Media Mommy–I am a plugged in Mom. I love my kids, social media–and a good deal!

I’m a little behind on my movie watching, considering Iron Man 2 is out on the big screen, but I recently watched the first Iron Man–twice.

It was pretty good, lots of action, some adventure. Robert Downey, Junior did a good job convincing me he was Tony Stark a cocky, super-intelligent jerk turned superhero.

I didn’t appreciate the fact that this movie was targeted at kids. Foul language, innuendo and the beginnings of a sex scene don’t really go hand in hand with Burger King kids meals in my opinion. I’m not sure why the movie producers thought the movie needed the adult content. It didn’t.

I give this one a C, glad I saved my money.

My Netflix red envelope contained The Last Unicorn this week. This was one of my favorite movies from childhood. Growing up, it was a rare treat to go to the theater to see a movie. This was one of three I can actually remember seeing on the big screen.

I loved it as a girl. My girls loved it, the rest of us thought it was pretty bad. Too bad, I’ve ruined a childhood favorite by watching it as a grownup. Oh well.

I’m not even going to rate it. Yes, it was that bad.

I couldn’t sleep the other night and luckily had this movie on hand to watch.  I know it’s based on a book and a lot of people say the book was better, but since I haven’t read it I can’t compare the two.

It’s set in the 70′s and centers around one family. Their little girl Susie Salmon was murdered and she’s stuck in the “in between” place.

She can see everything that’s happening from a sort of emotional wonderland. The actress that plays Susie is amazing. Her name is Saoirse Ronan.  I have no idea how to even say that. She’s not only the center of the movie, she’s the narrator taking you through the entire storyline. She has a great voice and fit into her 70′s girl look just fine. Many young actresses couldn’t pull off the bell bottoms.

I was surprised to see Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg as her parents. Besides pretty poor wigs, they did a good job showing the kind of emotion you’d expect from parents who have lost a child. The standout star is Susan Sarandon as the drunk grandma. An unexpected role in this story.

Stanley Tucci is amazing as always. This time he plays the murderer. He’s disgusting and I hated his character–very believable.

I don’t want to give too much away about this one. If you haven’t seen it, you’ll want to see the surprises. It made me fear for my children (especially because it was the middle of the night!) because these kinds of men are out there. A good lesson for me to remind the kids not to go anywhere with strangers. Even neighbors.

I give this one a B+. Good actors, some silly imagery that had me tuned out at times.  And LONG–more than 2 hours.  Rated PG-13 and not for kids. I would watch it with my older niece maybe, just to show her what’s out there.

Did you see this one? What did you think?

This past Friday night I was again doing my duty to really use my NetFlix account so I stayed up until all hours after work watching Duplicity, starring Julie Roberts and Clive Owens.

This movie is sexy and cool, but a bit hard to follow. You really have to pay attention to this one (husband fell asleep–geesh!).

Roberts and Owens play Claire and Ray and they just happen to be spies. Who love each other. Who dress in amazing clothing–all the time. Who don’t trust anyone or each other.  I don’t want to give away too much, but I give this one a B+ for style, good writing. A pretty blah ending though.

PG-13 and probably too complex f0r most tweens.

Have you seen this one? Do you have a suggestion for my Netflix Que?

This weekend I finally got a chance to watch Sunshine Cleaning. This is another indy movie–I tend to lean that way when I make my own movie choices.

It stars Amy Adams. I love her in Enchanted and Julie & Julia. She’s one of those actresses I can believe. By that I mean I don’t see Amy Adams on the screen–but the character. I love that.

In this movie Amy plays Rose, the former cheerleader who was dating the star football player in high school. At some point her life took a turn–she ended up a single mother of a sort of strange little boy, cleaning houses for a living.

Her son needs a better school and being the type of mother who will do anything for her kid—she comes up with an idea. She convinces her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) to go into the crime scene cleanup business with her! They call it “Sunshine Cleaning” because Rose believes she is really helping people at the lowest point in their lives. Somebody has to do it–right?

They are not ready to do this–at all. They had no cleaning suit, no masks even. They dump a mattress into a dumpster that’s soaked in blood! But they move ahead, as most Moms will, making it work and eventually getting good at it.

It’s ironic that I watched this movie on Mother’s Day weekend, as the Mom-theme runs deep. The entire story shows the depth of a mothers love as we learn about Rose and Norah’s mothers death. I won’t give too much away about that because you need to learn that late in the movie.

I give this movie an A. Good writing, solid acting. Not for kids in any way–grown up time only.

Did you see this one? Comment to share your review please.