Luc Besson’s new film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has an opening sequence better than most full movies I’ve seen all year. And then the rest of the film unfortunately happens. Valerian is based on an … Continue reading
Caught a preview showing of the new Christopher Nolan WW2 movie Dunkirk. This will certainly be an unpopular opinion among amateur and pro reviewers, but I did not love this movie. It’s not a terrible movie and I can offer … Continue reading
Checked out the new romantic comedy The Big Sick. Stand-up comedian / actor Kumail Nanjiani (the Pakistani guy from HBO”s Silicon Valley) stars as himself in a mostly true retelling of how he started dating a white woman, breaks up … Continue reading
War for the Planet of the Apes is misnamed third movie in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. It’s an uneven movie that starts great and then takes a turn and winds up a pretty good flick in the … Continue reading
So I checked out Wish Upon today, a horror movie that has wisely decided to open against War for the Planet of the Apes. Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: this girl finds a magic box that promises … Continue reading
And finally went to see the new Will Ferrell / Amy Poehler comedy The House. When Ferrel and Poehler’s daughter gets into college and they lose the scholarship they were relying on, they decide to open a casino (with the … Continue reading
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
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
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
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