Office Christmas Party is about an office Christmas Party. It’s the Chicago branch, part of a larger corporation with headquarters in New York. The founder of the company is dead; his daughter Carol (Jennifer Aniston) is now the CEO while son (and younger brother) Clay (T.J. Miller from Silicon Valley) runs Chicago. She’s uptight and awful and not…
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT It’s a war movie. You’re bringing your kids to a war movie. Remember the recrimination of the adult nerd/dork/geeks of the world when the first prequel came out? No way any of those people say this film is “for babies.” I felt slightly tricked into…
Welcome to another week of entertainment surprises, delights, and disappointments. We’re off! In this week’s “Money for the Rogue” story, Rogue One has taken in about $29 million in it’s opening Thursday night, which isn’t bad at all, even it it is less impressive than The Force Awakens early earnings at the time. I wouldn’t…
Gareth Edwards’ (and, it must be acknowledged, Tony Gilroy’s) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is sensational, a thrilling, spectacularly crafted action-adventure tale set in the Star Wars universe. Unburdened by the weight of expectation, and J.J. Abrams’ almost pathological addiction to fan service, this “stand-alone” romp is more fun, more thrilling and just a better movie…
Jackie, a film about the preparations for John F. Kennedy’s funeral as experienced by his widow Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman), is a relentlessly sad hundred minutes, a close-up dissection of one person’s intensely painful grief combined with unique, almost unimaginable pressure. Fuelled by a baroque string-heavy score by Under The Skin maestro Mica Levi, the film, directed…
Sometimes a movie comes along that challenges me to figure out what’s wrong with it. I KNOW The Founder is imperfect, but it was hard to put my finger on why, initially. It’s certainly not a bad film, but it’s key fault left me feeling, well, NOT feeling. The Founder is the story of how…
Welcome to the next installment of culled infotainment from the world of movies and stuff! There’s bound to be some great, some bad, and some weird, news to peruse! Let’s mush! In this week’s “Feed me, Seymour!” story, Warner Bros. is moving forward with its’ updated version of The Little Shop of Horrors. Greg Berlanti…
The other horror movie I saw was one simply called The Monster. But the film isn’t so simple as its’ title. This is one of those horror movies that isn’t about what you think. The Monster is really a drama dressed as a horror film. Kathy is a mom that can’t get herself back on track after…
Nothing says “Holiday Season” like horror movies. Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, but I just saw a couple and since we’re well past the Halloween season, I just thought I’d talk about them here. i’ll do two separate reviews, and the first one is The Eyes of My Mother. I heard a lot of…
After a stressful week or so, I’m back with another roller-coaster of film news! It’s all over the place with shocking and brain-debilitating information! In this week’s”Get off my set!” story, director Gareth Edwards says that George Lucas showed up on set while he was shooting Rogue One and bestowed some words of wisdom. Lucas…