The unending march of obscure indie titles at the movie theater instead of big releases the past two weeks continues… this time it was a blind viewing of the movie Valley of Bones. It was not worth the mystery of … Continue reading
So Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is about as good as most the rest of the series. If that makes you say, “Cool! I should go see it” then ok. Someone has to like these movies. … Continue reading
So I checked out King Arthur: Legend of the Sword this weekend and hoobaby was it a terrible, misguided, noisy, energetic, ambitious, and weird movie. It’s directed by Guy Ritchie, a man who never saw a scene he didn’t think … Continue reading
Checked out Table 19, a new comedy starring a lot of good, funny people who should have known better. Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow, Craig Robinson, Stephan Merchant,June Squib and a couple others play characters invited to a wedding out of … 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