It’s been a while since I’ve seen a movie that I disliked enough to write a fun rip-apart review on. Enter Marvel’s Doctor Strange. It just came to Netflix, and I seemed to remember hearing lots of good things about it when it came to theaters. So we watched it. And as we watched it,… Continue reading Marvel’s Doctor Strange is a Little Too Strange
Typically, when I sit down to watch a Pixar movie with my toddler (or in the past, by myself or with my husband…), I know it’s going to be good. Let’s forget about Cars 2 for a moment, and acknowledge that Pixar knows what they’re doing when they set out to make an animated film… Continue reading Inside Out is One of Pixar’s Best
The Amy Adams/Clint Eastwood baseball movie Trouble with the Curve recently came to Netflix. I’d heard of it before, was vaguely aware that I’d heard of it in a positive light, but didn’t know too much about it. Not a huge baseball fan myself (at least not since I was about 14…), I wasn’t sure… Continue reading Why I Enjoyed Trouble with the Curve
My husband Luke was in a journalism class last semester, and he had a homework assignment to watch one of two journalist-themed movies, one of which was the 2016 Oscar winner Spotlight. Because he had already made his Catholicism known to the rest of the class, he thought he ought to choose that movie for evangelization’s… Continue reading Why I’m Glad I Watched Spotlight
Sometimes when I look up Oscar-nominated movies (since I often haven’t heard of them until they are nominated), I get really excited about them. The Big Short was not one of those movies. It’s about some guys predicting the housing market cash of the mid-2000s and making a bunch of money off it. Oops, I… Continue reading The Big Short Exceeded My Small Expectations
I first watched Pixar’s Up years ago, probably around the time it came out on DVD, and I remember liking it, but honestly the movie as a whole was not extremely memorable for me. What is it about? The answer is a little bit vague: There’s this old guy, and this boy, and the guy… Continue reading The Beauty of Pixar’s Up
I’m about to say something that could make me wildly unpopular: I didn’t love Despicable Me. Partly, it had too much cutesie/gimmicky humor. And partly, I am bitter that it went on to become a massive hit while its DreamWorks doppelganger, Megamind, didn’t. Megamind is the only animated movie as yet to make it onto… Continue reading Why Megamind Should be a Classic
I have a confession to make. I didn’t like The Notebook. I know, it’s almost like I lose some serious girl-cred to even say that. Because women in general seem to think it’s some amazing, beautiful story of sap-I-mean-romance. I, on the other hand, have no intention to ever watch it again. Oh wait, I… Continue reading Why I didn’t like the Movie One Day
I’m kind of a sucker for historical dramas. Especially romances. So when I saw the trailer for Allied, which hinted at both a romance and a thriller aspect that would keep Luke interested, I added the movie to mental Redbox list. The concept is strong: Brad Pitt, a WWII spy, meets beautiful female WWII spy,… Continue reading The Trouble with the Allied
Sometimes I’ll see movies that I’ve never heard of in the “Trending Now” list on Netflix, and I’ll get excited about the possibility of finding a hidden gem. If they’re trending, I reason, that means they’ve got to be good enough that a lot people are watching. And when I read the description of The… Continue reading The Matchbreaker Should be Watched with Low Expectations
