Caught the new movie Acrimony… aka Tyler Perry’s Acrimony… yes, this is a Tyler Perry movie… one of his morality plays, not a comedy and not starring Medea. Whether that makes it better or worse of about the same, I’ll … Continue reading
Checked out the latest (hey I thought he retired) movie from Steven Soderberg… Unsane. This is one of this artsy fartsy director’s weird experimental genre pics… in this case, it’s his take on the old insane asylum movie. You know … Continue reading
Also saw the movie 7 Days in Entebbe which is about a terrorist hijacking of an Air France flight in 1976. Based on a true story, it follows a German/Palestinian hijacked plane that is rerouted to Entebba, Uganda. The passengers … Continue reading
Checked out the new Jennifer Lawrence-led spy movie Red Sparrow tonight. It’s a dull, boring movie that tries to be seductive and sexy but face-plants badly. Set in Russia during what, at first, seems like the 80s (until someone … Continue reading
Rented an eerie little Norwegian-language movie called Thelma on iTunes the other night. It’s about a sheltered Christian girl who goes to university in Oslo where she starts having seizures. Could these seizures be the work of the devil, a … Continue reading
Rented a cerebral WTF sci-fi suspense, art-house, almost experimental flick called Black Hollow Cage on iTunes tonight. A cold, distant, austere meditation on grief with multiple sci-fi concepts, barely explained and barely interested in explaining. It’s a head trip of … Continue reading
Checked out the new Spielberg directed, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep starring movie The Post last night. This is the film about the Washington Post and their risky move to publish articles on the Pentagon Papers. Those were the stolen … Continue reading
Also rented on ITunes (also available on YouTube Red – their paid service) the film The Thinning. If you watch enough YouTube, you know this as the film that tells you how many sides a pentagon has before you hit … Continue reading
Checked out the new Matt Damon film Suburbicon and my main take-away is that the trailers are full of lies and are deliberately hiding the more uncomfortable content lest they turn off potential ticket buyers. But that’s just marketing, it … Continue reading
Only the Brave is the most generic title for a movie that’s actually pretty unique by today’s standards. It’s based on the true story of a group of Hotshot firefighters. Apparently a Hotshot firefighter is kind of a green beret … Continue reading