So the film version of the classic 80s cartoon Jem and the Holograms is a thundering historical bomb of a movie. Last weekend, of the top 10 highest grossing movies, it was number 15 and became the lowest grossing first … Continue reading
The Lego documentary cleverly called A Lego Brickumentary is good. Not great, but good. It has a bunch of stories about Lego and some are far more interesting than others. Like the scientist responsible for the NSAS Pathfinder robot on … Continue reading
To all the 80s action movie fans out there, I rented a movie (via iTunes) called Electric Boogaloo… no, not Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo but a documentary about Cannon Pictures/Golun Globus which, among many other movies, made Breakin’ 2. Basically … Continue reading
Caught The Intern – the new Anne Hathaway / Robert DeNiro film about a retired man who accepts a senior internship at an Internet startup run by an overwhelmed boss. Hathaway plays the boss, DeNiro is the intern – gentle … Continue reading
Caught the film remake of the 60s tv show (which I’ve never seen) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. which, as far as I can tell, doesn’t require familiarity with the old show. This one stars Brit Henry Caville playing the suave … Continue reading
I went to see the new Vacation movie… the continuation of the National Lampoons Vacation movies. It’s not a remake – Ed Helms plays Rusty Griswold (the kid from the movie) who wants to take his wife (Christina Applegate) and … Continue reading
The new Amy Schumer written and starring movie Trainwreck (directed by Judd Apatow) is a raunchy but funny but overly long romantic comedy. Schumer trades off her comic and tv persona here to tell a story of a rather mean … Continue reading
Ant-Man is the new Marvel Cinematic Universe (in line with Iron Man, Thor, Avengers, etc). It’s a smaller scale (hah!) superhero flick than the past few Marvel flicks and I kind of think that’s a relief. Instead of the end … Continue reading
Jurassic World is a fine movie as far as monster movies go. It’d be the second best movie in the franchise if The Lost World hadn’t been directed by Spielberg, a man with more talent even when he’s half-assing a … Continue reading
The new Entourage movie is a continuation of the HBO show that you’ve either never seen, hated, liked, or loved… which also indicates whether you’ll enjoy this movie. If you hated (or had never seen) the show, this movie is … Continue reading