Went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron and I’ll declare that the movie is good. It’s good, but not great. It’s a little long and seems to have more flab than it should… though to the credit, some of this … Continue reading
Checked out the new romance / magical realism flick The Age of Adeline (which released one week before it’s sequel Age of Ultron!) Adeline is about a young lady (played by the lovely Blake Lively) who, in the 1920s, gets … Continue reading
The movie Ex Machina opened a little wider this week so I got to check it out in the theaters. This is a sci-fi film about a programmer brought into a house/lab to perform in a modified Turing Test on … Continue reading
Unfriended is a new horror flick shot completely from the perspective of a single computer screen during an 82 minute Skype video chat (with the additional appearance of YouTube, Facebook, ChatRoulette, Spotify, and other software and services). It’s the one … Continue reading
Also checked out (mostly blind) the new Ben Stiller dramady While We’re Young. Stiller and Naomi Watts are a married, childless Gen X couple who meet and start hanging out with a millennials played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. … Continue reading
Went blind into the movie Child 44 which stars Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Noomi Rapace. It’s set in 1950s Soviet Union with Hardy as a member of the Soviet goon squad (secret police) who is investigating a child murderer … Continue reading
So Furious 7 is a big, dumb movie and it knows it. So no harm, no foul there. The 7th Fast and Furious movie follows after part 6 and part 3 due to the scrambled time-line of a series about … Continue reading
John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood by Michael D. Sellers is, for the majority of its length, a very compelling true Hollywood story of what went wrong on the marketing side of the movie John Carter. Some of this … Continue reading
I re-upped on the old HBO in prep for Game of Thrones next week and one of the first things I watched was a new doc from them called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It’s, no surprise … Continue reading
Seeking Sorrow by Zen Dipietro is a first novel and, while it has some creaky bits, I think they are more than overwhelmed by wit, invention, and characters I grew to like. I was genuinely wrapped up in the story … Continue reading