Also rented (via iTunes) the, if nothing else, curiously titled My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea. It’s an animated teen comedy/satire set in a high school that, due to an earthquake, has slipped into the ocean and is … Continue reading
Caught up on the film Marshall on iTunes rental the other day. This is a movie about a case Thurgood Marshall took years before he became the first black justice on the US Supreme Court. The film has Marshall … Continue reading
Rented a new direct-to-streaming sci-fi flick called The Beyond on iTunes. Premise is a wormhole mysteriously opens in Earth’s orbit and the “space agency” wants to send a human through to see what there is to see. It’s a relatively … Continue reading
Also rented (on iTunes) a comedy horror film called Mom and Dad. I rented it because A) it stars Nicholas Cage, B) the screen capture had him looking wonderfully nuts, C) the tagline is, “They brought you into this world, … Continue reading
Checked out the latest post 9/11 war on terror / Afghanistan flick 12 Strong over the weekend. This is the apparently true accounting of the soldiers sent into Afghanistan to help the Northern Alliance fight the Taliban shortly after 9/11 … Continue reading
Den of Thieves is a new hyper-masculine heist film full of bad bank robbers and even worse (yet not crooked) cops. It’s a film where every man is muscle-bound, hyper-aggressive and so full of testosterone its leaking out their ears … Continue reading
Check out I, Tonya – the new Margot Robbie film about Tonya Harding’s life, ice skating, abuse, the Olympics, taking a baton to a skater’s knee, and a host of unreliability narrators. It’s almost Rashomon if, instead of samurai, it … Continue reading
And, since it IS January, it’s time for the latest mid-tier Liam Neeson action flick, The Commuter. This is one of those flicks where, you know, he plays a guy with a particular set of skills in some rather humdrum … Continue reading
Checked out the new action movie Proud Mary, starring Taraji P. Henson as a hit-(wo)man for the mob. Think of this is a kind of try-hard female-led John Wick and you’d be on the basic flow of the flick. … Continue reading
Checked out the new Spielberg directed, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep starring movie The Post last night. This is the film about the Washington Post and their risky move to publish articles on the Pentagon Papers. Those were the stolen … Continue reading