Steve Carell and Keira Knightly star in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World… billed as a kind of romantic comedy, it’s really more of a romance with comedy and tragedy. An asteroid will hit Earth in 21 … Continue reading
Saw the new Pixar flick Brave about the Scottish princess with all the red curls… everything in the trailers is wonderful and fun and rates really high on the Pixar-scale. The actual plot, which happily isn’t ruined by the trailers, … Continue reading
Saw Red Tails today – the WW2 war movie about the Tuskegee Airmen (the black pilots). People who are cynics, who can’t handle war movie cliches, who hate rah-rah patriotism, and/or who just hate hate hate George Lucas will hate … Continue reading
We Bought a Zoo… they did. It was a cute movie. Charming and sweet. Matt Damon does his usual solid work. I’m not sure there’s much to say about this flick other than it’s well worth seeing. Score: 82
So joined the throbbing masses who left common sense at the door went with awesome friends to Harry Potter 7.5 at midnight last night. A fine example of how a big Hollywood production can be a big showcase for FX … Continue reading
Super 8… it just doesn’t work as well as it should. It’s not a bad movie… but it’s not as good as I’d hoped given it’s director and its obvious desire to emulate great 80s Spielberg flicks. It doesn’t gel … Continue reading
Saw Thor – good movie. I know very little about him as a comic book hero… though I know a bit more more about Norse mythology… so it was easy to watch knowing one of the two. Fairly good action, … Continue reading
Someone’s hitting the piano REALLY hard in this flick… yes, movie, I know you think that was scary. Weirdly, despite the overly dramatic stuff, there are some really good chilling scares in this flick that it earns (and without gore … Continue reading
Saw the new Bradley Cooper On Smart Drugs flick Limitless. Good, solid film – the only problem was conceptual (you take some pills and become the smartest man on Earth and all you can think to do is invest? play … Continue reading
The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading