Went to see the final Fifty Shades film Fifty Shades Freed. The joke running around is that it’s 50 Shades Freed for star Dakota Johnson (and Jamie Dorman). Finally free of the contractual obligation of gratuitous (but not too gratuitous) … Continue reading
Checked out the new Clint Eastwood film The 15:17 to Paris, the true story of a handful of people who took down a terrorist aboard a passenger train. The main angle on the film is that they hired the real … Continue reading
The Florida Project is a low budget indie film from 2017 that I just caught up with on iTunes rental and it’s really worth seeing. The movie is most known for its very young, novice actors and Willem Dafoe who … Continue reading
Blink and you missed the new CGI animated movie Bilal: A New Breed of Hero. Correction, you didn’t even have to blink. Somehow this movie arrived at my local multiplex and I gave it a go. About all I knew … Continue reading
The Cloverfield Paradox is the Netflix surprise Super Bowl announcement overnight release which, honestly, is a better story than the movie itself. It was previously called Cloverfield: The God Particle and was going to be a theatrical release but I … Continue reading
Checked out the new Christian Bale starring Western called Hostiles. What a fun time at the movies. Such cheer. Wow. Hostiles tells the tales of a US cavalry officer out West in 1893… he’s an angry, bitter veteran of … Continue reading
Winchester is the new movie based on the interesting story of the Winchester house in California. The house is a real place that the window Winchester had, over many years, built full of stairs to nowhere, blind hallways, etc. It’s … Continue reading
Finally caught up on the highest grossing Japanese anime film (in Japan) from 2016 – Your Name. See. This. Movie. It’s a marvelous, beautiful, sweet, funny, tragic, gorgeous, romantic, and all around excellent film. Inside Out won best animated film … Continue reading
Got around to checking out Phantom Thread tonight and I wish I’d gone sooner. It was pretty great. I was concerned because I wasn’t the biggest fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s last films (Inherent Vice and The Master) and, frankly, … Continue reading
The third Maze Runner film (The Death Cure) limped (har) into the theaters this weekend and I went to see it out of some kind of obligation to see it through. Wasn’t excited, was barely interested. The first Maze Runner … Continue reading