Went to see (of course) The Wolverine, the new X-Men movie (that is not a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine but is a sequel to X-Men 3… Wolverine is traumatized by the events of X3… while we, the audience, were … Continue reading
So, yeah, saw Turbo – the new CG kid friendly movie about the snail who races the Indy 500… and it’s a fairly good movie that’s also fairly predictable (once you, you know, get the past the part where the … Continue reading
Saw The Bling Ring, the indie flick by Sophia Coppola costarring Emma Watson and Leslie Mann… about a bunch of shallow, deluded Hollywood-area teens who go on a burglary spree of too-rich celebrities so they too can have the shoes, … Continue reading
Saw The Internship today – the Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy about Google that isn’t so much an advertisement for Google products but a recruitment video for working at Google itself (they have a slide). Vince Vaughn and Wilson plays similar … Continue reading
Fast and Furious 6 is a dunderheaded action film full of meat heads, explosions, and cars… and it’s the best in the series (given a certain level of affection for the first film). I didn’t much like parts 2-4 and … Continue reading
Saw 42… the Jackie Robinson/baseball movie. It’s a very earnest, very well-intentioned movie that mostly works well… though it does get a little corny at times. Plus, my Cincinnati friends, the audience didn’t react well when they had to play … Continue reading
Went to see The Host… the new romantic invasion of the body snatchers-type movie… a movie about aliens who take over a human bodies and the one alien who has to contend with the stubborn personality of her host that … Continue reading
Saw Jack the Giant Slayer over the weekend… and I rather enjoyed it. It was fun and light entertainment and I rather liked the characters who didn’t fall into the cliches I expected. I didn’t know Ewan McGregor was in … Continue reading
Also saw Beautiful Creatures – the new …. Twilight with Witches movie? I guess. Except for some suspect southern accents and an end showdown sequence that was kind of dull, this is a pretty good little … horror? romance? drama? … Continue reading
Saw Warm Bodies – a rom-zom-com that is pretty amusing bit of fluff that is pretty forgettable but mildly fun. Kind of a send-up of zombie apocalypse movies, kind of a send-up of Twilight, kind of a Romeo & Juliet … Continue reading