The Meg is a new giant shark movie and one that was mismarketed. The trailers suggested a goofy, self-aware, more SyFy channel-like-but-with-a-big-budget movie… instead its a more serious (to the extent a giant shark movie can be) movie with a … Continue reading
Also caught The Spy Who Dumped Me, a new action comedy starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon. Based on the trailers, I went into this expecting little and was mildly surprised… at least for the first hour. The film … Continue reading
The Hotel Transylvania animated flicks have always hovered around the levels of ok to fair… so naturally I went to see Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation last night. And it’s amusing… you might even say its ok to fair. I … Continue reading
The new film Hotel Artemis is as pulp as pulp fiction crime drama/action flicks get. It’s about a hospital for criminals in near-future Los Angeles. It stars a weird cavalcade of actors who are sometimes better than the material, sometimes … Continue reading
Checked out the new suspense film Bad Samaritan… a movie so obscure, I never saw a trailer for it and that’s a challenge when you see as many movies as I do. I don’t even think they had a poster … Continue reading
Chappaquiddick is the surprisingly hard-to-spell name of the new film about Ted Kennedy and that time he ran off a bridge and managed to not save the girl in the car with him. And then didn’t report it to the … Continue reading
Also saw the movie 7 Days in Entebbe which is about a terrorist hijacking of an Air France flight in 1976. Based on a true story, it follows a German/Palestinian hijacked plane that is rerouted to Entebba, Uganda. The passengers … Continue reading
The remake of aging tough guy Charles Bronson’s Death Wish now stars aging tough guy Bruce Willis in a film of the same name. The original was filmed around the time of a real subway vigilante killing in NYC. The … Continue reading
A new romantic / magical realism teen/YA film named Every Day sneaked into theaters this weekend. I saw one trailer only and, by the way the movie opens, you aren’t supposed to know the twist and I feel bad for … Continue reading
Went to see an Old Testament religious movie… a modern retelling of the Samson (and Delilah) story. I went in not expecting much having only maybe seen one trailer months ago… and was modestly surprised by the flick. It’s both … Continue reading