I love the James Bond films, which have been being made almost as long as I have been alive. I didn’t see my first Bond film until the mid-1970s; it was Diamonds are Forever, and I was hooked immediately. While I […]
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Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) ☆ ☆
Everyone and their mothers are trying to devise new, clever ways to employ zombies in mainstream entertainment (look soon for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for instance). Zombies are the hottest ticket going, so putting zombies up against Scouts (not Boy […]
Continue reading »Our Brand is Crisis (2015) ☆ ☆
American political strategists are employed in Bolivia, to help orchestrate the campaigns of rival presidential candidates. One of the strategists, Billy Bob Thornton, is a smooth-talking operator with no discernible scruples; the other, Sandra Bullock, has been pummeled by life […]
Continue reading »The Martian (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
It’s time to save Matt Damon again. First, Saving Private Ryan; then Interstellar. Now he’s all alone on Mars in The Martian, with the entire world awaiting word on whether he will make it back home to Earth. Ridley Scott’s film, based on […]
Continue reading »The Intern (2015) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Once upon a time Robert De Niro was among the greatest of our actors. He still has the talent, but three decades of mostly mediocre movies and some outright junk has dulled his reputation and overly familiarized his persona. But […]
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