Reviews in a hurry

I am a bit late but I was able to catch a couple really good movies last month. The first being The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliff. I wasn't expecting a whole lot from a movie that is rated pg-13 but I was pleasantly surprised. What really works for this film is the silence you never know what is gonna come at you, the cat that jumps out at you from out of nowhere that still gets me every time. The film follows Arthur Kipps played by Radcliff a recently widowed father. He is heading out of town to handle some business only to find that this town is being terrorized by a vengeful ghost. Radcliff proves that he has onscreen presence and is easily believable outside of his harry potter role. I couldn't help but wonder why I enjoyed this film so much until I saw who wrote it, Jane Goldman who in recent years has written some of my favorite films.
My Grade B+

The other film that I was able to catch was the Vow, I had been looking forward to seeing this movie ever since the trailer came out early last year. Channing Tatum and Rachel Mcadams have an easy and undeniable chemistry on screen. The film opens with Paige and Leo a young couple that is clearly madly in love as they are heading home from a night at the movies, the couple is involved in a terrible accident. Both survive but paige suffers from short term memory loss and can't remember her husband. From there Leo tries to show paige what there life was like before the accident.  This task proves to be too difficult for the couple. Paige having trouble adjusting to her new life falls back into her old ways. Where she was a rich snooty girl who was working on  her degree to become a lawyer. How and why did paige change so drastically from a corporate woman to a free spirited artist? I had high hopes for this movie but was a little let down by it. Mostly due to the ending if you have seen the movie you know what I mean.

My Grade B-

Lastly I wanted to touch upon SNL this weekend as many have heard Lindsay Lohan hosted this past weekend. I caught most of her episode, and it wasn't good. I knew that it wasn't a good idea for her to host so soon after getting out of recovery and with her still on probation. What she should have done was popped up in a skit and be done but instead she hosted the whole thing. Most of the skits were sub par at best and it seems the writers weren't that confident in her ability since it seems that she was relegated to being the straight woman while cast members got the best jokes. If anything she looked like a deer caught in headlights and was visibly nervous. They really would have been better if they had let Jon Hamm host for the third time