her

In the near future, Theodore Twombly, an introverted writer for a letter writing service, is
trying to deal with his lonely life and the impending finalization of his divorce from his childhood love.

One day walking home after work he sees an ad for an artificial intelligence operating system called OS.1 and buys it. When he gets home he installs it, the set up guide asks him some questions to best fit the OS to his needs, and then he hears a soft “Hello”. Seemingly shy they start a conversation, as if meeting someone who is going to be one of your closest friends, and when asked her name she says Samantha, she chose that name after reading a baby book in 0.286 seconds.

Samantha helps Theodore open up and love life again, and Theodore helps Samantha live life and experience the world. Which leads them to fall in love with each other, as complicated as that is.


I wasn’t sure about this movie the first time I saw a trailer for it last summer, but the low amount of advertising that I experienced for it made it grow on me, till I couldn’t wait to see it. Spike Jonze did a great job writing and directing, but something I noticed was how much the melancholy in this movie reminded me of his last movie, Where the Wild Things Are, as if this could be a sequel almost to that movie. That being said, the comedy in this movie was superb, it always came when it was needed and it didn’t deflate the gravity of the situation.

I highly recommend this movie, but there were some scenes where I was a little uncomfortable and couldn’t realize more that I was in a room full of strangers experiencing it. So if you do feel uncomfortable in situations like that, wait for video release, but if you don’t mind 2-5 minutes, all together, of uncomfortableness then by all means, yes see it in theaters.


I give it 4 out of 5


Written by Jeff Potts

47 Ronin

A young boy, named Kai, was found outside the Bamboo forest by Lord Asano and his
entourage. He was taken in and cared for by the Lord, but shunned at the same time for being a halfbreed. As he grew older Kai fell in love with Lord Asano’s daughter, Mika, but he knew they could never be together, but she too felt the same way for him.

 Lord Asano is priviledged to host a tournament for the Shogun and the neighboring Daimyos, one of them being Lord Kira, who wants to take over Asano’s lands. Kira has a witch under his command and uses her to embarrass Asano at the tournament, which Kai notices and tries to stop, and bewitch Asano to cause treachery in front of the Shogun. Displeased with his actions the Shogun orders Asano to preform seppuku, and to cease any retaliation orders that Mika must marry Kira. To assure there is no retaliation Kira throws the head of Asanos Samurai, Oishi, in a pit for a year and sells off Kai to a pirate-esque group.

Upon release Oishi goes to find Kai and gathers the rest of his men, to disobey the orders of the Shogun, and get revenge for their former master…


 This was a decent movie. It wasn’t the most original story, but then again it’s “based” on true events, or stories, so I guess this makes it the original and everything that came after the retelling. I guess I should say I’ve seen it executed better, like the movie Gladiator, it had all the same tones just in a different time and place, obviously.

 The costumes and action were some of the best parts of the movie. There were 3 CG elements in the movie that I feel took away and made it a little cheesy, one of which was the witch turning into a dragon, they could have done that better, I think.

This movie is one that I would say you don’t have to see in theaters, but will be good for a home experience.


I give it 2.5 out of 5


Written by Jeff Potts