Tag: movies

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Reviews: The Loft

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Erik Van Looy
Written By: Bart De Pauw and Wesley Strick
Starring: Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Matthias Schoenaerts and Eric Stonestreet
Studio: Open Road Films
Synopsis: Five married guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city–a place where they can carry out hidden affairs and indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Reviews: The Loft”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dear White People

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 66% (Audience)
Directed By: Justin Simien
Written By: Justin Simien
Starring: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner and Teyonah Parris
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: A social satire that follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but offensive black-face party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in acutely-not-post-racial America while weaving a universal story of forging one’s unique path in the world – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dear White People”

Listmania, MoviesLeave a comment

Oscar Predictions & Ruminations

Derek

I have my predictions on deck for this year’s night of Hollywood self-aggrandizement even though this year’s event doesn’t really have as much joie de vivre to it as recent years have had. I mean there are very few nominations that really are buzz worthy but even if this is a downer of an award year this is still the big kahuna of them all.

Continue reading “Oscar Predictions & Ruminations”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews3 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Grizzly

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 94% (Audience)
Directed By: David Hackl
Written By: Guy Moshe and J.R. Reher
Starring: James Marsden, Piper Perabo, Scott Glenn, Adam Beach and Billy Bob Thornton
Studio: Open Road Films

Synopsis: Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Grizzly”

Comic Book Movies, Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews2 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Kingsman – The Secret Service

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Matthew Vaughn
Written By: Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman
Starring: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Kingsman – The Secret Service”

Movies, Trailers1 Comment

Trailer of the Day: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Derek

In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. – Source

Continue reading “Trailer of the Day: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The One I Love

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Charlie McDowell
Written By: Justin Lader
Starring: Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ted Danson
Studio: Radius-TWC

Synopsis: Struggling with a marriage on the brink of falling apart, a couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves, only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The One I Love”

Comic Book Movies, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Jay Oliva and Ethan Spaulding
Written By: Heath Corson
Starring: Sean Astin, Rosario Dawson, Nathan Fillion, Matt Lanter, Jason O’Mara
Studio: Warner Home Video

Synopsis: When Atlantean troops assault Metropolis as revenge for the death of their king, the Queen seeks help from the Justice League to find her son who has gone missing during the madness. – (Source)

Continue reading “Justice League: Throne of Atlantis – Good, Bad & Ugly Review”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews6 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Voices

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Marjane Satrapi
Written By: Michael R. Perry
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: A dark comedy about a likeable guy (Ryan Reynolds) pursuing his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets – but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Voices”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews2 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dracula Untold

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 23% (Critics) / 60% (Audience)
Directed By:  Gary Shore
Written By:  Matt Sazamaa and Burk Sharpless
Starring:  Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon and Charles Dance
Studio:  Universal Pictures
Synopsis:  As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dracula Untold”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews3 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 92% (Audience)
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Spike Lee
Starring: Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Synopsis: Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Da Sweet Blood of Jesus”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews2 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Suburban Gothic

Derek

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Richard Bates Jr.
Written By: Richard Bates Jr. and Mark Bruner
Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kat Dennings, Barbara Biven and Ray Wise
Studio: TSWRA LLC
Synopsis: Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can’t find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone’s lives. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Suburban Gothic”