The House Next Door (2002)
Here's the setting - I had a surprise day off work because I switched out for a day next week due to next week being crazy, so I ran across this movie on YouTube. It wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't particularly bad either. It was pretty predictable, but had the feel of Straw Dogs - a movie I really liked. Come to think of it, I should probably put that movie on here! In the end, it was okay, slightly entertaining, with James Russo and AJ Cook putting in decent performances. REVIEWS: It was pretty hard to find …
The Yellow Rolls Royce (1964)
The Yellow Rolls Royce was a fun movie. I had never heard of it before this past winter, but I loved it. The vignette-style of the movie made for some interesting emotional connections which became poignant to me when considering those material things that outlive us. Shirley MacLaine was great in this movie, which was packed with the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison and George C. Scott. REVIEWS: An interesting blog over at It Rolls has quite a good review of the movie. One of the shortcomings of the movie they…
Miss Sloane (2016)
Machiavelli to Kaiser Soze This was a surprisingly good movie. It reminded me a little of Michael Clayton ...although not quite as good. Jessica Chastain was incredible in this one, incredibly Machiavellian! However, Miss Sloane reminds me of Kaiser Soze in her scheming, planning, cunning and ruthlessness. The movie also had Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong, Alison Pill and John Lithgow. Apparently Miss Sloane didn't do well at the box office, and several outlets panned it pretty badly, but hell - I rarely agree with the critics anyway!…
