This was a little disappointing, but I can’t say my expectations were that high to begin with. The story is about a group of animals that live in a city park who are trying to prepare their food stores for winter, and a couple of outcast animals who prefer to look out for themselves rather […]
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A Million Laughs in the West: MacFarlane Hits the Bullseye
The trailers have been hilarious, we all loved Ted and Family Guy, and Seth MacFarlane is a modern day renaissance man, so it wasn’t hard to believe that this was going to be good. But I’ll admit, I had my reservations. This is MacFarlane’s first major turn in front of the camera as an actor, […]
My Compliments to the Chef: Favreau’s New Film Cooked to Order
Honestly, this was the most fun I’ve had at the movies this year. I am saying this even after I wrote two reviews on Captain America, not because it was better, but because I had a smile on my face almost the entire way through. I loved Cap 2 and totally nerded out the entire […]
Review: Turbo
This was totally adorable, but admittedly, not the greatest animated film of the past decade. The story focuses on Turbo (voiced by Ryan Reynolds), the little snail who dreamed of being in the Indy 500 and racing with the big boys. In the real world, he “works” in a tomato garden with a bunch of […]
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Episode 24: Blended Edition
I know what you’re thinking, that’s two Six Degrees episodes in a row that I am using actors from a movie coming out that I’m not even going to see. I may not be interested in seeing Adam Sandler’s new movie Blended, but I couldn’t use X-Men: Days of Future Past, now could I? Bacon […]
Laugh with the Sinners: Get to Know The Wolf of Wall Street
This was a big movie when it came out. It was sexy, funny, terrifying, and unbelievable in many ways. It’s story about a middle class young man who finds out how to be rich and does just about anything and everything to stay that way. But out of all the guff I’d heard prior to […]
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Episode 23: Godzilla Edition
I know I said I was going to skip this one in the Summer Movie Guide, but since I have already done an episode too closely connected to the other movie coming out this week, Million Dollar Arm with Jon Hamm (Episode 2, Mad Men Edition with Christina Hendricks), I figured it might be fun […]
Parenthood, Rogen-ized: Do You Like Your Neighbors?
The previews for this movie have been pretty hardcore, and if you’ve watched the red band trailers, you know it promises to be not only raunchy but filthy. The film does not disappoint. In a good way. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne star as the couple with a new baby and a new house who […]
Glitz AND Feels: Swing By for Amazing Spider-Man 2
They have promoted the shit out of this movie, maybe even more so after seeing how well Captain America: The Winter Soldier has done at the box office so far (and that wasn’t even a summer blockbuster), but I’m not quite sure it’s going to be enough to beat out Spidey’s Marvel sequel bro, Cap […]
Brief hiatus. New stuff coming soon.
I’ve been sort of in and out this month with the reviews, trying to keep up with some movie reviews, but I needed a break from the TV recaps. Also, I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo again this month, so you can partially blame my disappearance on that. What I’ve been doing with myself besides not blogging […]