Checked out the new Charlie’s Angels reboot/sequel. This is a continuation of both the 70s tv show and the Drew Barrymoore reboots… it directly visually and vocally makes reference to the old material and acts as an expansion of the… … Continue reading
Checked out The Goldfinch, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Do they offer Pulitzers for movies? No? Well, that’s ok… this movie wouldn’t have won one anyway. It won’t win any Oscars either… or even Golden Globes. It might … Continue reading
Also checked out the “I promise you it’s a theatrical release” movie Bennett’s War. This is the second “major” theatrical release they offered up for Labor Day. In other words, they gave up on the weekend… this is just end-of-Summer … Continue reading
Also caught up with The Kitchen… a gangster movie starring Melissa McCarthey, Tiffany Hadish, and Elizabeth Moss. And it’s not a comedy (what with McCarthey and Haddish usually doing comedies). This is a serious, dramatic gangster flick set in the … Continue reading
The new film Shaft is the third film called Shaft following the original 1971 classic and the 2000 soft reboot. That 2000 film was a semi-sequel as it starred Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft, nephew of John Shaft from … Continue reading
Also checked out a random theatrical release called Mia and the White Lion. I had seen one trailer for it – but the movie is so obscure, the trailer was playing in front of another movie while it was already … Continue reading
I have to admit that I went to see A Madea Family Funeral by my own will. Having missed all the previous ones (and I put “missed” in quotes), I went to this new one out of boredom and having … Continue reading
Went to see the new Steve Carell film Welcome to Marwen. This is a well-meaning Robert Zemeckis film that gets just about everything wrong that can go wrong, except for competent film-making. Good acting, directing, editing, FX, etc… but everything … Continue reading
Checked out the new excitement over the weekend… the Gary Hart movie The Front Runner. Such excitement. Such wow. So thrilling I kept on putting off posting about it. I guess going in, I knew the movie was about one … Continue reading
So the new movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the first outright bad movie in the long running Harry Potter / Wizarding World series. *gasp* I know, right? Each mainline Harry Potter movie was varying levels of good … Continue reading