Saw a new digital indie film (via iTunes streaming) called Zero Charisma. A low-budget affair about tabletop RPG gamers. And a funny thing happened along the way to it being a generic, stereotype of nerd culture… it turned out to … Continue reading
And I saw the Tom-Hanks-Is-Harassed-by-Pirates-In-A-Movie-With-a-Bad-Title Captain Phillips. This is about the tanker that got hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. And it’s good. I’m not sure it was as good as all the reviews are saying or even that Tom Hanks’ … Continue reading
So Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote and directed a movie (Don Jon – out this weekend) starring a buffed-up version of himself as a goddamn sexual tyranasaur (Predator reference) who makes out with (and dry humps) Scarlett Johansen. But it wasn’t just … Continue reading
So… saw Riddick… the direct sequel to the very good Pitch Black and a lip-service sequel to Chronicles of Riddick (the actual sequel to Pitch Black). After the Riddick franchise went off the rails with the overstuffed, over-ambitious, and doesn’t-feel-like-a-sequel Chronicles, … Continue reading
Went to see the new Woody Allen movie Blue Jasmine… starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, and Andrew Dice Clay (!!!!). It’s a fairly serious drama about a terrible woman coming unraveled after her slimy corporate criminal of a husband (think … Continue reading
Given my (possibly inexplicable) love for the regular-guy-superhero movie Kick-Ass, I was nervous (but hopeful) about the sequel (cleverly called Kick-Ass 2) because, while it has the same cast, it has a new director and the first movie was so … Continue reading
Saw (Lee Daniel’s) The Butler, a very well-acted movie about the civil rights movement and race from the mid 50s through 2008 that incidentally is about a black butler in the White House from Eisenhower through Reagan. It’s got a … Continue reading
Pacific Rim – giant robots punch giant monsters in the FACE… if that sounds stupid to you, don’t see this movie. If that sounds awesome, see this movie. If this sounds secretly awesome but you won’t admit it, sneak out … Continue reading
Saw The Heat – the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy cop comedy – and it probably has more laughs per minute than any movie I’ve seen in awhile… and almost all of them are improv between these two very funny ladies. The … Continue reading
Also caught the Matt Damon eco flick Promised Land on Netflix… a movie about the evils of frakking (hydraulic fracturing – oil drilling by breaking up deposits by forcing water and other chemicals into the ground). It’s very much anti-frakking … Continue reading