They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for July, 2015
Paper Towns (2015)
Paper Towns might be a fantastic romantic adventure if you happen to suffer from short term memory loss, that way you wouldn’t find yourself concentrating on nagging plotholes. It is is supposed to be deep and poetic, but you find yourself frustrated by nagging questions of simple logic. This is one of those movies where […]
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)
It’s been quite a month. First I had the pleasure of seeing Jaws in the theater, then Sharknado 2 with the “Rifftrax Live!” treatment. Add to that Ant-Man, the Minions and finally seeing the new Star Wars trailer in a theater and you might say I’ve had a July to remember. Now it comes to […]
Ant-Man (2015)
Based on the number of ants present in this movie, I suppose we can thank our lucky stars he wasn’t called Roach-Man. Within the vast population of Marvel characters, Ant-Man is one of the goofiest of superheroes, and seemingly the narrowest in terms of functionality. The challenge in the new Ant-Man movie is to effectively […]
Blog: “Jaws” at 40
Believe it or not, Jaws turns 40 this summer and so too does the institution of the Summer Movie Season. Most of us have never known a summer without it, and those of my generation can’t remember a time when the movies existed without Steven Spielberg. We grew up on a healthy diet of his […]
Rifftrax Live! Sharknado 2: The Second One (2015)
It is difficult to describe the irony of the fact that within the span of one week I’ve seen Jaws and Sharknado 2 on the big screen – a better July at the movies does not reside within my recent memory. If those two movies played on a double bill at a drive-in theater this […]
