Movie Reviews

The Good Dinosaur was a cute movie but it could have been much better. It was yet another Pixar movie about mismatched buddies on a road trip. The Land Before Time is still the best animated dinosaur movie ever.

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I've seen it.  I think I reviewed in the past year or so.  I can't remember if I gave four or five popcorns. I know it won a couple of Oscars.

Watched Jurassic World last night. Good fun, I especially liked how the villians wound up as raptor food. I recognized Vincent D'Orotfina and BD Wong from the Law and Order franchises. Vincent had a dark, creepy side in his role in Law & Order Crimenal Intent and let's face Wong was a cold piece of work in Law & Order S.V.U. It served them well in these rolls. Just wonderful production values. Let's face just plain good fun.

The Peanuts Movie was cute and the best parts were the Snoopy story scenes.

The Boxcar Children was a cute animated movie and it was very faithful to the book.

Excellent! Need something to watch during bad weather this weekend. Thanks.

You're welcome!

Watched a Jesse Stone movie last week. These are dark but well done. Tom Selleck is a better actor than people give him credit for. Also since he has a stake in the material itself and he does take pride in his work.

Watched Woman in Gold last night.  It's about a woman who is family was destroyed by the Holocaust in her journey to recover a painting by Gustav Klist.  The painting was looted by the Nazis.  Helen Mirren is the lead and as usual she is fantastic.  Supporting cast is not that well known but excellent.   Side note here, the scenes of the Nazi rallies and peoples response to their entry into Vienna is somewhat disturbing.  They reminded me of Trump rallies.

Watched a movie one of the younger librarians suggested: Warm Bodies. Based on a book....the entire movie is from the point of view of a new zombie.

"Why can't I connect with people? What's wrong with me? Oh, I'm dead that's why."

Some comedy.....different from anything I've ever seen. Mom and I give it for humor and originality. I told her it was a zomedy...

Mr. Holmes was the bill of fare last night. Stars Ian McKellan. It's Sherlock Holmes and when we see him he's 93. He's trying to reconstruct the case that forced him to retire. It was hard to follow at times but worth it.

Watched a movie version of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Not too bad in it's own right. I'm it was better than Law and Order reruns.

Zootopia was a damn good movie. It was cute, clever and had great themes.

Sounds like something good to watch on the rainy holiday they're saying we'll have.

Watched Bell, Book, and Candle.  What a clever romance/comedy.  James Stewart and Kim Novak.  Great supporting cast.  Jack Lemmon, Ernie  Kovacs, Elsa Lancaster.  Now I know what meezers got so popular along with the name Piwacket.

The Angry Birds Movie was an OK movie. The animation was beautiful and the baby birds were cute but it took forever to get the birds vs. pigs part.

The Secret Life of Pets was really good. We saw it in 3D, which was fun. I liked the story even if it was predictable, and there were some really funny things tucked in there.

Just finished watching The Big Short. Will give more information later.

We've got The 5th Wave for the weekend. Details after we watch it at Brads.

The Big Short is the story behind the housing crash. This is not a feel good movie, in fact it's a movie that will leave you pissed off. Brad Pitt, Christian Beal and a great supporting cast.
I highly recommend it but remember this is not a feel good movie.

Must see!

Just finished A Walk in the Woods. Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and a brief appearance by Emma Thompson. Two old but estranged friends decide to hike the Appalcian Trail. Great scenery, nice script. If it hadn't been for Nick Nolte I would give it four popcorns. I'm rating it

The 5th wave was interesting. Brad gives it

Watched Pride & Prejudice & Zombies Saturday at Brads for movie night. It was surprisingly good. Brad loved it. We give it

Watched Star Wars; the Force Awakens. It helped take my mind off of things. It was really quite good and lived up to the hype I thought. I can't see what all the fuss was about with Carrie Fisher. I thought she and Mark Hamill looked great, Harrison Ford not so much.

Tad: The Lost Explorer is an animated from Spain that was a parody of Indiana Jones. It was cute and a lot better than I thought it would be.