophie and takes her to the distant Giant Country. He tells Sophie that she must stay with him for the rest of her life since she saw him. He explains that he works catching dreams and calls him Big Friend Giant or BFG. He also reads a book to Sophie and she sleeps; than he uses a nightmare to be afraid of escaping being eaten by an evil giant. Soon the giant breaks in BFG's cave and feels the smell of Sophie. She hides and soon she learns that there are giants that devours humans. BFG takes Sophie to the Dream country to catch dreams. The BFG goes to London to return Sophie to the orphanage, but she forces him to take her back to the Giant Country. However the other giants are hunting her down in BFG's home. What will they do?

 Comedy, Family, Fantasy Tom Brand is a businessman who's driven to be the best, and his attitude ruined his first marriage and caused a rift between him and his son who now works for him who strives for his approval. He's now married to his second wife who's a little more tolerant of him and has a daughter. It's her birthday.and all she wants for years is a cat which he refuses to give. But not wanting to disappoint her gives in and goes to a pet store called Purr-kins. The owner who's a little weird, tells him he doesn't pick the cat, the cat picks him. And the cat that picked is called Mr. Fuzzypants. Brand is on his way home for the party when he decides to see Ian Cox, one of his people who's in charge of making the "tallest building in the Northern Hemisphere", when he learns that another building will be taller. They have argument that ends with Brand firing Cox but there's a storm and Brand is blown off the building along with the

 Action, Adventure, Family A slightly different version of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. It begins when in the forest near kingdom called the Moors, lives enchanted beings. One of them is a fairy named Maleficent who is kind and cares for all in the Moors. One day a human named Stefan enters the Moors. He is full of avarice and steals something. He is caught Maleficent helps him. He would spend a lot of time with her and they would grow close. One day he stops coming cause he sets to make his fortune. And later the King tries to attack the Moors but Maleficent stops him humiliating. He then offers his daughter and his kingdom to who can do away with Maleficent. And Stefan is one of his people. He goes and seeks Maleficent but can't kill her. Instead he takes her wings and gives them to the King. The King as promised gives him his daughter's hand and after the King passes away, Stefan is the new King. Maleficent would eventually learn of his marriage and later his wife give

  Action, Drama, War “Little Boy” is a movie you must not miss! It has a stirring theme—the love of a young boy for his father—and a dramatic plot all the way around. Jakob Salvati is marvelous as Pepper Flynt Busbee, also known as “Little Boy.” The young boy has a close relationship with his father (excellently portrayed by Michael Rapaport). They call each other “Partner,” although the kids at school call Pepper “midget” and other derogatory names due to his small size. Pepper and his dad’s motto is, “Do you believe you can do this?” They hang out all the time until his dad, James, has to leave for World War II. The family’s heart aches as they say good-bye to their dad/husband. The drama unfolds as Pepper hears a sermon about having “faith the size of a mustard seed” and what that faith can do. He consequently has a conversation with Father Oliver (nicely played by Tom Wilkinson), who challenges him to do good deeds to strengthen his faith such as visiting the sick or a prison

Family, Fantasy, Musical Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enchanted. After leaving her small provincial village to find her missing father, the beautiful, independent Belle ( Emma Watson ) encounters a large, horrifying Beast ( Dan Stevens ) living inside a dark, forbidding castle with living antiques as his only companions. As Belle stays more with the Beast, she learns that true beauty is found within. A French town meets a young girl who's name means beauty. An ordinary adventure by her father, Maurice takes a strange turn when a tree blocks his usual path. He goes down the other path and finds a beautiful castle with a beast and his only companions, talking furniture. He gets trapped while taking a rose for

Biography, Comedy, Drama  A stray cat moves in with a homeless junkie; eats his food; watches dispassionately as he squirms and sweats his way through cold turkey. Admittedly, the story doesn’t have quite the dramatic peaks and troughs of, say, Lassie saving a trapped child or Old Yeller chasing off a bear intent on snacking on a little boy. But then we have different expectations of cats and of dogs. Dogs are plucky, loyal, lifelong companions. With cats, it’s sometimes just enough to make it through the night without getting our faces clawed off. That said, Bob, who appears as himself in this film (alongside six other ginger feline lookalikes), is a particularly gorgeous specimen. And Bob’s weapons-grade cuteness is almost enough to power this slight but warm-hearted film by Roger Spottiswoode (a veteran of the animal/human buddy movie genre, he also directed Turner & Hooch). Bob’s human companion, busker James Bowen, is played by Luke Treadaway, who conveys convincingly

 Comedy, Drama New York based Sam Harper - a "salesman" who works for Allied Barter Trade, which deals solely in bartering overstocked goods and as such does not pay corporate taxes with no money trading hands - does whatever he can, besides coming right out and saying so, that he does not want to attend his father's funeral in Los Angeles. The reason is that he didn't much like his father, Jerry Harper, a music business executive, who he felt treated him distantly his entire life. By association, he has a strained relationship with his mother, Lillian Harper, for purposefully staying out of her and Jerry's lives, she more being collateral damage in Jerry and Sam's estrangement. Regardless, Sam's supportive girlfriend, Hannah, is able to get him onto a plane to Los Angeles. Sam learns from Ike Rafferty, the family's lawyer, that Jerry has a post-mortem task for him: to deliver a shaving kit to Josh Davis, the kit filled with $150,000 cash. Sam

