Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a really darn good film… and it’s so awesome to be able to say that. 33 years waiting for another GOOD Star Wars movie… a movie where every second of it is better than … Continue reading
Also caught Trumbo, the new biopic about Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood writers brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s and then black-listed. He wrote such films as Johnny Got His Gun, Roman Holiday, and Spartacus… … Continue reading
Went to see Spike Lee’s new movie Chi-Raq, a movie that kind of proves Spike Lee will make whatever in hell he wants. The film is a retelling of an ancient Greek play by Aristophanes while it’s also a serious … Continue reading
Checked out an early showing of In the Heart of the Sea, Ron Howard’s new whalin’ movie. Based on the real life story (more-or-less, I suspect) that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and 150 years of tormenting high school students … Continue reading
Krampus is a new Christmas horror comedy that released this weekend with limited advertising… but it looked like it had potential. It is based on the Germanic folk tale of Krampus, an evil spirit known as Santa’s shadow. If you … Continue reading