Caught an early preview showing of The Conjuring 2, the sequel to 2013’s surprise hit horror flick about Ed and Loraine Warren, real life ghost hunters most famous for investigating the Amityville spook house. The Conjuring was a better-than-average spook … Continue reading
Checked out the sequel to the 2014 remake of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise (“Out of the Shadows”). This is the live action reboot of the franchise with ugly, hulking version of the turtles. I didn’t care much for … Continue reading
Also checked out the romantic movie Me Before You, starring Amelia Clarke of Game of Thrones fame – she brings her natural brunette hair, her killer smile, and her eyebrow mastery to a role so far removed from Danaerys Targaryen, … Continue reading
Checked out Andy Samburg/The Lonely Island’s new movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. When I saw the trailer for this one, I figured it had equal chance to be hilarious or a total disaster. Happy to say I laughed more … Continue reading
Saw Alice Through the Looking Glass, the low-stakes, low-motivation sequel to the 2010 original that made a lot of money but no one seems to have liked (I thought it was ok). Through the Looking Glass has even less connective … Continue reading
X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest X-Men movie to star the younger cast from First Class and Days of Future Past. We get a return of James Macavoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and others… now joined by Sophie Turner … Continue reading
Went to see The Angry Birds movie tonight because I’m stupid and apparently have $10 to blow on an evening show of a terrible movie. But there was a chance it wasn’t going to be terrible – the reviews are … Continue reading
The Nice Guys is the new buddy cop/detective movie out this weekend starring Russel Crow and Ryan Gosling. The movie is about two semi-competent men (one a leg-breaker for hire, the other a PI) hired to… well… the mystery is … Continue reading
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is, surprise, about as good a comedy sequel as the original Neighbors (which was a good, but not great flick). In this film, the married couple played by Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne are selling their … Continue reading
The Big Short was the drama/comedy that was an angry, middle finger polemic at the banking/mortgage crisis… the film Money Monster is the melodrama of the same basic idea. And melodrama is not a compliment here. The premise is that … Continue reading