Went to see the new kid’s flick cartoon The Secret Life of Pets by Illumination Entertainment who also bestow the Minions upon the world (and, in fact, this movie has a Minions short which was amusing). Secret Life of Pets … Continue reading
Checked out Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, the semi-raunchy comedy starring Zac Ephron, Anna Kendrick, Aubry Plaza, and Adam Devine. The premise is that Mike and Dave are brothers who rile each other up at family gatherings and cause … Continue reading
Swiss Army Man is, at its simplest, a movie about a man stranded on a desert island who finds a flatulent corpse that he rides like a jetski… and talks to and uses to help him survive in weird ways. … Continue reading
The Purge: Election Year is the third movie in the ongoing “all crime is legal for 12 hours, let’s kill people” series of movies. Like Purge: Anarchy, this one is set in the streets of a major American City (Washington … Continue reading
The Legend of Tarzan is the latest film version of the classic story, now starring Alexander Skarsgard (Eric from True Blood) and his chiseled abs as Tarzan and Margot Robbie as Jane. And Samuel L. Jackson as a time traveler … Continue reading
Watched Steven Spielberg’s (Senior Spierlbergo) latest children’s fantasy The BFG, based on the novel by Roald Dahl (Charlies and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, etc.). The BFG is about a Big Friendly Giant (insert obligatory Doom … Continue reading