Saw Wes Anderson’s new Wes Anderson film – The Grand Budapest Hotel. I usually like Wes Anderson’s quirky movies about quirky people with quirky editing and music… Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, and Fantastic Mr. Fox especially. But Grand Budapest is … Continue reading
Went to the new Jason Bateman comedy Bad Words… it’s the one about the adult who finds a loophole to enter a spelling bee. The movie is wrong in the way that Bad Santa and, to a lesser extent, Bad … Continue reading
I don’t have a distinct memory or nostalgia for Mr. Peabody and Sherman from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon… I imagine I saw it way back when (it seems inevitable) but it didn’t make an impact on me… and I’m … Continue reading
Odd Thomas is the new movie by Stephen (The Mummy) Sommers based on the first book in the Dean Koontz Odd Thomas series of novels. It stars Anton Yelchin who, while not being a mainstream actor, is up-and-coming – he … Continue reading
The Knights of Badassdom is a much-delayed geek life comedy about LARPers (Live Action Roleplayers) who accidentally summon a real demon during one of their weekend gaming sessions and then have to fight the forces of darkness for real. It … Continue reading
Saw 3 Days to Kill, the new Kevin Costner spy-with-a-daughter flick. Is it a spy movie or a family comedy? Yes. I’m sure this isn’t going to do well, but I was surprised – shocked – at how much I … Continue reading
I skipped it for a few weeks, but finally got to see The Nut Job, the shockingly unfunny CG cartoon starring various small rodents who want to rob a nut store (which is being used as a front for generic … Continue reading
The new movie Vampire Academy is a desperately hip attempt at cross-breeding Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight (though it pretends it’s better than Twilight by attacking it directly). The dialog is trying hard to be clever, … Continue reading
And saw The Lego Movie, a super cute, very funny animated flick that manages to not be a giant advertisement to Lego the brand, but a giant banner pointing directly at your childhood… at whatever age you were when you … Continue reading
That Awkward Moment is an unfunny, crass dude-bro romantic comedy about three good actors playing 20somethings on the prowl (and sleeping with a confounding number of women) in NYC. They have made a commitment with each other to have no … Continue reading