Well, judging from the opening weekend box office records, statistically you have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seriously, the only film opening better than the Avengers is The Avengers. The culmination of the four previous movies of Marvel’s “phase 2”, Age of Ultron is a 2 1/2 hour juggernaut of a superhero adventure, one which highlights the best and worse…
A few months ago I reviewed the somewhat popular Oscar-nominated based-on-a-true-story film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon as a woman whose life has become so clumsily screwed-up that she must embark upon an epic hike of self-discovery. Despite the best efforts of the film’s director, I kind of liked Wild. I bring it up now, because…
In the past two weeks, I’ve found myself feeling something I thought I’d never feel again: excitement for a new Star Wars movie. With the release of the newest trailer, I have been cruising at maximum Star Wars hype, a feeling I have a deep fear will be whisked away again. Obviously, this rekindling of unexpected emotions called…
The heart wants what the heart wants, and in the never-ending quest for spiritual solace and a mental state of calm, none of us should hesitate to accept whatever presents itself as the truest remedy. What do I mean? Comfort food, dear reader. Comfort food. I have had a stressful few months, and while the…
This year, Netflix dropped one of its greatest original series, and before long I found myself hooked. In 13 episodes, I got swept up in the story of an indomitable hero overcoming a painful past on the wrong side of New York City; a story about standing up in the face of overwhelming odds, doomed…
Wow, last week’s review felt pretty negative. I sure did rip on foreign movies… and the entire film industry at large. Sorry about that. What can I say? Terrible movies put me in a bad mood, and Force Majeure was indeed, despite what I explicitly said to the contrary just seven days ago, terrible. If…
Baddie – Greedy sequels. Lesson – Excess is the plague of the human condition. Check out the first three movies here – join me in my own suffering. As I plunged headlong into the fourth Saw movie, I had an awakening. An epiphany – a revelation. Saw has re-invented story telling. It happened by accident,…
