Saw Pain and Gain – the Mark Whalberg/Dwayne Johnson dumb-criminals-do-dumb-crimes movie… directed by Michael (Transformers) Bay… and it’s actually quite watchable and funny. Based on a true story – three muscle-bound, roided (and Jesus’ed) up weightlifters decide to be criminals… … Continue reading
Saw 42… the Jackie Robinson/baseball movie. It’s a very earnest, very well-intentioned movie that mostly works well… though it does get a little corny at times. Plus, my Cincinnati friends, the audience didn’t react well when they had to play … Continue reading
Went to see the new Tom Cruise sci-fi flick Oblivion and found it to be a reasonably smart, very good looking movie with a fine plot and some nice twists… and plot/logic holes it largely managed to fill in on … Continue reading
Forgot to broadcast to the world (or the few random Facebook friends I have) that I completely ran out of movies to see this weekend and went to see The Croods (it was that or Scary Movie 5 or the … Continue reading
Evil Dead remake is hard-core gore all the way… either that sells you or it doesn’t. Surprisingly good – and dead serious – horror splatfest… this is no sequel to the hilarious and hallucinogenic Evil Dead 2 or Army of … Continue reading
Saw GI Joe: Retaliation…. a direct sequel to the first movie from a few years ago and somehow a reboot of the franchise. It’s much less over-the-top and goofy and seems to be trying for more realism and serious-mindedness in … Continue reading
Went to see The Host… the new romantic invasion of the body snatchers-type movie… a movie about aliens who take over a human bodies and the one alien who has to contend with the stubborn personality of her host that … Continue reading
Also saw Admission – the new Tina Fey… comedy? I guess it’s a comedy though it’s not very funny… I was really bored through a lot of it but then I kind of got weirdly fascinated by its depiction of … Continue reading
So someone went and made a Die Hard film but didn’t cast Bruce Willis and it was pretty great… Olympus Has Fallen is basically a new Die Hard film that puts to shame the actual Die Hard movie that came … Continue reading
Dragged myself out to see the suspense film The Call – starring Halley Barry and a shockingly 16 year old Abigail (Little Miss Sunshine) Breslin (when did she grow up?). It’s about a 911 operator trying to help a kidnapped … Continue reading