For Easter Sunday, I took myself and a baggie full of chocolate Reese’s eggs to the movie theater and handed ’em out like candy (which, yeah, they are) to the theater crew in a furious fit of guilt for making … Continue reading
Ready Player One is the new Steven Spielberg directed sci-fi film based on the pop-culture riddled novel from a few years ago. I read the book and went into the movie expecting certain changes of plot elements that a movie … Continue reading
Pacific Rim: Uprising is the surprised-it-got-made sequel to the original robots-punching-monsters movie Pacific Rim. I say surprising since it kind of landed with a thud in the US but was saved and became profitable in Asia. Given that movie was … Continue reading
Went to a nearly packed showing of the new coming of age / teen comedy / coming out / romantic comedy Love, Simon today. For the record, based on a novel with a much better title which I have not … Continue reading
The new Tomb Raider film released today is edging close to that final definitive video game adaptation movie that’s good without reservations. It doesn’t quite get there but it’s filmed with more competence and has better acting than almost any … Continue reading
Also watched the new Netflix original romantic comedy / time loop movie When We First Met. It’s mainly a (very broad) romantic comedy that merges that sequence in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray tries to replicate the perfect day with … Continue reading
Checked out a recommended film on Amazon Prime streaming called Shot Caller. This is a gritty prison/crime drama about a white-collar accountant thrown into a maximum security prison after a DUI that killed and injured a couple of people. It’s … Continue reading
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