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Category Archives: In Theaters
300: Rise of an Empire: Acquired Taste
Seven years later, 300 receives a sequel. A “coquel” is what many seem to call Rise because this movie depicts how Themistocles and the Athenian navy kept Leonidas and his 300 Spartans from being flanked by the Persians. Any further facts to the … Continue reading
The Lego Movie: Must See
For once, a movie based upon a well-loved toy isn’t an 80-minute commercial or a Michael Bay piece of crap! Pardon my cynicism but the Lego brand isn’t tied to anything decent if you watch the Cartoon Network, see Ninjago and Chima. The premise begins … Continue reading
The Monuments Men: Don’t Bother
A rather schmaltzy synopsis about how the (Western) Allied Forces undertook semi-dangerous missions to recover stolen artwork from the Nazi regime. We also went despite tepid reviews because The Lego Movie was sold out and we had free tickets to iPic, a … Continue reading
American Hustle Worth Seeing
Using the closing days of the Seventies might be popular since Argo won an Oscar® and let’s face it, the clothes back then border on clown costumes today! In all seriousness, Hustle was another demonstration that sometimes Hollywood lets people like David O. … Continue reading
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The Hobbit part two: Worth Seeing*
* – Still keeping my caveat to the “Worth Seeing” rating to warn those who aren’t familiar or enthused about Tolkien’s better works being brought to life for three hours at a stretch. Smaug picks up where Unexpected left off but … Continue reading
Thor, the Dark World: Worth Seeing
I still stand by recommendation of the first Thor movie but I’ve always felt it was the weakest of the other Avengers movies. The hero’s journey part was cool. The letdown was the threat…a giant furnace monster. When the supporting characters steal the … Continue reading
Gravity: Worth Seeing
Gravity deserves every nickel it has earned despite the October 2013 competition being rather weak. Director Alfonso Cuarón provides a non-stop, 90-minute terror-filled experience from Dr. Ryan Stone’s perspective. What begins as the final day of a routine shuttle mission to repair … Continue reading
Joe Bob Briggs II for The Love God?
I have this horrible, horrible backlog of cool stories I want to share with you all that date back to some point last year. I’m finally digging out, one at a time. I may even get a few completed while … Continue reading
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Riddick: Acquired Taste
Riddick is the true successor to the surprise hit Pitch Black that propelled Vin Diesel into being an action hero. Chronicles is the Highlander 2 Electric Boogalo in the Riddick franchise. Thankfully the people behind making this decided to return to what many call hard … Continue reading
The World’s End: Worth Seeing
Sadly this brings the Pegg-Frost-Wright Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy to a gratifying end by putting an English spin on the current “end of the world” genre being done to death. Actually, it’s more accurately an alien invasion movie (commercials … Continue reading
Elysium: Worth Seeing/Rental
Neil Blomkamp returns with another dystopian tale about the near future. There isn’t a strong social message like District 9; it’s there but the action-flick/intrigue angles drown out any possibility of this being a strong, anti-One Percent tale. Elysium not being liked as much as 9 could … Continue reading
R.I.P.D.: Don’t Bother
Short version…this movie was made 16 years ago, was equally crappy and called Men in Black. The twist? These heroes hunt malevolent dead spirits instead of aliens. Not very original there neither, SyFy when it was SciFi had something similar called G v. … Continue reading
The Way, Way Back: Worth Seeing
The majority of coming-of-age movies are either really great because they nail the emotional element about the transition, or they’re incredibly lame, contrived, cliché and are a marketing vehicle for Disney’s latest tweener slave. Fortunately, Way is in the former category for … Continue reading
Pacific Rim: Worth Seeing!
Finally! A Summer 2013 movie that isn’t a sequel, was actually rendered in 3-D (not converted) and didn’t suck! The comparisons to Transformers or Japanese Anime are grossly misinformed. Pacific is our fantasy response to Godzilla-like attacks if we didn’t have a giant monster … Continue reading
Monsters University: Rental
So far the Summer Movies of 2013 have been rather mediocre. Monsters University was one film I was stoked about seeing because I loved Monsters, Inc. Sequels are often cynical ploys by Hollywood’s accountants to make a quick, lazy buck but Pixar proved this criticism … Continue reading