Iron Man 3
Saw Iron Man 3 today and it’s pretty great. Surprising how little the trailers have spoiled – there’s huge portions of the plot that have yet to be spoiled and some real surprises to boot. Also, much more of a … Continue reading
Saw Iron Man 3 today and it’s pretty great. Surprising how little the trailers have spoiled – there’s huge portions of the plot that have yet to be spoiled and some real surprises to boot. Also, much more of a … Continue reading
So someone went and made a Die Hard film but didn’t cast Bruce Willis and it was pretty great… Olympus Has Fallen is basically a new Die Hard film that puts to shame the actual Die Hard movie that came … Continue reading
Dragged myself out to see the suspense film The Call – starring Halley Barry and a shockingly 16 year old Abigail (Little Miss Sunshine) Breslin (when did she grow up?). It’s about a 911 operator trying to help a kidnapped … Continue reading
Saw The Impossible – the apparently true story of a family on vacation when the 2004 tsunami hit – and how they survived and the human spirit and courage was exalted and such. Very good movie – very scary movie … Continue reading
Saw the flick Silver Linings Playbook – with Bradley Cooper, sexy, sexy Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert DeNiro today… and it’s a great, very very quirky little… romance? comedy? romantic comedy? Dramady? I dunno – but since it was so damn … Continue reading
Skyfall – the new Bond flick was a very solid, very intelligent, thoughtful movie with great action set pieces but even better pacing, dialog, and suspense. A terrific movie. Though I will admit that it has thematic issues – it wants … Continue reading
Saw The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is based on an amazing book from about 10-12 years ago (young adult coming-of-age type novel). As a movie, it makes a fantastic book. As a book, it makes a pretty good … Continue reading
Saw Ben Affleck’s new flick Argo – about the Iranian hostage crisis and how the CIA rescued a group of Americans who managed to escape and go into hiding with the Canadian embassy…. by using a fake Star Wars knockoff … Continue reading
A surprising number of people liked the movie Taken… and the word on Taken 2 is that it’s unnecessary and not very good. But I liked it. I thought it had better action scenes than the first one – making … Continue reading
Saw End of Watch – a South Central LA cop drama that’s one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. Part found-footage film and part not, it had me guessing to the end if our heroic cops would come … Continue reading