Movie Ratings - An on-going list!

How I (Movie Critic: Benita Blocker) rate(s) movies:

***** (Five) stars = I would gladly see this film over again.  Excellent.  Good enough for my home library.
**** (Four) stars = Worth top dollar, a few scenes - I would love to see again but not the whole movie.
*** (Three) stars = Good movie, definitely worth a matinee price.
** (Two) stars = Okay, not bad, just not for me.
* (one) star = I took a nap through it; I felt like it was a waste of money.

Overall:  Any movie receiving at least 3 stars is a recommendation from me for you to go see the movie!

Movie List in alphabetical order:

2 Guns= **2
42= ****4
300: Rise of an Empire= ***3
About Last Night (2014)= ****4
Act of Valor= ****4
Addicted= ****4
After Earth= ***3
Alex Cross= ****4
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day= ***3
The Amazing Spider-man 2= ***3
America= ***3
American Hustle= ***3
Anchorman 2= *1
Ant-man= *****5
Argo= *****5
Avengers= *****5
Avengers: Age of Ultron= ****4
The Artist= ****4
Baggage Claim= ****4
Battle of the Year= ***3
Beasts of the Southern Wild= ****4
Belle= ****4
Best Man Holiday= ****4
Beyond the Lights= *****5
Big Hero 6= ****4
Black Nativity= ***3
Black or White= ***3
Blue Jasmine= ****4
The Bourne Legacy= ***3
Brick Mansions= ***3
Bridge of Spies= ****4
Brotherly Love= ****4
The Butler(2013)= ****4
The Call= ****4
The Campaign= ****4
Captain America: The Winter Soldier= ***3
Captain Phillips= ****4
Captive (2015)= ***3
Carrie (2013)= ***3
Cesar Chavez= ***3
Chef= ***3
Cinderella (2015)= ***3
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2= ***3
The Conjuring= ****4
The Counselor= ***3
The Croods= *****5
Cirque du Soleil 3D = **2
D'Jango Unchained= *****5
Dallas Buyers Club= ***3
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes= ****4
Dear White People= ***3
Despicable Me 2= ***3
Divergent= ***3
Divergent Series: Insurgent= ***3
Don Jon= ****4
Dope= ****4
Draft Day= ****4
Edge of Tomorrow= ***3
Elysium= ****4
The Equalizer (2014)= ****4
Ender's Game= ***3
Enough Said= ****4
Escape Plan=****4
Exodus: Gods and Kings= ***3
Expendables 1 and 2= ****4
Expendables 3= ***3
Everest (2015)= ***3
A Family that Preys= *****5
Fantastic Four (2015)= **2
Fast and Furious #6= *****5
Fifty Shades of Grey= ***3
Flight= ****4
Focus= ***3
Frankie and Alice= ***3
From the Rough= ***3
Frozen (2013)= *****5
Fruitvale Station= ***3
Furious 7= ****4
Get Hard = ***3
Get On Up= ***3
The Gift= ***3
GI Joe: Retaliation= ****4
God's Not Dead= ****4
Godzilla (2014) IMAX 3D= ***3
Good Deeds=**2
The Grand Budapest Hotel= ***3
Gravity IMAX/3D= ***3
Grown Ups 2= ****4
Guardians of the Galaxy 3D= ****4
A Haunted House= **2
Haunted House 2= **2
The Heat(2013)= ****4
Her= ***3
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies= ****4
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug= ****4
Home= ***3
How to Train Your Dragon 2= *****5
Hunger Games= ****4
Hunger Games: Catching Fire= ****4
Hunger Games: The Mockingjay Part I= ****4
Identity Thief= ***3
I, Frankenstein (2014) 3D= ****4
The Impossible= ****4
Inception= *****5
Inside Out= ****4
Interstellar= ****4
The Iron Lady= **2
Iron Man 3= ****4
JackAss Presents: Bad Grandpa= ****4
Jack Reacher= ***3
John Carter= ****4
John Wick= ***3
The Judge= ***3
Jurassic World 3D= ***3
Kevin Hart's Let Me Explain= ****4
Kingsman: The Secret Service= ****4
Labor Day= ****4
The Lego Movie= ***3
Life of Pi = ****4
Like Dandelion Dust= *****5
Lincoln(2012)= *****5
Looper= ****4
Lucy= ***3
Madagascar3/3D= *****5
Madea's Witness Protection= **2
Mad Max: Fury Road= ****4
Magic Mike= ***3
Magic Mike XXL= ****4
Maleficient= *****5
The Man in 3B= ***3
Man of Steel= ****4
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom= ***3
The Maze Runner= ***3
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials= ***3
Middle of Nowhere= ***3
Minions= **2
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation= ****4
Monsters University= ***3
A Most Wanted Man= ***3
Mud= ***3
Neighbors= ****4
No Good Deed= ****4
Non-stop= ***3
The November Man= ****4
Now You See Me= ***3
Olympus Has Fallen= ***3
The Other Woman= **2
Out of the Furnace= ***3
Oz The Great and Powerful 3D=***3
Pacific Rim IMAX/3D= ****4
Pain and Gain= ***3
Parker= ***3
Peeples= ***3
Penguins of Madagascar= **2
The Perfect Guy= ***3
Persecuted= ***3
Pitch Perfect= ****4
Pitch Perfect 2= *****5
Prisoners= ***3
The Purge: Anarchy= *****5
The Raid 2= *****5
Real Steel= *****5
Red 2= ****4
Repentance= ***3
Riddick (2013)= ***3
Ride Along= ***3
Run All Night= ***3
Runner Runner= ***3
Rush= ****4
Safe House= ***3
St. Vincent= ****4
San Andreas= ***3
Savages= ****4
Saving Mr. Banks= ****4
Selma= ****4
Side Effects= *****5
Silver Lining Playbook= **2
The Single Moms Club= ***3
Snitch= ***3
Spectre (2015)= ***3
Springbreakers= **2
Spy= ***3
Straight Outta Compton= ****4
Star Trek: Into Darkness= ****4
Step Up 4= *****5
Taken 3= ****4
Ted= ****4
Ted 2= **2
Terminator Genisys= ****4
Think Like A Man= *****5
Think Like A Man 2= ***3
Thor: The Dark World= ***3
Tomorrowland= ***3
Top Five= ***3
Transformers 4: Age of Extinction 3D= ***3
Trainwreck= ***3
Truth(2015)= ****4
Twelve Years A Slave= ****4
Tyler Perry's Temptation= ****4
Tyler Perry's A Madea's Christmas= ***3
The Walk IMAX 3D= ****4
War Room= ****4
The Wedding Ringer=  ****4
We're the Millers= ****4
White House Down= ****4
Wolf of Wall Street (2013)= ***3
Wolverine= ****4
Woman Thou Art Loosed on the Seventh Day = ****4
Woodlawn= ****4
The World's End= ***3
World War Z= ***3
X-men: Days of Future Past= ***3

