^^ I am so very excited to see Her! Maybe a date night next weekend with the Mr.


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The Kings of Summer (2013)


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Meh. Fairly average coming-of-age movie, and honestly not very believable. Two of the three male characters are really awful and the third is a strange alien thing that is over-the-top and not realistic. Both sets of parents are also either boring and/or unrealistic.

Didn't really like this.

I think of Stand By Me and how much that movie worked in terms of its realism, humor, and melancholy - And it just worked. Kings of Summer just didn't.


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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)


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One of my favorite movies ever and I think my favorite Wes Anderson. I get something new out of it every time I see it. And bawl my eyes out at the same time each viewing. Love this movie.

X-Men - First Class

continuing my kid's run on marvel movies ...
I'll just say the same thing I do with all superhero movies .. it was fun.

There hasn't been one I haven't liked yet - I dig seeing the comics of my youth come to life onscreen, still remembering very clearly being at an age where I never thought the stuff we take for granted in movies now would ever be possible

Big Bad Wolves....by Israeli directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado.

excellent really dark comedy of sorts

reminded me of Prisoners but with a twisted sense of humor

Before Dawn (2012)

An ok little zombie film.Nothing amazing and fairly predictable. Was a bit too slow paced but made up for that with fast zombies when they do appear.

"Under the Bed" 7/10

Decent boogeyman movie. The ending was kind of a letdown tho.

My cure for the midwinter blues....Crank up the heat, make some hot chocolate with a dash of heavy cream and settle into bed with these babies:

Cold Prey (2007): Liked it a lot, though I had the ending figured out in the first five seconds.

Cassadaga (2011): Corny as hell, but the marionette scenes were acceptably grotesque.

A Field in England (2013): Again, I liked this one. I'm starting to develop a serious crush on Ben Wheatley as a director. Could there be a resurgence of English folk horror underway?

Texas Chainsaw (2013): A moderately enjoyable slasher that kept me distracted and entertained for an hour and a half.

Gosh, I'm on a weird streak of liking everything I see lately. Is it something in the hot chocolate?

Cold Prey is great! One of the best modern slasher films for sure IMO - The sequel is pretty damn good too.

Loved these especially A Field In England great stuff :)

Citadel (2012) This was quite good, portraying the hoodie horrors (feral children) as almost demonic entities, feeding off fear and there is a lot of that in the lead character. The settings are lovely and grim plus some brutal (though there's no gore which this film doesn't need) scenes make this worth a watch.

The Last Stand... I was in the mood for an action flick and this one was pretty damn entertaining. I've been wanting to see it for a while, Kim Jee-woon (Tale of Two Sisters/The Good, The Bad, and the Weird/I Saw the Devil) directing a very Western style action flick intrigued me. I've liked everything of his that I've seen so far.

Let Him Be

Small Canadian mocumentary about a guy who finds a tape in a garage sale video camera that shows footage of what he believes is John Lennon.

He then takes his girlfriend-partner on a road trip to find out if it's really Lennon, hiding out in a small town north of Toronto.

It was ok - not great - but an interesting idea - and the guy they found to play an aged John Lennon was dead perfect (so that was heavily milked)