Also saw the kids cartoon Norm of the North… a movie with an inexplicably big release given how amateurish, sad, and pathetic it is. It’s a CG kids movie with art and animation sub Toy Story 1 with a nonsense … Continue reading
Went to see the movie 13 Hours (subtitle: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi). This is the Michael Bay directed true account (maybe) of the attack on the American consulate and secret CIA base in Benghazi, Libya back in 2012. Perhaps … Continue reading
Went to see the Mediocre New Year Horror Movie “The Forest” on Sunday – such a great movie it took me 24 hours to get my thoughts together to post about it. By which I mean, so irrelevant to everything … Continue reading
The Revenant is the new Leonardo DiCaprio wilderness survival movie from director Alejandro Inaritu who made Birdman last year. This is a long, grueling film depicting a Man vs. Nature storyline at its most primal. All filmed in location in … Continue reading
So finally – finally – went to see the remake of Point Break. Now, I’d never accuse the original Point Break of being high art, particularly good, or even anything but kind of a goofy flick so it’s theoretically possible … Continue reading
Went to see Concussion, the new Will Smith movie that wants you to fear and dread the NFL. The NFL… it lurks out there, waiting for you to speak out against it and then they COME FOR YOU!!! This film … Continue reading
Caught an early showing of Quentin Tarrentino’s new movie The Hateful 8 – a kind of locked-room pot-boiler of a western. Eight people in the old west are snowed in during a blizzard and tensions run hot and dialog and … Continue reading
Checked out the new Will Farrell / Marc Wahlberg comedy Daddy’s Home – about a regular guy step-dad who has to content with the return of his step kid’s cool / bad-ass dad (I’ll let you guess who guy plays … Continue reading
Got out to see Joy, the new Jennifer Lawrence movie directed by David O. Russel (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and other oddities). This is one of the best films about selling mops that I’ve ever seen. Didn’t know that … Continue reading
Bone Tomahawk is a western horror movie starring Kurt Russel, Mathew Fox, David Arquette, and Patrick Wilson. The flick is about settlers and cowboy contending with an hunting a war party of sadistic, crazy, cannibalistic native Americans. This is an … Continue reading