Caught an early showing of Quentin Tarrentino’s new movie The Hateful 8 – a kind of locked-room pot-boiler of a western. Eight people in the old west are snowed in during a blizzard and tensions run hot and dialog and … Continue reading
Got out to see Joy, the new Jennifer Lawrence movie directed by David O. Russel (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and other oddities). This is one of the best films about selling mops that I’ve ever seen. Didn’t know that … Continue reading
Went to see the movie The Big Short today – an exciting film about the subprime mortgage disaster from 2008… and by exciting, I actually mean it. They managed to make a hilarious and kind of thrilling and fascinating movie … Continue reading
Also caught Trumbo, the new biopic about Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood writers brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s and then black-listed. He wrote such films as Johnny Got His Gun, Roman Holiday, and Spartacus… … Continue reading
Went to see Spike Lee’s new movie Chi-Raq, a movie that kind of proves Spike Lee will make whatever in hell he wants. The film is a retelling of an ancient Greek play by Aristophanes while it’s also a serious … Continue reading
Checked out an early showing of In the Heart of the Sea, Ron Howard’s new whalin’ movie. Based on the real life story (more-or-less, I suspect) that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and 150 years of tormenting high school students … Continue reading
Checked out Creed, the new Rocky sequel/reboot starring Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son and Stallone as, well, Rocky Balboa. Adonis Creed (hah) wants to prove something to himself and hiss dead dad by becoming a boxer and he … Continue reading
Spotlight is the new movie about the Boston Glove’s expose on the child abuse in the catholic church from the early 2000s. It’s very much a buy-the-book newspaper investigation without a lot of hyberbole… it’s all about the process, walking … Continue reading
Went to see The 33, the new movie about the Chilean miners in the cave-in from 2010… and this would be a much better movie in 15 years or so because, right now, it’s only 5 years away and there’s … Continue reading
Checked out the final Hunger Games movie Mockingjay Part 2 tonight. This is the second half of the third book and boy does it feel like it sometimes. We know that the cynical bean-counters in Hollywood break up final books … Continue reading