So… Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty should have been a better movie. As it stands, it’s a good enough movie with some occasionally brilliant, inspiring, and beautiful moments and scenery but the overall quest or trek is … Continue reading
Saw the new animated movie Walking with Dinosaurs – based, initially, on the faux-documentary series from a fear years ago that played, I think, on Discovery Channel. And it’s terrible. Just awful. It looks fantastic and it has interesting moments … Continue reading
It’s not high art, but I watched the movie Big-Ass Spider on streaming today… AND you already know if you’ll watch it or not based on that title. It’s a cute low-budget giant spider horror/comedy movie that’s better than it … Continue reading
I wasn’t a huge fan of Anchorman or, really, any Will Ferrell comedies (don’t hate him and some are better than others but I guess I’ve never drank his Kool-Aid). But it had its absurdist moments and I laughed enough … Continue reading
I went to see Saving Mr. Banks – the movie that tells the story of the making of Mary Poppins – or specifically the struggle to get the author of the books (which I didn’t realize existed until I saw … Continue reading
Saw the new con artist / 70s crime drama American Hustle… a very very actorly movie starring a lot of bad 70s clothes, bad 70s hair, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis CK, Robert DeNiro, … Continue reading
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is generally a better movie than the previous Hobbit movie… though even more stuffed with made-up plots that cannot be explained away as stuff from the appendices… but that’s ok… it fleshes out some … Continue reading
Out of the Furnace is the new working-class crime movie with a great cast (Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson, Forrest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana) that looks really good (in a grimy, down-trodden sort of way) but is insufferably … Continue reading
Saw the new drama Philomena, a true story about an old Irish lady (Judy Densch) who is looking for the child some terrible nuns took away from her 50 years earlier. Good-natured and funny with some moving and thoughtful scenes. … Continue reading
Saw the new Jason Statham action flick Homefront, co-starring James Franco (!), Kate Bosworth, and Winona Ryder (!?)… and written by Sylvester Stallone (!?!). Compared to most of the low-ambition run-of-the-mill action flicks, this is better than expected as far … Continue reading