Straight Outta Compton is the music biopic of N.W.A, set in the late 80s and early 90s. It shows how Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Easy E came off the streets and brought them along as they introduced gangsta rap … Continue reading
Checked out the new Meryl Streep comedy/drama Ricki and the Flash this weekend and it’s alright. Streep plays an aging rocker in a second rate cover band who rushes home to help her daughter when she is dumped by her … Continue reading
Final Girl is an odd horror/suspense film that has the DNA of similar films in it but doesn’t seem to know how to be that film. Basic premise is that a girl is recruited and trained all her life to … Continue reading
Checked out The Gift – the new “beware your neighbor/girlfriend/girl next door/boy next door/single white female/local cop” movie. This time it’s about a couple who move back to their hometown and the husband runs into an old friend from high … Continue reading
The new Fantastic 4 is a really, really bad film. Dour, gloomy, joyless, bleak, and really really sluggish and dull. It’s 1hr 45min long but feels much longer. A superhero flick doesn’t have to be bright and fun to be … Continue reading
Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (which has too many colons in it is a really great film. Possibly best in the series, in my humble opinion. And this coming from the two previous outings being pretty great flicks in their own … Continue reading
I went to see the new Vacation movie… the continuation of the National Lampoons Vacation movies. It’s not a remake – Ed Helms plays Rusty Griswold (the kid from the movie) who wants to take his wife (Christina Applegate) and … Continue reading
Pixels is the new sci-fi/action/comedy about 1980s era video games attacking Earth… and only Adam Sandler, Josh Gad, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, and Michelle Monahan can save the day (since some of them were 1980s-era video game champs). This movie … Continue reading
Paper Towns is the new movie based on the John Green novel of the same name (who also wrote The Fault In Our Stars). It’s a teen road trip caper comedy drama… and it’s pretty good but not entirely engaging … Continue reading
The new Amy Schumer written and starring movie Trainwreck (directed by Judd Apatow) is a raunchy but funny but overly long romantic comedy. Schumer trades off her comic and tv persona here to tell a story of a rather mean … Continue reading