Rings
Rings is the second sequel to The Ring – the one about the cursed video tape which, once you watch it, gives you seven days to live. It basically ignores Ring 2, which is for the best… though it does … Continue reading
Rings is the second sequel to The Ring – the one about the cursed video tape which, once you watch it, gives you seven days to live. It basically ignores Ring 2, which is for the best… though it does … Continue reading
Collateral Beauty is the new Will Smith movie about a man who’s daughter dies and he writes letters to the universe – specifically to love, time, and death – and then the embodiments of love, time, and death visit him. … Continue reading
Phantasm V: Ravager is the (derp) fifth movie in the inexplicably long running Phantasm series of gore-filled weird horror movies. The original came out in 1979 and was really a head-trip (and scratcher) of a freaky little horror movie, part … Continue reading
The Girl on the Train is a slog of a movie with pretensions of quality that it is just sordid… but not sordid enough. It wants to be artistic but it’s telling a sleazy kind of story that’s also a … Continue reading
Also rented Maximum Ride, the film version of the first book of a teen/YA series by James Patterson. The book was a decent diversion, written like the first draft a movie script for all its depth. The movie is an … Continue reading
Checked out High-Rise, a UK movie that what was supposed to be interesting but I thought was a semi-incoherent bunch of violence looking for a point. The premise is the residence of a high-rise apartment building (the rich on the … Continue reading
Ratchet and Clank is the new movie based on the remake of the first Ratchet and Clank video game. This is a game series whose only version I’ve played is the new remake and I felt its story beats kind … Continue reading
Checked out Allegiant, the third in the teen distopian series of movies based on the Divergent trilogy of novels. This is the third of four movies so, yes, they broke book 3 into two movies but apparently realized people are … Continue reading
So, news alert time – I went to see the 50 Shades of Grey satire 50 Shades of Black (written and starring a Wayans) and it was terrible. Just terrible. I know, surprising right? Next thing you know, I’ll be … Continue reading
Three weeks after release, I wandered into Ride Along 2 on a weekend where four or five actual new movies came out (it was a timing issue). This is the unwanted sequel to the “made enough money to justify a … Continue reading