Saw the new small theatrical release but really available streaming satire of romantic comedies They Came Together (tag line: he came, she came, they both came which is clearly not innuendo) starring Amy Poehler (who is the best) and Paul … Continue reading
Transformers: Age of Extinction is a terrible, terrible movie…. and a terrible Transformers movie too. 2hrs 45 minutes of incomprehensible action… which is somehow even flabbier than the previous movies (seriously, no sense of space, explosions and chaos that seems … Continue reading
Caught the low budget horror/SF head-trip The Signal, starring a few people and Lawrence Fishburn. It’s kind of about a trio of young adults who get caught up in some kind of government lab experiment after stumbling upon “the signal” out … Continue reading
I caught the new indie film The Rover, a kinda of Mad-Max / Road Warrior as art house film starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson (from Twilight). It’s a kind of boring movie with shockingly casual almost disinterested violence… which … Continue reading
22 Jump Street, the obvious sequel to 21 Jump Street, stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum going undercover (again) to crack a drug ring in school (college, this time). The main hook of this comedy is that it knows it’s … Continue reading
How to Train Your Dragon 2, I’m surprised to say, is a flick I rather enjoyed more than the previous movie in this series. It’s slightly more advanced plot-wise and had a number of legit emotional punches, both sweet and … Continue reading
So the new Tom Cruise sci-fi action movie Edge of Tomorrow is based on a Japanese novel with the much better title “All You Need is Kill”. It’s also a sci-fi version of Groundhog Day, it’s a live action video … Continue reading
The Fault in Our Stars is a pretty great book turned into a pretty great (but not as great) movie. For those who have read the book, this is one of the most accurate conversions from book to movie… which … Continue reading