Viva Amiga is a new documentary (available on iTunes) about the Commodore Amiga computer from 1985 (and on). It’s a relatively short documentary and doesn’t go into nearly enough detail and then spends the final fifteen minutes or so talking … Continue reading
Caught up on the Assassin’s Creed movie… this is the Michael Fassbender-led flick based on the long-running Ubisoft series of video games. It’s a kind of given that movies based on video games are bad with a tiny handful of … Continue reading
Office Christmas Party is, amazingly enough, a movie about an office Christmas Party. It’s a comedy with a great cast of comedic actors such as: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, TJ Miller, Kate McKinnon, Rob Corddry, Vanessa Bayer, and … Continue reading
Went to see the new Brad Pitt WW2 spy flick Allied over the weekend. This is the new flick by Robert Zemeckis though it doesn’t really feel like it. This is the dude who directed Back to the Future, The … Continue reading
The Space Between Us is about the first astronauts to colonize Mars… and it turns out the flight commander is pregnant and gives birth on Mars (and then promptly dies). Her boy grows up on Mars among scientists and meets … Continue reading
Checked out Inferno, the latest Tom Hanks film based on the Dan Brown novels about Robert Langdon: professional symbologist (previous movies: Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons). This film is alright. It’s ok. It is very competently shot and … Continue reading
Checked out the new Tom Cruise action flick Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the sequel to the original Jack Reacher from a couple years ago. That was a surprisingly decent, low-ambition, narrow scoped action flick – not really great but … Continue reading
Went to see the new Miles Teller/Jonah Hill arms dealer movie War Dogs. This is the apparently true story of a couple out-of-their-depths 20 somethings who become arms merchants for the US military during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Apparently … Continue reading
Also rented the movie Mr. Right starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, and Tim Roth. It’s a little movie about Kendrick, bouncing back from a bad breakup, running into a wacky weirdo played by Sam Rockwell. Rockwell tells her he’s an … Continue reading
My opinion on Pixar’s new sequel Finding Dory is moot since I’m the monster who really doesn’t like Finding Nemo. Now that you are done recoiling in horror, I will say that I think Finding Dory is at least a … Continue reading