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
April Apocalypse is an attempt to make a high school teen romantic zombie comedy that fails. First off, every actor is clearly 10 years too old for their parts, the writing is just not good, and there’s no surprises, no … Continue reading
The Lazarus Effect is a horror flick about a bunch of scientists who unwisely decide to create a serum to bring people back from the dead. Unwise, but since they had never seen Re-Animator (or Flatliners), they go ahead and … Continue reading
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is such an irrelevant, unfunny experience which didn’t make me laugh even once but wasn’t awful or boring enough to generate any scorn. It’s crude so if you like your comedy dumb and blue, you … Continue reading
Tracks is an interesting true story of an Australian girl in the 1970s who decided to walk the width of the country with nothing but herself, her dog, and three camels. Why did she do this? I guess to see … Continue reading
I went to see Fifty Shades of Gray this weekend having smartly avoided going to it over Valentine’s Day weekend and then this weekend in between bouts of snowfall. So is Fifty Shades the movie any good? Well, from a … Continue reading
The DUFF is a new high school/teen comedy out now in theaters. It’s a cute and chuckle-worthy teen romantic comedy about a girl who realizes she’s the less attractive, more “approachable” one in her friend group and she gets angry … Continue reading
Watched the movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead on iTunes Streaming – it’s billed Mad Max meets zombies and I guess it’s that though not as much as they’d like to think. It’s largely a generic zombie movie set in … Continue reading
Kingsman: The Secret Service is the spy action/comedy by Mathew Vaughn, the director of Layer Cake, Kick Ass, and X-Men: First Class. Up front, I love Vaughn as a director – he really gets what makes action scenes work, how … Continue reading