Nightcrawler is the new Jake Gyllenhaal suspense film where he plays a down-on-his-luck creep who realizes he can make some cash by filming accidents, fires, and other human misery and sell it to local news (“if it bleeds, it leads”). … Continue reading
The Hasbro-produced horror movie Ouija is somehow both an advertisement for and against the game you can buy at Target. Hasbro produced the Transformers, TMNT, and Battleship and you could, in theory, want to buy those toys after because those … Continue reading
John Wick is the new Keanu Reeves action flick about a man who doesn’t have a concept of proportional response. In this gripping tale, someone steals John Wick’s car and kills his puppy so he does what anyone would naturally … Continue reading
St. Vincent is the new Bill Murray / Melissa McCarthy movie that was released this week. It’s being billed as a comedy but it’s more of a dramady… so beware the humor drops out and the movie gets serious at … Continue reading
Saw the new kid’s movie The Book of Life, based on the Mexican Day of the Dead and Mexican afterlife folklore (The Land of the Remembered and the Land of the Forgotten). It’s an interesting movie that honors (and gently … Continue reading
Jason Reitman (director of Juno and Up in the Air) has made a new movie that’s going under the radar, I suspect, called Men, Women, and Children. And boy is it Profound. Is it ever Meaningful. Boy, is it ever … Continue reading
The new WW2 movie Fury is a descent into war madness, full of constant mud, blood, and guts. Probably not a second of this movie about a tank crew has any beauty to it – just one unrelenting scene of … Continue reading
Caught the new romantic zombie comedy (drama horror) movie Life After Beth starring Aubrey Plaza (from Parks and Rec, Dane Dahaan (creepy guy from Chronicle and the latest Spiderman flick where he played Harry Osbourne), John C. Reilly, and Anna … Continue reading
The Judge is Robert Downey Jr.’s latest film – costarring Robert Duval, a super-cute moppet playing Downey’s daughter, Billy Bob Thornton, Vera Farmiga, and others. It’s about high-powered defense attourney who goes home for his mother’s funeral and winds up … Continue reading
So I was about 30 years too old to go see the new film (based on the book which I surprisingly never read as a kid) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day but I still had … Continue reading