Checked out the new film version of Annie… now starring Jamie Foxx as Not-Daddy-Warbucks (he’s cell phone billionaire running for office Will Stacks) and Quevenzhal Wallace (from Beasts of the Southern Wild) as Annie. Just to get it out of … Continue reading
Into the Woods is the film version of a broadway musical that I didn’t know existed until this movie came out. It’s a mash-up of fairy tales (Cinderella, Rapnunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood) that merges … Continue reading
Extraterrestrial is a decent (surprisingly decent) cabin-in-the-woods movie where the monster ruining their vacation is (surprise!) an alien. The movie is almost charming in that it is completely sincere in its desire to tell the most generic story. Not only … Continue reading
The new Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened a little wider this weekend and I caught it. It’s the life story – largely focused on his romance and marriage – of Hawking and his wife Jane. It’s an … Continue reading
(Kirk Cameron’s) Saving Christmas is possibly the weirdest movie I’ve seen in a very long time. The trailer suggests its a defense of Christmas from those horrible people who want to take the Christ out of Christmas (the old ‘War … Continue reading
Went to see the new scary flick Oculus – a movie about an evil mirror (it’s a sub-genre!). It stars Karen Gillen (Amy Pond/Dr. Who) and Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck/BSG) among others and has the basic premise that a brother and … Continue reading
When to see Noah, the biblical disaster movie about a homicidal, genocidal guy who builds an ark with the help of Transformers, defends it from an evil army of evil evil guys, and then gets depressed and hammered. Transformers? Yes, … Continue reading
I wasn’t as impressed by Dallas Buyers Club (Dallas Buyer’s Club? Dallas Buyers’ Club?) as the critics… I found its overall story rather drab in the telling… not as compelling as it wanted to be. Don’t get me wrong, the … Continue reading
300: Rise of an Empire is a side-story and a sequel to the original 300… telling a concurrent naval engagement that happened at the same time as the Battle of Thermopylae (as depicted quite accurately *snort* in 300)… and then … Continue reading
Non-Stop is the newest Liam Neeson modestly-budgeted, drops-early-in-the-year, makes-a-lot-of-money for-its-budget, and is some-level-of-quality-without-being-a-great-movie for 2014. Previous movies in this sub-genre of one would be Taken, Taken 2, The Grey, and Unknown. All of these are some level of modest good … Continue reading