February 26, 2018
I admit I am a fan of Marvel movies. As a kid, I enjoyed the comics, and I find the movies usually entertaining, with wit and usually a bit of wisdom. Black Panther did not disappoint. For action fans there was a lot of… action. The drama of the car […]
January 7, 2017
Passengers. An interesting and engaging movie. Not entirely without its flaws, but I consider them minor and not grating enough to ruin the movie, as is sometimes the case. Rare for a “major movie”,it is not merely an interesting story with interesting characters, but intelligently looks at some interesting philosophical […]
July 2, 2016
Another movie available during our recent globe-trotting was Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I wasn’t expecting too much from this movie, but the trailers looked like it had potential and I was in the mood for some excitement, so decided to give it a chance. I guess the Batman/Superman/League […]
July 2, 2016
One of the bonuses of international air travel, especially if you have a busy life, is the option of seeing movies you normally wouldn’t get around to watching. Sometimes the experience is one you’d rather have gone with out. Other times, you find a surprising gem. Eye in the Sky, […]
January 12, 2015
We just finished watching the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy. Very interesting. It was much better than I thought it would be, though not without flaws. Would I recommend it? Now that’s a difficult question… Why better than I thought? I hadn’t expected much, partly because of the poor reception it’s […]
March 28, 2014
Well, the premise sounded interesting, with an escaped slave teaming up with an anti-slavery white guy to seek his girl and justice. But with Tarantino involved, I guess I should have known better. I suppose if you like mindless violence and your definition of art is “lots of squirting blood” […]
January 19, 2014
The ads for The Lone Ranger didn’t inspire me and Johnny Depp hamming it up as a terribly over-made-up Tonto almost turned me off from watching, but the movie was surprisingly enjoyable. As usual we can’t expect too much from a modern movie, except by luck or accident. Those of […]
December 20, 2013
I expected The Great Gatsby (2013 version) to be at least elegant and exciting. Unfortunately it is more like a visual essay on what is wrong with modern art. I’m not talking about the director’s irritating visual mannerisms (the zooms, the peculiar clarity of distant items, and so on) which I didn’t […]