Saw… because I had to get out of the house and away from the food and not because I really wanted to see it… the decent and totally average-in-all-ways buddy action flick 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Marc Whalberg … Continue reading
Saw the movie Red 2 so you don’t have to! It’s the sequel to Red… did you see that? Probably not. Old people can be spies and action heroes too… only half as good as Space Cowboys which was about … Continue reading
Went to see (of course) The Wolverine, the new X-Men movie (that is not a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine but is a sequel to X-Men 3… Wolverine is traumatized by the events of X3… while we, the audience, were … Continue reading
Saw the new Ryan Reynolds/Jeff Bridges Men In Black / Beeteljuice / Ghost / True Grit amalgam R.I.P.D…. and it’s not bad… it’s a fine little trifle of a movie that seems unnecessary and will not be remembered but isn’t … Continue reading
Pacific Rim – giant robots punch giant monsters in the FACE… if that sounds stupid to you, don’t see this movie. If that sounds awesome, see this movie. If this sounds secretly awesome but you won’t admit it, sneak out … Continue reading
So… yeah… The Lone Ranger movie is pretty bad. Long, dull, and trying so very hard to be funny with anachronistic humor that comes of as a desperate attempt at saying “I can be funny and wacky too!” To its … Continue reading
Late showing of White House Down, the 2nd white-house-under-attack movie of the year that’s somehow even more like Die Hard than Olympus Has Fallen which was already a lot like Die Hard. White House Down is the lesser film though … Continue reading
Late showing of the Brad Pitt vs. zombies movie World War Z – a big spectacle of a zombie apocalypse flick loosely based on a really good novel. It has sparkles of that novels ideas and that’s cool – but … Continue reading
Midnight showing of the new Superman flick Man of Steel. I can quibble that the opening hour or so doesn’t have the heart I think it wants to have and comic purists might hate the changes to the mythos, but … Continue reading
After Earth (the new Will & Jaden Smith sci-fi flick) is a aggressive assault of stupidity that insults the patience, the mind, all writers, all film makers, and should be ashamed of itself and it should go to its room … Continue reading