THE REVIEW CORNER

Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, and Chiwetel Ejiofor Directed by: Ridley Scott Screenplay by: Drew Goddard Based on the novel by Andy Weir       From Saving Private Ryan, to Interstellar,  and now The Martian, the world has spent millions of dollars trying to bring back Matt Damon.       There's been a massive dust storm on Mars at the site of the Ares 3 mission.  The astronauts commanded by Captain Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain) are forced to abort the mission and return to Earth.  On the way back to the shuttle to leave the Martian surface, Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is hit by debris.  Believed to be killed by the debris, the crew leaves without him.  With no way to contact NASA, it's up to Watney to figure out how he will survive until the next mission arrives on Mars in four years.  Well, maybe NASA will figure out a way to rescue him once...

Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Sangster, Aidan Gillen, and Giancarlo Esposito Directed by: Wes Ball Screenplay by: T.S. Nowlin Based on the novel by James Dashner      Their first test was the maze.  Then they got out of the maze and managed to be captured by WCKD, the mysterious organization everything seems to be linked to.       Scorch Trials  picks up right were the first movie in the series left off.  The boys and Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) are no longer in the maze but instead are in a large base of some sort that is run by a man named Janson (Aidan Gillen, whom you may recognize as Petyr Baelish from the HBO series,  Game of Thrones ).  Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), the main guy in the group and "leader" thinks that something fishy is going on there.  All these people from other mazes keep showing up and some get taken, not to return again.  He gets his friends to break out of the pla...

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, and Laura Dern Directed by: Ramin Bahrani Screenplay by: Ramin Bahrani and Amir Naderi      I thought real estate was about putting people into homes, not evicting people from their homes.  But I guess that's the ugly side of real estate.  So, here is the ugly side of the business presented by 99 Homes .      Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is a construction worker who struggles to find work in the wake of the recent financial and housing crises.  He lives with his mother, Lynn (Laura Dern), and his son, Connor (Noah Lomax).  Lynn works as a hairstylist out of their house.  Their combined income is all they have to live on and send Connor to school on, which isn't much.  Unfortunately, they are in danger of being evicted from their house.      Eviction day comes earlier than they were expected, and it's at the hands of Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), a wealthy rea...