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
So, because it had a 7pm showing and Steve Jobs and even the new Paranormal Activity started at 8pm, I went to see The Last Witch Hunter on an early Thursday showing. Last Witch Hunter is Vin Diesel’s new action … Continue reading
Checked out The Gift – the new “beware your neighbor/girlfriend/girl next door/boy next door/single white female/local cop” movie. This time it’s about a couple who move back to their hometown and the husband runs into an old friend from high … Continue reading
Paper Towns is the new movie based on the John Green novel of the same name (who also wrote The Fault In Our Stars). It’s a teen road trip caper comedy drama… and it’s pretty good but not entirely engaging … Continue reading
I re-upped on the old HBO in prep for Game of Thrones next week and one of the first things I watched was a new doc from them called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It’s, no surprise … Continue reading
It Follows is a new indie horror flick (out at the theaters) with a theme you’ve heard before: have sex, get stalked and killed by something that.. well.. follows… Basically, if a person is being followed, he or she can … Continue reading
And, finally, watched the new Kevin Costner / Octavia Spencer family drama Black or White… a movie about a custody case over Costner’s granddaughter (who is black). It’s a complicated set up for a short blurb here but basically Costner’s … Continue reading
It’s almost beside the point if I post my opinion of The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies since, if you’ve seen parts 1 and 2, you’ll just have to go see part 3. If you didn’t, you won’t. Part … Continue reading
Caught the new sci-fi adventure flick The Maze Runner – a story about a bunch of young amnesiacs who wake up in a field surrounded by massive concrete walls that open during the day open into a mysterious maze. Why … Continue reading
Went to see an early showing of Divergent, the latest adapted-from-a-YA-novel flick starring (yeesh) Shaileene Woodley, Jai Courtney, Kate Winslett, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwynn, Maggie Q, and a few other actors whose faces you know but … Continue reading