Saw Alice Through the Looking Glass, the low-stakes, low-motivation sequel to the 2010 original that made a lot of money but no one seems to have liked (I thought it was ok). Through the Looking Glass has even less connective … Continue reading
X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest X-Men movie to star the younger cast from First Class and Days of Future Past. We get a return of James Macavoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and others… now joined by Sophie Turner … Continue reading
Went to see The Angry Birds movie tonight because I’m stupid and apparently have $10 to blow on an evening show of a terrible movie. But there was a chance it wasn’t going to be terrible – the reviews are … Continue reading
The Nice Guys is the new buddy cop/detective movie out this weekend starring Russel Crow and Ryan Gosling. The movie is about two semi-competent men (one a leg-breaker for hire, the other a PI) hired to… well… the mystery is … Continue reading
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is, surprise, about as good a comedy sequel as the original Neighbors (which was a good, but not great flick). In this film, the married couple played by Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne are selling their … Continue reading
The Big Short was the drama/comedy that was an angry, middle finger polemic at the banking/mortgage crisis… the film Money Monster is the melodrama of the same basic idea. And melodrama is not a compliment here. The premise is that … Continue reading
Checked out High-Rise, a UK movie that what was supposed to be interesting but I thought was a semi-incoherent bunch of violence looking for a point. The premise is the residence of a high-rise apartment building (the rich on the … Continue reading
Checked out Sing Street, the latest movie from the Irish filmmaker who made the movies Once (which won best song for Falling Slowly a few Oscars ago) and Begin Again (a perfectly charming movie about music too). Sing Street is … Continue reading
The Darkness is a new and utterly relentlessly terrible, trite, boring, unintentionally funny, cliche-ridden horror film that came out this weekend that no one should see. Because you’ve seen it before, even if you don’t watch a lot of horror … Continue reading
Watched Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Where to Invade Next”… which sounds like a screed against the military/industrial complex but is actually just a bit of shtick he used to travel around Europe finding cool ideas. He pretends to invade that … Continue reading