Cheap Thrills. (2014)
Follows a down on his luck car mechanic aspiring writer, whom after getting fired from his crap job heads to a bar, meets up with a old high school friend and into the abyss of two wealthy strangers looking for a good time.
The 5 Year Engagement (2012)
This story starts as a run of the mill romantic comedy, the on the verge of successful chef meets the on the verge of successful college student. Her career wins out and they move to Michigan. He cannot find work suitable to his talents or the pay is far too low. I fully expected this movie to be like every other movie (and is some ways it was) but it ends up hitting the heart because it deals with expectation on a very real level. The male character is dealing with some serious loneliness issues and cannot reconcile who is was (and loved) VS who he has become (which he loathes). To me this was a real and genuine issue for me.
American Ultra (2015)
I really don't like Jesse Eisenberg as an actor, he's not terribly interesting to watch, he's whiny, skid-dish, but the concept behind this movie intrigued me to watch it. The term Ultra is taken from a real life CIA program code named MK-ULTRA and it involved dosing unsuspecting persons with LSD and observing their behavior and/or attempting to manipulate them, the other arm was using this drug to brain wash and control people to carry out assassinations with the mention of a collection of code words. The subjects would carry on a normal life unwittingly holding this special training in their mind until they were "activated" by this code. So Jesse is one of these people, and he's been marked for termination so his handler (who disagrees with the termination order) activates him. That's it.. The rest is just explosions. but the true to life history was enough to get me to finish the movie.
The Impossible (2013)
