Category: Movie Reviews

Jurassic World

I saw the original Jurassic Park in the theater. It was a visceral experience where I was as terrified as those kids being chased by a T-Rex and velociraptors. I wanted to experience that with this movie and the trailer made me believe it could happen, but it failed...

Ex Machina

I have a thing for robot movies, especially ones dealing with artificial intelligence. Even if most of them end up with the same general plot line that artificial intelligence is bad and should not be developed, I still want to watch it. That may bias my opinion of Ex...

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult Directed by: George Miller Written by: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris Rating: R Genre: Action Release Date: 2015 I love a good action movie, but these days most action movies involve so much CGI that it can become mind-numbing. What I really loved...

St. Vincent

The trailer for St. Vincent pretty much tells you the entire story, yet you still want to see it because of Bill Murray. You know that parts of it will be sappy, but still, it has Bill Murray, so could it really be that sappy? It could be, but...

Interstellar

I want to love all Christopher Nolan’s movies since I am such a big fan of Memento, the Batman trilogy and Inception. Then there was Insomnia which I have no desire to ever watch again. I feel like Interstellar might fall into that pile, even though I did enjoy...

Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6 looks like a Pixar film, even though it isn’t. It does come from Walt Disney Animation Studios and since Disney purchased Pixar a few years back, I guess it’s okay if they make a movie that has  the heart of a Pixar film, even if it doesn’t...

Boyhood

Boyhood took 12 years to make because Richard Linklater wanted to show a child growing up with his single mom all the way to going away to college, and he wanted to use the same actor. He convinced Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and the mom of the kid that...

The One I Love

This movie is so weird and will be difficult to explain why without giving too much away, so you’ll have to trust me. For some reason, I thought this movie was from the people that created Safety Not Guaranteed and it has similar vibe to it, even though this is...

Edge of Tomorrow

What if Groundhog’s Day took place in the middle of a war with aliens and you didn’t even get to play with a cute groundhog day after day? This movie is different where in that one Bill Murray’s character only tried to kill himself a few times and even if...

Coherence

A group of eight friends gather for a dinner party on the night of a comet passing overhead.  Things were already tense when one woman is not thrilled when one of the friends brings her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend as his date.  What starts out as a low budget indie where...