michael's movie reviews
2014
These are the movies I reviewed in 2014.
reviewed 2014.12.23
This is a movie about a young man in the early days of the AIDS crisis who contracts the disease from a junkie prostitute...
reviewed 2014.12.01
Before I write this, I'll clarify that I think there's a good chance that the director of this movie faked the original moon landing on behalf of the US government during the Cold War competition with the Soviets...
reviewed 2014.11.17
This is a horror movie within a sci-fi movie about a world-wide effort by humanity to appease the old gods using a systematic approach to sacrifice. In this system, things are somewhat left to chance and there's the possibility that the victims can escape their fate. It's just unlikely.But when the various would-be victims in different locations beat the odds the gods will demand their due, and ..
reviewed 2014.11.07
I bit off more than I could chew with this one, walking away at some point to let me son soldier on while I did some chores...
reviewed 2014.10.04
This is a feature-length advertisement for all things Lego, and I found it quite entertaining...
reviewed 2014.09.24
This is a movie telling of a story book as read by a grandfather to his grandson who is home sick...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
reviewed 2014.08.06
I showed The Boy this bizarre but lovable movie about a mopey kid who wins a much-sought-after prize to tour a chocolate factory run by a famous recluse...
reviewed 2014.07.30
This is an interesting piece about some potential ramifications from a pandemic. In the early sequences of the movie we see an American woman meet a man for a casual fling before returning to her married life in the US. Along the way she eats at a restaurant where she picks up the virus.Various stories unfold, and we explore ideas from securities fraud to a prom dance.I found quite a few of th..
reviewed 2014.07.20
This is a story of a psychologically damaged veteran of world war two who returns to normal life after a stint in the care of a psychiatric ward...
reviewed 2014.06.23
During the passage of a comet, a group of friends have a dinner party...
reviewed 2014.06.21
This is the unnecessary third movie in the "Pitch Black" series...
reviewed 2014.06.11
I was attracted to this flick originally because I learned that it featured an orbital named Elysium - just like an unpublished novel of mine...
reviewed 2014.05.16
I watched this with my son for "movie night". It's about a video game character from the 8-bit days who longs to see the world outside his game (after forty-fifty years?). So he heads out to the other games in the store and has some adventures. And then he becomes involved in the strange case of a displaced royal lineage in one of the games.It's an original idea and executed well...
reviewed 2014.05.07
This is a science fiction film about a fellow who falls in love with a synthetic intelligent that's partially resident in his "phone"...
reviewed 2014.04.30
I really enjoyed this animated rendition of the old "Tintin" comic books...
reviewed 2014.04.13
This is an animated movie from Japan's Ghibli studio...
reviewed 2014.03.21
I tried showing my son this movie but he didn't get it or think it was at all good...
reviewed 2014.02.08
This is a science fiction flick set in a considerably-distant future where humanity is combing the stars looking for things to plunder from planets that are already occupied by intelligent species we don't understand. Frankly, that's probably how we'll roll and I'm glad it looks rather that we'll simply mess up this planet and die out having never taken our shit that far.But I digress...
reviewed 2014.02.07
This is a science fiction story featuring aliens that have come to Earth to harvest men...
reviewed 2014.01.08
This is the tale of inmates of a high-speed train that is circling the Earth on a track spanning a global frozen wasteland...