It's been awhile, but here goes.

Ferdinand- Ferdinand is an Oscar nominated kids film from Blue Sky.  Blue Sky is the third major player in the animated film game behind Disney and Pixar.  Their big breakthroughs were Ice Age and Rio.

This is pretty much the Ferdinand the Bull story.  Though, bullfighting is an odd place to pull kid's stories from (a ( Read more... )

Cars was a franchise that was certainly going to be a license to print money. Kids love cars, and Disney even could throw together something like Planes and the masses would go ( Read more... )

So after a couple of Disney movies, things swing over to Universal Studios which seems to have an edge on making kids movies for adults via Illumination studios.  A short history but one defined by the Despicable Me/Minions franchise and Secret Life of Pets ( Read more... )

A break from politics to say I saw the Magnificent Seven remake/reboot ( Read more... )

In 2005, there was this kind of different action movie called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, directed and written by Shane Black.  Black (before and since) has written and/or directed better known films- Lethal Weapon 1&2, Iron Man 3, Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero and The Long Kiss Goodnight.  KKBB was a polarizing movie - loved by some and hated by many ( Read more... )

 Money Monster is one of the first great non-superhero non-franchise movies of the year, at least box office wise, but I wasn't exactly sure what to expect ( Read more... )

When it's Mothers Day and you go to the movies with a mother, you probably don't go see a superhero movie or a kids movie ( Read more... )

It has been how long since I included a movie review?  And even longer one that wasn't a kid's movie.  Oh well, here goes ( Read more... )

American Sniper- There’s a meme that you can’t say anything bad about this movie or you are attacking Chris Kyle or hate America. Seth Rogen is the subject of a lot of social media jabs because he said the film was like nazi propaganda. He said this before many of the people counter-attacking him had even seen the movie.

So the movie is certainly ( Read more... )

I know what you are thinking. I am only blogging about 'Sex Tape', because the words 'sex tape' will probably get my blog 100 more hits than usual (for a total of 103 hits ( Read more... )