Holiday Weekend

What a treat.  No work for 4 days and we have just reached the halfway point of the weekend.  Today, it is all about the movies.  Damon has been really wanting to watch a few and so we took in several today.  Up first was R.I.P.D.  Veteran lawman Roy Pulsifer (Jeff Bridges) works for the R.I.P.D., a legendary police force charged with finding monstrous spirits who are disguised as ordinary people but are trying to avoid their final judgment by hiding out among the living. When Roy and his new partner, Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds), uncover a plot that could end all life, they must discover a way to restore the cosmic balance or else watch the tunnel to the afterlife start sending angry souls back to the world of the living.

In the 12 Trees of Christmas, Cheri Jamison rallies the residents of her beloved Manhattan neighborhood to participate in a Christmas tree contest when her cherished local library is abruptly set for demolition. Cheri finds herself up against an ambitious developer Tony Shaughnessy.  You know how it turned out since it is a Hallmark Movie!

Could not believe Damon had not seen Working Girl!  Classic 1988 story of when a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job.

Really wanted to like this movie and just could not get into Boxtrolls.  A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow

Yes, the movie leaked and Damon was one of the millions to snag a copy.  Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in.  Totally wanted to like it and was completely disappointed!

Again, amazed that Damon had not seen this classic Disney picture.  Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince.  A fun way to cap off a day of movies.