Aloha is Cameron Crow’s new inexplicably muddled and terrible romantic comedy set in Hawaii. It’s a genuinely confusing and perplexing mess of a movie by a guy who can make actually good films as evidenced by Jerry Maguire and Almost … Continue reading
So San Andreas is a disaster film. It doesn’t try to be much else and, in it’s lack of ambition, is just a forgettable generic disaster film with laughably generic and cliched dialog (the kind where I was weirdly able … Continue reading
The 2015 remake of the classic spook house film Poltergeist opened this weekend and, like most fans of the origin, I asked why? But the trailers were decent and it’s not like i wasn’t gonna see it anyway… but should … Continue reading
Tomorrowland is Disney’s new movie that’s not so much based on the area of the Disney parks as it is based on the idea of a bright future that we once had but no longer do. Since the trailers have … Continue reading
So Pitch Perfect 2 is the sequel to Pitch Perfect in a way that sequels used to be sequels to earlier movies that were surprise hits. This sounds like doublespeak and nonsense, I know… but what I’m saying is that … Continue reading
So… rushed out to see Mad Max: Fury Road… a movie with 99% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes so had to see it before any more got spoiled. And the movie is exactly what it’s advertised as – an unadulterated … Continue reading
Checked out the weirdo mockumentary indie comedy What We Do in the Shadows… a movie in limited release and on digital streaming. It’s a fake documentary that follows four vampire roomates just trying to live their undead lives in New … Continue reading
Hot Pursuit is the new female buddy road trip movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara and boy is it a bad movie. Basic premise is that Witherspoon is a by-the-books cop who has to escort Vergara’s mob wife to … Continue reading
To my surprise, the new indie/horror/art house/Schwarzenegger flick Maggie showed up on Apple TV/iTunes streaming (it is also in limited theatrical release). Maggie is, indeed, a small indie movie with art house desires… a contemplative, slow-paced, methodical sad story about … Continue reading
Checked out (the movie!) Little Boy… which is a sentence one should probably not type too often. But, yeah, this is an under-the-radar indie drama at the theaters right now. It’s about a little boy (derp) whose family lives on … Continue reading