Saw the boilerplate conspiracy thriller Closed Circuit… and you shouldn’t. Not that it’s god-awful, but it’s just kind of slow and talky (and not in a good way) and it should have been smarter (and you can’t cast “That Guy” … Continue reading
So movie this week was back to high school – The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio. I really didn’t like the first 2/3rds of this movie but I’ll admit to finding the final 3rd or so well acted and effectively … Continue reading
With a major dearth of new theatrical releases (I didn’t see Best Man Holiday since it’s a sequel to a 15 year old movie I’d never heard of), I gritted my teeth and went to see the turkey film Free … Continue reading
The true story of a tire that becomes sentient and uses it’s telekinetic powers to explode people’s heads… yeah, it’s not what you would call a serious movie and it’s also what you might call a meta experimental film. A … Continue reading
And you’d think I’d have learned from the previous Death Race (a reboot of a better flick from the 70s)… but that part of me that still wants a good Road Warrior type movie held out hope. Alas, nope. Pretty … Continue reading
So I went to see The Wolfman… and, you know, for as much practical makeup as they appeared to use for the Wolfman, they had CGI bear and elk for close-up work… Anyhoo, I didn’t much like this movie. It … Continue reading
Fantastic 4 was pretty dumb and sometimes wildly illogical but I’ve seen much worse… in the end, the best compliment I can give it was, “Wow. That was fairly pointless”. I mean… the movie happened and then it was over. … Continue reading
The Bad News Bears is a remake of the original 70s flick. Billy Bob Thornton was cast because of Bad Santa, surely, and the movie has – at least early on – a lot of the Bad Santa in it. … Continue reading
Good looking and very bad movie. Not much of a remake – which is fine since why bother remaking the exact film – but they missed what made the first movie effective – and almost unwatchable. Paranoia and claustrophobia – … Continue reading
Hulk was boring. Hulk tried to be a psychological drama about the tortured relationship between father and son and father and daughter… but what that had to do with the Hulk, I don’t know. Plus the origin story was too … Continue reading