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Non-Stop, when ‘not bad’ is a compliment.
Non-Stop was contrived but in spite of itself ultimately not bad. I cannot rave about it, but I can’t really kick it around too much. The overall plot was reminiscent of nearly every other film that has preceded it in this genre with a few quick jerks of the story line to keep it from […]
Winter is Coming…back
Game of Thrones returns to HBO April 6th. Mark your calenders, cancel your dates, or not, you do have a DVR right? HBO released the season 4 chapter posters today. Which is your favorite?
Coming Soon Feb 28th
Coming soon to a theaters…. a movie about a murderer on the orient express in the sky, and something about some guy with a persecution complex. Opening February 28 – The Lunchbox (NY, LA) A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk […]
Blu-Ray releases Feb 25
This week on Blu-Ray, or DVD if you are still clinging to that ancient technology, Gravity, Thor, the Third Season of Adventure Time, and one hell of a Harry Potter box set. February 25, 2014 • The 300 Spartans (1962) • Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season (2011-2012) • Adventures of the Penguin […]
Box Office Report Feb 21-23, 2014
This weekend at the box office The LEGO Movie is once again reigning champion while nothing new has opened that has caught attention of the general audience. Both 3 Days to Kill and Pompeii, holding the number two and three spots combined are still about $10 millillion behind The LEGO Movie. RoboCop jumped from the […]
The Wind Rises to such great heights.
The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) is in every respect a beautiful film, a magnificent film for fans of animation, history, and love stories. It is a visual symphony on film. It rises and falls in torrents of beauty and emotion crashing before your eyes. If you allow it, the film will carry you away, and […]
Kevin Costner had 3 Days to Kill, so McG did.
3 Days to Kill was not a bad movie, nor was it a good movie, it lies somewhere between the two. How far the judgment of good or bad will waver from person to person, and even based on mood. It is a movie that is tragically hobbled by its director, McG. Like a teenage […]
Box Office Report Feb 14-16
This weekend The LEGO Movie was untouchable, RoboCop was stiff and unimpressive, along with About Last Night, while there was no love for Winter’s Tale and Endless Love. Meanwhile Frozen is now in the one of the top domestic grossing animated films of all time, and in the top 25 grossing films of all time. […]
Blu-Ray releases Feb 18th
Coming out on Blu-Ray and DVD this week, Game of Thrones: The Complete Third Season, and that is about it. Have yourselves a nice white wedding, and get ready for April. February 18, 2014 • Afternoon Delight (2013) • Apocalypse Pompeii (2014) • Bad Dreams / Visiting Hours (1982-1988) • Battle of the Damned (2013) • […]
Coming Soon to Theatres Feb 21st
Opening this week in theaters, Luc Besson’s 3 Days to Kill, and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu), also some other stuff. February 21 – 3 Days to Kill A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment. […]
Gloria is impressive showcase of Paulina García‘s talent.
To start with full disclosure, I did not love this movie. I was not able to identify, personally, with any of the characters, and the story simply did not spark my interest. However, I can still recognize the quality and caliber of this film, in spite of the fact that I was unmoved by the […]
The Doctor saves Valentine’s day.
Did you know that there is a Doctor Who episode appropriate for just about any holiday or special occasion? Well if you did, congratulations, if you didn’t don’t feel too bad. Also, it has been a while since I’ve been able to write much about my favorite show so I thought I would present to […]
Enjoy a Winter’s Tale this Valentine’s Day
Winter’s Tale is a genuinely fantastical endearing story, both heartwarming and heart wrenching, a non-traditional love story. I had few hopes; the tagline for this movie sold the wrong film. “This is not a true story, this is a love story.” While accurate, it definitely fails to capture the essence of the story, of which […]
Robocop fought the law and I won a settlement for police brutality.
The rebooted RoboCop tries to do several things as a film, and achieves moderate success, in some aspects. As a whole the film misses far more marks than it hit, the marks it did hit make the film entertaining, on the most basic levels. The film is confused, bouncing from satire, to action, to drama […]
Box Office Report February 7-9
This week the box office was dominated by interlocking construction bricks with The LEGO Movie opening at number one by a large margin. A relatively distant second is The Monuments Men, while Ride Along was knocked from the number one spot to number three, and Frozen, is still hanging on at number four. This Weekend […]
