I've always been a big movie fan. My Junior High and High School years were spent going to the movies. Reading that back it sounds a little depressing but I loved it. I remember collecting movie ticket stubs just so I could remember what movies I had seen. 2015 has been a good year for movies but the latter half of the year are when my most anticipated movies are coming out. 

I very rarely just post a video on the blog. My goal for WorldOfJoel has been to write about stuff I love. Very rarely do YouTube videos have any real impact on my life so I don't post them. However today is different. I was driving to work this past week listening to one of my favorite podcasts, /Filmcast. They were doing a review of the movie The End of the Tour which is about an interview conducted with famed author David Foster Wallace. 

We cut the cord around a year ago. This means is that we watch a lot less network TV (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX) then we used to and watch more of what's on stuff like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. One of the things we miss the most about having cable is watching shows like The Amazing Race and Top Chef. Well luckily we were able to get The Amazing Race Season 26 (the latest season). We started from the first episode and everyday during dinner would work our way through the season.

I think Jenn and I were over optimistic going in to see Minions. After the great Pixar movie Inside Out I think we were giving the kids movie genre a little more credit then we should. Lets face it, the people at Pixar are brilliant. Sadly Minions was anything but great. Lets backtrack just a bit. Minions were the sidekicks in the Despicable Me movies. The comedy arm of those movies. Taking those characters into their own feature film seems risky but all of the trailers leading up to this movie made it feel like it might be great.

Going into this review you should know two things about my opinions on Tom Cruise movies. First, I love The Last Samurai. Second I'm not a big fan of the Mission: Impossible movies. I might be one of the few that feels that way and it might tell you to exit out of this review right now. But if there's one thing I pride myself with on this blog its speaking my version of the truth. So there you have it. And yet Jenn somehow convinced me to go see the latest Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

For my birthday a couple weeks back Jenn treated me to quite the day. I wrote about that already. So without re-treading old material I will just say check out that post to see the full day recap. However the last stop on my birthday outing was to go see Marvel's latest movie Ant-Man. In all honesty Ant-Man was not on my radar. It didn't even make my most anticipated movies of the summer. But after hearing good things and reading its above average reviews I thought it might be another surprise like Guardians of the Galaxy.