And saw The Lego Movie, a super cute, very funny animated flick that manages to not be a giant advertisement to Lego the brand, but a giant banner pointing directly at your childhood… at whatever age you were when you … Continue reading
And for something slightly different from I, Frankenstein, I also saw the movie Nebraska… up for a couple of academy awards. Bruce Dern (who I haven’t seen in a long time) plays an old guy who is convinced he’s won … Continue reading
I went to see Saving Mr. Banks – the movie that tells the story of the making of Mary Poppins – or specifically the struggle to get the author of the books (which I didn’t realize existed until I saw … Continue reading
Saw the new con artist / 70s crime drama American Hustle… a very very actorly movie starring a lot of bad 70s clothes, bad 70s hair, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis CK, Robert DeNiro, … Continue reading
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is generally a better movie than the previous Hobbit movie… though even more stuffed with made-up plots that cannot be explained away as stuff from the appendices… but that’s ok… it fleshes out some … Continue reading
Saw the new drama Philomena, a true story about an old Irish lady (Judy Densch) who is looking for the child some terrible nuns took away from her 50 years earlier. Good-natured and funny with some moving and thoughtful scenes. … Continue reading
Also caught the feel-good movie of the year – 12 Years a Slave… starring Chiowetel Edjifoer (I have no idea if I spelled that right), Michael Fassbender (boo hiss), Paul Dano (boo hiss), Paul Giamati (boo hiss), and a bunch … Continue reading
Was gonna go this weekend… but I had to go to the early Thursday 8pm showing of Ender’s Game. Had to. Ender’s Game, the book, is perhaps my favorite novel – read it the first time at 16 or so, … Continue reading
Caught two romantic movies this Sunday… first was Julia Louis Dreyfuss / James Gandolfini’s new mature romantic comedy (with a generic title) Enough Said. A smart, intelligent, and adult (as in, for adults, not “adult”) comedy with a slightly sitcommy … Continue reading
The OTHER romantic flick I saw this Sunday was this utterly predictable romantic teen drama… I SO knew where this was going from minute one and I was NOT disappointed. It was called, get this, “Romeo and Juliet”… yeah, another … Continue reading