Wearing two bras provides comfort and support!

Sometimes underwire bras pass the fit test in the store but after a few hours of wearing them, the underwire or the style becomes painful.  If the problem is the length of the underwire, then the obvious solution is to cut slits in the center and pull the underwire out!

The bad thing about removing the underwire is that you loose the support in the bra.  For example, in the red colored bra below, the left bra cup still has the underwire in it.  The right bra cup does not.  

 Without the underwire, the bra fits like a "tube" top or a workout bra.  There is no lift, and it is not flattering to the figure.  Well, the brown and white underwire bra pictured in the first picture fits great, but there was not enough material to cover my "DD" chest.  The bra literally would have me "flashing" someone, and the rim of the bra cup literally directly stimulated my nipples making them stay hard.  (Sorry for the graphic detail.)  Anyway, overstimulation of any body part can become painful.

So I had two "brand new" underwire bras that were both causing me pain for two different reasons but when I wore them together, I was in heaven.  How?

The red bra with the underwires removed  from both cups gave me full coverage and comfort, then the brown and white bra with underwire in tact gave me all of my lift and support.  The two bras worked well together - one without underwire and one with underwire.


The red bra is a Scarlette Modern size 38DD and the brown and white bra is a Sophie B size 38DD.

I would be happy to give future bra reviews if any bra manufacturers want to send me size 38DD to try out.

  

Sticker Shock: Light Bulbs are changing!

 Take a good look at these light bulbs.  They are not longer manufactured.  They are a model "A19" in which one (Nuon brand) has a horizontal circular filament inside and the other (GE) has a vertical filament inside.  After leaving the Target store in sticker shock after discovering that they only sell the "new" versions of the light bulbs for $25.00 for 4 bulbs, I stopped by Batteries Plus (Light Bulbs) in the Rosedale Shopping Center.

 This store still has a huge inventory of  "A19" model light bulbs in different wattage for $1.99 per pack of 4.  Definitely a big difference in price!

 I grew up only spending a "couple of dollars" for a pack of light bulbs versus $8.00 for one light bulb.  Forget making sure that you get your electricity bill made; now, families have to make sure that they can afford to buy the light bulbs in a crunch.  Wow!

If you want to stock up on the "Nuon" brand of light bulbs, Batteries Plus said that they have plenty in their warehouse!