Also watched the new Sam Mendes’ World War 1 war film 1917. This film is primarily known as a “single take” war film – two solid hours of military suspense and action made to look like it was filmed without … Continue reading
Checked out the second January 2020 low expectation horror flick Underwater. This film was finished a couple years ago but went into limbo and the 20th Century Fox sale to Disney. It was dumped in January which doesn’t bode well … Continue reading
After three days of trying to get into a screening, I finally saw the new Will Smith animated film Spies in Disguise. Why three days? Well, kids are out of school and they only have two regular showings of the … Continue reading
So the first January movie of 2020 is your typical toss-it-into-theaters-and-run low expectation horror movie The Grudge. This is (surprisingly) a sequel to the 2014 Sarah Michelle Gellar remake of the Japanese film Ju-On. And everyone is writing it off… … Continue reading
Rented the “inspired by a true story” astronaut flick Lucy in the Sky on iTunes the other day. This film tells the roughly true story of the female astronaut who put on a space diaper to drive cross country to … Continue reading
Checked out the latest film version of Little Women. This is Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan’s follow-up to Lady Bird and the fourth major Hollywood adaptation of the book but probably the thirtieth adaptation in general (counting tv shows, animated … Continue reading
With great interest, I went to see the new movie Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler. Note I didn’t say “new Adam Sandler” movie since that would imply a dopey comedy, probably set in some impossibly beautiful location, and co-starring a … Continue reading
Also went to see the sexual harassment / Fox News drama Bombshell. It’s a tough one to talk about since I know some people will see it as a liberal hit-job on Fox News and others will see it as … Continue reading
So I went to see the new film version of the Broadway play Cats. This movie’s trailer caused no small amount of consternation on the Internet when it released, and deservedly so. Sometimes the Internet as a hive-mind over-reacts to … Continue reading
Also finally caught up to Taika Waititi’s daring/risky coming-of-age comedy Jojo Rabbit. This is the Nazi comedy set in the waning days of WW2 in which a little boy has an imaginary friend – Adolph Hitler. It’s a satire, a … Continue reading