Saw Escape Plan – the new Stallone/Schwartzenegger (and 50 Cent as a mastermind hacker!) flick that’s all about escaping from the perfect, inescapable prison. As such, you kind of expect that the prison to be rock-solid and smartly built and … Continue reading
Yeah, Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck slumming it in Runner Runner is about as meh as it could be. You’ve seen it before in any number of other crime movies… young guy seduced by money blah blah blah gets in … Continue reading
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