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
Run All Night is the latest low ambition Liam Neeson action flick – second one in 2015 (after Taken 3). Neeson this times plays a broken-down old drunk ex-hitman for Ed Harris’ icey-but-gone-legit old mobster. Neeson is trying to protect … Continue reading
Checked out Bradley Cooper’s and director Clint Eastwood’s new Iraq war movie American Sniper. And it’s a fairly to very good movie though your personal ability to like the movie may be tinged by your personal view of the war. … Continue reading
The Babadook is a small indie horror movie from Australia that’s in limited theatrical release right now and on iTunes rental (just in time for… Thanksgiving!). This film is one of the most unsettling movies I’ve seen in some time. … Continue reading