So caught the new Reese Witherspoon movie Wild, based on the real life memoir of Cheryl Stayed who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in the 90s. This movie is getting some pretty great reviews and it’s a good movie, though … Continue reading
The new Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened a little wider this weekend and I caught it. It’s the life story – largely focused on his romance and marriage – of Hawking and his wife Jane. It’s an … Continue reading
Am I bad person to say “meh” to the new Mandella (Long Walk to Freedom) movie? Am I a horrible person or just someone who kind of thought the movie was rote and boring? Yeah, a movie with space marines … Continue reading
Went to see Ron Howard’s new Formula One racing movie Rush – which is the true story about Norse God Man-Child James Hunt and Rat-Faced Egoist Niki Lauder (both real-life racers) and their rivalry in the 1970s. Pretty good movie… … Continue reading
So I went to see the martial arts bio-flick The Grandmaster… a chinese film (with a wide theatrical release) about someone (or something) named Ip Man… I had no idea it was about him… or who he was (though there … Continue reading
Saw Jobs… the Steve Jobs biopic (well, at least between 1974 and 2001)… which is an occasionally interesting, occasionally fun, but I suspect very frustrating and confusing movie to people who didn’t read his biography. Which doesn’t mean it’s bad… … Continue reading
Saw (Lee Daniel’s) The Butler, a very well-acted movie about the civil rights movement and race from the mid 50s through 2008 that incidentally is about a black butler in the White House from Eisenhower through Reagan. It’s got a … 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