Checked out the new Netflix movie The Lovebirds. This was going to be a theatrical release but I guess they gave up and Netflix got it instead. Probably because expectations were low and the last Kumail Nanjiani movie with a … Continue reading
Rented a new documentary (on iTunes) called Spaceship One which is about the Biosphere Two project back in the early 90s. If that rings a bell, that was the self-contained environment that a bunch of people built to see if … Continue reading
Watched a new Netflix original (with a forgettable title) named Dangerous Lies. Not a movie that will set the world on fire but it’s a tight, tense little thriller. A down-on-their-luck couple takes care of an old man in … Continue reading
Watched the documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien which I rented for 99 cents on iTunes. This one came out last year to very good reviews but I didn’t catch up to it until the current low rental fee. I … Continue reading
Went to see the new Ben Affleck sports/addiction film The Way Back. This is, in theory, a basketball movie that follows the basic outline of many high school or college sports movies. A man with a past has to coach … Continue reading
Checked out the one actual Valentines Day movie released on actual Valentines Days: The Photograph. This flick is the real deal as far as romance movies go. Not a romantic comedy… just a movie about adult humans meeting and falling … Continue reading
I also checked out yet another January horror flick called Gretal and Hansel. Based on the folklore but aiming to alter the original’s themes and plot, this film was dumped because odds of it being a crowd favorite are low. … Continue reading
Also checked out the most recent Guy Ritchie movie The Gentlemen. This film bring Ritchie back to his tough guy crime roots after spending time making Disney and King Arthur movies (to various levels of success and failure). His early … Continue reading
Also rented a (very long) documentary called In Search of the Last Action Heroes on iTunes. This is a documentary ostensibly about action movies from the 1960s to the present… but really it’s just about 80s and early 90s. Maybe … Continue reading
So Jumanji: The Next Level is out and I saw it… by which I think I mean I saw it a couple years ago too. So this is a direct sequel with the same enjoyable cast doing the same reasonably … Continue reading