Saw The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is based on an amazing book from about 10-12 years ago (young adult coming-of-age type novel). As a movie, it makes a fantastic book. As a book, it makes a pretty good … Continue reading
Saw Sinister – Ethan Hawke wears an ugly cartigan sweater and finds ghosts inhabiting Super 8 film reels from 1960s to 2011… Now I’m imagining an evil ghost wielding a super 8 film camera, setting up the reels, recording, editing … Continue reading
Saw Ben Affleck’s new flick Argo – about the Iranian hostage crisis and how the CIA rescued a group of Americans who managed to escape and go into hiding with the Canadian embassy…. by using a fake Star Wars knockoff … Continue reading
Also saw Won’t Back Down – which is hated by people for being an anti-union (teacher’s union) movie… and it kind of is except that one character does have the line, “you can be pro-union and still be critical” – … Continue reading
A surprising number of people liked the movie Taken… and the word on Taken 2 is that it’s unnecessary and not very good. But I liked it. I thought it had better action scenes than the first one – making … Continue reading
Saw End of Watch – a South Central LA cop drama that’s one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. Part found-footage film and part not, it had me guessing to the end if our heroic cops would come … Continue reading
Saw the time-travel Joseph Gordon Levitt is Bruce Willis flick Looper… it’s a solid sf action flick with an interesting pacing, style, and some good thoughts (it’s a pretty smart film). It has a significant storytelling/structural problem in my book … Continue reading
Someone opened a can of macho and pored it over me – saw Expendables 2 and I can say I enjoyed it more than the first flick… and the first flick was an ok action flick so this is a … Continue reading
Total Recall remake is not the 1990s movie… only it is, just a lot less fun, a lot less interested in its mind-bending premise, and a lot less exciting. It is a lot more serious and it looks a lot … Continue reading
Saw The Watch… really trying to… what was I talking about? Oohh.. a shiny penny. Score: 61