The Scorch Trials is the sequel to last year’s The Maze Runner. Maze Runner was an okish movie buoyed slightly by an interesting, mysterious premise and an inventive creature design and environment. The Scorch Trials isn’t that movie. Instead, its … Continue reading
The Transporter: Refueled is either the continuation of the Jason Statham action chase series or a reboot… and having seen the movie, I’m not sure which it is. Also sure it doesn’t matter. This one stars Ed Skrein, best know … Continue reading
Checked out No Escape, the new Owen Wilson/Lake Bell action suspense flick about a married couple and their two young daughters who move to a undisclosed SE Asian country just in time for a military coup. The flick details their … Continue reading
Checked out Hitman: Agent 47 – a movie that is either the sequel to the earlier Hitman movie or an attempt to reboot the franchise (both films are based on the video game series of the same name). They’ve recast … Continue reading
Caught the film remake of the 60s tv show (which I’ve never seen) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. which, as far as I can tell, doesn’t require familiarity with the old show. This one stars Brit Henry Caville playing the suave … Continue reading
The new Fantastic 4 is a really, really bad film. Dour, gloomy, joyless, bleak, and really really sluggish and dull. It’s 1hr 45min long but feels much longer. A superhero flick doesn’t have to be bright and fun to be … Continue reading
Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (which has too many colons in it is a really great film. Possibly best in the series, in my humble opinion. And this coming from the two previous outings being pretty great flicks in their own … Continue reading
Self/Less is a new sci-fi/medical suspense film that posits an underground treatment that can transfer the mind of a rich person into the body of much younger, fitter person. It’s not an original premise and it’s not an original or … Continue reading
So I rushed out to see Terminator: Genisys (the 5th Terminator flick) after having avoided the spoilerific second trailer. And I may be alone in this (based on the professional reviews), but I really liked this movie. It’s not at … Continue reading
Jurassic World is a fine movie as far as monster movies go. It’d be the second best movie in the franchise if The Lost World hadn’t been directed by Spielberg, a man with more talent even when he’s half-assing a … Continue reading