So, Pan is the new movie prequel to Peter Pan starring some kid (sorry kid, you didn’t make an impression), Hugh Jackman overdoing it as Blackbeard the pirate, Garret Hedland as James Hook (who is doing some combination of Han … Continue reading
The Scorch Trials is the sequel to last year’s The Maze Runner. Maze Runner was an okish movie buoyed slightly by an interesting, mysterious premise and an inventive creature design and environment. The Scorch Trials isn’t that movie. Instead, its … Continue reading
Checked out the new limited release/digital distribution action teen comedy Barely Lethal. This is a flick about teenage super spy assassins and how one sees too many John Houghes movies while on assignment and realizes she wants to be a … Continue reading
Aloha is Cameron Crow’s new inexplicably muddled and terrible romantic comedy set in Hawaii. It’s a genuinely confusing and perplexing mess of a movie by a guy who can make actually good films as evidenced by Jerry Maguire and Almost … Continue reading
Hot Pursuit is the new female buddy road trip movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara and boy is it a bad movie. Basic premise is that Witherspoon is a by-the-books cop who has to escort Vergara’s mob wife to … Continue reading
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is such an irrelevant, unfunny experience which didn’t make me laugh even once but wasn’t awful or boring enough to generate any scorn. It’s crude so if you like your comedy dumb and blue, you … Continue reading
So impatiently and uncomfortably sat through Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and did not actually fall asleep. So credit where it’s due: that’s fortitude! Yes, this is part 3 of a series of movies I’ve barely tolerated … Continue reading
The Pyramid is a new movie at the theaters that you probably haven’t heard about…. I certainly hadn’t heard about it until it showed up at the theater this weekend and I see a disturbing number of movie trailers. No … Continue reading
So Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth star in a super-secret movie the studio apparently doesn’t want you to see even though it was released to theaters on Christmas. I may have seen a trailer for it six months ago but … Continue reading
Dracula Untold is yet another vampire movie, this one being an origin story of a superhero Dracula that pulls upon a certain amount of historical events. Vlad (the Impaler) wants to protect his family and the rest of Transylvania from … Continue reading