Checked out a new little flick called The Stray. I went in blind having seen no trailers or ads… I figured with a name like that, 50% chance it was a horror movie about a rabid dog (who probably dies … Continue reading
Checked out the new wilderness survival movie The Mountain Between Us. I say wilderness survival when I guess I should also call it an unconvincing romance… so unconvincing, I didn’t realize it WAS a romance until the end of the … Continue reading
Checked out the movie A Ghost Story which is an experimental, art-house film that takes some patience and willingness to accept long quiet scenes of nothing happening. I was impatient with it, then it began to build on me, and … Continue reading
Tom Cruise’s new movie American Made is a film about a dark and complicated period in American history told like it was a goofy lark. It’s all about the CIA spying on various communist-backed rebels in Latin America, arming Contras, … Continue reading
Also saw Battle of the Sexes, the new theatrical release about the 1973 tennis match between Male Chauvinist Pig (Bobby Riggs played by Steve Carrell) and Hairy-Legged Feminist (Billie Jean King played by Emma Stone). It was a real event … Continue reading
Gerald’s Game is a new Stephen King movie that premiered on Netflix Friday night. It’s based on one of his books that I thought was unfilmable when I read it 30 some years ago… but they pulled it off and … Continue reading
Checked out the new film Stronger which is about a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a guy who goes to root for his on-again/off-again girlfriend who is the race… he looses his legs in … Continue reading
The new Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Pi) movie mother! (proper capitalization and punctuation there) is one hard to describe flick. It’s certainly unlike anything you’ve seen before even if it has some themes, ideas, and references … Continue reading
The unending march of obscure indie titles at the movie theater instead of big releases the past two weeks continues… this time it was a blind viewing of the movie Valley of Bones. It was not worth the mystery of … Continue reading
Also caught Birth of the Dragon, a new Bruce Lee story that tells the allegedly true story of his fight with Chinese shao-lin master Wang Jack Man in the early 60s, years before Lee would break out as a kung … Continue reading