Jake's Cinema Room

The first Captain America  film was one that I enjoyed the hell out of but wouldn't consider to be one of the best films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain America: The Winter Soldier  on the other hand is second to only The Avengers  as my favorite film in this action packed universe. Combining a superhero film with a spy thriller, as well as a few new great characters makes this film a big step up from the first. This time around Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is still adjusting to life in the modern world. He's getting better acquainted to the future but still misses the good old days in the 1940's. A new threat against S.H.I.E.L.D. brings Steve face to face with someone from his past in the form of The Winter Soldier, a Soviet agent who may be more skilled than Steve himself. What worked so well in the first film was that the filmmakers were able to make a superhero film work as a period piece. Having a superhero who lives in the 1940's is no easy task to...

Vince Vaughn hasn't had a lot of luck in recent years when it comes to picking good roles. Ever since his smash hit Wedding Crashers  in 2005 things have seemed to go down hill. From Fred Claus  to The Watch  to last year's lackluster The Internship  it's just been one critical and financial failure after another. Vaughn's latest film, Delivery Man , tries to be somewhat different from his recent roles but ultimately ends up on the same level of those films. David (Vince Vaughn) is a nice guy but he's somewhat of an underachiever. He could work harder at his job as well as in his relationship with his newly pregnant girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders) who doesn't believe that David is the right man to be a father. Things change even more for David when he finds out that he's the biological father of 533 kids from donating mass amounts of sperm in his 20's. Of those 533, 142 of the kids have filed a lawsuit against him to reveal his identity. Now David m...

It’s been 15 years since The Best Man was released in theaters. The film was met with modest praise and went on to become somewhat of a cult classic since its release. Now the gang is all back in The Best Man Holiday which picks up 15 years later with everybody in the cast returning as well as Malcom D. Lee returning as director. This time around the gang is getting together for the holidays. Once everyone is together old rivalries and romances are brought back up as well as some new conflicts and issues. Harper (Taye Diggs) hasn't had a bestselling book since his last book that set off his best friend Lance (Morris Chestnut) who found out in the book that Harper had slept with his wife Mia (Monica Calhoun). Harper has a new book in mind, this time about Lance’s football career, but he doesn't want to bring it up to him in fear that he won’t want it to be written. Elsewhere, Julian (Harold Perrineau) has found a sex tape of his former stripper wife Candace (Regina Hall...

Every time Martin Scorsese directs a film, no matter what it's about, it is something to be on the lookout for. Same can be said for Leonardo DiCaprio as well, and when the two collaborate on a film together the chances of it being a great film are even higher. With The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese and company put together one of the most rambunctious and off-the-wall comedies in recent years. The story, which is based on a book of the same name, follows Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) as we watch his rise to a wealthy stockbroker to his fall involving crime, drugs and corruption. This marks the fifth time Scorsese and DiCaprio have worked together on the same film and this one is certainly different than the rest. We usually don't see comedies from Scorsese, or DiCaprio for that matter, but they manage to put together the best comedy of 2013. Clocking in at just under three hours the film does overstay it's welcome by about fifteen minutes but that really is the o...