Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is, surprise, about as good a comedy sequel as the original Neighbors (which was a good, but not great flick). In this film, the married couple played by Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne are selling their … Continue reading
Checked out Sing Street, the latest movie from the Irish filmmaker who made the movies Once (which won best song for Falling Slowly a few Oscars ago) and Begin Again (a perfectly charming movie about music too). Sing Street is … Continue reading
Watched Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Where to Invade Next”… which sounds like a screed against the military/industrial complex but is actually just a bit of shtick he used to travel around Europe finding cool ideas. He pretends to invade that … Continue reading
Went to see the new “live action” Jungle Book, the remake of the Disney version of the classic novels. I put quotes around live action since, really, is it live action if the only thing that isn’t animated is the … Continue reading
Watched the academy award nominated film Brooklyn. This is about a young Irish woman who moves from Ireland to Brooklyn to find a better life with more opportunity. Set in 1952, this is a sweet, gentle, earnest, adorable, lovely, and … Continue reading
Went to see Race, the new flick about how Jessie Owens went to the 1936 Olympics and punched Hitler in the eye. Metaphorically. This is a good (but not great) movie that’s just as much about those Berlin Olympics as … Continue reading
Checked out the 2015 film Being Evel, a documentary (co-produced by Johnny Knoxville) about famed 70s daredevil Evel Knievel. I had his toy crank bike as a kid but I had no real idea his story and this flick covers … Continue reading
The Revenant is the new Leonardo DiCaprio wilderness survival movie from director Alejandro Inaritu who made Birdman last year. This is a long, grueling film depicting a Man vs. Nature storyline at its most primal. All filmed in location in … Continue reading
Caught an early showing of Quentin Tarrentino’s new movie The Hateful 8 – a kind of locked-room pot-boiler of a western. Eight people in the old west are snowed in during a blizzard and tensions run hot and dialog and … Continue reading
Also caught Trumbo, the new biopic about Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood writers brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s and then black-listed. He wrote such films as Johnny Got His Gun, Roman Holiday, and Spartacus… … Continue reading