Also checked out the thoroughly unnecessary family animated comedy The Secret Life of Pets 2. Unnecessary because they barely tried, not because the movie shouldn’t exist. The first film was a low-key alright of a flick about what our pets … Continue reading
Checked out Godzilla: King of the Monsters over the weekend. This is the sequel to the American 2014 Godzilla movie and exists in the same “monsterverse” as Kong: Skull Island (which is referenced multiple times in this movie). They are … Continue reading
Also saw the new horror film The Curse of La Llorona. This is a film about a Mexican myth – the Crying Woman – and is partially being targeted at the Hispanic community who are a not-insignificant box office audience … Continue reading
Went to see the new kids animated flick Wonder Park. A weird title since the park in the movie is Wonderland… but they can’t name the movie Wonderland since that suggests Lewis Carroll. But then why not call the park … Continue reading
Checked out (blindly) the new sports film (produced by Tim Tebow, apparently) Run the Race. Sports – and christian – film as it turns out. Run the Race is about a poor family in Florida where the eldest son … Continue reading
Checked out Glass, the new M. Night Shyamalan flick that’s a sequel to Unbreakable (the surprise superhero flick from around twenty years ago) and Split (the surprise undercover sequel to Unbreakable via an after-credits scene with Bruce Willis). I liked … Continue reading
Check out the Peter Jackson written and produced sci-fi flick Mortal Engines… note the marketing wants you to think he directed it too but he didn’t. The guy who did is one of his FX collaborators on various Lord of … Continue reading
Also watched – free via Amazon Prime – the recent direct-to-streaming zombie flick The Night Eats the World. Gave it a shot because it has a decent title and its set in Paris… which is relatively rare for a horror … Continue reading
Checked out the new film The Girl in the Spider’s Web. In book form, this is the fourth book in the Stieg Larsen Dragon Tattoo (Millennium) series that started with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… in movie form, it’s … Continue reading
Checked out a new indie sci-fi flick called Silencio at the theater today. And, wow, something went seriously wrong with this one and I’m not just talking about the script. I didn’t know what the film was going in… chalk … Continue reading