Until they actually announce the next director for the post George Lucas Star Wars movies, there’s going to be a lot of fun but pointless speculation and rumors. One rumored director is Matthew Vaughn. He directed Layer Cake and wrote and directed Stardust, Kick-Ass, and X-Men: First Class. I enjoyed Kick-Ass a whole lot, […]
Get Out – The Trailer Reaction
Hey, will you look at that, it’s been almost two years since I’ve written about movies! Anyways, I just caught the trailer for Jordan Peele’s directing debut, and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ll describe it now, but feel free to scroll down and watch it for yourself first. The trailer for Get Out opens […]
Annabelle Review
So a man buys his pregnant wife a doll to complete the set she’s been collecting. And wouldn’t you just know it, the doll has a demon in it (more or less). Very quickly, bad things start to happening to the couple. They try to explain it away logically, and of course that fails. […]
The Maze Runner (The Long and Short of It)
Thomas (played by Dylan O’Brien) awakens inside a rising elevator. He has no idea where he is, how he got there or even who he is. The elevator stops, and the doors open in the middle of a field to the hardened faces of more young men. These boys barely know any more about […]
For the Movie Buff in Us All
If you’re anything like me, you have oodles of useless movie trivia in your brain. It sits there doing no one any good until you’re at a party and you overhear someone saying, “Who that actress from the Scream movies?” Of course you then cut your friend off mid-sentence to lean over and say, “Neve […]
New Releases in Theaters – June 20, 2014
It’s not the biggest weekend at the box office, but that’s fine with me as I’m still playing a little catch up. My mpm (movies per month) has seen a steep decline this year as my other hobbies edge in on my time. So I’m thankful for weekends like this where there’s nothing I’m dying […]
The Bay (Just a Small Review)
Posted by Nic on November 9th, 2012
What’s it about? On July 4th 2009, the small bayside town of Claridge, MD experienced a strange epidemic. People suddenly began to break out in painful boils and rashes. Their bodies were being eating from the inside out. The town’s hospital quickly filled up with sick, screaming people. The only doctor there didn’t know what he was […]
The Sessions
Posted by Nic on October 23rd, 2012
You might not know the story of Mark O’Brien. I didn’t. He was a poet and a journalist, and as a child he had polio. It left him unable to move any part of his body below the neck. He still had feeling in all of his body; his muscles just didn’t work properly, which […]
What I Learned Today – October 5, 2012
Posted by Nic on October 5th, 2012
Taken 2 has less action than the first, has a thin plot, contains frenzied camerawork, includes poor representations of Muslims, and takes itself too seriously, according to one review. I enjoyed the first film, but didn’t love it as much as others seemed to. It had fun fight scenes and that was about it. I’ll […]
MY MOVIE WISHLIST: MOVIE 43
Posted by Nic on October 4th, 2012
What’s it about? “An ensemble comedy intertwining different tales.” IMDB Who made it? Directors: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, and Brett Ratner; Writers: Steve Baker, Will Carlough, Patrik Forsberg, Matt Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, and Jeremy Sosenko Who’s in it? First […]
End of Watch
Posted by Nic on October 3rd, 2012
Now this is what I’m talking about: an action(ish) movie with well-developed characters you can actually care about and whose well-being through the end is not a given. If you’ve read some of my reviews for action movies, you know that one of the biggest issues I have with them is how predictable they are. […]
The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies (1/13/15)