Instructions Not Included

          I happened to find this movie while just looking through different groups on Netflix, and I'm really glad I found it. The movie jumps back and forth between the Spanish and English languages, but don't let some reading scare you off from a great movie. Instructions Not Included in the most basic sense is about a single dad and the things he does and goes through for his daughter. It's a very funny and sweet movie that has a very bittersweet ending to it.

          You can find the trailer here.

Instructions Not Included Poster. IMDb. Web. 21 Nov. 2014.

          Summary:
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          Valentin lives the bachelor life in Acapulco avoiding commitment like a plague. Then one day, an old fling, Julie, shows up at his door and hands him a baby girl, his daughter. When Julie goes to pay the taxi, she never comes back and leaves Valentin with his daughter Maggie. Desperate to avoid the ever terrifying commitment, Valentin heads to Los Angeles to return Maggie to her mother. When he is unable to find Julie and is afraid of crossing the border with Maggie again because she might get taken away, he finds a job as a stuntman and begins to provide the best life he can for his daughter.

          Around age seven, Maggie's mother wants to meet her daughter, and being the man that he is, Valentin doesn't do anything to try and stop her. Julie lives in New York and after they meet she starts a custody battle with Valentin; the reason being she is not okay with only seeing Maggie a few times a year.

          The movie doesn't end there, but I don't want to spoil every last piece of it. Instructions Not Included is really a great film, full of comedy and a lot of happy, heart warming moments. Though, as I said, the ending is bittersweet, but it makes the movie worth it.

Snowpiercer

          In Snowpiercer, the world has been frozen over and the last strands of humanity cling to life and sanity aboard a train. The train is no ordinary train though; it was designed to run forever, circling the globe each year, over and over. The trailer for Snowpiercer can be found here.

Snowpiercer Poster. Collider. Web. 21 Nov. 2014.

          Summary:
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          Seventeen years ago there was an experiment to control global climate change, but this experiment backfired and now the Earth is frozen over. Life on the planet has been extinguished except for less than a handful of survivors that boarded the Snowpiercer. For some, Snowpiercer is salvation, a blessing, but for others, it's far worse than what could have been imagined. Those confined to the tail of the train that have been forced to live in cramped spaces with no possessions, no actual food, no nothing, have had enough and their unrest is about to boil over. With Curtis as their leader, those that inhabit the tail of the train are about to fight their way to the front and to change.

          Snowpiercer is really an excellent movie. It has about as many twists in its story as the train does in it's track. It's fair to say it can be sort of brutal at times, but it avoids the gory side pretty much; obviously it's going to be pretty brutal fighting your way to the front in a cramped train. If you can make it past that, or if that doesn't bother you, Snowpiercer is definitely worth the watch.