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The Birdcage: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest. A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée’s right-wing moralistic parents. One of Robin Williams absolutely best dramatic comedy roles, but Robin isn’t even the best part of this film. The interaction between Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman is absolutely delicious, and right when you think it’s about to get stale, boom, the impossible happens and the movie moves into it’s finale. Has there been a...
Mother/Android: Directed by Mattson Tomlin. With Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo, Linnea Gardner. In a post-apocalyptic world rocked by a violent android uprising, a young pregnant woman and her boyfriend desperately search for safety. It’s sad, it’s depressing, and it’s post-apocalyptic, so not a great outlook for anyone in the film. It’s a great movie though, just not exactly what I was looking for at this point in time. Buy On Amazon!
Wolf Like Me: With Ariel Donoghue, Isla Fisher, Josh Gad, Emma Lung. Gary is an emotional wreck and struggles to provide for his daughter since the death of his wife. Mary has a secret she can’t bring herself to share with anyone. The universe brought these two together for a reason. They’re trying to be coy with the premise here, but the title is pretty damn literal and I’m all about this story about a lady that locks her self away once a month and the man that’s forced into her life of horror. The final episode made me seriously...
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers’ war. Buy On Amazon!
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro. The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets. Buy On Amazon!
Transformers: Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager. I still wish this was a better film, transformers fans really do deserve better than what we got. Sure it’s passable film, and sure it updates some of the things that didn’t age well from the cartoons, but dammit we deserved a VW bug as Bumblebee and not whatever GM nonsense we ended up with. Buy On Amazon!
Kingsman: The Secret Service: Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With Adrian Quinton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Jonno Davies. A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency’s training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. I had to re-watch this after having such a positive reaction to the third film, I remembered how much less serious this first film was, but still being a fantastic movie. While yes, it’s goofy with the lispy villain and predictable story, it was still well done. Buy On Amazon!
I did a LEGO puzzle while drunk. There’s a live stream of it out there somewhere and I stayed up until about 7am doing this thing. I plan on taking it apart and giving it to some family members that have kids, I’m sure they’ll enjoy it. Syrah sleeping next to my desk. Mani / Pedi with the wife, I was very happy with the service itself, but this nail polish ended up being garbage and had to be removed just a couple days after application. I flipped the two monitors on the right hand side there and reconfigured how...
The King’s Man: Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With Djimon Hounsou, Ralph Fiennes, Shaun McKee, Peter York. In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions. I watched this with a bit of a jaded eye, all I could remember was my impressions of the previous film, The Golden Circle, and remembering how poorly it was received, but I’m happy to report that this is the best of the three movies so far. I’m not certain it was received by main line professional critics the...
The 355: Directed by Simon Kinberg. With Jason Flemyng, Pablo Scola, Marcello Cruz, Eddie Arnold. When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their every move. While all the pieces of this film are just fine, the entire sum of their parts are just adequate, feeling much more familiar than it should have, and should have likely been a direct to tv movie instead of a wide release. I actually watched...
