Last night I saw “Two for the Road,” one of the most interesting Aubrey Hepburn movies. It shows primarily four road trips across France by two people: the one in which they met, the one they took as newlyweds, the one they took with another middle class couple, and one they took as a rich couple. Cutting up, transposing, and alternating clips of ( Read more... )

My Dad and I saw the remake and I should warn you there are odd spoilers in this review ( Read more... )

After my brother and I left “Captain America: Civil War,” we had a discussion about why various characters picked the sides they did. Tony Stark was driven by guilt over the destruction caused by Ultron, a being he had unleashed, while Vision did not trust himself because he didn’t fully understand the Infinity Stone. Natasha wanted to hold the ( Read more... )

Vietnam Week One ( Read more... )

Last night I watched "The Grand Budapest Hotel," which was obviously a work of love for the people making the movie. Several name actors would have taken pay cuts to be in that movie, since they've been in bigger budget movies before. The plot was mostly predictable, but at the same time the characters were fun and filming surreal ( Read more... )

I watched this “Jonah Hex” movie, and it was disappointing on two levels. The first is that Megan Fox wears more clothes playing a Western prostitute than she does in Michael Bay movies (but at least she has a cooler character in “Hex”). The second is that Jonah Hex’s justification for joining the Confederate army (in the backstory) is as lame as ( Read more... )

I finally got around to seeing this cult movie, and it was energetic and creative enough that I enjoyed it despite the fact that if I was Scott's older brother I'd be slapping him up side the head every ten minutes of his life for being a dumbass. When Knives Chau tells Scott, "I'm way too cool for you anyway," I completely agreed, and it showed ( Read more... )

Pacific Rim: It had all the right ingredients, but if I could have cut the more preposterous fight sequences for more development of the hero-heroine-mutual mentor relationship it would have been more than just great eye candy with a soundtrack I do my morning pushups to ( Read more... )

So I saw the latest X-Men movie, and I think it was one of the best examples of using time travel I’ve ever seen. All time travel stories are risky and prone to paradoxes, but this time it was worth it, because it was used to contrast the shifts in friendship between Raven, Eric, and Xavier. To see them as allies, then enemies, then friends, was ( Read more... )