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…
After being highly recommended to me by fellow sci-fi enthusiasts, I watched Ex Machina on blu-ray and saw what all the fuss was about. Ex Machina is about a programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) who is selected by his boss (Oscar Isaac) to begin testing a humanoid with artificial intelligence (Alicia Vikander). I liked the near future setting, stretching modern technology just enough, (not trying too hard to explain the science, or at all in some cases), to not be distracting and…
Released in theatres a few weeks ago, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is continuing to be a large box office draw, and so my wife and I went to see it in 3D, (this being my second time seeing the film). This film both compliments the original Jumanji, (1995 starring Robin Williams), and breaks enough original ground to stand on it’s own with plenty of action, laughs, and fun. The film is about some teenagers who get pulled into a…
I bought one of those, “19 terrifying movies in one mega collection” dvd sets years ago. Still working on it and the latest one I watched is Nightmare Castle. This black and white thriller from Italy is about a scientist who kills his cheating wife and her lover and tries to cheat her sister out of her inheritance. Watching the film is difficult with the amount of darkness on the screen (although faces or anything dressed in white seems to…
With the Oscar nominations being announced recently, I wanted to see Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri which has 7 nominations. The awards include Best Picture, Leading Actress (Frances McDormand), Supporting Actors (for both Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell), Best Screenplay (written and directed by Martin McDonagh), Original Score, and Editing. This drama with a dark sense of humour is about a mother (McDormand) who holds the local police department accountable for no arrests in the investigation into the rape and…
I wanted to see The Post for a few reasons including stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, director Steven Spielberg, and because I like dialogue heavy, investigative dramas. This movie had all of that, was shot with numerous different styles of movements, (a little distracting for a talky), and many of the crew have worked on multiple Spielberg productions, (this one shot in New York). The film is based on the true story of Katharine Graham who oversaw the publication…
I looked forward to seeing this movie since I am a big fan of it’s writer/director Aaron Sorkin, (making his directorial debut) and I enjoyed star Jessica Chastain’s performance in Zero Dark Thirty, (receiving an Oscar nomination for her lead role in 2012). The film tells the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic level skier, who later hosted poker games that were frequented by celebrities and mobsters. Sorkin gives Chastain plenty of words to use in the 2h 20m…