Despicable Me 2 is pretty much as good as, as funny as, as cute as, and as adorable as the first movie… which is to say, I found it an alright movie with some good laughs, visual gags, and adorable … Continue reading
So… yeah… The Lone Ranger movie is pretty bad. Long, dull, and trying so very hard to be funny with anachronistic humor that comes of as a desperate attempt at saying “I can be funny and wacky too!” To its … Continue reading
Saw The Heat – the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy cop comedy – and it probably has more laughs per minute than any movie I’ve seen in awhile… and almost all of them are improv between these two very funny ladies. The … Continue reading
Also caught the Matt Damon eco flick Promised Land on Netflix… a movie about the evils of frakking (hydraulic fracturing – oil drilling by breaking up deposits by forcing water and other chemicals into the ground). It’s very much anti-frakking … Continue reading
I caught the direct-to-streaming/limited theatrical release sci-fi found footage movie The Europa Project… a movie about a disastrous manned mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons that has promise of liquid oceans under the ice mantle. It was marketed as … Continue reading
Late showing of White House Down, the 2nd white-house-under-attack movie of the year that’s somehow even more like Die Hard than Olympus Has Fallen which was already a lot like Die Hard. White House Down is the lesser film though … Continue reading
Saw The Bling Ring, the indie flick by Sophia Coppola costarring Emma Watson and Leslie Mann… about a bunch of shallow, deluded Hollywood-area teens who go on a burglary spree of too-rich celebrities so they too can have the shoes, … Continue reading
And caught Monsters University, Pixar’s new sequel/prequel to Monsters, Inc… (the 2nd or 3rd best Pixar flick in my book). This isn’t as good as Monsters, Inc. but it’s thankfully a solid, fun, and funny movie with some good laugh-out-loud … Continue reading
Late showing of the Brad Pitt vs. zombies movie World War Z – a big spectacle of a zombie apocalypse flick loosely based on a really good novel. It has sparkles of that novels ideas and that’s cool – but … Continue reading
Midnight showing of the new Superman flick Man of Steel. I can quibble that the opening hour or so doesn’t have the heart I think it wants to have and comic purists might hate the changes to the mythos, but … Continue reading