Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is the sequel to Sin City from (oh lord… it’s been that long?) 9 years ago. It’s a film noire meets comic book in dialog, action, and appearance… dialog is hard boiled cliches, … Continue reading
If I Stay is a new romantic movie with a hint of supernatural… but it’s mainly a romance about a teen girl who is a cellist in love with a slightly older boy who is a rock ‘n roller. She … Continue reading
So Expendables 3 is another film in the series of Old (and semi-old) action stars ganging together to fight in whatever plot they decide to hang loosely on the flick. As usual, some of the stars get short-changed (looking at … Continue reading
Let’s Be Cops is the new comedy about two idiots who dress up as LAPD for a costume party and get mistaken for real cops out on the street… and since neither gets much respect in real life, realize this … Continue reading
Boyhood is the new movie by writer/director Richard Linklater (of Dazed and Confused fame). The backstory is that he (Linklater) cast a 6 year old boy and his family (plus others) back in 2002 and filmed scenes and then reunited … Continue reading
Te Giver is a movie with a more interesting back-story than it is an actual movie. It’s based on a novel that Jeff Bridges apparently really liked and started developing as a movie for his dad (Lloyd Bridges) 15 years … Continue reading
Caught The Hundred-Foot Journey at the movies today – a sweet, funny, gentle flick about an Indian family who opens a restaurant across the street from a stuffy French restaurant (with one Michelin star!) and the personality and cooking conflicts … Continue reading
So Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie came out and, surprise, it actually seems to get the turtles personalities right and is genuinely funny… except that is maybe only 5% of an otherwise really really lame action movie that has no … Continue reading
Into the Storm is a 2014 spiritual reboot of Twister… it even has a flying (fake) cow to let you know the people who made the flick knew what movie they are making. But, surprise, the trailers were lies – … Continue reading
Went to see the James Brown biopic Get On Up… was on the fence about this one but the good reviews convinced me to go. It’s not a bad movie but it does run a good 20-30 minutes too long … Continue reading