Director Paul Feig and star Melissa McCarthy are trying to corner the market on bawdy female humor movies. They’ve already made Bridesmaids and The Heat, and now they’re back with Spy, which is a semi-comic, potty-mouthed, fairly bloody spoof of James […]
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Entourage (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
I have never seen anything from the HBO series “Entourage.” Not one minute. I’ve known of it, of course, but I had not been exposed to any of it. Part of that was due to the casting of Adrian Grenier […]
Continue reading »I’ll See You in My Dreams (2015) ☆ ☆
It’s great to see independent movies like this one that spotlight the lives of older people in realistic fashion; contrary to the beliefs of many Hollywood executives, the world does not revolve around the lives of teenagers. There is nary […]
Continue reading »San Andreas (2015) ☆ ☆ 1/2
This epic disaster film is certainly in the running to be the greatest earthquake film ever. In terms of destruction, I think it is; the Hoover Dam, most of Los Angeles and all of San Francisco come crashing, burning or […]
Continue reading »Aloha (2015) ☆ ☆
Some movies are just difficult to quantify, and this is one of them. Viewers do not learn what Aloha is about, at least plot-wise, until the final act. Cameron Crowe’s film is a character piece. We follow a disgraced scientist (Bradley […]
Continue reading »Hot Pursuit (2015) ☆
To my surprise, the first five minutes or so of the new distaff “buddy comedy” Hot Pursuit are pretty solid. The preview presented a comedy that looked positively painful to watch, so I was pleased when the opening sequence was actually […]
Continue reading »Tomorrowland (2015) ☆ 1/2
The good news is that Tomorrowland looks as visionary as its title, from spires stretching into the sky to jet packs; from levitating trains to pools unencumbered by gravity. Tomorrowland implies cool futuristic stuff, and it delivers on that promise. The bad […]
Continue reading »Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Thomas Hardy’s novel has already been made into one terrific film, back in 1967, with Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp. Now director Thomas Vinterberg has fashioned another. The 2015 version is shorter, more compact, and somewhat […]
Continue reading »Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Wow. If ever a one-word review applies to a movie, this is it. Wow. I had some serious misgivings about this movie, being a big fan of both The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Whatever. Director George Miller has resurrected […]
Continue reading »Maggie (2015) ☆ ☆
A trade-off occurs when filmmakers attempt to go against the grain, particularly in genre movies: if the twist or approach is done well enough, or is genuinely effective, they are hailed as visionary (or are at least quietly applauded for […]
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