Stop WHATEVER you’re doing right now and get tickets to see this film. Mad Max: Fury Road is just too good to pass up. This is a BIG screen film. I even saw it at the main screen at the Chinese Theater, IMAX, Real LASER 3-D, and I was impressed on all counts. Same premise…
Wait, so, this is a small independent zombie thriller staring Arnold Schwarzenegger? Really? I would not have thought Arnold would take such a low key role that frankly, doesn’t put him in the spotlight. But, here it is. In a post zombie virus-infected world, Arnold plays Wade, a husband, and father to daughter Maggie, who…
Well, this is interesting. Two reviews of the Avengers sequel. And they’re different. Like CJ, I didn’t read a lot of Avengers comics. But I did read them occasionally. I couldn’t tell you a lot about their overall plot lines and such, but I knew enough about the characters to be aware of them and…
April can be a month where good films go to be alone. If it’s not a high profile movie taking advantage of the pre-summer blockbuster season, like Furious 7, then it can go unnoticed without enough marketing. Such is the case with True Story, a film I don’t think I even saw one TV trailer…
For all the talking we do at the Comedy Film Nerds gargoyle garage about how hard it is to find really good science fiction these days, I have to admit that I’m impressed with 2015 so far. We already have two great sci-fi films and we’re only a quarter of the way into the year.…
Annie, the stage musical, is pretty hoary, but boy is it fun. So is this somewhat inventive, relentlessly sunny update – to a point. If I was a nine year old girl, this would be the best movie I could even imagine. Who cares about the plot? An orphan wants to “find” her parents; instead…
Jupiter Ascending *** (out of five) You get an awful lot of movie for your sixteen – or whatever – bucks with The Wachowski’s Jupiter Ascending, a crazy, fun, infuriating, difficult, fun, bonkers, expensive, fun, ludicrous, romantic, fun flick. It is flawed but is full of… fun. I had a great, cheesy time. Jupiter Jones (surely a…
When I first saw the trailer I was a little shocked to tell you the truth. I was expecting a movie that would be a darker version of Mr. Holland’s Opus. Wrong. This is one heavy music related drama that holds nothing back. J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller are amazing. They both give solid performances…
There’s a lot of spitfire razzle-dazzle but barely any wit, panache or charm in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman The Secret Service, a huge bloated misfire of a movie that sits like a spew stain on the impeccable jacket of Colin Firth’s body of work. While the bounteous fight sequences have verve and style, the rest…
If I had a time machine I would go back to the Comedy Film Nerds podcast episode 253 and stop Chris Mancini from bullying me into seeing this film. He needs to be stopped. This kind of evil will bring us all down, someone must take a stand. For without him I never would have…