Checked out the latest survival / man-vs-nature movie Adrift. This one stars Shailene Woodley and Sam (I am NOT a block of wood) Claflin as survivors of a typhoon at sea… it seems they are… ADRIFT! in the Pacific on … Continue reading
So, based on the recommendation, I watched a 1992 BBC produced Halloween special Ghostwatch. Playing like a real news investigation with at least some British news people, it tells the story of a haunted house, allegedly in real-time. The film … Continue reading
Checked out the new comedy Action Point, a film most noticeable as an excuse to let Johnny Knoxville to continue to hurt himself, this time in a narrative story. As opposed, you know, to a bunch of jackasses hurting themselves … Continue reading
Went to see the new sci-fi/cyberpunk/revenge flick Upgrade last night. This is a movie that got some buzz out of SXSW but I only caught one trailer for it months ago, long enough that I’d forgotten everything. Which was great … Continue reading
Because I was secretly kidnapped by a top anti-cinema terrorists working out of Peru, I was forced at gunpoint to see the kiddie talking dog movie Show Dogs. Strapped to a hand truck with a face mask strapped to my … Continue reading
Checked out the new movie from James Franco, a kind of sci-fi Mad Max amalgam on a super low budget called (creatively) Future World. This is what happens when Franco and his friends get super lazy, dash together a script, … Continue reading
So, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a perfectly fine crime/heist flick that happens to be set in the Star Wars universe. Which, technically makes it one of the most different Star Wars flicks, even though it plays things pretty … Continue reading
Checked out Book Club, the four-in-one romantic comedy for people without time for those lazy single-romance romantic comedies. In this one, we get four generic-but-sometimes-funny stories starring elder stateswomen of Hollywood in a film and it’s either really cool for … Continue reading
So Deadpool 2 is the solid, almost-as-good sequel to the self-referential superhero comedy from a couple years ago. Ryan Reynolds is back as Ryan Reynolds playing the fourth-wall-breaking anti-hero Deadpool and its all the same stuff as before only with … Continue reading
The other major Mother’s Day release is the new Melissa McCarthey comedy Life of the Party. If the audience has anything to say about it, women will go see it and find it hilarious. As the female half of the … Continue reading