[Nick]

Hostage
-Rating: *** out of ****
-Good action/drama that didn't pretend to be more than it was. Well acted all around, I thought. Freaky though to see Ben Foster continue the never-ending-trend of sitcom actors going dark to try and break away from being typecast. He gave me the shivers in this movie.

To Kill a Mockingbird
-Rating: ***1/2 out of ****
-I thought the acting in this movie was outstanding, especially from the children, whom I learned in a movie appreciation class were unknown and untrained when they did this. The story was compelling and moved at a decent pace, especially for a movie over 40 years old now.

THX-1138
-Rating: ** out of ****
-I have a feeling this is a movie that, if I watched it a couple more times, would really grow on me. At times I thought it moved too slow and was a bit too mysterious about everything. I felt like I learned more about the plot and setting through context clues than I did by actually watching and listening to what was being presented. I could only take so much of people talking in numbers before it started to lose its appeal.

Kinsey
-Rating: *** out of ****
-Pretty good movie with solid acting. Nothing really special, I don't think, but a good work nonetheless. Neeson was good, but would have been better if he had more to express. I didn't feel like he had a lot of acting to do in this movie, save for a few parts. But that said, I still thought it was a good work overall.