Checked out The Founder, the new Michael Keaton film about the early days (and the founding) of McDonalds in the 1950s. Specifically, Keaton plays Ray Crok, a man infamous for having basically stolen McDonalds from the actual McDonalds brothers. … Continue reading
Caught up on the new HBO film Bright Lights which is a pre-death documentary about the close relationship between Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. It was finished last year and includes a lot of interviews and footage of the two … Continue reading
HBO aired a new documentary last night called Beware the Slenderman… it’s about the internet meme/creepypasta Slenderman but, more specifically, about the two early teen girls who stabbed their friend 17 times in order to please the fictional character. It’s … Continue reading
Checked out 20th Century Women, a new coming-of-age film set in 1979 starring Annette Benning as a single mother trying to raise her teenage son. She enlists the aid of the kid’s best friend, an older sexually active girl played … Continue reading
Also saw Patriots Day, the new – and third in a row – film by director Peter Berg and actor Mark Whalberg. This follows their collaboration on Lone Survive and Deepwater Horizon and is also a real-life docudrama, this one … Continue reading
M. Night Shyamalan is back in a really impressive way with his new movie Split. Checked out an early Thursday showing and I’m so happy to see his little indie found footage movie The Visit from last year was not … Continue reading
Checked out the direct-to-streaming/video movie The Book of Love starring Jason Sudeikis, Maisie Williams, and Jessica Biel. This is the story of a man who loses his wife and unborn child in a traffic accident who seeks out a local … Continue reading
Also saw one of those quintessential January releases, the Bye Bye Man. Yes, it’s a horror movie called The Bye Bye Man. Why is it called The Bye Bye Man? Because the spooky creature in it is called The Bye … Continue reading
Hidden Figures is the new pic about the real-world human calculators who helped create the math equations needed to send men into orbit and return them safely. In that the calculators in question were women in 1961 is one thing, … Continue reading
So a film version of the toy line Max Steel (which I’d never heard of) came out earlier this year and pretty much nobody noticed (I did but it was only at the theaters for a week and I never … Continue reading