So, yeah, saw Turbo – the new CG kid friendly movie about the snail who races the Indy 500… and it’s a fairly good movie that’s also fairly predictable (once you, you know, get the past the part where the … Continue reading
Saw the new Ryan Reynolds/Jeff Bridges Men In Black / Beeteljuice / Ghost / True Grit amalgam R.I.P.D…. and it’s not bad… it’s a fine little trifle of a movie that seems unnecessary and will not be remembered but isn’t … Continue reading
Went to to see the new horror movie Generic Haunted House Movie… ermmm… I mean The Conjuring. There was no conjuring going on in a movie called The Conjuring… just a haunted house movie that you’ve seen before… a lot. … Continue reading
Pacific Rim – giant robots punch giant monsters in the FACE… if that sounds stupid to you, don’t see this movie. If that sounds awesome, see this movie. If this sounds secretly awesome but you won’t admit it, sneak out … Continue reading
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