The Microsoft-produced documentary Atari: Game Over provides a brief history of Atari, the video game crash of the early 80s, and the “worst video game of all time” that supposedly caused that crash: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial on 2600. But … Continue reading
Checked out this study of race relations between four or five different characters on a college campus. It’s interesting, passingly funny and is trying to make intelligent points. I kind of came away from it feeling a little cold though … Continue reading
Rented the 2014 indie romantic comedy Laggies starring the adorable Keira Knightly, the adorable Sam Rockwell, the adorable Chloe Grace Moretz, and an adorable anorexic tortoise. Knightly is having a quarter life crisis after her fiance proposes to her, her … Continue reading
Went to see the new comedy The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hart and Josh Gad (Olaf’s voice from Frozen). It’s premise is that Gad is getting married to Kalie Cuoco-Sweeting but doesn’t have a best man much less any friends … Continue reading
So Michael Mann’s new action/drama Blackhat just got itself released in January… which is a very bad sign because January is where new releases go to die. This movie stars Chris Hemsworth (aka Thor) as a master computer hacker who … Continue reading
Caught up with Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie Inherent Vice, based on a book (that I have not read) by Thomas Pynchon. It’s a long – very long – rambling incoherent movie that I’d call a complete mess if that … Continue reading
Checked out Bradley Cooper’s and director Clint Eastwood’s new Iraq war movie American Sniper. And it’s a fairly to very good movie though your personal ability to like the movie may be tinged by your personal view of the war. … Continue reading
I watched the new Ethan Hawke time travel sci-fi film Predestination which is in a limited US release and day-and-date streaming. I went into the movie knowing nothing other than it involved time travel and, wow, I don’t think I’ve … Continue reading
Also watched Atlas Shrugged, part 3 (it’s available for rent)… which is obviously the third movie based on the massively long Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. You know, that non-controversial book everyone loves :-p Before I say anything about this … Continue reading
Went to see the Dr. Martin Luther King dramatic flick Selma. I call it a drama and not a biopic because the movie doesn’t try to do the generic biographical film thing of showing early formative life, rise to power, … Continue reading