Caught up on the Assassin’s Creed movie… this is the Michael Fassbender-led flick based on the long-running Ubisoft series of video games. It’s a kind of given that movies based on video games are bad with a tiny handful of … Continue reading
Checked out Sing, the new Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me/Minions studio) animated movie. This is the one about the animals entering a singing competition and that’s about as much plot as needed. A plot, one might even note, that doesn’t require … Continue reading
Checked out La La Land, the new old timey yet new timey musical starring two very ugly people: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. There lives are true tragedies with their perfect faces. Sigh. Anyhow, La La Land is a … Continue reading
Checked out Why Him?, the new Brian Cranston / James Franco domestic comedy. Cranston’s daughter is marrying weirdo Franco, a tech millionaire who doesn’t have an off switch, swears up a storm, but is genial and happy and clueless…. basically … Continue reading
Also rented the horror movie The Disappointments Room, a flick I assure you was released theatrically a few months ago. This is a very odd and pretty bad movie about a vaguely haunted house where nothings much happens, even for … Continue reading
Passengers is the new Chris Pratt / Jennifer Lawrence science fiction flick about a space ark delivering 5000+ people in suspended animation to a new world when something goes wrong. Namely, 30 years into a 120 year trip, people are … Continue reading
So I rented the kids animated movie Storks on iTunes – this is a movie I skipped at the theaters because it looked like a baby movie for babies (with Kelsey Grammer doing so amusing voice work). I almost went … Continue reading
Collateral Beauty is the new Will Smith movie about a man who’s daughter dies and he writes letters to the universe – specifically to love, time, and death – and then the embodiments of love, time, and death visit him. … Continue reading
I also rented the kid’s cartoon version of Robinson Crusoe called The Wild Life. This came out earlier this year and managed maybe a week or two at the theaters. It deserved a fast death. This is a terrible and … Continue reading
Manchester by the Sea is a new drama that has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for lead actor Casey Affleck and he deserves it. This is small, slow moving actor’s movie about a closed-down man who is informed … Continue reading