86th Annual Oscars Are Almost Here!

It's that time of the year again!

The 2014 Oscars are just around the corner, and this year, if played right, will be a game changer.
2013 was the year of ground breaking movies that stepped outside the ordinary films we are used to getting nominated. Examples of this are Her, 12 Years A Slave, and Gravity. Not to mention some very promising nominees for best actress/actor and best supporting actress/actor. This could finally be Leonardo DiCaprio's year! The seemly devious internet might not be too happy with that considering that means no more hilarious meme's and gifs jokes referencing DiCaprio's lack of an Oscar.

This years host will be Ellen DeGeneres, a big step up from last years Seth MacFarlane which was neither favored by the viewers or the celebrities. His jokes were immature and 'wrong' on so many levels, but luckily he stated he is 'defiantly not presenting the Oscars again'. This will be Ellen's second year hosting the Oscars. People loved her hosting in 2007 hopefully she will be a big hit again. The Oscars are going to be live March 2 on ABC at 8:30 p.m ET. The Oscars Red Carpet live will air at 7:00 p.m ET on ABC.

Here is a preview of some of the categories and nominees:

1. 86th Academy Awards nominees

   March 2, 2014 — Host: Ellen DeGeneres

   Best Picture	American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street
   Best Actor in a Leading Role	Christian Bale (American Hustle) Bruce Dern (Nebraska) Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
   Best Actress in a Leading Role	Amy Adams (American Hustle) Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) Sandra Bullock (Gravity) Judi Dench (Philomena) Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

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'Anchorman 2' returns to theaters with 763 brand new jokes!

A whole new R-rated version of film starring Will Ferrell will be back in theaters for a week-only release starting February 28th.

If you thought you've seen the best of Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Kristen Wiig, you thought wrong! It's not a complete surprise that a  cast of gifted ad-libbers such as this one could remove and replace all the jokes in 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' with a lot funnier and filthier ones.

The director of the film Adam McKay told The New York Times about this surprise alternate cut, which is basically an all new movie itself! Coming in at over two hours, whereas the original came in at under two hours, and now bumped up to rating R. The new "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: Super-Sized R-Rated Version" is including 763 new jokes, 95 percent of the original comic material. 

If you don't want to miss this one week only opportunity, get your butt into theaters February 28th - March 7th!

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Rockin' Reviews: Ride Along

Last Saturday I went to go see the movie Ride Along starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.

 I was a bit sketchy about going to see this movie at first since i'm not the biggest fan of Kevin Hart, but now after seeing it I have no regrets. This movie is HILARIOUS. Ben Barber, played by Hart, finally gets accepted into the police academy and decides this is the right time to propose to his girlfriend Angela Payton. Before he proposes he must ask for her police officer older brother's, James Payton played by Ice Cube, promising for his blessings. James is not a fan of Ben, and immediately shuts him down. Before James can leave Ben tells him he got into the academy. James takes this opportunity to put Ben through a series of tests a 'Ride Along'  to see if he is worthy of his sister. You will come out of the theater with a smile on your face, and quote it with your friends for months!

Rebel Wilson And Anna Kendrick Are Back For More!

Fat Amy and Beca are ready for more pitch-slapping in 'Pitch Perfect 2'

You heard me correctly: the dynamic duo have confirmed they will be in Pitch Perfect 2, and if that doesn't feed your desire Ms. Effie Trinket, Elizabeth Banks, is directing it herself.

 RT if you can't wait! @AnnaKendrick47 & @RebelWilson
 are back in #PitchPerfect2!!
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— #PitchPerfect (@PitchPerfect) February 6, 2014

The sequel to 2012's a capella smash hit is set to hit theaters May 15, 2015. I know, 2015 seems like a million years away to me too; we've just got to hang in there! They aren't many details on the in progress film, but some of the cast have their own ideas on how to continue the Bellas vs. Treblemakers feud. 

Bumper, leader of the Treblemakers, may have left to sing back up for John Mayer, but Adam DeVine shared with MTV that he has a few ideas of his own for his comeback.

"I pitched to Kay Cannon, who wrote the movie and is writing the second one as well, that I want to come back as a K-pop star," he said. "Like, maybe it didn't work in America, so I went over to Korea and just blew up. So we'll see if she took that to heart and wrote it in the next script." 

While Beca's love interest, Jesse aka Skylar Astin, has a similar twist on the film in the multicultural direction for the sequel.

"I want everyone to go abroad. I want the whole thing to be international just so we can film in a really cool location, but also, I think it would be really cool to see different countries' perspective on a cappella," he said. " I think that would be really awesome. Because what do you do after you win nationals? You go international. That's my pitch."

The movie already sounds great if any of these ideas are put onto the big screen. I can't wait to actually watch the movie for myself in a year from now.

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The Rock as new Green Lantern!?

It's been awhile now since the news came out that Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has been talking to Warner Brothers about a possible role in a DC movie, and now it looks like this news is becoming a reality,

Back in November Dwayne posted a picture that used the hashtag  
#JohnStewartCanStillWhupSupermansAss

It's an hashtag innocent to some people, that is until they realize John Stewart is the name of one of the three most famous Green Lanterns. He also tweeted on New Years Eve

The Rock quickly tried post a tweet to deflect attention from the rumors, but a Superman/JLA- related hashtag is just to interesting to ignore.

All I said was.. #LanternCanWhupSuperman RT: @IGN: Did@TheRock reveal that he's playing John Stewart/Green Lantern? http://t.co/J1ZIi433UX

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) February 5, 2014

Due to Ryan Reynolds limp performance in the 2011 fantasy flick it's not a big stretch to think that DC is in the looks for a new Green lantern protagonist. I'm crossing my fingers for this to be true because The Rock would be amazing as the Green Lantern. His stride toughness will give the character some edge it was missing with Ryan Reynolds.  

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Welcome to the wonderful world of movies! Here I will be posting about the latest movie news, new releases, review movies I have seen, and more! Movies have been important to me for a very long time now and it's finally time I wrote about my opinions.  If you're reading this right now that must mean you have even the slightest bit of interest in movies too! Which is totally cool and I look forward to keeping up on this blog (: