My wife and I are big Jason Bateman fans, I just finished watching season 4 of Arrested Development, and so we saw his latest comedy Game Night. The film is about a group of friends who usually meet to play games and on a night when they decide to turn it up a notch, end up confronting what may actually be kidnapping or murder. Also starring Rachel McAdams and Kyle Chandler, Game Night is funny from start to finish, and…
My favorite movie star growing up was Bruce Willis and I will always be supportive (painful as that is nowadays). I saw his newest film Death Wish, which is a remake of the 1974 version starring Charles Bronson, about a surgeon who begins to take the law into his own hands after his family is attacked. It was tough getting to know and like his family, played by Elizabeth Shue and Camila Morrone, knowing their fate ahead of the film…
I wanted to see more of Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game, The Martian) and Oscar Isaac (Annihilation, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) since seeing them in a few movies lately, so I chose A Most Violent Year. They starred as husband and wife who are trying to grow their business in 1981 New York while facing challenges from criminals, gangsters, and the law. Isaac plays the more law abiding citizen who tries to resist resorting to extreme (violent) measures in order…
I just saw the new film starring Natalie Portman, Annihilation, which came out in theatres three days ago (but will primarily be released internationally through Netflix). The film is about a biologist (Portman) who goes on a mission into an area that has been the cause of multiple disappearances and is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer. Following 2014’s Ex Machina, (the two films share a theme), director Alex Garland again cast Oscar Isaac,…
When I was growing up, I liked watching wrestling, and was a big Hulk Hogan fan. I have not seen much since then but after watching the first Wrestlemania from 1985 with a friend of mine recently, my interest was renewed and the film Ready to Rumble was recommended. Filmed in Los Angeles, the movie is about 2 friends who are huge wrestling fans (David Arquette and Scott Caan) that try to help their favorite wrestler (Oliver Platt) after he…
I recently saw Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle twice, thought Kevin Hart was one of the best parts of the film, and wanted to watch more of his work. In Ride Along 1&2 he co-stars with Ice Cube who is a perfect stone faced contrast to Hart’s emotional, talkative self. The duo includes the veteran (Cube) and the rookie (Hart) of the Atlanta police department as they go on a ride along and later track down drug dealers. They are…
For Valentine’s Day, my wife and I watched Intolerable Cruelty starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The film is funny, witty, and inspired us to next watch Chicago, the musical film she starred in right before. Before all that jazz, I watched the second episode of a new Netflix talk-show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. This month’s guest is George Clooney, the episode was enjoyable so I wanted to watch another Clooney project and I chose…
Here is a list of new films I have seen in theatres and the order in which I would go back to watch them again. What do you think of the order? What would you recommend that is not listed? I really enjoyed the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman, Thor: Ragnarok let Chris Hemsworth be funny, and Frances McDormand was amazing as a headstrong mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Everyone can find something fun in Jumanji:…
Released in theatres this weekend, Black Panther is the latest Marvel Studios film based on a comic book character and stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan. First introduced in Captain America: Civil War, T’Challa (Boseman) now returns home to the mysterious African nation of Wakanda to take over as king and deals with a number of threats. Two of those threats are the charismatic and entertaining Michael B. Jordan and Andy Serkis. Serkis looks like he is having so…
Being a fan of Cameron Crowe’s work (Vanilla Sky and Jerry Maguire), I was happy to oblige my wife’s choice of watching Aloha. We have been to Hawaii, (where the film is set and where it was filmed), and we like everyone in the talented cast, which includes leads Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, and Rachel McAdams. The film is about a military contractor (Cooper) who has dating drama, both new and old, while working on a huge assignment that brings…