What movies have you seen recently?

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Lucy

Scarlett Johansson is a drug mule carrying a new synthetic drug. The drug is leaked into her body and her mind unlocks beyond human logic.

Afterlife.

A school teacher (Christina Ricci), after having a fight with her boyfriend, is in a car accident, then awakens in a mortuary, where the mortician (Liam Neeson) tells her that she is dead. She refuses to believe she is dead, or that the mortician can speak with her because he has a gift/curse. She struggles with accepting that she is in fact deceased, and that she had only been wrongly declared dead and is still alive. Gets pretty disturbing. Good horror film.

Absentia.

I just watched this movie, which my wife got me for Valentine's Day.
A troubled recovering addict named Callie reunites with her pregnant sister Trisha, who is in the process of declaring her husband, Daniel, who has been missing for seven years, dead in absentia. Trisha wants to move on with her life, and has a mutual attraction to Ryan Mallory, the detective on her husband's missing person case, even though she's having horrific visions of her husband, which she chalks up to just stress and guilt. And then, Daniel shows up alive, but in terrible physical condition (having eaten animal bones and sunlight deprived), and is in even worse shape mentally. All he can say is, something terrible had taken him underneath. Then when Daniel disappears again, and the only witness to what happened is Callie the recovering drug abuser, with her unbelievable story about some sort of insectoid monster taking him into the wall, both Trisha and the police think she had to have been stoned. Callie begins to realize the terrible truth about people going missing in the neighborhood in connection to a nearby overpass tunnel, where in fact another missing man turned up dead, his body twisted and mutilated. And when Trisha is taken by the creature, Callie goes to trade herself for her sister, until she realizes how cruel and treacherous the thing is.
I had read very good things about this horror film, and I'm happy to report that it lived up to the hype.

Fury

Brad Pitt plays a sergeant in command of a Sherman tank crew at the end of World War II. They pick up a rookie during the mission and he faces firsthand the horror of war.

Bizarre and not funny at all parody of the Rocky films. The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed it a while back (YouTube link) and piqued my interest, and I couldn't resist watching it when I saw that someone had uploaded the whole movie to YouTube. It's something else.

Birdman

I finally had a chance to see this a few days ago. Despite being a drama, the comedic undertones gave this movie a very likeable tone. Great acting from all cast members and I have high hopes that this will win something at the Oscars on 2/22.

The Interview.

James Franco plays a vacuous television interview show host who's bread and butter is anything salacious for the public, while Seth Rogen portrays the would-be journalist who runs this popular on air fluff, but dreams of being something more. Then, they get the opportunity to interview the show's biggest fan: North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, which is seemingly the answer to both their dreams. That is when the CIA recruits them in a plot to covertly assassinate Kim. Hilarity and grossness ensues. If you're looking for highbrow humor, this is not it. But the movie accomplishes what it had set out to do - make you laugh out loud.

I recently saw Kingsman: The Secret Service. Good movie and I found some fighting scenes funny:

Love these Blu-ray covers.

American title on top, Japanese title on bottom, original Japanese poster in the middle.

Perfect.

Netflix streaming: Honeymoon and re-watching Touch.