Jul
09
2:22
Also watched (via streaming) the new sci-fi romance film 2:22. This isn’t an entirely bad film but it is wasted on not knowing what kind of movie it wants to be and flounders trying to find a purpose. The … Continue reading
Jul
09
Bad Batch, The
Checked out (via streaming) the new movie The Bad Batch. This is the director’s follow-up to her critically loved skateboarding Muslim teen vampire movie from a few years A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. That was a curious and … Continue reading
Jul
07
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the latest reboot of the Spider-Man character and also the follow-up to his cameo in Captain America: Civil War. Tom Holland, the new Peter Parker / Spidey, made a great first impression in Civil War and he … Continue reading
Jul
05
Book of Henry, The
So I checked out the profoundly weird and possibly outright misguided movie The Book of Henry over the weekend. This flick is about a mom who can’t deal with the complexities of life so she relies on her 11 … Continue reading
Jun
30
Baby Driver
Baby Driver is a cool new heist movie starring cool actors playing cool characters. The movie is going for cool and knows its cool and that could have gone wrong but instead goes mostly right. It’s all style and plenty … Continue reading
Jun
21
Transformers: The Last Knight
So I could copy and paste my review of every other Transformers movie for my review of Transformers: The Last Knight… but I won’t. I will say many of the same things but I’d also add this is slightly more … Continue reading
Jun
20
Cars 3
So I unenthusiastically dragged myself to see Cars 3. I thought the first movie was… ok, I guess. Cars 2 was pretty bad and the Non-Pixar Planes spinoffs were about the same. So I’m rather shocked to say that, despite … Continue reading
Jun
19
Rough Night
So, hey, women get to have their very own “debauched party where the main characters accidentally kill a stripper” movie! The new movie Rough Night is just that! It’s a comedy! It’s like this weird mix of Very Bad Things … Continue reading
Jun
19
47 Meters Down
Checked out the recent shark attack movie 47 Meters Down where Mandy Moore and her movie sister get in a shark cage, cage goes in the water, winch breaks, cage goes down 47 meters. The ladies have to figure out … Continue reading
Jun
12
Megan Leavey
Checked out the film Megan Leavey, the true story of a US marine and her working military dog sent to Iraq to sniff out bombs and her state-side attempt to adopt the animal. It is a new release with fairly … Continue reading