Kingsman: The Secret Service is the spy action/comedy by Mathew Vaughn, the director of Layer Cake, Kick Ass, and X-Men: First Class. Up front, I love Vaughn as a director – he really gets what makes action scenes work, how … Continue reading
Seventh Son is a new fantasy flick out now starring (curiously) Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moor. Drunken knight with marbles in his mouth (Bridges doing an explicable accent) and his apprentice fight witches… or dragons… or bears…. This is another … Continue reading
Jupiter Ascending is the new space opera film that shares DNA with The Phantom Menace, Battlefield Earth, The Matrix, John Carter, Flash Gordon, Brazil, Mass Effect, and Guardians of the Galaxy… all poured into a goulash and served luke-warm.If that … Continue reading
Caught (on streaming) the pitch black comedy / horror (thing) The Voices… starring Ryan Reynolds as a deranged bath tub packager who is so far off his meds he kind of accidentally starts killing people… ok… fine, sometimes his asshole … Continue reading
Since I’m a ten year old British child, I decided to check out the Paddington movie and it’s all right. It’s charming and cute and above all harmless… and not at all the pratfall bathroom humor from the original trailer. … Continue reading
And, finally, watched the new Kevin Costner / Octavia Spencer family drama Black or White… a movie about a custody case over Costner’s granddaughter (who is black). It’s a complicated set up for a short blurb here but basically Costner’s … Continue reading
Went to see the teen time travel flick Project Almanac – a movie that’s been delayed for over a year and went through at least two name changes in the process. Very bad signs for not a bad movie. A … Continue reading
Rented the somewhat pointless low budget found footage indie sci-fi action flick Alien Outpost… it’s supposedly in theaters and definitely in VoD right now. Premise is 10 years after an alien invasion on earth, there are remnant alien forces on … Continue reading
Caught the somewhat trashy Jennifer Lopez suspense flick The Boy Next Door. The plot? Let’s just be clever and say the boy next door has a Crush on J. Lo’s high school teacher. He’s the most 25 year old looking … Continue reading
Inexplicably, incomprehensibly, and almost impossibly, I went to see the new CG family film Strange Magic and I came away charmed. Based on reviews, I may be the only person who walked out of the movie with a smile. I … Continue reading