Also took the opportunity to see an early (yet late) show of the new Spike Lee (for some reason) joint Oldboy… a remake of a Korean film of the same name that’s so messed up, so dark, so mean spirited … Continue reading
Went to see the new lost-at-sea movie All Is Lost starring Robert Redford and absolutely no one else. He’s sailing solo across the Indian Ocean in a small yacht when his boat is hulled and starts taking on water… and … Continue reading
Went to see Ron Howard’s new Formula One racing movie Rush – which is the true story about Norse God Man-Child James Hunt and Rat-Faced Egoist Niki Lauder (both real-life racers) and their rivalry in the 1970s. Pretty good movie… … Continue reading
Saw the new R-rated comedy We’re The Millers… about the fake family smuggling marijuana into the US under the guise of a real family. Not a bad movie. Fairly funny, fairly raunchy, a little flabby and pedestrian with its ultimate … Continue reading
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