I Still Believe in Heroes

Image via IMDB It's October, which means that Halloween is right around the corner. I love this time of the year and horror movies are some of my favorite movies to watch so I thought I would come up with a list of essential movies to watch this month. These movies have all been around for a quite a while and you might have already seen them all or at least most of them. However, if there is even one movie on here that you have not yet seen, then I hope I can encourage you to go out and give it a try. Please note, this list is not in any specific order. 1. Halloween  (1978) I think I would be remiss if I didn't kick this list off with John Carpenter's original Halloween  movie. This is a movie that was shot in only 20 days with an extremely low budget of $300,000, but it was so incredibly effective in terms of causing fear in its viewers. This is one of the great horror movies and has undoubtedly stood the test of time. This movie, actually the entire franchise (e...

Image via Broadsheet Let's just get this out of the way: The Martian  is one of the best movies I've seen all year. The movie, which is directed by Ridley Scott, stars Matt Damon as astronaut and botanist Mark Watney who is left behind on Mars by his crew after being assumed to be dead when debris hit and left him unconscious during a storm. Left with very limited supplies, Mark has to figure out how to communicate with NASA back on Earth while at the same time figuring out how to grow food on Mars. The supporting cast includes names such as Jessica Chastain, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, and Aksel Hennie as the members of Watney's crew. Back on Earth, we see people like Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, and Kristen Wiig. **WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD** So, what is it that makes The Martian  so good? Well, for starters, it looks and feels very real. The visual effects on Mars are simply spectacular to the point where you feel as if they shot th...