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
I was legitimately pleased and surprised that I found myself really enjoying the new Justice League movie. Given the train-wreck that was Batman v. Superman and the disappointments with director Zack Snyder, I was expecting the worst. But the movie … Continue reading
Checked out Daddy’s Home 2, the sequel to the Will Ferrell / Mark Whalberg comedy about step-dads. This one adds in grandfathers played by gruff Mel Gibson and doofy John Lithgow. And it’s weirdly almost the same movie and same … Continue reading
I’ve been putting off my review of Thor: Ragnarok as I’ve been trying to decide what to think of it. Reading professional reviews and debating the flick in my head. Thor: Ragnarok is the third proper Thor film, the 17th … Continue reading