Things start off desperately in Killer Joe when local drug dealer Chris Smith (played by Emile Hirsch) finds himself owing six grand to his supplier. With no honest way of making that kind of money, he decides that the easiest and quickest solution is to hire a contract killer to off his mother for her […]
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 […]
Joss Whedon and Marvel Taking Relationship to Next Stage
Variety.com reports that Joss Whedon will (wait for it… wait for it…) write and direct The Avengers sequel. Not a huge surprise there given the massive success of Avengers, but still it’s good to know that the next installment will be in good hands. Marvel and Disney (which owns Marvel) trust Joss’s hands so much that they’ve […]
Good News for Dan Harmon, Bad News for Community
It looks Dan Harmon, who just a couple of months ago was fired as the showrunner of Community, has signed a deal to create a brand new show for CBS. There are no plot details yet, but we can be sure it won’t be like Community. NBC’s underdog may have strong critic approval and a loyal fan base (of […]
Is Vince Vaughn Working on a Brady Bunch Reboot?
The answer is not quite. What Vince is working on is more of a sequel than a reboot. The original Brady Bunch followed what happened when single father Mike Brady married single mother Carol Ann Martin and brought her three daughters—Marcia, Jan, and Cindy—to live with him, his three boys—Greg, Peter, and Bobby—and his housekeeper. […]
The Watch (A Small Review)
What’s it about? When a murder takes place in the suburbs of Glenview, Illinois, local do-gooder Evan Troutwig (played by Ben Stiller) starts a neighborhood watch to find the killer and protect his fellow citizens. He’s joined by three neighbors. There’s Bob (played by Vince Vaughn). He’s just your average suburbanite, married with a kid. […]
MY MOVIE WISHLIST: KILLER JOE
What’s it about? “When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.” — IMDB Who made it? Directed by William Friedkin; written by Tracy Letts. Who’s in it? Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsh, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, and […]
The Hobbit: A Trilogy?
So it looks like Peter Jackson is in talks with his producing partners and Warner Bros. to add a third film to The Hobbit franchise. He’s already turned the fairly short book into two films with the first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, to be released December 2012 and the second film, The Hobbit: There […]