Warning: This is gonna be a long one! Went to see the latest Marvel movie Black Panther. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? Like many Marvel movies, this movie is good. Somehow they continue to make good, but not great, … Continue reading
Checked out a recommended film on Amazon Prime streaming called Shot Caller. This is a gritty prison/crime drama about a white-collar accountant thrown into a maximum security prison after a DUI that killed and injured a couple of people. It’s … Continue reading
Checked out the new Peter Rabbit movie… and I’ve never seen a movie more embarrassed by its source material (except maybe the recent Lone Ranger movie which more hated its source material). I’m not very familiar with Beatrix Potter’s Peter … Continue reading
Also rented Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, a new DC cartoon film on iTunes/Apple TV. This is a Batman film set in the late 19th century where Batman battles Jack the Ripper (and wanders through Oliver Twist a bit). This … Continue reading
Went to see the final Fifty Shades film Fifty Shades Freed. The joke running around is that it’s 50 Shades Freed for star Dakota Johnson (and Jamie Dorman). Finally free of the contractual obligation of gratuitous (but not too gratuitous) … Continue reading
Checked out the new Clint Eastwood film The 15:17 to Paris, the true story of a handful of people who took down a terrorist aboard a passenger train. The main angle on the film is that they hired the real … Continue reading
The Florida Project is a low budget indie film from 2017 that I just caught up with on iTunes rental and it’s really worth seeing. The movie is most known for its very young, novice actors and Willem Dafoe who … Continue reading
Blink and you missed the new CGI animated movie Bilal: A New Breed of Hero. Correction, you didn’t even have to blink. Somehow this movie arrived at my local multiplex and I gave it a go. About all I knew … Continue reading
The Cloverfield Paradox is the Netflix surprise Super Bowl announcement overnight release which, honestly, is a better story than the movie itself. It was previously called Cloverfield: The God Particle and was going to be a theatrical release but I … Continue reading
Checked out the new Christian Bale starring Western called Hostiles. What a fun time at the movies. Such cheer. Wow. Hostiles tells the tales of a US cavalry officer out West in 1893… he’s an angry, bitter veteran of … Continue reading