Checked out an early showing of In the Heart of the Sea, Ron Howard’s new whalin’ movie. Based on the real life story (more-or-less, I suspect) that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and 150 years of tormenting high school students … Continue reading
Checked out Creed, the new Rocky sequel/reboot starring Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son and Stallone as, well, Rocky Balboa. Adonis Creed (hah) wants to prove something to himself and hiss dead dad by becoming a boxer and he … Continue reading
Caught Sicario, the new US/Mexico drug war movie starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio Del Toro. This movie is getting fantastic reviews and a lot of that praise is deserved. The basic plot is that Emily Blunt is an … Continue reading
Caught a Thursday showing of the new Matt Damon movie The Martian, about an astronaut marooned on Mars with only his mastery of potato farming and science to save him. This is a very good movie based on an even … Continue reading
The new film The Visit is a new horror flick from M. Night Shyamalan who made three good to great movies (6th Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable) and then proceeded to make a series of bad to terrible movies (The Village, … Continue reading
Straight Outta Compton is the music biopic of N.W.A, set in the late 80s and early 90s. It shows how Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Easy E came off the streets and brought them along as they introduced gangsta rap … Continue reading
Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (which has too many colons in it is a really great film. Possibly best in the series, in my humble opinion. And this coming from the two previous outings being pretty great flicks in their own … Continue reading
The indie flick Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl is in limited release and open wider so I was able to catch it. I’ve never once seen a more Wes Anderson-like that isn’t actually made by Wes Anderson. It has … Continue reading
So I rushed out to see Terminator: Genisys (the 5th Terminator flick) after having avoided the spoilerific second trailer. And I may be alone in this (based on the professional reviews), but I really liked this movie. It’s not at … Continue reading
Spy is Melissa McCarthey’s new comedy where she plays an office worker turned 007-style super spy. And it’s a consistently, and occasionally gut-bustingly, funny flick. My favorite part of this R rated comedy is that it gets its humor from … Continue reading