Also caught the documentary Back in Time which is a making-of the Back to the Future movies, released in time for the 30th anniversary and the Back to the Future Day. It’s available on iTunes and on Netflix. So save … Continue reading
Went to see Goosebumps, the live action big screen adaptation of all of the 90s era Goosebumps novels (and tv show) by R.L. Stine. Having not read those books (or seen the show – though apparently it’s on Netflix), I … Continue reading
Caught the new film about Steve Jobs – which’d be about the third one with yet another on the way. This one is Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and it’s a documentary. Kind of schizophrenic documentary that’s half … Continue reading
Checked out No Escape, the new Owen Wilson/Lake Bell action suspense flick about a married couple and their two young daughters who move to a undisclosed SE Asian country just in time for a military coup. The flick details their … Continue reading
Watched Z for Zachariah on streaming last night (it is also in very limited theatrical release). This is a movie about a girl alone in a valley that miraculously survives a nuclear war. Then a stranger shows up in a … Continue reading
Checked out the new Meryl Streep comedy/drama Ricki and the Flash this weekend and it’s alright. Streep plays an aging rocker in a second rate cover band who rushes home to help her daughter when she is dumped by her … Continue reading
An Honest Liar is a new streaming digital documentary about the life of magician, escape artist, and professional skeptic James “The Amazing” Randi. It’s a fairly good documentary that is really only interesting in some of the vintage film clips … Continue reading
Unfriended is a new horror flick shot completely from the perspective of a single computer screen during an 82 minute Skype video chat (with the additional appearance of YouTube, Facebook, ChatRoulette, Spotify, and other software and services). It’s the one … Continue reading
Went blind into the movie Child 44 which stars Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Noomi Rapace. It’s set in 1950s Soviet Union with Hardy as a member of the Soviet goon squad (secret police) who is investigating a child murderer … Continue reading
Netflix has a new “movie” called Parallels… a sci-fi flick about a building that sends its occupants (four attractive 20 somethings) to alternate earths/realities. Is a high concept with limited scope as far as this movie goes… they jump (or, … Continue reading