I love being surprised by films in the early part of the year. January and February, as we know, is where films get dumped when the companies think they’ve got a stinker and maybe it’ll make a small splash, where any other time of year, it would die a horrible death. But then, every once…
DetailsA submarine thriller in the midst of Oscar season? All the Academy contenders in the theater and you want me to think about seeing a little movie in the weirdly specific submarine niche? Um, ok. In fact, that’s kind of what drew me to it. It NOT an Oscar movie. And hey, it’s got Jude…
DetailsI really loved the trailer to this film. The person that cut the trailer really did their job well, because it made the film look really funny and have a lot of character. It’s not that the trailer lied to us or anything, because it didn’t. Inherent Vice is full of really great characters, and…
DetailsTaken 3 has a tag line of “It Ends Here”. If that’s true, we can all breathe a great sigh of relief. I mean, hey, I LOVE this direction Liam Neeson has chosen for himself the past number of years. He reinvented himself as an action film tough guy. And he’s great at it. And…
DetailsI remember a tragic story in the news a year or so ago about an ex-sniper that was killed on a firing range helping other soldiers that had come home with PTSD. I didn’t realize at first that this film was about the same guy. American Sniper is essentially a biopic about Navy SEAL sniper…
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