To my great surprise, the new indie flick Brigsby Bear is one of my favorite flicks of the year. It’s produced by Sony Pictures Classics though the production title cards also includes “The Lonely Island Classics” as a kind of … Continue reading
It’s not like I didn’t know The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature was probably going to be a bad movie. The first movie was really bad. But it was cheap ticket Tuesday and sometimes it’s funny to hate on … Continue reading
Checked out the new heist film Logan Lucky, directed by Steven Soderberg. Soderberg usually does genre films in an art house style, except for the Oceans 11 movies which were basically as main stream as he gets. This film is … Continue reading
Rented Shin Godzilla (aka Godzilla Resurgence), Japan’s latest reboot of the giant monster, released in 2016. In this flick, Godzilla / Gojira is back to being the destructive force of nature. No saving the earth, just stomping on Tokyo and … Continue reading
The new movie The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a buddy action comedy bloated propulsive, loud, dick-swinging showcase for throwback film making. If you told me this movie had been released in the late 80s or early 90s, i’d believe you. It … Continue reading
Also, seven weeks in, got around to having the interest and the correct timing to see Despicable Me 3. And, you know, I should have gone sooner. Not that it’s a great movie but it’s not a terrible one and … Continue reading
Annabelle: Awakening is the prequel to the movie Annabelle which was the prequel to the Conjuring movies… a prequel to a prequel. Who know that was a thing? The two Conjuring moves are quite good but Annabelle was quite bad. … Continue reading
Checked out the nerve-wracking and compelling movie Detroit. Well, mostly nerve-wracking and mostly compelling anyway. This is a misnamed movie… it’s set in Detroit and is about the 1967 Detroit riots… or, rather, a specific event that happened at … Continue reading
Also caught the new Halle Berry suspense film Kidnap. That’s an apt title – the movie is basically about a kidnapping and absolutely nothing else. Truth in advertising. This is not a criticism – the movie knows it’s a B … Continue reading
The Dark Tower is the new movie based sorta on Stephen King’s 8 book epic Gunslinger series of novels. I say sorta because it’s a 90 minute movie that apparently isn’t directly based on any of the books (I’ve read … Continue reading