Hunger Games Part 3: Mockingjay Part 1 is a curiously structured film for Hollywood blockbuster entertainment. But, to be fair, parts 1 and 2 were as well. First half of the first two are weird publicity tours full of image … Continue reading
Caught the jazz drummer college movie Whiplash… about a young guy trying to become the best jazz drummer he can and the insane professor/conductor who makes his life hell. It’s about what it takes to take a good player and … Continue reading
Dumb and Dumber To is the actual sequel to 1994’s Dumb and Dumber – Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back a lot older and a lot later than they should have been (there was a prequel with a better … Continue reading
Birdman is an indie art-house film about a washed-up actor who played a superhero in the early 90s trying to stage a comeback via a broadway play. It stars Michael Keaton who, as we all know, played Batman twice in … Continue reading
It’s a remarkable feat that the movie Interstellar actually got made and exists – it’s a testament to Christopher Nolan’s big brain and power in Hollywood that he basically made the movie he wanted (though he may have bowed a … Continue reading
Big Hero 6 is Disney’s new animated movie based on an apparently obscure Marvel comic book of the same name… and it’s really quite good. It’s not amazing but I was never bored by it, I laughed quite a bit, … Continue reading
I caught the indie romantic comedy Obvious Child on iTunes streaming (it had a limited theatrical release early this year) and I kind of loved it. It stars Jenny Slate (who? she was on SNL for one season but dropped … Continue reading
So Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth star in a super-secret movie the studio apparently doesn’t want you to see even though it was released to theaters on Christmas. I may have seen a trailer for it six months ago but … Continue reading
So the timing was right and, after a few weeks of release, I slunk into the latest Nicholas Sparks movie, the Best of Me. An uneven romantic flick about an older couple who meet up after 20 years of being … Continue reading
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