Pacific Rim – giant robots punch giant monsters in the FACE… if that sounds stupid to you, don’t see this movie. If that sounds awesome, see this movie. If this sounds secretly awesome but you won’t admit it, sneak out … Continue reading
I caught the direct-to-streaming/limited theatrical release sci-fi found footage movie The Europa Project… a movie about a disastrous manned mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons that has promise of liquid oceans under the ice mantle. It was marketed as … Continue reading
Midnight showing of the new Superman flick Man of Steel. I can quibble that the opening hour or so doesn’t have the heart I think it wants to have and comic purists might hate the changes to the mythos, but … Continue reading
Saw the horror flick The Purge and see it if you want some heavy-handed messages inexpertly tacked onto an interesting-but-poorly-executed premise full of dull and dreary … scares? I guess. Premise is that in 2022, the economy is booming, unemployment … Continue reading
After Earth (the new Will & Jaden Smith sci-fi flick) is a aggressive assault of stupidity that insults the patience, the mind, all writers, all film makers, and should be ashamed of itself and it should go to its room … Continue reading
Saw Star Trek: Into Darkness…. your average movie movie goer and the more casual (or more forgiving) Trek fans should enjoy this flick for the popcorn-eating, gee-whiz spectacle it’s trying to be. It looks great, it’s funny, well acted, and … Continue reading
Also saw (via iTunes streaming) the confounding experimental sci-fi/drama/romance/weirdness film Upstream Color (by the guy guy who made the confounding semi-experimental time travel movie Primer). This is a weird, surreal post-narrative movie that has people in it, they do things, … Continue reading
Saw Iron Man 3 today and it’s pretty great. Surprising how little the trailers have spoiled – there’s huge portions of the plot that have yet to be spoiled and some real surprises to boot. Also, much more of a … Continue reading
Went to see the new Tom Cruise sci-fi flick Oblivion and found it to be a reasonably smart, very good looking movie with a fine plot and some nice twists… and plot/logic holes it largely managed to fill in on … Continue reading
Went to see The Host… the new romantic invasion of the body snatchers-type movie… a movie about aliens who take over a human bodies and the one alien who has to contend with the stubborn personality of her host that … Continue reading