War for the Planet of the Apes is misnamed third movie in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. It’s an uneven movie that starts great and then takes a turn and winds up a pretty good flick in the … Continue reading
So I checked out Wish Upon today, a horror movie that has wisely decided to open against War for the Planet of the Apes. Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: this girl finds a magic box that promises … Continue reading
And finally went to see the new Will Ferrell / Amy Poehler comedy The House. When Ferrel and Poehler’s daughter gets into college and they lose the scholarship they were relying on, they decide to open a casino (with the … Continue reading
Also watched (via streaming) the new sci-fi romance film 2:22. This isn’t an entirely bad film but it is wasted on not knowing what kind of movie it wants to be and flounders trying to find a purpose. The … Continue reading
Checked out (via streaming) the new movie The Bad Batch. This is the director’s follow-up to her critically loved skateboarding Muslim teen vampire movie from a few years A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. That was a curious and … Continue reading
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the latest reboot of the Spider-Man character and also the follow-up to his cameo in Captain America: Civil War. Tom Holland, the new Peter Parker / Spidey, made a great first impression in Civil War and he … Continue reading
So I checked out the profoundly weird and possibly outright misguided movie The Book of Henry over the weekend. This flick is about a mom who can’t deal with the complexities of life so she relies on her 11 … Continue reading
Baby Driver is a cool new heist movie starring cool actors playing cool characters. The movie is going for cool and knows its cool and that could have gone wrong but instead goes mostly right. It’s all style and plenty … Continue reading
So I could copy and paste my review of every other Transformers movie for my review of Transformers: The Last Knight… but I won’t. I will say many of the same things but I’d also add this is slightly more … Continue reading
So I unenthusiastically dragged myself to see Cars 3. I thought the first movie was… ok, I guess. Cars 2 was pretty bad and the Non-Pixar Planes spinoffs were about the same. So I’m rather shocked to say that, despite … Continue reading