Also checked out the kid’s flick Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. This is the fourth film in the series and it is kind of a reboot in that they recast everyone… which makes sense for the kid … Continue reading
Also checked out – a few weeks late – the new Smurfs: The Lost Village movie. This is technically Smurfs 3 but is being treated as a reboot of the series. Which is for the best given how not-so-good the … Continue reading
To say the new Power Rangers movie is a gritty reboot of the tv series is kind of a given – since just about anything would feel like a gritty reboot of a show made for hyperactive five year olds. … Continue reading
Life is the new sci-fi/horror film about astronauts investigating a life form brought back from Mars. Predictably, things don’t go well. Unpredictably, the movie takes itself very seriously and has a mind towards real science. Unfortunately, it doesn’t realize it’s … Continue reading
The Belko Experiment is the other new movie released this weekend – call it major hail-Mary counter-programming to Beauty and the Beast. It’s got a premise that’s devious and sick and could make for a good movie… American workers at … Continue reading
Checked out Kong: Skull Island the, derp, latest King Kong flick. The general feeling is: it’s ok. It’s alright. It gets the job done but not without much flavor or brilliance. You can take it or leave it. Which is … Continue reading
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