And, finally, watched the new Kevin Costner / Octavia Spencer family drama Black or White… a movie about a custody case over Costner’s granddaughter (who is black). It’s a complicated set up for a short blurb here but basically Costner’s … Continue reading
Went to see the teen time travel flick Project Almanac – a movie that’s been delayed for over a year and went through at least two name changes in the process. Very bad signs for not a bad movie. A … Continue reading
Rented the somewhat pointless low budget found footage indie sci-fi action flick Alien Outpost… it’s supposedly in theaters and definitely in VoD right now. Premise is 10 years after an alien invasion on earth, there are remnant alien forces on … Continue reading
Caught the somewhat trashy Jennifer Lopez suspense flick The Boy Next Door. The plot? Let’s just be clever and say the boy next door has a Crush on J. Lo’s high school teacher. He’s the most 25 year old looking … Continue reading
Inexplicably, incomprehensibly, and almost impossibly, I went to see the new CG family film Strange Magic and I came away charmed. Based on reviews, I may be the only person who walked out of the movie with a smile. I … Continue reading
Checked out Mortdecai… Johnny Depp’s latest attempt to be a weirdo on screen. This time he’s a puffy British rich guy with a fancy mustache and that’s flippin’ HI-larious… or you better think his mustache is hilarious because they crack … Continue reading
The Microsoft-produced documentary Atari: Game Over provides a brief history of Atari, the video game crash of the early 80s, and the “worst video game of all time” that supposedly caused that crash: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial on 2600. But … Continue reading
Checked out this study of race relations between four or five different characters on a college campus. It’s interesting, passingly funny and is trying to make intelligent points. I kind of came away from it feeling a little cold though … Continue reading
Rented the 2014 indie romantic comedy Laggies starring the adorable Keira Knightly, the adorable Sam Rockwell, the adorable Chloe Grace Moretz, and an adorable anorexic tortoise. Knightly is having a quarter life crisis after her fiance proposes to her, her … Continue reading
Went to see the new comedy The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hart and Josh Gad (Olaf’s voice from Frozen). It’s premise is that Gad is getting married to Kalie Cuoco-Sweeting but doesn’t have a best man much less any friends … Continue reading