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Kingsman: Worth Seeing
An odd risk taken by Hollywood because R-rated movies tend to fail financially but I guess the bean counters took a chance due to this being handled by the guy behind Kick Ass, Layer Cake and some other hyper-violent flicks. I liked it since … Continue reading
Rest in Peace Leonard Nimoy
The man who really made Mr. Spock a feasible, memorable and well-loved character has passed away. Leonard Nimoy did such a great job that it made the character’s death at the end of Star Trek II a pop culture touchstone. However, … Continue reading
Happy 47th Birthday Molly Ringwald
Glad I remembered this year because it’s the 30th anniversary of The Breakfast Club in theaters. I never saw it in the theater during its debut but I do remember hearing Simple Minds’ hit being played to death all Spring and Summer. … Continue reading
The Imitation Game: Worth Seeing
Alan Turing has been having a belated comeback in the same style as Tesla, except, I think Turing’s accomplishments are more verifiable now that much of Enigma and Ultra have been declassified. Modern computers can blow away whatever the participants … Continue reading
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Tagged Drama, Forties, WWII
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A rare time Rolling Stone and I agree
Well, the list does entail the Seventies which was the last decade the ol’ Hippie rag knew anything about when it came to music. Given some turkeys, they should’ve trimmed it down to 30 or 40 because I’m not a fan … Continue reading
Into The Woods Rental
My short review is…Into the Woods? More like Into the Exposition! Not Sondheim’s best musical given how every other song sounded like a recap of the plot. For those not familiar with the original Broadway show from the late Eighties (me … Continue reading
Big Eyes Worth Seeing
The good news is the Tim Burton who makes the movies I like without regret years later showed up to make this adaptation from the same duo responsible for Ed Wood. Any bad news? Nothing too serious other than I’m rather … Continue reading
RIP: Taylor Negron
He was never the star in many roles you saw him in but I found him memorable. The son-in-law from Easy Money The terrible mailman from Better Off Dead The muscle, threatening Bruce Willis in The Last Boy Scout The pizza delivery guy … Continue reading
RIP Christine Cavanaugh
To the world she’ll forever be known as the voice of the sheep-herding pig Babe, a movie I will never deny made me well up at the end. Sadly, due to a financial dispute EG Daily took her place in the weirder, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cartoons, Dexter's Laboratory, Obit, Rugrats
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The Hobbit part three Worth Seeing*
* – Once again my caveat on the “Worth Seeing” rating sticks around to warn those who aren’t familiar or enthused about Tolkien’s better works being brought to life for three hours at a stretch. This time though, even I was … Continue reading
1974: Young Frankenstein debuts
Mel Brooks was on a roll 40 years ago. First Blazing Saddles spoofing Westerns (a dying genre then) followed by a spoof of the traditional Horror films, namely the old Universal films as they’re known by. I never got to see … Continue reading
The Theory of Everything: Worth Seeing
Science and Reality have received some serious boosts lately: the success of the new Cosmos; the well-deserved ridicule the Texas SBOE got for their moronic recommendations in textbooks (most were left out); new discoveries with space probes; the Lego set with the … Continue reading
Big Hero 6: Worth Seeing
Disney’s first outing with a non-standard Marvel property succeeds so well, you could call this The Incredibles 2. The former master then student has returned to being the master given how lame Pixar’s last couple releases were. With John Lasseter as head … Continue reading
Dumb and Dumber To: Rental at Best
It seems the Jim Carrey everyone loved back in the Nineties has returned but I was more stoked about Jeff Daniels. I probably went with my expectations set too high given this was a Farrelly Brothers movie and the original … Continue reading
Interstellar: Rental at Best
The defending mantra I’ve heard from Interstellar‘s fans have been, “it’s just a movie.” It sure was, a movie with a mediocre plot and terrible science pushing it through. I’m in the same camp as Dr. Plait, I can accept a … Continue reading