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How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a perfect parent/child bonding experience
How to Train Your Dragon 2 is heartrending, heartwarming, and even more exciting than its predecessor is. In a theatre full of excited children there were cheers, and tears and not one perceptible ounce of disappointment. I’m not really sure if you can measure the disappointment of children in ounces, I’m not really sure why […]
A Million Ways to Die in the West finds a dozen ways to laugh
A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane’s epic western comedy presented a million ways to kill a joke. Fortunately, in the barrage of gags enough stuck the landing to keep the film from being terrible. Somehow I suspect MacFarlane understood exactly what he was doing. Comedic the film was all over the […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past delivers thrills, laughs, and Quicksilver.
X-Men: Days of Future past may very well be the best yet of the X-Men franchise. It is, at the very least, the entry I have enjoyed the most. It felt more complete, and well rounded than any of its predecessors. Neither weighed down with origin stories nor over burdened with multiple new characters. Or […]
Tom Hardy phones it in, and drives Locke home
Locke is a restrained and uniquely raw film. It is simultaneously difficult to watch and impossible to ignore. Emotionally it feels agonizingly real and almost unbearably frustrating. Tom Hardy delivers what I believe to be his best performance yet, essentially performing the equivalent of the tango without a partner, tied to a chair. Hardy plays […]
Godzilla will smash his way into your heart
Godzilla is absolutely everything you could, or should, expect from a movie titled Godzilla. That is monstrous amounts of fun. Any serious complaints I could make bounce off the subject matter as if Godzilla really could not give less of a damn what anyone thinks. He is like a pre-historic irradiated and mutated gargantuan honey […]
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a complex and satiating adventure.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is, in my opinion, the best of the Spider-Man movies, and one of the best superhero films so far. They break away from what could be argued as the standard structure for a superhero film as much as possible. It is going to be a definite challenger to Captain America in […]
Disney’s Bears is a beautiful entry-level nature documentary
Given the intended young demographic for this nature documentary, a few things must be forgiven right out of the den. Chief among those is the anthropomorphism of the bears, followed closely by the limited zoological detail presented, and finally the narration. Given that, the film itself is incredibly enjoyable, and offers an insightful look into […]
Karen Gillan is Visceral in Oculus
uneasy all night, and has me staring at my apples suspiciously all day. Overall, it is a mixed bag of good and bad but I still find it to be an enjoyable film. As far as horror films go, far too many rely on cheap tricks and startle tactics. While there is no shortage of […]
Draft Day is commercial yet satisfying.
I did not want to see Draft Day. I am not interested in sports in the slightest, so a film about the NFL Draft was unappealing. The main reason I had for wanting to skip this one is my desire to be objective. If a film subject matter is one I feel I couldn’t be […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is Staggeringly Satisfying
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is not simply a good Marvel movie, it is not just a great superhero movie, and it is not only a spectacular action movie. It is all of the above, and one of the best multi-genre films I have yet see. To quantify my feelings here, let me start by […]
Sabotage is spectacular, for the wrong reasons.
If you want to watch a Schwarzenegger film but Commando, or Last Action Hero is too highbrow and subtle for your taste, I have a film for you. Sabotage is a crime action thriller with all the subtlety of broke stripper demanding tips, complete with a 7th grade vocabulary. It has been a long time […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a Five Star Establishment of The Highest Order
It really is a divine pleasure to witness a delightfully enchanting film ,such as The Grand Budapest Hotel, that I fear I may fail to convey its charm for lack of words. Honestly I do hope I shant fail in my endeavor, however if I happen to slip into the pit of failure know that […]
Muppets Most Wanted might be the next Muppets movie since the last
Muppets Most Wanted is not quite as much fun as a room full of ferrets playing Twister, but it is close. If you have never experienced ferrets playing Twister, then Muppets Most Wanted will be a standard unit of measurement for cinematic fun. The film itself harkens back to the days of self-deprecating Muppet glory, with relentlessly […]
My Angst Gland is Divergent and My Ears Hurt.
Imagine if you will a late 1997-television teen-soap opera set in a post war dystopian society, written by Ayn Rand. That is how I would describe Divergent, except it isn’t that good. If this had been produced for television, there would be time to develop characters, and explain this new caste system before the breakneck […]
Aaron Paul plays down his Need For Speed
Need For Speed is big dumb, expensive, fun, if you are inclined to enjoy watching cars drive fast, recklessly, and crash sometimes, this would be your film. Surprising as it may sound, it also had a fair story, and some pretty entertaining dialogue. Enough so that I, not a car or racing enthusiast, found Need […]
