So American Ultra is a stoner comedy action spy movie that makes the mistake of not actually being a stoner comedy… or much of a comedy for that matter. In fact, for a supposed stoner comedy, it’s extremely violent and … Continue reading
Final Girl is an odd horror/suspense film that has the DNA of similar films in it but doesn’t seem to know how to be that film. Basic premise is that a girl is recruited and trained all her life to … Continue reading
Ted 2 is the sequel to Seth McFarland’s raunchy talking teddy bear movie from 2012. Ted was a solidly funny comedy that got a little flabby at the end. Ted 2 is sporadically funny movie that’s flabby, overlong, and overstuffed … Continue reading
Also checked out (mostly blind) the new Ben Stiller dramady While We’re Young. Stiller and Naomi Watts are a married, childless Gen X couple who meet and start hanging out with a millennials played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. … Continue reading
I don’t have any childhood or adult nostalgia or feelings for SpongeBob Squarepants so my feelings for the new Sponge out of Water movie is surface level. This doesn’t mean I’m unfamiliar with the cartoon (of which I’ve seen a … Continue reading
Watched the movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead on iTunes Streaming – it’s billed Mad Max meets zombies and I guess it’s that though not as much as they’d like to think. It’s largely a generic zombie movie set in … Continue reading
Seventh Son is a new fantasy flick out now starring (curiously) Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moor. Drunken knight with marbles in his mouth (Bridges doing an explicable accent) and his apprentice fight witches… or dragons… or bears…. This is another … Continue reading
So Michael Mann’s new action/drama Blackhat just got itself released in January… which is a very bad sign because January is where new releases go to die. This movie stars Chris Hemsworth (aka Thor) as a master computer hacker who … Continue reading
Caught up with Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie Inherent Vice, based on a book (that I have not read) by Thomas Pynchon. It’s a long – very long – rambling incoherent movie that I’d call a complete mess if that … Continue reading
Woman in Black: Angel of Death is the pointless sequel to the Daniel Radcliffe haunted house flick from a few years ago… only now with 100% less Harry Potter! It’s pretty much an in-name-only sequel… I think they had the … Continue reading