The movie Ex Machina opened a little wider this week so I got to check it out in the theaters. This is a sci-fi film about a programmer brought into a house/lab to perform in a modified Turing Test on … Continue reading
Unfriended is a new horror flick shot completely from the perspective of a single computer screen during an 82 minute Skype video chat (with the additional appearance of YouTube, Facebook, ChatRoulette, Spotify, and other software and services). It’s the one … Continue reading
Also checked out (mostly blind) the new Ben Stiller dramady While We’re Young. Stiller and Naomi Watts are a married, childless Gen X couple who meet and start hanging out with a millennials played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. … Continue reading
Went blind into the movie Child 44 which stars Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Noomi Rapace. It’s set in 1950s Soviet Union with Hardy as a member of the Soviet goon squad (secret police) who is investigating a child murderer … Continue reading
So Furious 7 is a big, dumb movie and it knows it. So no harm, no foul there. The 7th Fast and Furious movie follows after part 6 and part 3 due to the scrambled time-line of a series about … Continue reading
I re-upped on the old HBO in prep for Game of Thrones next week and one of the first things I watched was a new doc from them called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It’s, no surprise … Continue reading
Went to see Home, the new Dreamworks animated film. I went in thinking it was going to be terrible… so maybe those low expectations resulted in me being really enamored by the movie. It’s very charming, surprisingly sweet, and had … Continue reading
It Follows is a new indie horror flick (out at the theaters) with a theme you’ve heard before: have sex, get stalked and killed by something that.. well.. follows… Basically, if a person is being followed, he or she can … Continue reading
Get Hard is the new Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy about prison rape! Rather, Will Ferrell plays a wealthy stock market guy who is being sent to prison (San Quentin!) for 10 years so he hires the first black guy he … Continue reading
I don’t have any childhood or adult nostalgia or feelings for SpongeBob Squarepants so my feelings for the new Sponge out of Water movie is surface level. This doesn’t mean I’m unfamiliar with the cartoon (of which I’ve seen a … Continue reading