Magic Mike XXL (2015)

Mike steps out of retirement and takes a break from his contracting business to help his stripper friends from the Kings of Tampa have one mega-memorable performance at the Myrtle Beach stripper convention. Just as men get Playboy magazine for the articles, women watch Magic Mike XXL for the captivating dialogue and plot lines. Just kidding, of course we don't, we watch it to see these handsome dudes shake their a$ses and take their clothes off! The sequel definitely takes the dance routines to the next level. Just ask Joe Manganiello if he woulda bet that in his acting career he'd be doing a stripper routine in a Quickie Mart to Backstreet Boys "I Want It That Way." That's just the tip…of the iceberg.

Mike Lane (Channing Tatum), now doing custom furniture designs in Florida, is drawn once again into the world of male entertainers (the preferred nomenclature). Although it's been three years since he gave up stripping, Mike decides to accompany his old crew, the Kings of Tampa, to the annual Myrtle Beach convention, where they hope to bring to a close their wilder youths in a final tsunami of dollar bills. But can Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello), Tarzan (Kevin Nash), Ken (Matt Bomer), Tito (Adam Rodriguez), and disc jockey/frozen yogurt food truck vendor/driver Tobias (Gabriel Iglesias) maintain their cool long enough to make it to the convention?

Ant-Man (2015)

All the movies in the MCU have a little comedy in them. With the exception of Guardians of the Galaxy most of the movies however rely heavily on the action to pull people in. Ant-Man is much more relatable to Guardians of the Galaxy from that point. The jokes come flying from everyone, most notably Michael Peña.

I admit before even hearing about this movie I had no idea who Scott Lang was. To me, Ant-Man was Hank Pym, and that's all I knew. Although it was great to be introduced to a new character, I thought it was amazing that hey pay homage to the original Ant-Man with a flashback of Hank in the suit; also for the ride was Wasp; which of course everyone freaked out about.

Terminator Genisys (2015)

The Terminator is back with a strange title, Genisys. It is clear that they are eager to continue the franchise however they do not know how. Terminator Genisys shows promise to the visionary world of James Cameron but it is hampered by non-stop big and loud action scenes, it does not stop to develop the story further. That said, it still capture the interesting premise of time travel. It is better than Terminator Salvation but that is not saying much. What you get here is series of thrilling and big CGI heavy action set piece that propel the story forward.

I'm not sure what film the critics have watched, but as someone who queued all day to be one of the first to see T2, Genisys ticks all the Terminator boxes, time travel, morphing androids, liquid metal, Judgement Day, one liners, explosions, car chases, strong female lead, technology and prescient thoughts on handing over power over our lives to machines. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his signature role as the T800 at various ages, the CGI rendering of him as the "original" model is fantastic.

2015 San Diego Comic Con Schedule

Summer is finally upon us, and with it comes the weekend that TV lovers everywhere travel for hundreds and thousands of miles for...Comic-Con! In just a few weeks, San Diego is going to be overtaken by fans of movies and shows both big and small, so it's time to start planning out your weekend.

Which panels will you attend? Which screenings will you see? Get ready to start making some agonizing decisions, because with the sheer amount of panels and screenings going on, there's bound to be some crazy conflicts. Sorry in advance, we're having the same problems as you are!

So break out your calendars and check out our ultimate guide to every single TV panel and screening at 2015 San Diego Comic-Con below

Wednesday July 8 - Preview Night

Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings - 6pm, Ballroom 20 - Watch the pilots for Supergirl, Blindspot, Containment, Lucifer, and Teen Titans Go!

io9 Editor In Chief Charlie Jane Anders Book Signing - 7pm, Booth 2707 - Our fearless leader will be signing advance copies of her book All the Birds in the Sky.

Thursday July 9

Up, Up and Away: 75th Anniversary of the 1940 Premiere of the Superman Radio Series - 10am, Room 29AB - A celebration of Superman in one of his purest forms.

Studio Production Chiefs Speak - 10:15am, Room 6DE - Executives from 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate talk about the filmmaking process.

The Autobiography of James T. Kirk -10:45am, Ballroom 20 - William Shatner reads a book about Captain Kirk. I mean, come on.

