Went to see Home, the new Dreamworks animated film. I went in thinking it was going to be terrible… so maybe those low expectations resulted in me being really enamored by the movie. It’s very charming, surprisingly sweet, and had … Continue reading
It Follows is a new indie horror flick (out at the theaters) with a theme you’ve heard before: have sex, get stalked and killed by something that.. well.. follows… Basically, if a person is being followed, he or she can … Continue reading
Get Hard is the new Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy about prison rape! Rather, Will Ferrell plays a wealthy stock market guy who is being sent to prison (San Quentin!) for 10 years so he hires the first black guy he … Continue reading
I don’t have any childhood or adult nostalgia or feelings for SpongeBob Squarepants so my feelings for the new Sponge out of Water movie is surface level. This doesn’t mean I’m unfamiliar with the cartoon (of which I’ve seen a … Continue reading
Insurgent is the second movie in the progressively inferior Divergent series of movies/books. And if that sentence suggests that I’m not going to give Insurgent this huge raving review, you would be right. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off … Continue reading
Netflix has a new “movie” called Parallels… a sci-fi flick about a building that sends its occupants (four attractive 20 somethings) to alternate earths/realities. Is a high concept with limited scope as far as this movie goes… they jump (or, … Continue reading
The new film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is certainly a curios thing. It’s an American/Iranian black and white vampire romance (in Farsi subtitled in English) set in a dying industrial city in maybe-Iran? Maybe not? The city … Continue reading
Of late, the new live-action Cinderella is kind of a fascinating approach to a classic fairy tale remake. Consider Maleficent, Snow White and the Hunstman, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Time, and others… most of these recent fairy tale … Continue reading
Run All Night is the latest low ambition Liam Neeson action flick – second one in 2015 (after Taken 3). Neeson this times plays a broken-down old drunk ex-hitman for Ed Harris’ icey-but-gone-legit old mobster. Neeson is trying to protect … Continue reading
Caught the new direct-to-streaming (via iTunes) Australian disaster end-of-the-world drama These Final Hours… kind of like what you’d get if you crossed On the Beach with a rave full of naked women. It’s about an asteroid strike that occurs on the … Continue reading