Category Archives: In Theaters

Hidden Figures: Worth Seeing

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Steve

Firstly, I thought it was weird that 20th Century Fox made this movie. Then I remembered how the crew at The Simpsons said Murdoch doesn’t really care what the entertainment division does, as long as its profitable, thus it can contradict his propaganda-hate … Continue reading →

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The Edge of Seventeen: Worth Seeing

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Steve

This coming-of-age flick was sadly released in the midst of the holiday movie season which is a bad move 99% of the time. Maybe Seventeen will get a second wind through streaming because I personally feel it belongs in the pantheon … Continue reading →

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La La Land: Must See!

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Steve

Musicals in the modern era tend to fall into three camps for me. Film adaptations of musicals that had successful Broadway runs (The Producers, Into the Woods); remakes of past musical movies (nothing comes to mind but I know it’s … Continue reading →

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Rogue One: Must See

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Steve

A Star Wars movie without a Skywalker focus was a rather risky move but holy crap, the people behind Rogue One pulled it off! The main impetus to the film’s success was pursuing a different style. While Star Wars tends to be a … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Worth Seeing

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Steve

This was a nice spin-off from the Harry Potter series which I found boring two movies in but I will always have a favorable attitude to the novels because getting children to enjoy reading is critical. Somara told me the “book” … Continue reading →

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Nerdland: utter disappointment

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Steve

This animated feature starring Patton Oswalt, Paul Rudd, Garfunkel & Oates and a plethora of [Adult Swim] standbys via production company Titmouse (The Venture Brothers) should’ve been funny, it had everything going for it. Then again, The Star Wars Holiday Special … Continue reading →

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Moana Worth Seeing

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Steve

A new take on the princess formula with better songs than the über redundant hit from Frozen. I had no idea that Dwayne Johnson could sing. The premise, the usual, a strong young woman upsetting the status quo. In Moana’s case, … Continue reading →

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Arrival: Acquired taste

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Steve

It’s great to see some more cerebral Sci-Fi! Not the usual explosion-laden, aliens-as-a-surrogate for an Other America is supposed to hate. I’m amazed this movie even got made but I guess the studio approved Arrival when they looked at the cast. … Continue reading →

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The Wanderers digitally restored

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Steve

I only remember seeing some parts of The Wanderers when it was on HBO around 1980, I think. By today’s standards, it would be a PG-13 movie due to the violence. According to its history, the movie tanked upon release but … Continue reading →

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Doctor Strange: Worth Seeing

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Steve

Marvel did it again with their recycled origin story! Hero is a jerk/no-goodnik, hero has humiliating experience, hero goes through the process of learning new powers and hero gets skilled enough to defeat the villain. Could be a synopsis of Iron … Continue reading →

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: Rental

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Steve

Another instance of the good Tim Burton directing this ho-hum movie about peculiar (weird) children; more like a Victorian X-Men that doesn’t fight other mutants. I can’t help feeling Peregrine is a poor attempt at competing with the Harry Potter franchise. The whole premise … Continue reading →

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Idiocracy: ten years later screening

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Steve

Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to watch a tenth anniversary screening of Mike Judge’s second sleeper hit and somewhat prescient film Idiocracy. Alamo and a series of other art-house theaters screened the movie simultaneously while bookending the movie with … Continue reading →

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Storks: Rental

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Steve

This could’ve been worse. I was really drawn to it in the hopes of more Goldbergian machinery as the trailer showed. Instead it’s just a buddy/road trip flick as the stork named Junior and human called Tulip travel to deliver … Continue reading →

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Ghostbusters (2016) not even worth renting

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Steve

Let me get this out of the way…I never liked the original Ghostbusters neither. It was a huge letdown from the team that gave the world funnier stuff such as Stripes, Caddyshack, Meatballs, Animal House and to a lesser extent The Blues Brothers. I laughed … Continue reading →

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Blazing Saddles memorial show

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Steve

I’ve seen this movie several dozen times but never on the big screen. My parents did and I vaguely recall that day, we (my brother and me) were ditched at Grandma’s house for the afternoon. Alamo’s copy had been played … Continue reading →

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