Watched the 2016 documentary Tower which is now available streaming. This one is about the University of Texas sniper who terrorized the campus in 1966. Charles Whitman took over the tower on campus and indiscriminately shot and killed/wounded around 50 … Continue reading
Checked out La La Land, the new old timey yet new timey musical starring two very ugly people: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. There lives are true tragedies with their perfect faces. Sigh. Anyhow, La La Land is a … Continue reading
Manchester by the Sea is a new drama that has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for lead actor Casey Affleck and he deserves it. This is small, slow moving actor’s movie about a closed-down man who is informed … Continue reading
Nocturnal Animals is an interesting and even fascinating but bleak and dark indie film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, and Armie Hammer. So it’s a great cast in a very good and certainly … Continue reading
Captain Fantastic is a 2016 movie that got a limited release earlier in 2016 and is now available via streaming. It stars Viggo Mortenson as a man living in the woods on the Pacific Northwest with his six children. He … Continue reading
The Hunt for the WIlderpeople is a new super quirky New Zealand film released this year and available via streaming. Basic premise is a New Zealand orphaned street kid who thinks he’s gangster (he names his dog 2Pac though his … Continue reading
Also checked out The Birth of a Nation, the new film about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831. Many people may recognize the title of the movie as that of the rightfully infamous DW Griffith film from 1919… one of … Continue reading
Hell or High Water is a new Texas bank robbery movie that’s really, really good. Chris Pine and Ben Foster play a pair brother bank robbers and Jeff Bridges (in crusty mode) plays a Texas Ranger out to stop them. … Continue reading
Checked out the new reverse home invasion movie Don’t Breath, an insanely tense suspense horror movie. Three burglars break into a blind Iraqi war veteran’s isolated home, intent on stealing his stack of cash. Unlike most movies of this kind, … Continue reading
Surprise! Star Trek Beyond, the latest Trek film and the third with the reboot cast, is a pretty great film. One of the, dare I say, best Star Trek movies? I think so. I’d say this is easily better than … Continue reading