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
I saw the horror flick (presented by Guiermo Del Toro) Mama – starring Not Olivia Wilde (it’s Jessica Chastaine with black hair and always-on eye-shadow… looking nothing like she does in current interviews or in Zero Dark Thirty) and Jamie … Continue reading
Saw the new Judd Apatow comedy This is 40… the not-really-a-sequel to Knocked Up. It’s a long, long, shambling mess of a comedy that’s rather funny at time, never really bored me, but just kept going and going and going … Continue reading
<deep breath> OK, saw The Hobbit (part 1) today… and, while I can honestly say I was never bored, the movie went on way too long. It gives me a new understanding to people who had little patience for the … Continue reading
Someone opened a can of macho and pored it over me – saw Expendables 2 and I can say I enjoyed it more than the first flick… and the first flick was an ok action flick so this is a … Continue reading
The Dark Knight Rises is an extremely well made movie that goes on (and on and on) for about 45 minutes longer than is necessary for its preachy but thematically muddled parable of the 99% and then ends with what … Continue reading
The new Amazing Spider-Man spider-man reboot is … alright. It’s ok. It’s the same origin story we saw ten years ago though – just remixed so I spent most of the time wondering how they were going to tell the … Continue reading