The Scorch Trials is the sequel to last year’s The Maze Runner. Maze Runner was an okish movie buoyed slightly by an interesting, mysterious premise and an inventive creature design and environment. The Scorch Trials isn’t that movie. Instead, its … Continue reading
The Perfect Guy is yet another stalker / domestic suspense movie (think Fatal Attraction, The Crush, The Boy Next Door, etc.) – this time a woman breaks up with her commitment-phobic boyfriend of two years, meets a great (maybe even … Continue reading
The new film The Visit is a new horror flick from M. Night Shyamalan who made three good to great movies (6th Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable) and then proceeded to make a series of bad to terrible movies (The Village, … Continue reading
The Transporter: Refueled is either the continuation of the Jason Statham action chase series or a reboot… and having seen the movie, I’m not sure which it is. Also sure it doesn’t matter. This one stars Ed Skrein, best know … Continue reading
Checked out No Escape, the new Owen Wilson/Lake Bell action suspense flick about a married couple and their two young daughters who move to a undisclosed SE Asian country just in time for a military coup. The flick details their … Continue reading
So went to see A Walk in the Woods, the new movie about walking the Appalachian Trail, based on the travel book of the same name and starring Robert Redford and the gristle that is what’s left of Nick Nolte’s … Continue reading
Watched Z for Zachariah on streaming last night (it is also in very limited theatrical release). This is a movie about a girl alone in a valley that miraculously survives a nuclear war. Then a stranger shows up in a … Continue reading
Checked out Hitman: Agent 47 – a movie that is either the sequel to the earlier Hitman movie or an attempt to reboot the franchise (both films are based on the video game series of the same name). They’ve recast … Continue reading
Also caught Sinister 2, the sequel to a decent spook house flick from a few years back that starred Ethan Hawke. The main takeaway I had from this sequel is that you really needed to see the first one for … Continue reading
So American Ultra is a stoner comedy action spy movie that makes the mistake of not actually being a stoner comedy… or much of a comedy for that matter. In fact, for a supposed stoner comedy, it’s extremely violent and … Continue reading