Checked out the new Tom Hanks starring/Clint Eastwood directed film Sully, based on the Miracle of the Hudson forced water landing of a passenger plane back in 2009. Hanks plays Captain Sullenberg in a good, very Hanksian performance with Aaron … Continue reading
Also rented Maximum Ride, the film version of the first book of a teen/YA series by James Patterson. The book was a decent diversion, written like the first draft a movie script for all its depth. The movie is an … Continue reading
Rented the documentary For the Love of Spock, which is kind of embarrassing to say. But it’s a pretty good documentary about the life and career of Leonard Nimoy as directed and narrated by his son. It has some good … Continue reading
The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a very strange R rated children’s movie… or something. To be fair, I’d not heard of this movie – no trailers, never heard of the book, only knew a couple of the stars … Continue reading
Hell or High Water is a new Texas bank robbery movie that’s really, really good. Chris Pine and Ben Foster play a pair brother bank robbers and Jeff Bridges (in crusty mode) plays a Texas Ranger out to stop them. … Continue reading
Checked out the new sci-fi/horror drama Morgan which is about a team of scientists who create an artificial surly teenager in a lab and things go wrong. Shocking, i know. This movie is directed by Ridley Scott’s kid (and … Continue reading
Checked out the new reverse home invasion movie Don’t Breath, an insanely tense suspense horror movie. Three burglars break into a blind Iraqi war veteran’s isolated home, intent on stealing his stack of cash. Unlike most movies of this kind, … Continue reading
So I checked out the 2016 remake of Ben-Hur, a movie that really doesn’t want you to think it has all that icky Jesus stuff in it. At least based on the marketing – the ads pretty much assure you … Continue reading
Checked out Laika studio’s latest stop-motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings. Laika previously made a few movies that other people love but I either disliked or found only ok – namely Coraline (the one I kind of liked), … Continue reading
Went to see the new Miles Teller/Jonah Hill arms dealer movie War Dogs. This is the apparently true story of a couple out-of-their-depths 20 somethings who become arms merchants for the US military during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Apparently … Continue reading