Caught up on the Assassin’s Creed movie… this is the Michael Fassbender-led flick based on the long-running Ubisoft series of video games. It’s a kind of given that movies based on video games are bad with a tiny handful of … Continue reading
Star Wars: Rogue One (or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or just Rogue One as the movie calls itself) is a pretty great movie and possibly an even better Star Wars movie. If the first half was as strong … Continue reading
Moana is the new Disney animated flick that came out this weekend and it’s pretty great. Everyone should see it. What you are probably asking yourself is, “self, do you think this is going to have another Let it … Continue reading
Hacksaw Ridge is the new movie by the director of Braveheart and Passion of the Christ. Shhhh… that means Mel Gibson who is still, in some respects, in Hollywood Jail (though just getting this movie released theatrically means maybe not … Continue reading
Caught the early Thursday night showing of the Marvel Cinematic Universes’s latest superhero flick Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange is a character I know little about and I gather he’s kind of a B or C lister in the books but … Continue reading
Checked out the new Tom Cruise action flick Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the sequel to the original Jack Reacher from a couple years ago. That was a surprisingly decent, low-ambition, narrow scoped action flick – not really great but … Continue reading
Checked out the new action/spy/comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses starring Zack Galiafanakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, and Gal Gadot. Fisher and Galifanakis are boring married suburban couple with kids who get mixed up in spy shenanigans when the new … Continue reading
The Accountant is the new Ben Affleck film where he stars as a high-functioning autistic man who spends part of his time as a CPA for average Americans and the other part as a forensic accountant for a bunch of … Continue reading
Checked out a Thursday showing of the new disaster movie Deepwater Horizon starring Mark Whalberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, and evil John Malkovich. This is the story of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in 2010, killing a number … Continue reading
Checked out an early showing of the remake of The Magnificent Seven. I won’t spend time comparing this to the 1960s version (itself a remake of an Akira Kurosawa movie) since I don’t have any emotional attachment to that old … Continue reading