The Super Story Behind the Pixar Short Sanjay’s Super Team - 11am, Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront - The team from Pixar debuts footage from the newest short film.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - noon, Hall H - One of the biggest franchises in the world comes to Comic-Con for the last time.

San Andreas (2015)

Have you seen the movies 2012, The Day after Tomorrow, Independence Day, Into the Storm, or any other disaster film? Well, if you have, you have also seen San Andreas, one of the most clichéd movies I have ever seen in my entire life. You already know how this entire movie is going to play out. It will start with some minor destruction, continue into a lecture being given by a teacher so that the writers do not have to think of creative ways to tell us information and instead spoon feed us vital background, the main character will be conveniently located at the center of the action, and then for the last act just reference any action movie ever made to see how the climax and falling action takes place. While everything is extremely predictable, I must admit that in terms of this movie just being a fun visual feast (although that is not at all what the tone conveys), I can say that most of the action and destruction scenes were pretty well done and actually extremely intense at some parts.

For a summer popcorn film, the producers of this film were able to exceed expectations. Rock Johnson didn't spew out more than a couple one-liners. The cliché bad guy didn't go over the top. The family soap opera was done tastefully even though it was as flimsy as a soap bubble. Paul Giamatti provided some welcome energy, even though he is stuck with some of THE WORST dialogue ever heard on film. His scenes are brief, giving us no time to explain in great detail how there new earthquake predicting thingamajig works. And who cares, the message of impending doom is crossed off the checklist.

Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

Okay, so let me just start by saying that I LOVED Pitch Perfect and have been dying to see this sequel but, for me, it just didn't live up to the first one.

One of the weaknesses for me was the storyline, or more accurately, the lack of storyline. I saw the first one as being about a girl whose a little unusual, finding herself at university at her father's request and bizarrely feeling completely at home around a group of girls who are all equally strange and different from each other, with a backdrop of some killer tunes and quirky comedy. However, this film didn't really seem to know what it was focusing on.

I was anticipating for the sequel for Pitch Perfect, I basically can't wait for it to be out in my local cinema. This sequel is a little disappointing to watch as it has quite some cliché story lines. The plot aren't as solid and some of the movie parts are chunky, it doesn't has a smooth transition to it.

Avenger : Age of Ultron (2015)

Finally the long awaited sequel to the Avengers have arrived and let me start out my saying what a show! The excitement and expectations were so high for this one and it did not disappoint!

Every single addition to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe stands to culminate in an epic team-up otherwise known as the Avengers. The problem with this is that there is a lot of build-up involved. Three years have passed since the last Avengers film, that’s about five films so far. There’s a lot of pressure riding on writer/director Joss Whedon to deliver what he did last time that grossed Disney and Marvel over one billion dollars worldwide. I mean, let’s face it; we know it’s going to be awesome. But just how awesome will it be, and will it live up to our already sky-high expectations?

One thing that I feel as this movie's disappointment is those promotional clips, and early shed details have showed so much that it feels that there's only little surprise left in the story elements. Although I should say the Hawkeye twist is a neat one. The other thing that feels weird is how Natasha Romanoff is placed in connection to previous movies. She's with Bruce Banner here, when instead we saw her implying something with Hawkeye at the first Avengers movie, and last year with Steve Rogers in The Winter Soldier.

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

The plot of this flick is about the discovery of Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis). Turns out, she's royalty in the universe, and what a giant universe it is: various 'Houses' are on planets throughout the system, and the House Abraxas has its eye on Jupiter Jones - turns out she is the reincarnation of the mother to the children of the throne James D'Arcy, Tuppence Middleton, and Redmayne. But she's eyed to be killed for reasons that involve things with the Earth and populations and things that I shouldn't go into for too many useless spoilers.

he plot. It's everywhere. The story is all over the place. One minute, it's a comedy. The other, it's a serious Game of Thrones-like kingdom drama. Another minute, It becomes Modern Family. It's everywhere! The plot has no focus whatsoever. It feels like someone grabbed some deleted scenes of his favorite TV shows and put them together on his laptop. Even Memento, though the non-linear narrative is confusing, it still had a simple storyline. Even Inception had focus, despite it's big scale. But those two were great movies. Jupiter was not.

Hobbit : Battle of Five Armies

I know it's been a very long time since I posted something. I just finished my exam and all. Yay for me. So let's start with Hobbit III

"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" is the final chapter of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" trilogy, and this particular film tells the last three or so chapters of J.R.R. Tolkien's book of the same name.

