Girl’s Trip is a dirty, sweet look at friendship and reconnecting. For folks who don’t mind the Very Hard R rating (I sure didn’t), it’s a heckuva good time. Throw back a few drinks, grab your posse, and have fun.
TwitView: The Conjuring 2
Sequel slump averted – this film has scares, chills and creepyness just like it’s predecessor. The horror is upped a bit here, but it’s still got that claustrophobic chill director James Wan does so well. Recommended for all horror fans. Horror lightweight? You may want to stay home…or wait ’til Netflix, when you can watch with the lights on. Grade: A
Twitview: Bridge of Spies
Hanks and Spielberg are amazing as always, and while the film bounces from one plot point to the next, it’s an affecting look at the Cold War Era. Grade: A-
TwitView: Age of Adaline
A sweet film about a scared lady who never aged past 29. Decades later she finds true love, but will she go for it? Kinda soppy (as you’d expect), but all in good romantic-fantasy fun. Beautiful set design and costuming, and touching performances from Blake Lively, Ellen Burstyn, and Harrison Ford. Grade: B+
TwitView: Selma
A tour de force of the man and the movement. Director DuVernay + Oyelowo as MLK = must watch cinema. Grade: A
Twitview: Big Eyes
I Can’t Believe It’s Tim Burton! Quirky but with tons of heart (and top-notch performances.) Get your own big eyes on this. B+
Movie Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
TwitView: Fans will rejoice! Casual viewers may find the editing patchy. Still, a worthy entry in an excellent series. B+
Seems like forever since we’ve seen Katniss, Peeta, Gayle and the gang fight against the man President Snow in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Heck, I’ve even watched Catching Fire on Netflix a time or two already. But it’s only been a year. Time flies, don’t it? But it seems like the filmmakers have taken their time and crafted a compelling film with Mockingjay Part 1. Screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong (yes, Buffy‘s Jonathan) do an excellent job breaking the novel in two, ending Part 1 with a nice cliffhanger of sorts; the Districts readying for civil war (not a spoiler if you’ve been paying any kind of attention).
If you’ve forgotten, when last we left Katniss, she was being air-lifted out of her second Hunger Games, the 75th Quarter Quell. Rebellion is on the horizon for the Districts, and megalomaniacal President Coin (Donald Sutherland, obviously enjoying his eeeee-vil) bent on her destruction. In Mockingjay Part 1, she wakes up in District 13, the District that was supposedly burned to the ground. But they’ve been waiting for a leader to rise, and Katniss looks like their dream come true. ¡Viva la Revolución! But where’s Peeta…?
TwitView: The Theory of Everything
Beautiful, intelligent, compelling. Theory is definitely the front-runner in this year’s Awards Onslaught. See it, and then brag to your friends. It’s that good. Grade: A
Twitview: Interstellar
B+ ~ An epic adventure/cautionary tale that sometimes gets caught up in it’s own relativity. Wondrous and nasty, brilliant and puzzling. Definitely the 21st Century’s 2001. Spring for the IMAX, but bring earplugs to dull the blastoffs.
TwitView: Dallas Buyers Club
McConaughey is electric, Leto is riveting. Explicit. heartbreaking. Must see. 5/5
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