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If you like Marvel comics, superheroes, The Avengers , Thor , Iron Man and watched Captain America: The First Avenger , then you probably have already watched this movie. But if you haven't yet, and you are only watching it because you think Chris Evans is hot - well you'll like it too. In Winter Soldier , Steve Rogers/Captain America, finds himself looking into the eyes of his past, literally. He is also questioning whether he should still be a soldier, and then the fate of the world is in his hands, again. S.H.I.E.L.D. is compromised and Captain America teams up with Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) to stop Hydra - an organization that is basically a new Nazi Germany (they create a weapon that uses a computer and DNA to target and kill people everywhere in the world). Key members of S.H.I.E.L.D. are part of Hydra and it gets a little confusing as to whose good and whose bad. But in this movie, all the good people are targeted to be killed off one by one...

Divergent , based on the first book in the trilogy by Veronica Roth . Main characters are Tris ( Shailene Woodley ) and Four ( Theo James ).  It's set in a future Chicago, where the people are grouped into five different factions: 1. Candor - the honest 2. Abnegation - the selfless 3. Dauntless - the brave 4. Amity - the peaceful 5. Erudite - the intelligent. Each year, all sixteen year olds must take a test that will decide their fate. Will they stay in the faction they were born and raised into, or will they choose another, forever leaving their family and friends behind to make a new life for themselves. Tris was born Beatrice into Abnegation. She changed her name to Tris when she chose Dauntless. When starting in a new faction, everyone gets their slate wiped clean and has to prove themselves. But there is something different about Tris, something she learns to hide from everyone, even those she trusts. One of those people, is Four. Woodley and James have a great chemist...

Over the course of the last couple of weeks I have watched three movies in the theaters ... I am just slacking on the reviews of them. I've seen Divergent , Captain America: The Winter Soldier , and last night I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel. I am sorry that I have been lagging behind, but I will post all reviews over the course of the weekend. Scout's honor!

I just purchased the debut album  Louder by Lea Michele , singer/actress, on iTunes. I've been listening to it nonstop ever since. She has an absolutely amazing and powerful voice. I knew that from her work on Glee as Rachel Berry, but listening to her cd seals the deal that her voice contends with the best - Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera and Adele. Each song that she recorded for her album fits her perfectly. It's about love and loss and she said it's very personal, that "every song I sing I'm letting people into my life."  Two of the songs ( Cannonball and If You Say So ) are about Cory Monteith , her fiancé who unexpectedly passed away of an overdose last summer. She said in an Ellen Degeneres interview that Cory had listened to all but two of the songs on her album before he passed and those were the songs. She wrote If You Say So about Cory after his death and Cannonball was already written by Sia Furler and she...