Category: Mindless Mondays

This movie sucks. What Works: Virtually nothing. Al Pacino’s so-embarassing-it’s-hilarious turn as a version of himself is entertaining in its delirious kamikaze glory (the man is seriously hellbent on destroying his reputation) but after a while you just feel depressed for laughing at (not with) this once-great actor. What Doesn’t Work: This is an easy…

This movie has stirred up a minor storm in the indie world in the past few weeks. It’s the story of two young college students (Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones) who fall in love quickly but have different struggles trying to stay together, including a long distance part of the movie where she’s in her…

This is a Brazilian movie that came out there a few months back and became the highest grossing South American film ever. I’m just now catching up with this well-made crime drama but, let’s be honest, this movie wasn’t exactly at the top of your list for movies you’re waiting to read about. So I’ll…

It is what it is. This movie won’t surprise anyone, and will deliver almost exactly what you’d expect. What Works: A fine cast–really better than this movie deserves–and a few decent chuckles. It’s also good to see Eddie Murphy finally get back to straight comedy over lukewarm family films. What Doesn’t Work: The ending is…

This is the movie currently propping up the ailing box office (its second weekend performance only dipped three percent from the first week) but is it worth a damn? I would say…kind-of. That’s another way of giving the movie a C or a C+ and telling you to wait for the DVD, but, let’s be…

Waaaay behind the curve reviewing this movie as it opened more than a month ago, but one of the reviews every Monday is no-longer-relevant, so that’s nothing new. I think the extra time also gives perspective. Footloose is a great example, as I would have been more enthusiastic about it immediately after seeing it than…

This movie has the single best red-band trailer I’ve ever seen, complete with coked up babies, Neil Patrick Harris hitting on babes in heaven, Neil Patrick Harris getting kicked out of heaven by a jealous Jesus, pot smoking babies with the munchies, etc. And yet, the movie itself sucks…Damn you trailers! What Works: It’s funny…

This movie more or less opened and died on its opening weekend during Halloween, so I won’t waste too much of anyone’s time on a sure-fire bomb that won’t be remembered as having existed by this time next year. What Works: Not a lot. The opening credits set to a soaring sky view of 1960’s…

This is one of those extremely small scale independent movies that most readers haven’t been exposed to. The movie IS in a few hundred theaters now (where I saw it) but is also on demand so anyone with cable can watch it. I can’t exactly tell you to drive two hundred miles–what I used to…

This movie is interesting as it is about a cult but will leave you feeling like the victim of a con job. Critics have given this movie rave reviews (while inexplicably being lukewarm to stronger films like Ides of March), but make no mistake: I did not see one person leave the theater that looked…

I am extremely late in reviewing this movie even though I saw it weeks ago. [Couldn’t find a place for it last week during Halloween week.] And yet I feel that’s unfair as it’s actually one of the better movies in theaters you could watch right now. It’s not as viscerally crowd pleasing as Moneyball…

Well, after a long day of five movie reviews, one mom joke, a tv review, and an entertainment editorial, I wind down the site today with my favorite movie this week, In Time. Now this being Halloween, I’ve tried to keep it to that theme (people can dress up as the robots of Rock ‘Em,…