Fan reaction: omg YASSSSSSSS

Sober reaction: while possibly not the best entry point for nufans, OMG YASSSSSSS

I kept waiting for someghing that never came, though.

( No substantive spoilers, but some people don't want to know anything )

Jurassic World: loved it. Boom! Crash! "Containment anomaly" is my new favorite phrase.

( Cut for those who already know what the Bechdel Test is )

Remember how I got before the Avengers Age of Ultron release?

They've started dropping The Martian trailers.

ohhhhmygoooooooooooooooooooooood it looks well done.

I don't actually board the ship to Mexico until Thursday (day after tomorrow,) so I'm spending the first part of the week avoiding spring cleaning by way of movies. So far, both are B-movies that benefit greatly from their stars.

Non-Stop with Liam Neeson & Julianne Moore, the former of whom will always be walking naked out of the loch in Rob Roy ( Read more... )

Warning, before my review makes it sound like a laugh-a-minute farce: this movie is really about the Civil Rights era and thoroughly earns its R rating for disturbing imagery. [Spoiler (click to open)]Reading about the fire hoses and police dogs in history is a very different thing from seeing it re-enacted. Disturbed the hell out of me, for sure ( Read more... )

I described Elysium to my mother as a "trenchant commentary on the state of American health care that just happens to have lots of spaceships and explosions." Oh, and it stars Matt Damon (playing a desperate have-not) and Jodie Foster (playing a vicious, elitist have with pretty much the only subtlety this film possesses, which is to say not much ( Read more... )