Just watched 1957’s Zero Hour!, another gift from Turner Classic Movies. Zero Hour(!) is the basis of the plot and many many jokes in the greatest spoof film of all, Airplane! It’s all here… Ted Striker (same name) follows his … Continue reading
Checked out Dwayne Johnson’s new action flick Skyscraper. I’ll just get it out of the way early… this is Die Hard meets The Towering Inferno… only without the all-star cast (it has Johnson and Neve Campbell… and a number of … Continue reading
The Hotel Transylvania animated flicks have always hovered around the levels of ok to fair… so naturally I went to see Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation last night. And it’s amusing… you might even say its ok to fair. I … Continue reading
Over the summer during rerun season, I decided to start watching a bunch of old movies on Turner Classics (TCM). I’ve seen a decent number of films from the 30s through the 60s – mostly the classics or MST3K fodder… … Continue reading
Checked out the new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor. This is the film about Fred Rogers… aka Mr. Rogers… and his show. It’s got a terrific trailer that risks making you tear up… now imagine the whole movie. Wow. … Continue reading
Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sequel to the “Hey, that was kind of funny but not particularly serious” Ant-Man from a few years ago. This movie is even less serious and has fewer stakes… it makes Ant-Man look like … Continue reading
The First Purge is the fourth Purge film and is, indeed, a prequel. The Purge films are based on the idea that the government allows one night out of the year where all crime is legal. The first film wasted … Continue reading
Checked out Sicario: Day of the Soldado at the theater over the weekend. This is the sequel to Sicaro, a kind of bleak noire film set on the US/Mexico border… and seeing the new flick (also set on the border) … Continue reading
I suppose there’s not a lot to say about Jurrasic World: Lost Kingdom (the 5th Jurassic Park movie). It’s a sequel to Jurassic World in that it stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt as well as the remnants of … Continue reading
Rented a flick on iTunes called Thoroughbreds, a flick that is critics compared to Heathers (in a good way) when it was first released earlier this year. It’s a decent comparison… this film shares the same darkly humorous DNA of … Continue reading