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
There’s a new early Christmas movie out this week called Love the Coopers… why a Christmas movie not in December, I can only assume is because December is full of big movies and this can’t compete. Well, if that’s the … Continue reading
Checked out the movie Suffragette which I think just opened wide (or expanded). This is a movie about women’s right to vote in England in 1912 and is very serious and I, I suspect, a big Oscar hopeful. I’m not … Continue reading
Also, after missing it for the three weeks or so, caught the Bradley Cooper is a mean chef movie Burnt. I hadn’t missed much… but I’m not unhappy I saw this movie? I’m going to give it a shrug, basically. … Continue reading
So the film version of the classic 80s cartoon Jem and the Holograms is a thundering historical bomb of a movie. Last weekend, of the top 10 highest grossing movies, it was number 15 and became the lowest grossing first … Continue reading