I'd been avoiding this film for a while. Mind you, it wasn't deliberate at first. I believe that when this came out, I had intended to see it in the theater but life got in the way of such things and I never got the chance. I figured I'd wait for it to come out …
Category: Films
Cloverfield
A found footage monster movie that had a big budget when some of the more notable found footage flicks are filmed on a low budget, Cloverfield is a 2008 film that takes the familiar premise of a monster attacking a city (a la Godzilla) and tells it from the point of view of a group …
The Spectacular Now
I will fully admit that when I saw this on the DVD queue (and also saw that it was available for streaming), I was puzzled because I don't know what prompted me to put it there. I mean, I remember putting it there and maybe it was because someone recommended it to me or I …
Logan’s Run
In the 23rd Century, having survived a laundry list of apocalyptic scenarios, humanity lives in a huge domed city and the population is governed and controlled by a computer that has decreed that nobody can live past the age of thirty. When their time is up, they participate in a ceremony called "carrousel" in which …
The Signal
A 2014 low-budget sci-fi film where three teenagers detour on their way across the country to follow the path of a hacker named "Nomad" who appears to have been trolling them for quite some time. Had they stayed on their path, Nic (Brenton Thwaites) and Jonah (Beau Knapp) would have dropped Nic's girlfriend Haley (Olivia …
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
So I should have liked this a lot more than I did. It is a romantic teen comedy with a soundtrack that a lot of people seemed to like. I missed it when it first came out in 2008 because I was 31 and had a one-year-old son at home, which meant that I was …
The Wackness
A 2008 comedy that I've had on my Netflix DVD queue probably since about 2010 (that's how long I've been sitting on a number of these movies), this is coming-of-age dramedy about a guy named Luke (Josh Peck) who is a drug dealer in New York City in 1994 and spends the summer after graduating …
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
I am a sucker for a good rockumentary (do they even use that word anymore?). To this day, The Last Waltz is one of the few Scorsese films I've seen in its entirety, and even though I don't have much love left for Metallica, the tour doc "A Year and a Half in the Life of …
The Uncollecting 