For those who are fans of the book, one thing that will quickly stand out is that the movie takes great liberty with the book, inasmuch as Peter Jackson has made an entire feature length film out of a story that was told in a relatively succinct fashion by Tolkien. Jackson's work expounds on the story that Tolkien left us with, going into much more detail with character development and the story of the battle of the armies itself in this film.

That being said, though, the movie does all of this in a way that is true to the original source material. I didn't feel as though I was watching something that was untrue to Tolkien, but instead a movie that was made to put meat on the skeleton of a story that Tolkien had left us with in the final chapters of "The Hobbit".

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

Disappointed by this film. I am not the big fan of this franchise, I don't like seeing kids killing each other and all. But I like the first two movies.They kept my attention, with plot and performances intriguing and action-packed enough to get from one scene to the next without a dull moment. . Another movie with disgusting trend, split the last franchise to be 2 parts. WTH. I like the trailer, I was blown away by Jennifer Lawrence and Julianne Moore.

This film begins right where the previous one stopped where Katniss wakes up in District 13 where she was taken by rebels after she destroyed the Quarter Quell arena with her arrow. Katniss becomes the symbol of the rebellion by appearing in incendiary promotional advertisements, but Katniss was angry with them because they left her partner Peeta behind at the Capitol.

Jennifer Lawrence is far and away the best performer in this film. Her face is really rich in unspoken emotions. Josh Hutcherson gets to flex some of his acting muscles more in this one as the brainwashed Peeta Mellark. It was good to see old characters played by Woody Harrelson, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Jeffrey Wright and Sam Claflin, though their roles were very limited here. New to the cast, acclaimed actress Julianne Moore is rather one-note in her performance as President Coin.

The Maze Runner Rewiew (2014)

I know it's been a very long time since I posted anything or even anything about movie review. And last week i watched this movie. Finally, you don;t know how excited I am for this movie. I was afraid this movie will be another flop with the post apocalypse theme and all. but thank;s God they do good at box office and critics.

The appeal of the The Maze Runner for its billion dollar genre is how straightforward everything it seems. It (thankfully) doesn't begin with a voice-over narration, because indeed it's another high concept that designs a world as a mind-bending game. The film already faults for spilling too much rules and details, but when things starts actually moving, the action becomes marvelous, with large scaled, suspense driven set pieces that easily makes it worth the price admission. The worst of it however is when it finally unfolds all of the hidden secrets, compromising much of the potential of this ride. Still, it's pretty hard to deny the excitement of the experience alone. Treating it as another solid action film might be enough for a while.

Hercules 2014 Review

When I knew The Rock was in this movie, I knew I couldn't take this movie seriously. So, I went to see Hercules with little to no expectations. The main reason was that I needed some cheesy summer flick to laugh at, and the movie's trailer did promise this kind of stuff. Well, the movie did not disappoint - indeed, it was cheesy, but in such a self-aware way, that it falls out of the "so bad that it's good" category and gets into the "simply good" one. Irony is dominant through the whole 98 minutes, and there are plenty of minor and major plot twists, albeit not a single forced one. And the story is delivered in an entertaining way without any unnecessary melodrama or heroism - a nice change from most of Hollywood big-budget action flicks.

Lucy -- Review (2014)

I have been waiting for this movie for like forever, and finally I watched it last week. I like Scarjo, alot. And I still want The Black Widow to have her own franchise. she is bad ass, she is the most amazing agent in SHIELD. and she is the perfect example of feminist. So when the first time I watched the trailer the first thought that came to my mind was "want it in my eyes, now!"

surprise I kind like it, even some missed the point. But i like it, but just because it's a strong movie about woman. It's a bad ass movie with very good choreographer. My sister loves this movie, because Black widow is in it. lol. Some of the critics who said this is silly movie, I do't understand why. because Luc Besson became very creative? or because it's a movie a bout woman who can take down men easily? Scarlett is very terrific in this movie, she proves it that she can do anything, from action to drama. she is that good. The effect is great, this could be very big movie. But like I said before, they lost the point.

