Saw the new Vince Vaughn sweet, good-natured comedy Delivery Man which has the bad habit of not being funny… though it does manage to be fairly sweet, I suppose. It’s a good enough movie as long as you aren’t looking … Continue reading
I Saw Machete Kills… the sequel to the movie Machete which started out as a fake trailer in the movie Grindhouse. Machete was a trashy fun movie that had something to do with something, Mexican immigration, and a lot of … Continue reading
Saw the Robert DeNiro / Michelle Pfeiffer comedy action flick The Family… about a family of mobsters hiding out in Witness Protection in France… and how they can’t help but be mobsters in their daily lives. It’s a remarkably unfunny … Continue reading
Saw The World’s End, the new sci-fi pub crawl movie that’s a spiritual successor to Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. With great affection, I have to say I didn’t really love this movie. It’s got a lot going … Continue reading
I caught the direct-to-streaming/limited theatrical release sci-fi found footage movie The Europa Project… a movie about a disastrous manned mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons that has promise of liquid oceans under the ice mantle. It was marketed as … Continue reading
Also saw (via iTunes streaming) the confounding experimental sci-fi/drama/romance/weirdness film Upstream Color (by the guy guy who made the confounding semi-experimental time travel movie Primer). This is a weird, surreal post-narrative movie that has people in it, they do things, … Continue reading
Also saw Admission – the new Tina Fey… comedy? I guess it’s a comedy though it’s not very funny… I was really bored through a lot of it but then I kind of got weirdly fascinated by its depiction of … Continue reading
So… classing it up in a goofy storyline, Aaron Eckhart plays the Frankenstein monster in the so-very-serious action/sf flick I, Frankenstein. A movie that tries real hard… tries to be good, tries to be some kind of amalgam of Underworld … Continue reading
And, because I wanted a double-feature with Zero Dark Thirty, I also went to see the new Texas Chainsaw movie (in 2D)… which is weird in that it’s a direct sequel to the 1970s Texas Chainsaw Massacre that ignores the … Continue reading
Total Recall remake is not the 1990s movie… only it is, just a lot less fun, a lot less interested in its mind-bending premise, and a lot less exciting. It is a lot more serious and it looks a lot … Continue reading