Author: broderic

I can’t blog much these days as I suck at it. Well I picked up watching movies over the holidays and I need to catch up to what I saw. Let’s see the last film I wrote about was The Running Man which I saw in November of last year.

So here’s a digest of the movies I caught since then:

Rental Family (3 of 5 stars): My Japan fascination comes out because I only watched it for Japan. Interesting but very much trying to get Oscar attention. Worthy to watch though.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (3 of 5 stars): Cheese balls. It was easy to think this film was going to be bad. It wasn’t that bad. Dumb maybe but entertaining in its own right. The magic was always film technology and screenwriting to make it work.

The Housemaid (3 of 5 stars): I didn’t think there would be a twist. There was. The perfect husband, wife, or family never exists in pretty, young nanny movies.

Song Sung Blue (3 of 5 stars): Made me appreciate Neil Diamond. I didn’t think there would be a twist. It was too real.

Anaconda (2 of 5 stars): This should’ve been more amusing. I didn’t think there was anything humorous to the deaths, but no one really died except the baddies! Could’ve been better.

The Running Man or as I’d like to call it #luigiwasright.

They picked the most angry man to be in running man. It was also a call to kill all billionaires. Surprisingly it bombed out at the box office. Like who would’ve known that a film trying to convince us that the world is shit because of the rich would’ve done nothing for anyone.

3 of 5 stars.

One weekend while checking out the movie listings, I see Roofman. It looked like something to watch. So I watched it. It was based on a true story of a thief who would go through roofs to steal loot from stores. He gets arrested, then escapes prison, only to hide in a Toys R Us where he falls in love with a store employee before ultimately being caught.

Yeah. I guess it was something I was interested in watching.

Movies are better in the theatre. I wouldn’t have watched this on streaming. But I went and paid my $15 to see it. Did I get my money’s worth? Maybe, but it was nice to be outside the house.

3 of 5 stars.