Eight seasons and a movie! Eat your heart out, Community! Yes, movie star Vinnie Chase and his entourage – older brother Johnny Drama, best friend/manager E (for Eric), and driver/mascot Turtle – are back in all their bromantic glory. The only difference being that this time they’re on the big screen. Well, that and they’re […]
Category: Movie Reviews
San Andreas: Cheesily Spectacular Summer Fun!
What could bring a broken family back together? The mother of all earthquakes, a tsunami and a bit of luck. No, really. And, though more than a little cheesy, it works gloriously!
Tomorrowland Goes Big, Just Misses!
The first half of Tomorrowland is a fun romp that will delight kids of all ages. Unfortunately, the second half is an abundance of ideas that, a few great action beats aside, will go over the heads of a large portion of the movie’s intended audience.
Mad Max: Fury Road – Gonzo Chase Movie Is Pure Max!
George Miller has done something genuinely impressive with Mad Max: Fury Road – he’s made Max part of an ensemble – and not even the biggest part of the ensemble – and it works. Brilliantly! Fury Road is thinly plotted – a tyrant’s five breeding wives are taken to freedom by a formerly trusted female […]
Pitch Perfect 2 Is Aca-Frikkin Awesome!
It’s not often you get a sequel that surpasses the original, but it’s happened with the aca-frikkin’ awesome Pitch Perfect 2. Written by Kay Cannon (who wrote the first one) and directed by first-timer Elizabeth Banks, PP2 is sharper edged, more focused and has refined the vulgar-to-sweet ratio to a tee.
The Connection – The Other Side Of The French Connection!
In look, feel, and tone – as well as subject – The Connection is a companion piece to William Friedkin’s classic The French Connection as it follows former juvenile magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) from dealing directly with young victims of the drug trade to actually being in a position to fight the organized crime […]
Hot Pursuit: Not Quite a Female Midnight Run!
Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon plays the wife of a would-be snitch and the buttoned-down cop sent to escort her to trial. When two different pairs of assassins kill the husband, the two women go on the run. Despite terrific chemistry between Vergara and Witherspoon (whose production company developed the film), Hot Pursuit only hits […]
Maggie – Tender-Hearted, Creepy Undead Movie!
Morning, and the NPR announcer is filling in the details of the day ahead – new outbreaks of something called the Necroambulist Virus are down 30%. A young girl is stopped by police for missing curfew. Later we see a man, Wade Vogel, driving an old truck into town and visiting a quarantine area. We […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron – Super Superhero Fun!
Three years ago, Joss Whedon’s Marvel’s The Avengers blew everyone away by taking a group off characters who should never have been in the same room together and making us believe that they could save the world together. It was fresh and new and shiny. Avengers: Age of Ultron is not fresh and new and […]
The Age of Adaline – A Sweeping Romance in Every Sense of the Word!
The Age of Adaline is an old-fashioned romance – in every sense of the word. There’s a love story, of course, but also adventure and the two weave together in unexpectedly delightful ways. Adaline Bowman was 1906’s New Year’s baby. When she was twenty-nine, a confluence of events made her immortal. She married, had a […]
While We’re Young – Coming Of Middle Age!
While We’re Young may not be Noah Baumbach’s best film (I can’t quite decide between Margot at the Wedding, Frances Ha and The Squid and the Whale), but it is certainly his most enjoyable – and commercially viable. It’s the story of a fortysomething couple who begin hanging around with a twentysomething couple and learning […]