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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Having liked the first Hotel Transylvania, I’ve been looking forward to this sequel. It’s cute and clever, though not as good as the original. It also seems to abandon its major theme at its action-packed climax. Par for the course as […]
Continue reading »Ten War Film Performances That Should Have Been Nominated for Academy Awards
The Ten: (arranged chronologically) 1955 Henry Fonda, Mister Roberts Actor 1956 Eddie Albert, Attack Supporting Actor 1956 Jack Palance, Attack Actor 1962 Robert Mitchum, The Longest Day Supporting Actor 1964 George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove… Actor 1970 Karl Malden, Patton […]
Continue reading »Psycho (1960) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
I was lucky in my formative years to see many vintage films in actual theaters, where they are seen to best advantage. Thanks to Fathom Events, we still have that opportunity. Today I was able to revisit Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest […]
Continue reading »Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
Last year I gave the first Maze Runner film a two-and-a-half star review, mainly because it took so long to reveal its true premise. The premise is much clearer in this sequel, also directed by Wes Ball, and this one is much […]
Continue reading »Learning to Drive (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
I saw this today, right after A Walk in the Woods. Both films are being released by Broad Green Pictures, a newer company with which I have not been familiar. There are many similarities between the two movies, and both are […]
Continue reading »A Walk in the Woods (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
Movies about older people don’t have to be sad, pedantic or even nostalgic. A Walk in the Woods is a darned funny tale of two men challenging the Appalachian Trail, just because. When those two men are Robert Redford and […]
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