00s movies
Movie Review: The Disaster Artist
3.5 stars out of 5 Back when I was urging everyone to see the movie Room, a couple of friends were singing the praises of the cult hit The Room. Well, I finally saw The Room (thanks Stephen) and… it is very bad; it is an odd, strangely compelling viewing experience; but… we live in […]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4 stars out of 5 I was 8 years old when the original Star Wars came out and like everybody else I knew, I was all in. Poster on my bedroom wall, action figures, comic books. I loved trying to draw R2-D2. My dad took me into San Francisco one day to meet Darth Vader, […]
Movie Review: Creed
3.5 stars out of 5 So, there’s this new installment in a long-running movie series, started in the ’70s, good vs. evil, iconic music. But people are especially psyched for this one because it consciously connects back to the “classic era.” Of course, I am referring to Creed, the latest chapter in the Rocky saga. […]
Movie Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
3 stars out of 5 For recent vintage coming-of-age movies set in Pittsburgh, Adventureland (2009) is—in my not-so-humble opinion—far and away the best. Coming in second: 2012’s The Perks of Being of a Wallflower. Taking the bronze from the Iron City? Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. In a nutshell, our teenage protagonist befriends […]
Movie Review: Aloha
3.5 stars out of 5 Cameron Crowe had a hell of a run early in his directorial career: Say Anything…, Singles, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous. Since then, he’s still out there trying, doing decent work, but hasn’t quite reached the same heights: Vanilla Sky (compelling), Elizabethtown (underrated), We Bought a Zoo (didn’t see it, but […]
Movie Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
4 stars out of 5 You know I’m a big Wes Anderson fan, right? Since I’ve been ranking movies on here, The Fantastic Mr. Fox was my No. 5 film of 2009, and I thought Moonrise Kingdom was 2012’s best movie. Oh, and Rushmore is one of my all-time favorites. So let’s say that I […]
Movie Review: This Is the End
3.5 stars out of 5 Wow, that Seth Rogen really enjoys the marijuana, doesn’t he? OK, we get it. Can we retire that as a comedic concept now? Thank you. That being said, Rogen and his buddy Evan Goldberg have slapped together a very entertaining, consistently funny movie with This Is the End. Not as […]
Thank You, Siskel & Ebert
It must’ve been 4th grade. Mr. Skadden asked the class if we watched anything on PBS. Ooh, me. I watch Sneak Previews. I recall being the only one who chimed in with that response. (I was already a bit of an oddball.) And I have no idea why I was watching. Basically all of I […]
Movie Review: A Good Day To Die Hard
3.5 stars out of 5 I’ll keep seeing Die Hard movies as long as they keep making them. They’ll wheel out Bruce Willis, it’ll be “Yippie-ki— wait, what was I talking about?” and I’ll be sitting there in the virtuo-theater munching eCorn. But if they expect me to remember anything from film to film, they […]
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