Saw the remake of About Last Night… a romantic comedy with no hooks or gimmicks… just a relationship movie with ups and downs. It’s not a bad movie and these are fairly mature adults with adult issues (and adult language). … Continue reading
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is another movie based on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character previously played by Alec Baldwin (Hunt for Red October), Harrison Ford (Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger), and Ben Affleck (The Sum of All Fears). … Continue reading
Best movie of 2014 so far is Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Also, the worst movie of the year. So far. Har. Anyway… this is yet another sequel to the found footage haunted house series… and is only vaguely related … Continue reading
Am I bad person to say “meh” to the new Mandella (Long Walk to Freedom) movie? Am I a horrible person or just someone who kind of thought the movie was rote and boring? Yeah, a movie with space marines … Continue reading
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