Thursday, February 27, 2014

New Release Tuesday


I really enjoyed this THOR sequel as Chris Hemsworth is awesome and the wife and I both have a crush on him.  The movie had the same great balance of action, romance, and comedy as the original and does a really good job of alternating Earth and Asgard.  Tom Hiddleston is a sinister bad guy as THOR’s brother Loki and I look forward to this character having his own movie sometime.  Be sure to sit thru all the credits too as we get hints of Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2.  Scored this steel book at that crummy has been electronics store.


Perhaps the best movie made about space ever made.  This movie starts, sets for about 4 minutes, and then grabs you by the collar and does not let go for the next 80 something minutes.  Isolation can be scary enough but to be alone in space makes it that much more.  I loved the scenes without sound as it makes all the events going on seem kind of like an opera with the soundtrack.  This movie looks stunning, Sandy Bullock is awesome, and the tight direction of this space opera will likely clean up at the Oscars on Sunday and deservedly so, see it.



An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.  Bruce Dern has always been a great actor that has always been stereotyped as the heavy or the crazy bad guy.  In the late sixties and early seventies those were about the only parts the guy was being offered so he took some time off and reinvented himself a bit in 1972’s Silent Running.  But still for over 40 years later people cannot forgive him for (spoiler alert) killing John Wayne in the Cowboys.  Looks like a good drama from director Alexander Payne.  (The Descendants, Sideways)

Look for my Oscar picks shortly.


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