Scream

Scream (1996)
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette
Directed by: Wes Craven
SC=6 V=10 C=7
Grade: A++

I loved this movie! I normally don't like scary movies, especially horror movies. But I really liked this one. Sidney Prescott (Campbell) is a normal teenage girl, with a boyfriend, Billy (Skeet Ulrich), a best friend, Tatum (Rose McGowan), and a father. What isn't normal is that her mother was murdered the year before. A year after her mother's murder, a new murderer, wearing a ghostface mask, starts killing citizens of Woodsboro, including Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore). Soon, he targets Sidney, almost killing her inside her own house. Soon afterward, Billy Loomis is the lead suspect. Even Sidney doesn't trust him. After he is proved innocent, the attacks and calls increase. As all of Sidney's friends start dying, she starts to suspect that the current murders and her mother's are connected. With the help of nosy reporter Gale Weathers (Cox) and Deputy Dewey (Arquette), Sidney is able to stop the murders and save herself. In a mixture of comedy, "whodunit" mystery, and slasher-film gore, the Scream movies are hilarious, scary, and just plain awesome.

In Time

In Time (2011)
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, and Cillian Murphy
Directed, Written, and Produced by: Andrew Niccol
SC=5 V=7 C=5
Grade: A

I have been wanting to see this movie for a while and I'm so glad I did. I loved it! This movie stars Justin Timberlake as Will Salas, a man living in the future where everyone stops aging at 25. So, time is currency, with the poor having only enough hours in a day and the rich living forever. After saving a mysterious, wealthy stranger (Matthew Bomer), the man gives Will all of his time, 116 years. Tired of living, the man "times out", leaving Will with more money than he knows what to do with. After his mother (Olivia Wilde) dies without time, Will starts gambling at an expensive casino, where he meets Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser), a man with more than a million years. He also meets Sylvia Weis (Seyfried), his daughter. At a party, head timekeeper Raymond Leon (Murphy) catches up with him, forcing him to take Sylvia hostage. Also on their tail are time thieves called Minutemen, led by a man named Fortis (Alex Pettyfer). As Will and Sylvia avoid everyone after them, they also start to realize that no one should die when other people never have to.