Saw the perplexing new movie The Counselor… the new Ridley Scott crime flick written by Cormack McCarthey and starring Michael Fassbender, Javiar Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Camerson Diaz, and Brad Pitt (with Rosie Perez, Dean Norris, Ruben Blades, Natalie Dormer, John … Continue reading
Saw The Fifth Estate… the Julian Assange / Wikileaks movie about the rise of the website and how they revealed all those military /state department secrets. It’s a movie that really wants to be as dynamic and smart as The … Continue reading
Saw Escape Plan – the new Stallone/Schwartzenegger (and 50 Cent as a mastermind hacker!) flick that’s all about escaping from the perfect, inescapable prison. As such, you kind of expect that the prison to be rock-solid and smartly built and … Continue reading
Carrie remake is out and is basically a remake of the 1970s film and not a retelling of the book (despite the claims)… and this begs the question of whether the original film needs to be remade. I say sure, … Continue reading
Caught two romantic movies this Sunday… first was Julia Louis Dreyfuss / James Gandolfini’s new mature romantic comedy (with a generic title) Enough Said. A smart, intelligent, and adult (as in, for adults, not “adult”) comedy with a slightly sitcommy … Continue reading
The OTHER romantic flick I saw this Sunday was this utterly predictable romantic teen drama… I SO knew where this was going from minute one and I was NOT disappointed. It was called, get this, “Romeo and Juliet”… yeah, another … Continue reading
Saw a new digital indie film (via iTunes streaming) called Zero Charisma. A low-budget affair about tabletop RPG gamers. And a funny thing happened along the way to it being a generic, stereotype of nerd culture… it turned out to … Continue reading
Dario Argento, famed (I suppose) Italian horror director went and made a new Dracula movie… it more-or-less kinda-sorta follows the plot of the book and stars no one in particular except a very bored Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing and … Continue reading
I Saw Machete Kills… the sequel to the movie Machete which started out as a fake trailer in the movie Grindhouse. Machete was a trashy fun movie that had something to do with something, Mexican immigration, and a lot of … Continue reading
And I saw the Tom-Hanks-Is-Harassed-by-Pirates-In-A-Movie-With-a-Bad-Title Captain Phillips. This is about the tanker that got hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. And it’s good. I’m not sure it was as good as all the reviews are saying or even that Tom Hanks’ … Continue reading