I also watched, by some coincedence, Into the Inferno which is a Werner Hertzog documentary not about Tom Hanks, Robert Langdon, or Dan Brown but about volcanoes and the science and myths we create about them. Odd it came out … Continue reading
Checked out Inferno, the latest Tom Hanks film based on the Dan Brown novels about Robert Langdon: professional symbologist (previous movies: Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons). This film is alright. It’s ok. It is very competently shot and … Continue reading
The Hunt for the WIlderpeople is a new super quirky New Zealand film released this year and available via streaming. Basic premise is a New Zealand orphaned street kid who thinks he’s gangster (he names his dog 2Pac though his … Continue reading
Also saw Ouija: Origin of Evil, the prequel to the mediocre Ouija, both movies based on the Hasbro product, both movies assuring us that if we buy their toy, we will be cursed and haunted. Moichandising! Where the real money … Continue reading
Checked out the new Tom Cruise action flick Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the sequel to the original Jack Reacher from a couple years ago. That was a surprisingly decent, low-ambition, narrow scoped action flick – not really great but … Continue reading
Checked out the new action/spy/comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses starring Zack Galiafanakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, and Gal Gadot. Fisher and Galifanakis are boring married suburban couple with kids who get mixed up in spy shenanigans when the new … Continue reading
Also checked out The Birth of a Nation, the new film about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831. Many people may recognize the title of the movie as that of the rightfully infamous DW Griffith film from 1919… one of … Continue reading
The Accountant is the new Ben Affleck film where he stars as a high-functioning autistic man who spends part of his time as a CPA for average Americans and the other part as a forensic accountant for a bunch of … Continue reading
Watched the film (On Demand) USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (subtitle unnecessary) which is the true story of the Indianapolis, which delivered the Hiroshima bomb to the staging island before returning to the US, getting torpedoed and sunk by a … Continue reading
Phantasm V: Ravager is the (derp) fifth movie in the inexplicably long running Phantasm series of gore-filled weird horror movies. The original came out in 1979 and was really a head-trip (and scratcher) of a freaky little horror movie, part … Continue reading