Saw a Thursday showing of Hail, Caesar, the new Coen Brothers film about 1950s Hollywood starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlet Johanson, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, and a number of other old timers and up-and-comers. Or, … Continue reading
Checked out the new Coast Guard rescue film The Finest Hours starring Chris Pine, Kasey Affleck, and a well-cast Holliday Granger (who didn’t have much to do in the movie besides be the worried gal-on-land-waiting-for-her-sailor-to-come-home but what she does, she … Continue reading
Went to see the new western Jane’s Got a Gun, a defend-the-homestead film starring Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor (among others) that has been summarily dumped in around 500 theaters with almost no marketing and years of development hell. The … Continue reading
Three weeks after release, I wandered into Ride Along 2 on a weekend where four or five actual new movies came out (it was a timing issue). This is the unwanted sequel to the “made enough money to justify a … Continue reading
Watched the kind of interesting found footage movie JeruZalem via iTunes streaming tonight. This movie seems to want to connect itself to World War Z – it’s set in Jerusalem and the Z in the title is the same font … Continue reading
Checked out the 2015 film Being Evel, a documentary (co-produced by Johnny Knoxville) about famed 70s daredevil Evel Knievel. I had his toy crank bike as a kid but I had no real idea his story and this flick covers … Continue reading
Caught the Zack Ephron / Robert De Niro raunchy comedy Dirty Grandpa today and, boy, was that a long 100 minute movie. Just tedious and kind of repetitive and completely predictable. And not as outrageous as they think it is … Continue reading
Also caught the sci-fi/time travel movie Synchronicity which is in limited release but I caught on iTunes digital. It’s a twisty sci-fi movie that seems to be confusing itself for Blade Runner for completely unknown reasons. Seriously, a lot of … Continue reading
Also saw The Boy, a new January horror film about a nanny who hires into a British estate to take care of a creepy boy… mainly creepy by the fact he’s a porcelain toy. So, yes, it’s yet another killer … Continue reading
Checked out The 5th Wave, the new alien invasion YA movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz as a teenage survivor of an alien attack that has wiped out a lot of humanity and her struggle to survive and (sigh) ultimately figure … Continue reading