Watched the film (On Demand) USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (subtitle unnecessary) which is the true story of the Indianapolis, which delivered the Hiroshima bomb to the staging island before returning to the US, getting torpedoed and sunk by a … Continue reading
Also checked out Snowden, the new film about Edward Snowden starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Shalieen Woodley. It’s a rather long retelling of the adult career and life of Ed Snowden in the CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies leading … Continue reading
And finally checked out The Light Between Oceans, a new movie at the theaters starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Weisz. I had no idea what this movie was going in but had the impression that maybe it had … Continue reading
Checked out the new Tom Hanks starring/Clint Eastwood directed film Sully, based on the Miracle of the Hudson forced water landing of a passenger plane back in 2009. Hanks plays Captain Sullenberg in a good, very Hanksian performance with Aaron … Continue reading
The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a very strange R rated children’s movie… or something. To be fair, I’d not heard of this movie – no trailers, never heard of the book, only knew a couple of the stars … Continue reading
Hell or High Water is a new Texas bank robbery movie that’s really, really good. Chris Pine and Ben Foster play a pair brother bank robbers and Jeff Bridges (in crusty mode) plays a Texas Ranger out to stop them. … Continue reading
So I checked out the 2016 remake of Ben-Hur, a movie that really doesn’t want you to think it has all that icky Jesus stuff in it. At least based on the marketing – the ads pretty much assure you … Continue reading
Went to see the new Miles Teller/Jonah Hill arms dealer movie War Dogs. This is the apparently true story of a couple out-of-their-depths 20 somethings who become arms merchants for the US military during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Apparently … Continue reading
Saw the remake of Pete’s Dragon from Disney today. A remake of either a forgotten 70s live action Disney movie or a 70s Disney movie you vaguely remember having an animated dragon but might be confusing it with Puff the … Continue reading
Watched the new film version of the classic book The Little Prince on Netflix. This was going to be a theatrical release but the studio backed out in the US and Netflix picked it up. I think it got a … Continue reading