The Witch is a new horror movie set in 1600s New England that has been getting a ton of positive buzz for being a genuinely disturbing, eerie, and scary movie. So I went to an early showing and I big … Continue reading
Saw a Thursday showing of Hail, Caesar, the new Coen Brothers film about 1950s Hollywood starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlet Johanson, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, and a number of other old timers and up-and-comers. Or, … Continue reading
Went to see the new western Jane’s Got a Gun, a defend-the-homestead film starring Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor (among others) that has been summarily dumped in around 500 theaters with almost no marketing and years of development hell. The … Continue reading
Watched the kind of interesting found footage movie JeruZalem via iTunes streaming tonight. This movie seems to want to connect itself to World War Z – it’s set in Jerusalem and the Z in the title is the same font … Continue reading
Also caught the sci-fi/time travel movie Synchronicity which is in limited release but I caught on iTunes digital. It’s a twisty sci-fi movie that seems to be confusing itself for Blade Runner for completely unknown reasons. Seriously, a lot of … Continue reading
Checked out the new Will Farrell / Marc Wahlberg comedy Daddy’s Home – about a regular guy step-dad who has to content with the return of his step kid’s cool / bad-ass dad (I’ll let you guess who guy plays … Continue reading
Went to see The 33, the new movie about the Chilean miners in the cave-in from 2010… and this would be a much better movie in 15 years or so because, right now, it’s only 5 years away and there’s … Continue reading
There’s a new early Christmas movie out this week called Love the Coopers… why a Christmas movie not in December, I can only assume is because December is full of big movies and this can’t compete. Well, if that’s the … Continue reading
Checked out the movie Suffragette which I think just opened wide (or expanded). This is a movie about women’s right to vote in England in 1912 and is very serious and I, I suspect, a big Oscar hopeful. I’m not … Continue reading
So I checked out Peanuts with every mom, dad, and child this weekend so I didn’t feel outnumbered at all! Basically this is the CGI version of the classic Peanuts characters and the most important thing to say is that … Continue reading