Wes Anderson has a new movie out – Moonrise Kingdom. I stuck it with a needle and a stream of quirk came out. It’s a fun, odd little movie – which basically described Wes Anderson movies. So… par. I enjoyed … Continue reading
Believe it or not, there’s a movie out at the theaters right now called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter… and it’s very serious (not tongue-in-cheek) and it’s marginally good. Produced by Tim Burton, directed by Timur Bekmenatov (that’s easy for me … Continue reading
Steve Carell and Keira Knightly star in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World… billed as a kind of romantic comedy, it’s really more of a romance with comedy and tragedy. An asteroid will hit Earth in 21 … Continue reading
Saw the new Pixar flick Brave about the Scottish princess with all the red curls… everything in the trailers is wonderful and fun and rates really high on the Pixar-scale. The actual plot, which happily isn’t ruined by the trailers, … Continue reading
Avengers Assembled… and it’s good. Wish I was doing backflips (wish I COULD do backflips… heh) but it worked and looked fantastic and was fairly fun and funny. It ain’t no Dark Knight but it’s better than, say, Thor and … Continue reading
Saw Cabin in the Woods tonight – the movie about the college students who go off into the woods for a good time weekend to a mysterious CABIN IN THE WOODS (only to run into trouble)… and if you’ve seen … Continue reading
The movie John Carter has a boring, non-descriptive “could be anything” title is based on a series of pulp novels from the 1910s by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It looks like a dozen other big budget movies so the uninitiated might … Continue reading
So The Artist is the front-runner for Best Picture this year. Saw it. Can’t say I agree in the least. It’s a story any movie goer familiar with the classics has seen before (can the silent film actor adjust to … Continue reading
Saw Red Tails today – the WW2 war movie about the Tuskegee Airmen (the black pilots). People who are cynics, who can’t handle war movie cliches, who hate rah-rah patriotism, and/or who just hate hate hate George Lucas will hate … Continue reading
Also saw the new Steven Soderberg action flick Haywire – starring the female MMA fighter (and American Gladiator, apparently) star Gena Carano. It’s very Bourne-like in that the fight sequences are very real/believable (partially because their star knows her way … Continue reading