90s movies
Movie Review: IT
4.5 stars out of 5 IT is scary as sh*t. IT’s also many other things: funny, sweet, sad, nostalgic, and very well-crafted. But if you’re someone who doesn’t like to be frightened, well, you’re really going to miss out on a good one. And this is coming from somebody who’s not really a Stephen King […]
Movie Review: Alien — Covenant
4 stars out of 5 I’ve had so much weird stuff come out of my abdomen in the past many months, it felt like I was starring in my own personal Alien sequel. But my interest in the actual series was re-sparked this winter when my friend Patrick rented Prometheus. It was much better than […]
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: 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: Dumb and Dumber To
1.5 stars out of 5 It’s weird to think how much has changed since I saw the original Dumb and Dumber for the first time, which was about two weeks ago on Comedy Central. You see, back in 1994, I avoided Jim Carrey movies. I’d enjoyed him in the short-lived 1985 TV series The Duck […]
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 […]
Movie Review: 56 Up
4 stars out of 5 First of all, this is not a quickie sequel to This Is 40, and thank goodness for that. It is, however, definitely a sequel, the 8th installment in Michael Apted’s fascinating “Up” documentary series. (Apted was an assistant on the first one, Seven Up!, back in 1964, and has been […]
Movie Review: Bernie
3.5 stars out of 5 I don’t rush out to see Richard Linklater movies. It’s collateral damage as my Ethan Hawke boycott carries on. Still, Linklater and I go way back. The summer I graduated from college, his Slacker came out, which sort of defined my generation (and was set in Austin before Austin was […]
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