Summit Entertainment, Participant Media, Di Bonaventura Pictures,

Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien, Kate Hudson

Deepwater Horizon is a fact based docudrama covering the 2010 explosion and oil spill on the floating rig Deepwater Horizon leased by BP. The crew from Transocean dug the initial well, and stabilize it with cement then cap it off and leave before the drilling crew from BP come aboard and finish the well. As they were over a month late, and over budget, BP was pressuring them to finish up and get on with it. Due to some likely shortcuts and unwise savings, the well suddenly erupted starting a huge fire which killed 11 men, and caused the rig to sink to the bottom of the ocean starting the largest oil spill in US history. This film is the story of the events leading up to and to the evacuation and rescue of the survivors after the fire. Led by Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell) and his technical right hand man Mike Williams (Mark Walberg), and their interactions with BP executive Vidrine (John Malkovich) this exciting tale feels like a simple action movie but is based on the real events of 2010.

Produced by Wahlberg and Directed by Peter Berg, this is an excellent film. The excitement and action is first rate, special effects are mind boggling, and the movie still develops the characters and their motivations, and the human interest side of the story is developed very well too. Kurt Russell is amazing, as always, and Mark Wahlberg did a fantastic job as well. It is nice to Kurt and his daughter Kate Hudson who played Mark Wahlberg’s wife together as well. The beginning of the story was a bit slow, as it takes a great deal of time to give us all the background information of who the characters are, and why they are doing what they are doing. If this were fiction, that could have been shortened a little bit, but because to the need to be truthful to the facts, it is important to give us all this information about how it could happen. As soon as I got out of the theater, I looked it up in Wikipedia to see how accurate it was, and after having seen the film, I was surprised to learn how much I knew about the facts of what happened just based on those first 40 minutes or so while the story was introduced. But one trouble starts, thing get really moving real fast. It was an awful disaster, and I feel like I was there. One point though, although 11 men died in the explosion and fire, a great deal of damage happened long after the event (and is still happening). Though the film gives us the welcome pictures of the real people portrayed, and the words on screen telling us who quit the oil business after, and what essentially happened to the people, it does not spend any time talking about the consequences of the aftermath. For that reason, I would highly recommend that after you see this exciting film, that you do a tiny bit of research on your own to try to get the full picture of the whole story. This is a very good movie, and I highly recommend it for you.

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Go For It!, Sparkhope Entertainment

Aimee Garcia, Al Bandiero, Jossara Jinaro, Gina Rodriguez, Louie Alegria, Derrick Denicola, Andres Perez-Molina, Gustavo Mellado, Rene Rosado, David Hernandez

Carmen Salgado(Aimee Garcia) is a junior college student and grocery clerk with a bit of a bad attitude. That’s understandable when we visit her at home, as she lives in a small house with a lot of loud people. Carmen is being pushed by her parents to make a success of herself, but she loves to dance. There’s a high school teacher who sees something in her, and pushes her to apply to a special performance arts college in Los Angeles. Carmen’s best fried, Gina (Gina Rodriquez) is a bit of a trampy girl, but is in a relationship with an abusive hood who treats her pretty bad. Meanwhile Carmen meet gringo Jared (Derrick Denicola) who says he loves her, but wants to keep her under his thumb and wants her to move in with him. Carmen has to decide whether to trust herself, and choose to follow her dream, or take the easy path and do what everyone else wants her to do.

This is a familiar story, for sure. There have been so many stories about kids who dream to dance but are afraid to go for it. This one is a bit different because it’s a pretty much all Latino story with Latino actors in nearly every role. This gives us a close look at the life and problems of a Latino household and the trials it brings. Aimee Garcia is excellent as Carmen, and turns in a really good performance. My wife really loved the story as she’s a fan of dance, and films like Flashdance and Fame are her cup of tea, as well as the dancing reality shows on TV. However, I enjoyed the relationship issues and the family problems, but am not a big fan of dance shows. The benefit in this film is that dancing takes a back seat. It’s not about the school or the classes in dance. Carmen dances in the park, practicing mostly, which she drops out of when her new boyfriend takes up all her time. The movie is so much the same as all the other “I wanna be a dancer” films that it’s not very unique except for the culture part, so if you’re a big fan of hip hop dance, you’ll like it. Also if you want to see a good story of a Latino family in Chicago, that’s also a good reason to like it. But otherwise, I was not at all blown away from this film because it was so similar to what I’ve seen before. It does have a lot of heavy drama and sorrow, so it’s not a lighthearted dance flick. It’s a dark film about finding yourself and reaching for a goal amid all the trials and tribulations.

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