Although this isn’t really my kind of movie and I will probably never see it again, I must admit that I enjoyed Maleficent. If its inconsistencies could have been avoided it would be well worth watching; as it is, it’s […]
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Ida (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
This Polish drama from Pawel Pawlikowski is about as far removed from a Hollywood movie as can be produced. It is slowly paced, made with long, static camera shots using only natural light, about a character who rarely talks or […]
Continue reading »The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) ☆ ☆
It’s taken me about a month to get around to seeing this blockbuster action movie because I just couldn’t get excited about it. I liked Sam Raimi’s trilogy with Tobey Maguire and just don’t see the point of “re-imagining” the […]
Continue reading »Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ☆ ☆ 1/2
While he hasn’t made a lot of science-fiction films, I’ve liked the ones that Tom Cruise has made; I gave both Minority Report and Oblivion four stars apiece. Now he’s got another one, Edge of Tomorrow, a kind of Groundhog Day-alien invasion […]
Continue reading »A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) ☆ 1/2
Seth MacFarlane is a talented satirist who loves to riff on traditional entertainment elements. That’s fine, but he does so with the perspective of a young teenage boy who thinks profanity and scatological humor represent the highest order of humor. […]
Continue reading »X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
The X-Men series of films seem to be aspiring to ever greater heights as they progress, rewriting history in the creation of cinematic Marvel mythology. The most recent one re-imagined the Cuban Missile Crisis, while this one explains the assassination of JFK and involves […]
Continue reading »Godzilla (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
Yes, this is a somewhat different Godzilla than was featured in more than twenty Japanese movies from Toho Studios. Yet much is the same in terms of the Big Guy’s character (especially in the later films) and even the idea […]
Continue reading »The Other Woman (2014) ☆ ☆
I really wanted to like The Other Woman because so few comedies, or any movies for that matter, establish strong female characters and allow them to be as strong and wild as most male movie characters. Lately, though, thanks to gross-out […]
Continue reading »Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
Comic book superhero movies aren’t really my thing, and yet I’ve enjoyed several of them lately from Marvel. This is the second go-round (not counting The Avengers) of Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America (Chris Evans), the World War […]
Continue reading »The Railway Man (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
Just receiving its theatrical release now is a character study / question of morality film based on a true story begun in World War II. A British engineer (Jeremy Irvine) is among several taken prisoner in Singapore by the Japanese. […]
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