This movie is totally better than what i expected, this fun movie. I was afraid I would be disappinted. But when I finished I like it, it;s not as horrible or as silly as they say it. it's very entertaining. Not everyone can watch this movie without whining and complaining. Not very much thought provoking or complex but you should enjoy it so much. Just watch it.

what I like about this movie is how this movie was on the top gross rating, beat Hercules. I'm happy because woman movie can rule the cinema once again.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (2014)

I watched this movie because my little cousin beg me to accompany him. I don't like the TMNT series, and I don't think something will change my opinion about it. I do love reading reviews before I watch a movie, and I read a lot of bad reviews. That's why i didn't expected this movie to be good or amazing. This movie is for kids, totally for kids just like the last Transformer. Kids will like it, adults will hate it. Back then when I watched Transformer the first time, i really like Michael Bay, he is genius. And ugh, you don't know how much I hate Megan Fox, and I had to sit watching this movie seeing her face as the lead actor. She is the Shia of TMNT. lol

Anyway, I love the turtles, The CGI of the turtles are good. But for the other are blehhh.. Megan Fox is awful in here, not like as if she is good. Sorry, no hating, I know. The story is nothing special, just very normal story. The villain characters are undeveloped. But I love the chemistry between the brothers. And father and sons. It's easy movie, if you want fun and if you want to ask your kids to watch kids movies you should ask you kids, little siblings, or whoever they are to watch this movie. They will enjoy it, and laugh.

Guardians of The Galaxy (2014)

Finally, I have watched Guardians of the Galaxy, a little bit l2p. But hey blame the cinema and Indonesia Distributor. I'm lucky tho, because it's really good!! The wait is worth it. I like it. After tons of Indie movies, I'm going to start writing new movies's reviews. And this weekend I have watched Guardians of the Galaxy, The Expendables 3, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

I always like Marvel, the comics, cartoons, Movies, especially the movies. from X-men to The Avengers. I like them all, now it's Guardians of the Galaxy time. When I first watched the trailer I got excited. But Who doesn't? Before I watched this movie I had this high expectations, and I'm afraid it would be disappointed me. I read too much Marvel geek reviews on reddit. And to be honest I was afraid it would  flop, I mean Captain Americas :The Winter Soldier was on the roll. They got rave reviews. Story, emotions, action were mixed perfectly.

You know, I'm still on the recover stage after seeing this movie. They don't take this movie seriously, and just perfect movie after the dark theme of Thor 2 and Captain America 2. It'is funny and very refreshing movie, totally new level of cinema. In this movie you will see tons a lot of comic characters that you would never expected to see in real action movie. This movie is in my top three Marvel movie list, and I still don't know which one are number one, two, or three. lol.  Quill is kinda remind me of Chris Pine's James Kirk. I don't know why, i feel like they are one person.

I can say this movie and TWS are the best blockbuster of the year. And Dawn of The Planet of Apes , I forgot about that. I love indies, and as much as I love it I can't live without blockbuster movies around me. The CGI is amazing, they definitely gets the Oscar nods. And the humors are witty and fun. I really like this movie. This movie gets everything, the humors, the actions, the characters, and the CGIs are really really good. And after you see the credit, I'm sure you will consider to watch it again. It's that good

Comic Con 2014 Schedule

Last night was the announcement for the TIFF first line up. And I'm excited. Ben Cumberbatch really shines this year. Thanks to his weird face. lol this is the link. they still have around 200 more movies to announcement. so if wish list hasn't completed yet, there still another line up. Here's the first line up TIFF FIRST LINE UP. 

Today is  Comic Con day. I can't wait. As much as I love indie movies, who doesn't like blockbusters? I grow up with cinema that only shows blockbuster movies *cough XXI cough*. So if you are curious about the schedule here it is

HERE IS THE SCHEDULE

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

SO I watched this move yesterday after I read ton of good reviews of this movie and I'm curious. And OMG this is is really good movie. This movie is very strong, this movie sets a news standard for summer blockbuster. Very amazing movie, one of my top 5 movies of this year so far. i really like it..

The CGI is awesome, the story and plot is amazing. AND the combinations of the amazing acting by the actors. Andy Serkis is just spectacular as Caesar. He has this atmosphere about him. He deserves Oscar tho. The way he brings Cesar to life is amazing. So, excited to see the future career of this man. and Jason Clarke, I'd prefer Franco. But he is amazing in this movie, he give the character something.