Insurgent is the second movie in the progressively inferior Divergent series of movies/books. And if that sentence suggests that I’m not going to give Insurgent this huge raving review, you would be right. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off … Continue reading
Netflix has a new “movie” called Parallels… a sci-fi flick about a building that sends its occupants (four attractive 20 somethings) to alternate earths/realities. Is a high concept with limited scope as far as this movie goes… they jump (or, … Continue reading
The new film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is certainly a curios thing. It’s an American/Iranian black and white vampire romance (in Farsi subtitled in English) set in a dying industrial city in maybe-Iran? Maybe not? The city … Continue reading
Of late, the new live-action Cinderella is kind of a fascinating approach to a classic fairy tale remake. Consider Maleficent, Snow White and the Hunstman, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Time, and others… most of these recent fairy tale … Continue reading
Run All Night is the latest low ambition Liam Neeson action flick – second one in 2015 (after Taken 3). Neeson this times plays a broken-down old drunk ex-hitman for Ed Harris’ icey-but-gone-legit old mobster. Neeson is trying to protect … Continue reading
Caught the new direct-to-streaming (via iTunes) Australian disaster end-of-the-world drama These Final Hours… kind of like what you’d get if you crossed On the Beach with a rave full of naked women. It’s about an asteroid strike that occurs on the … Continue reading
Caught Still Alice, the early-onset Alzheimer’s movie that won Julianne Moore a best actress for her portrayal as the disease victim (it also stars Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin in some of their best work in ages too). The movie … Continue reading
Unfinished Business may be the most confused and unfocused movie comedy I’ve seen in a long time. How so? Well, it’s about business men trying to land a deal selling industrial remnants, it’s a raunchy R rated comedy about leatherboys … Continue reading
Chappie is the new sci-fi film set int he far flung future of 2016 about a series of robot cops (no, not Robocops) that have been dispatched to the streets of Johanesburg to fight crime. One of the robots gains … Continue reading
Focus is the new conman movie starring Wil Smith and Margot Robbie (Leo’s wife in Wolf of Wall Street – she’s really good). The first half of this movie is fun, kind of sexy, and a reasonable diversion. Not great … Continue reading