Pompeii, X-Men and Mad Max - Some of the movies in The Round Up from West Coast Midnight Run

Pacific Rim is the Transformers on steroids with colossal robots built by an international alliance to stop giant lizard aliens from wiping out Humanity. Pacific Rim has spectacular visual effects that add punch to this Godzilla type adventure starring Charlie Hunnam and Diego Klattenhoff in a Warner Brothers film directed by Guillermo del Toro, cinematography is by Guillermo Na

Logan Lerman is back in this 20th Century Fox adventure as Percy, the son of Poseidon and his friends the demigods, this time after the Golden Fleece to save their camp, Half Blood. It may not be as good as Harry Potter but this adventure seems just a little better than the series opener of 2010, a strictly PG fantasy and sci-fi fun for teens and pre-teens.

Most of the cast of the original X-Men series are back including Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, while Cyclop and Jean are gone. Surprisingly Professor Xavier is also back as well as Magneto along with Storm, Beast, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Iceman and Rogue. Based on an extremely popular issue of Marvel comics the story is about the future rise of robots to destroy all mutants on a different Earth in an alternate universe. This storyline is made for two new movies of X-Men.

A big budget TriStar Pictures fantasy action epic re-telling of the last days of the city of Pompeii at the base of Mountain Vesuvius before its eruption in 79 A.D, with Kit Harington as a Celt slave gladiator on a ship headed to Naples working on getting home to save the woman he loves (Emily Browning) and his best friend, a gladiator inside the city’s colosseum.

A great little film about a May December romance, love and lust between really close friends in an idyllic rural setting in New South Wales, Australia. The film stars Naomi Watts and Robin Wright with newcomers James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel. Beautiful cinematography and average to solid acting makes this film as interesting as the controversial sexual politics and moral issues depicted in its setting.

The film series that put star Mel Gibson on the international map of celebredom returns after a very long hiatus. Tom Hardy (Bane in Dark Knight)