Checked out the new Christian Bale starring Western called Hostiles. What a fun time at the movies. Such cheer. Wow. Hostiles tells the tales of a US cavalry officer out West in 1893… he’s an angry, bitter veteran of … Continue reading
I inexplicably watched the typewriter documentary California Typewriter. Yes, that’s a documentary about typewriters and the people who love them. You’d think this would be deadly boring but the movie actually makes a convincing argument that typewriters are interesting, maybe … Continue reading
Caught up on the film Marshall on iTunes rental the other day. This is a movie about a case Thurgood Marshall took years before he became the first black justice on the US Supreme Court. The film has Marshall … Continue reading
Checked out the latest post 9/11 war on terror / Afghanistan flick 12 Strong over the weekend. This is the apparently true accounting of the soldiers sent into Afghanistan to help the Northern Alliance fight the Taliban shortly after 9/11 … Continue reading
Paddington 2 is the sequel to the pretty good and funny-in-a-British-sort-of-way Paddington from a few years ago. That movie was surprisingly good without knocking my socks off… and without knowing anything about the story books (except Paddington is a bear … Continue reading
I saw Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the sequel (and it is a sequel) to the original Robin Williams movie from the 90s. I didn’t care much for the original movie but the trailers on this one looked decent so … Continue reading
Checked out the new Matt Damon flick Downsizing… a mis-marketed sci-fi comedy or satire or something about shrinking people to save the world. It’s not much of a comedy… though it is a satire… and the trailers are really not … Continue reading
Watched an interesting little vampire movie on Netflix called The Transfiguration. Not really a vampire movie except the main character, a young, poor black teenage boy in the city, has a compulsion to drink human blood and has a fixation … Continue reading
Guillermo Del Toro’s new movie The Shape of Water is what happens when you drop ET, Splash, The Iron Giant, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Pan’s Labyrinth into a blender. This crazy mix of themes and ideas results in … Continue reading
And, finally, watched the HBO documentary Spielberg, about (shocking, I know) Stephen Spielberg. It’s an adoring documentary with only a few negatives to say about the man and his movies. It’s also very long (2 1/2 hours) and covers a … Continue reading