Checked out The Walk, the true story about a crazy French high-wire walker (played by Joseph Gordon Levitt) who, in 1974, strings a wire between the towers of the World Trade Center and walks it. Illegally. This is a good … Continue reading
To all the 80s action movie fans out there, I rented a movie (via iTunes) called Electric Boogaloo… no, not Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo but a documentary about Cannon Pictures/Golun Globus which, among many other movies, made Breakin’ 2. Basically … Continue reading
Caught a Thursday showing of the new Matt Damon movie The Martian, about an astronaut marooned on Mars with only his mastery of potato farming and science to save him. This is a very good movie based on an even … Continue reading
Went to see Everest, the true story of a mountain climbing expedition that didn’t go so well. Set in the 1990s, this film has a pretty impressive cast with members often serving small roles or not the big hero roles … Continue reading
Caught The Intern – the new Anne Hathaway / Robert DeNiro film about a retired man who accepts a senior internship at an Internet startup run by an overwhelmed boss. Hathaway plays the boss, DeNiro is the intern – gentle … Continue reading
Caught the new film about Steve Jobs – which’d be about the third one with yet another on the way. This one is Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and it’s a documentary. Kind of schizophrenic documentary that’s half … Continue reading
The Green Inferno is a much-delayed Eli Roth horror film in the cannibal tribe sub-genre. It’s about a bunch of annoying college students who travel to Chile to save an indigenous tribe from a logging company, wound up captured by … Continue reading
Checked out the limited release/digital rental horror comedy Cooties. In this flick, contaminated chicken nuggets cause 4th graders to go crazy, scratching their school chums, and they all turn on the teachers and eat them. Yes, elementary school zombies. It … Continue reading
The Scorch Trials is the sequel to last year’s The Maze Runner. Maze Runner was an okish movie buoyed slightly by an interesting, mysterious premise and an inventive creature design and environment. The Scorch Trials isn’t that movie. Instead, its … Continue reading
The Perfect Guy is yet another stalker / domestic suspense movie (think Fatal Attraction, The Crush, The Boy Next Door, etc.) – this time a woman breaks up with her commitment-phobic boyfriend of two years, meets a great (maybe even … Continue reading