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
The Dark Knight Rises is an extremely well made movie that goes on (and on and on) for about 45 minutes longer than is necessary for its preachy but thematically muddled parable of the 99% and then ends with what … Continue reading
So, I saw Magic Mike today… not my kind of movie, apparently. I couldn’t even appreciate the dancing because it was all so stripper-club skeevy (and, you know, a bunch of dudes). And it wasn’t as much about ambition and … Continue reading