Over the weekend, I watched 3 movies on DVD, so I thought I would give them a brief review:

• “Hugo” – This is the new Martin Scorsese directed film, which is set in the 1930’s in Paris, which is about a boy named Hugo Cabret who lives in the walls of a train station. He fixes clocks and other things. He doesn’t have anything else in his life but the automaton that doesn’t work, and it needs a heart shaped key to get fixed. There is this mystery building with the automaton and his father. On with my thoughts on the film, I think this is a very different film for Martin Scorsese who is one of my favorite directors of all time. Over the years, Scorsese almost always did films for the adults. He never did films for children until now. It’s about time he’s done something for kids and he did a good job at it too. I loved, “Hugo”, definitely one of the best films of 2011. Told a good story and the visuals were amazing. Definitely see this if you haven’t.
• Super 8 – This is the new JJ Abrams directed, Steven Spielberg produced collaboration, that stars Kyle Chandler in the leading role. This movie is set in 1979 in a small town of Ohio, where a group of kids get together to film their own low budget zombie movie. While filming the movie at a train station, the train mysteriously crashes for no reason, and now a mysterious alien is out on the loose. This movie was pretty good and entertaining but not the best ever. The movie was a bit too predictable, the writing could be improved. What I liked most about it, was the action, the musical score, and Kyle’s character (it was different than Coach Eric Taylor for sure). It was no surprise that the alien turned out to be a lovable & friendly one, but hey, it’s a Spielberg movie too.  I’m sure he gave that idea to JJ.
• The Way – Well the Emilio Estevez directed and Martin Sheen starred movie is finally out on DVD. It was an independent released movie so it wasn’t shown in that many theaters in the US. This movie is about a man named Tom, whose son has died while travelling to the Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of Saint James. It’s a pilgrimage route to the Cathedral, where apostle Saint James is buried. Yes, you bet, this is a pretty religious movie and a pretty good one too. I enjoyed it. Martin Sheen’s performance was great. Even though Emilio didn’t play in the film much, he did a good acting job too. The film was funny and entertaining. It was also a sad movie too. “The Way” was actually pretty enjoyable, and I believe Martin Sheen was snubbed of the Oscars for Best Actor as well.

That’s it. Enjoy.

Kev