Green Light for Red Dawn

It was a normal fall weekend in Spokane, Washington.  Then came the Saturday morning unlike any other.  First came the explosions, then the paratroopers.  Only at the last minute did most of the people of Spokane realize what was happening;  the United States was being invaded by North Korea.  The disturbance woke Jed Eckert, a Marine home from Iraq, and his younger brother Matt.  In an effort to follow their Dad’s orders to “go to the cabin,” they hop in Jed’s car, picking up stragglers along the way whilst dodging soldiers.  After a couple of days, their cabin is discovered and they must flee into the wilderness.  For Jed there is only one response: fight back.  Jed trains the ragtag group of young people into a team capable of war-trained resistance.  Meanwhile, Matt waits for the moment he can rescue his girlfriend, Erica.  But his desperation to do so may result in the complete ruin of this unusual group of teen heroes who have come to call themselves the Wolverines.

Enders Game: Game Over

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." - Orson Scott Card

Enders Game is a fantastic film in which you will realize the deep connection that an opponent has with his enemy and what it takes to defeat them. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is an incredibly brilliant, yet very young recruit in the Military's program for gifted children. The movie starts out with Ender as a young recruit who hasn't made it out of basic training and observation. You instantly understand his eagerness and need to do well and please not only his commanding officers, but his family. Ender is the youngest in his family and since his two older siblings have already been expelled from the program, both for completely different reasons, he feels pressure to do well and learn from their  mistakes. His big brother Peter Wiggin (Jimmy Pinchack) opted out due to his preference for violence and his older sister, Valentine, (Abigail Breslin) failed Battle School, the next step in training, due to her compassion.