Also saw Beautiful Creatures – the new …. Twilight with Witches movie? I guess. Except for some suspect southern accents and an end showdown sequence that was kind of dull, this is a pretty good little … horror? romance? drama? … Continue reading
Saw the flick Silver Linings Playbook – with Bradley Cooper, sexy, sexy Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert DeNiro today… and it’s a great, very very quirky little… romance? comedy? romantic comedy? Dramady? I dunno – but since it was so damn … Continue reading
Saw The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is based on an amazing book from about 10-12 years ago (young adult coming-of-age type novel). As a movie, it makes a fantastic book. As a book, it makes a pretty good … Continue reading
So, I saw Magic Mike today… not my kind of movie, apparently. I couldn’t even appreciate the dancing because it was all so stripper-club skeevy (and, you know, a bunch of dudes). And it wasn’t as much about ambition and … Continue reading
Steve Carell and Keira Knightly star in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World… billed as a kind of romantic comedy, it’s really more of a romance with comedy and tragedy. An asteroid will hit Earth in 21 … Continue reading
Everybody cutloose… not many 80s remakes are good, but the new Footloose was. Kudos to them. Some nice call backs to the original film and I really liked the intro credit sequence that’s a direct, but far less innocent and … Continue reading
This is a better than expected revisionist retelling of Little Red Riding Hood… It’s hardly perfect and gets a little long but I’ve seen a lot worse. My, what big eyes Amanda Seyfried has… not a bad little movie even … Continue reading
Disney’s Tangled is one fantastic movie. It goes right up there with some of the great Disney flicks – like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc. No hesitation on my part. The movie is a hell of a lot of … Continue reading
So every 12 year old girls in Ohio and I went to see the new Twilight flick New Moon… and the audible gasps over various half-naked men was somewhere between amusing and creepy… but, yeah, it’s a serviceable sequel without … Continue reading
Goddamn Brilliant. That’s what Punch Drunk Love is. Totally unpredictable and exhilarating in its direction and editing – you can feel the anxiety oozing from the screen so when Sandler goes off on his usual rage, you can understand it … Continue reading