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
Paper Towns is the new movie based on the John Green novel of the same name (who also wrote The Fault In Our Stars). It’s a teen road trip caper comedy drama… and it’s pretty good but not entirely engaging … Continue reading
Checked out the new romance / magical realism flick The Age of Adeline (which released one week before it’s sequel Age of Ultron!) Adeline is about a young lady (played by the lovely Blake Lively) who, in the 1920s, gets … Continue reading
The new film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is certainly a curios thing. It’s an American/Iranian black and white vampire romance (in Farsi subtitled in English) set in a dying industrial city in maybe-Iran? Maybe not? The city … Continue reading
Of late, the new live-action Cinderella is kind of a fascinating approach to a classic fairy tale remake. Consider Maleficent, Snow White and the Hunstman, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Time, and others… most of these recent fairy tale … Continue reading
I went to see Fifty Shades of Gray this weekend having smartly avoided going to it over Valentine’s Day weekend and then this weekend in between bouts of snowfall. So is Fifty Shades the movie any good? Well, from a … Continue reading
Inexplicably, incomprehensibly, and almost impossibly, I went to see the new CG family film Strange Magic and I came away charmed. Based on reviews, I may be the only person who walked out of the movie with a smile. I … 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
So the timing was right and, after a few weeks of release, I slunk into the latest Nicholas Sparks movie, the Best of Me. An uneven romantic flick about an older couple who meet up after 20 years of being … Continue reading
The Fault in Our Stars is a pretty great book turned into a pretty great (but not as great) movie. For those who have read the book, this is one of the most accurate conversions from book to movie… which … Continue reading