Also saw Patriots Day, the new – and third in a row – film by director Peter Berg and actor Mark Whalberg. This follows their collaboration on Lone Survive and Deepwater Horizon and is also a real-life docudrama, this one … Continue reading
M. Night Shyamalan is back in a really impressive way with his new movie Split. Checked out an early Thursday showing and I’m so happy to see his little indie found footage movie The Visit from last year was not … Continue reading
Checked out the direct-to-streaming/video movie The Book of Love starring Jason Sudeikis, Maisie Williams, and Jessica Biel. This is the story of a man who loses his wife and unborn child in a traffic accident who seeks out a local … Continue reading
Also saw one of those quintessential January releases, the Bye Bye Man. Yes, it’s a horror movie called The Bye Bye Man. Why is it called The Bye Bye Man? Because the spooky creature in it is called The Bye … Continue reading
Hidden Figures is the new pic about the real-world human calculators who helped create the math equations needed to send men into orbit and return them safely. In that the calculators in question were women in 1961 is one thing, … Continue reading
So a film version of the toy line Max Steel (which I’d never heard of) came out earlier this year and pretty much nobody noticed (I did but it was only at the theaters for a week and I never … Continue reading
A Monster Calls is a new movie about a boy going through problems who imagines up a monster voiced by Liam Neeson. The monster helps him with his problems – which, based on the trailer, seem to bullies. But, hey, … Continue reading
Underworld: Blood Wars is, some how, the fifth film in a largely, “meh, whatever” series of action/horror/leather vampire vs. werewolf movies starring (usually) Kate Beckinsale and a weirdly good cast of British actors. This new film follows a fourth film … Continue reading
Viva Amiga is a new documentary (available on iTunes) about the Commodore Amiga computer from 1985 (and on). It’s a relatively short documentary and doesn’t go into nearly enough detail and then spends the final fifteen minutes or so talking … Continue reading
Watched the 2016 documentary Tower which is now available streaming. This one is about the University of Texas sniper who terrorized the campus in 1966. Charles Whitman took over the tower on campus and indiscriminately shot and killed/wounded around 50 … Continue reading