 Action, Adventure, Fantasy   In New York, the arrogant Dr. Stephen Strange is a talented neurosurgeon with a huge ego. After a car accident, Dr. Strange damages his fingers and loses control of his hands. The surgeon, Christine Palmer, who was his lover, tries to help him. But Dr. Strange unsuccessfully spends his savings searching for an experimental treatment for his fingers. When Dr. Strange learns that the paraplegic Jonathan Pangborn walked again, he seeks him out and is told he was healed in Kamar-Taj. Dr. Strange travels to Katmandu where he meets the sorcerer Mordo and is introduced to The Ancient One. She discloses the astral plan and other dimensions to him and explains that Earth is protected in the mystical plan by three Sanctums (in New York, London, and Hong Kong). However, her former protégé, Kaecilius, has contacted the powerful demon Dormammu in the Dark Dimension and wants to destroy the three Sanctums with his minions to let the Dark Dimension, where time does

Drama, Mystery, Romance   Quentin Jacobsen - Q to his friends - is eighteen and has always loved the beautiful and edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. Nine years ago they discovered a dead body together but now, at their Central Florida high school, Q's a nerd while Margo is uber-cool. One night, before graduating, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo persuades him to join her in come midnight mayhem and vengeance... and then vanishes. While her family shrugs off this latest disappearance, Q follows Margo's string of elaborate clues - including an unnerving poem about death. Q's friends Radar, Ben and Lacey help with the search, and a post from a website turns up: Margo will be in a certain location for the next 24 hours only. They drive through the night, racing the clock. Is Q ready for what he might find?

 Comedy Stanford University senior, the 22-year-old bright Stephanie, is head-over-heels for Laird, a 32-year-old self-made billionaire app developer, and now that the holidays are near, she decides to invite her family to meet with her first serious boyfriend. However, in contrast to Laird's honest intentions to be accepted in the family, his well-meaning, yet raunchy nature will soon form a fierce and bitter rivalry between the upbeat and foul-mouthed tech mogul and Stephanie's overprotective staid dad. Inevitably, as the eccentric Laird tries way too hard to make a good impression with Christmas being just around the corner, an original recipe for disaster will be at hand diminishing the chances to win them over. 

Adventure, Drama, Romance A company offers people the opportunity to leave the Earth and live on a new colony called Homestead 2. They are being transported on a space vessel called the Avalon. The journey takes 120 years so the travelers and crew are kept in hibernation chambers while the ship flies on its own and are to be awaken just before they arrive. And when one passenger Jim Preston is awoken, he goes around the ship and sees he's the only one awake, he discovers he woke up 90 years early. He tries to reenter his hibernation pod but can't. He spends the next year all by himself wandering the ship. He looks at the videos of the other passengers and gets taken with Aurora Lane. He then has to decide if he should wake her up. Eventually he does and they try to make the best of their time together. But then it dawns on them that something happened to the ship that made it wake Jim up. And they try to find out what it is.

Action, Adventure, Family Casey Newton is a genius who dreams of one day going up into space. She's sure she'll get her chance because her father works at the NASA launch center at Cape Canaveral. But when the place is being closed down, Casey sneaks in and tries to stop them from doing that by sabotaging the equipment. She is caught and thrown in jail, when she's released and her personal effects are given to her, among them is a pin which she says is not hers. When she touches it, she finds in a futuristic city. When the pin runs out of energy, she wants to go back so she finds online someone who might know something about it. She goes there and when she talks to the people there, they ask her who gave it to her. When she says she doesn't know, they don't believe her and refuse to let her leave. Eventually they reveal themselves to be armed with advanced weapons. They try to shoot her but someone saves her and she discovers the ones who attacked her

Adventure, Family, Fantasy Holding a mysterious leather suitcase in his hand, Newt Scamander, a young activist wizard from England, visits New York while he is on his way to Arizona. Inside his expanding suitcase hides a wide array of diverse, magical creatures that exist among us, ranging from tiny, twig-like ones, to majestic and humongous ones. It is the middle of the 20s and times are troubled since the already fragile equilibrium of secrecy between the unseen world of wizards and the ordinary or "No-Maj" people that the MACUSA Congress struggles to maintain, is at risk of being unsettled. In the meantime, the voices against wizardry keep growing with daily protests led by Mary Lou Barebone and fuelled by the increasing disasters ascribed to a dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald. At the same time, by a twist of fate, Newt's precious suitcase will be switched with the identical one of an aspiring No-Maj baker, Jacob Kowalski, while demoted Auror, Tina Goldstei