Like nearly every movie I’ve watched that stars Channing Tatum, this was much better than expected. It was free of poop, gratuitous sex, and possibly profanity (my filter [...]
I knew this would be a tense film and I didn’t want it to keep me up late at night on a school night, so I came prepared with knitting to distract me. This was a fine film, with [...]
This was much better than I remember it* and fun in an incredibly embryonic Joss Whedon way. First of all, it’s totally the “girl gains her power” story I keep [...]
Having never seen this movie on the big screen, I was happy to spend a Sunday afternoon seeing Harrison Ford in the glory days before he developed his wattles. The movie holds up pretty [...]
I greatly enjoyed this movie when we saw it in May, but if you had asked me to recount the plot to you, I would have only been able to stammer “Uh, it’s pretty funny. Um, and. [...]
This was one of those amazing movie experiences that make all those so-so flicks worth sitting through. I’ve seen Michael Shannon’s fabulous acting on display in two other [...]
So the thing about movies with “alternative” plots is that they nearly all of the time end up in the traditional way.* The trick of such a movie is to be able to bring me along, [...]
The first few minutes of this movie had me wondering if I was going to like it this time around, because I had fond memories from my first viewing when it was originally released, but this time I [...]