What movies have you seen recently?

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The Admiral

South Korean film about the 1597 Battle of Myeongryang. Korean Admiral Yi and his 12 battleships oppose Japan's fleet of 330. . . and win!

Evil Roy Slade

A childhood favorite western comedy.

(AllMovie)



4.5-hour movie serial in 15 parts. Watched the first disc on the DVD set (Parts 1-6).

Interesting tidbit: this serial was doing realistic latex face-masks 26 years before Mission: Impossible.

Babadook

A single mother, haunted by the violent death of her husband, is also haunted with her young son's fear of a monster called the Babadook. A fear that becomes only too real.

Inherent Vice

In 1970, a 'dirty hippie' Los Angeles detective investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

Stir Crazy

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron.

Just saw it yesterday with my wife on my birthday. I think this very well may have been better than the original. Using both alien and Hydra technology, as well as Loki's staff, Tony Stark is manipulated by Scarlet Witch (then a Hydra ally) into building Ultron, which he hopes will protect the earth from extraterrestrial invasion. Instead -because of a glitch (which at the end turns out was the purposeful work of a sinister third party) - Ultron is self aware, very mentally disturbed, and bent on human extinction. Building an army of smaller scale Ultrons, he seems to be too much for the Avengers, and appears to Stark to have destroyed Jarvis, taking over that program's worldwide connections. Ultron's personal goal is evolution - to create a synthetic, android body into which he can transfer his own consciousness into, combining it with the gem powering Loki's staff. Little does he know that he is opening the door for the hero who will be the heart and soul of the Avengers. Not to give too much away, but there is indeed a hero's death, a couple retirements, and one is missing in action. Yet by the end of the movie, there are new heroes added to the team.
First rate, action packed movie. While comic book nerds (like me) will complain about the change in Ultron's origin story (no mention is made of Hank Pym, aka Ant Man, and how his own disturbed personality had caused Ultron to in turn become unstable), the new Stark explanation in the end works. James Spader as the voice of Ultron is both sinister and funny. And the Vision has since become my favorite Avenger.

Unbroken

I saw Predestination with Ethan Hawke. It was absolutely wild. Its about time travel, hermaphrodites, terrorists, and the Predestination Paradox. Its based on a short story that was written in the 50's, All You Zombies. But it's not about zombies. Has anyone seen it?

Big Eyes

A Tim Burton film about the painter Margaret Keane and the difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the until she finally came out and disproved him in court.

The Nutty Professor Eddie Murphy Edition.