In Theaters: January 30th, 2015

There are THREE wide releases this weekend.

Black or White

I don't really like Octavia Spencer.  I find her kind of annoying.  But she won that darn Oscar in 2012 and when you win an Oscar you just keep showing up in movies whether or not people want to see you.  Kevin Costner, on the other hand, I like.  And what's-his-name is in this movie too, and I like him.

What's-his-name*

Black or White is about a custody battle for a young girl fought between a maternal grandfather (Costner) and a paternal grandmother (Spencer).  It's a drama.

Black or White is rated PG-13 on appeal for brief strong language, thematic material involving drug use and drinking, and for a fight.

The "on appeal" part means it was originally rated R but the studio appealed for a new rating without changing any content.

The Loft

A very interesting premise for a thriller that you could only execute with an R-rating, unfortunately.

In The Loft, five wealthy men that are dishonest in their marriage relationships build a Loft style apartment and use it for their extramarital affairs.  They are each given a key and a code for the security system and they swear each other to secrecy.

But then (wouldn't you know it) a woman turns up dead in the Loft!

The Loft is rated R for sexual content, nudity, bloody violence, language and some drug use.

Project Almanac

Teenage leads you've never heard of, found footage style filmmaking, science fiction elements, looks really stupid, a PG-13 rating - this movie is Earth to Echo's older brother.  It looks really dumb.  And I hate found footage.

Some kids find plans for a time machine, build one and use it, and things start going wrong.

Earth to Echo - I mean Project Almanac is rated PG-13 for some language and sexual content.

And again, it looks really dumb.  Seriously dumb.

      Big Shot Critic

*What's-his-name is Anthony Mackie