Hooray! Will and I got to go to the theatre for a Star Wars movie that was good. For those still avoiding spoilers, there are no spoilers ahead in this short post. I thoroughly enjoyed Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. I laughed. I cried. I was tense. Most of all I...
Finally a sequel to Jurassic Park that is worthy of its parent. Lost World: Jurassic Park was ridiculous as it brought dinos to the US mainland. Jurassic Park III was a good adventure, but still paled to the original. With Jurassic World the franchise seems to have...
While it’s not an Irwin Allen epic, San Andreas is a good popcorn disaster movie. Having it anchored by the cool-under-pressure Dwayne Johnson is all the better. The set ups for the disaster are exactly what they should be. We get to meet Ray (Johnson) in action...
Kingsman: The Secret Service certainly looked good in the trailers, but it was outstanding at the movies. This spy/thriller was fun, stylish, more than a little violent and absolutely something I’d like to see more of. The plot was an easily relatable one, too,...
I’ve been a huge fan of The Last Five Years since I saw it off-Broadway in the spring of 2002. I saw it twice and became fans of Jason Robert Brown musicals as well of its lead actors Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz. The show is pretty much all...
I wished for a good movie adaptation of Into the Woods and I got just what I wished for. The translation from stage to screen of one of my very favorite musicals came off excellently. The story, which takes a few traditional fairy tales and mashes them all together to...