Category: Movies
Movie Review | The Host
I read The Host when it was released, back in 2008, and although I want to reread it, I haven’t had a chance yet. Therefore, I went into seeing the movie version with a sort of “book amnesia” – I remembered the main gist of the book, but not all of the small details. [...]
Movie Review | Jurassic Park 3D
Is it bad when a 20-year-old movie manages to entertain you more than most of the films you’ve seen in the theater in the past five to ten years? That’s what I was wondering as I left the screening of Jurassic Park 3D. The movie is celebrating its twenty-year anniversary, and I was six [...]
Movie Review | Olympus Has Fallen
Gerard Butler’s last few movies haven’t been great, and his last one I reviewed, Playing for Keeps, was awful. Luckily, he’s back to the action film genre in Olympus Has Fallen, and he plays a former secret service agent who now works at the Treasury. Luckily, the movie was much better than Butler’s recent [...]
Movie Review | Admission
Admission was one of the first books I reviewed on my book blog, back in 2009, and I remember the novel took me a while to get through. It was a serious book, and I liked it a lot; I was surprised, then, to see it being made into a movie, and being marketed [...]
Movie Review | The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
I was really looking forward to The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and not just because it’s set in Vegas, (one of my favorite cities) and that I visited it in January. The cast is definitely A-list – it includes Steve Buscemi, Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde, James Gandolfini, and Jim Carrey, among others – and the [...]
