Saw Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters… sequel to the first Percy Jackson flick that was pretty meh (but Uma Thurman as Medusa was cool)… I’m probably deeply wrong, but I kind of enjoyed this sequel… it wasn’t terrible which is … Continue reading
Saw the new R-rated comedy We’re The Millers… about the fake family smuggling marijuana into the US under the guise of a real family. Not a bad movie. Fairly funny, fairly raunchy, a little flabby and pedestrian with its ultimate … Continue reading
Saw a late showing of the new Matt Damon sci-fi flick Elysium… a movie I was looking forward to as it was the follow-up to the director’s previous movie District 9 (which I didn’t think was as amazing as some … Continue reading
Saw (Lee Daniel’s) The Butler, a very well-acted movie about the civil rights movement and race from the mid 50s through 2008 that incidentally is about a black butler in the White House from Eisenhower through Reagan. It’s got a … Continue reading
Saw… because I had to get out of the house and away from the food and not because I really wanted to see it… the decent and totally average-in-all-ways buddy action flick 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Marc Whalberg … Continue reading
Saw the powerful indie film Fruitville Station – the true story about the final 24 hours of an average, imperfect 22 year old man (father, boyfriend, son, ex-con, trying to do better) who is shot, possibly accidentally, in a stupid … Continue reading
Saw the movie Red 2 so you don’t have to! It’s the sequel to Red… did you see that? Probably not. Old people can be spies and action heroes too… only half as good as Space Cowboys which was about … Continue reading
Went to see the new teen sex comedy The To Do List… I was one of three people in the theater (two by the end – one dude walked out)… It’s very raunchy but also not very funny and it … Continue reading
Went to see the new indie comedy/drama The Way Way Back – it’s a wonderful, fun, and funny slice ‘o life, coming-of-age type movie about an awkward 14 year old boy on summer vacation with his mom and her dbag … Continue reading
Went to see (of course) The Wolverine, the new X-Men movie (that is not a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine but is a sequel to X-Men 3… Wolverine is traumatized by the events of X3… while we, the audience, were … Continue reading