Oct
31
Ender’s Game
Was gonna go this weekend… but I had to go to the early Thursday 8pm showing of Ender’s Game. Had to. Ender’s Game, the book, is perhaps my favorite novel – read it the first time at 16 or so, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Oct
27
Bad Grandpa
Bad Grandpa… what you get out of this Jackass movie will depend on your ability to go with it and laugh at juvenile humor. I didn’t particularly like it… not because it wasn’t funny… but because its desire to (for … Continue reading
Oct
26
Counselor, The
Saw the perplexing new movie The Counselor… the new Ridley Scott crime flick written by Cormack McCarthey and starring Michael Fassbender, Javiar Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Camerson Diaz, and Brad Pitt (with Rosie Perez, Dean Norris, Ruben Blades, Natalie Dormer, John … Continue reading
Oct
20
Fifth Estate, The
Saw The Fifth Estate… the Julian Assange / Wikileaks movie about the rise of the website and how they revealed all those military /state department secrets. It’s a movie that really wants to be as dynamic and smart as The … Continue reading
Oct
19
Escape Plan
Saw Escape Plan – the new Stallone/Schwartzenegger (and 50 Cent as a mastermind hacker!) flick that’s all about escaping from the perfect, inescapable prison. As such, you kind of expect that the prison to be rock-solid and smartly built and … Continue reading
Oct
19
Carrie (2013)
Carrie remake is out and is basically a remake of the 1970s film and not a retelling of the book (despite the claims)… and this begs the question of whether the original film needs to be remade. I say sure, … Continue reading
Oct
13
Enough Said
Caught two romantic movies this Sunday… first was Julia Louis Dreyfuss / James Gandolfini’s new mature romantic comedy (with a generic title) Enough Said. A smart, intelligent, and adult (as in, for adults, not “adult”) comedy with a slightly sitcommy … Continue reading
Oct
13
Romeo and Juliet (2013)
The OTHER romantic flick I saw this Sunday was this utterly predictable romantic teen drama… I SO knew where this was going from minute one and I was NOT disappointed. It was called, get this, “Romeo and Juliet”… yeah, another … Continue reading
Oct
12
Zero Charisma
Saw a new digital indie film (via iTunes streaming) called Zero Charisma. A low-budget affair about tabletop RPG gamers. And a funny thing happened along the way to it being a generic, stereotype of nerd culture… it turned out to … Continue reading
Oct
12
Dario Argento’s Dracula
Dario Argento, famed (I suppose) Italian horror director went and made a new Dracula movie… it more-or-less kinda-sorta follows the plot of the book and stars no one in particular except a very bored Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing and … Continue reading