Recent movie and music reviews, with patent-pending two work reviews.
MOVIES
22 Jump Street – bar set
Sunset Strip – debauched history
Pain & Gain – ultimate Bay-ness
Vehicle 19 – paper thin
Fast & Furious 6 – more nonsense
Ender’s Game – well played
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – enjoyably empty
Escape Plan – predictably dumb
Riddick – franchise revival
Gravity – tensely brilliant
Taken 2 – disappointing follow-up
MUSIC
Manic Street Preachers: Futurology – welcome detour
The Lees of Memory: Sisyphus Says – shoegazy fun
Weezer: Everything Will Be Alright In The End – needed return
Prince: Art Official Age – classic Prince
Two-Word Reviews, Spring/Summer 2014
My Music, Movie and Book intake for the last few months, with my patent-pending two-word reviews.
MUSIC
The Cure: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me – wild swings
Violent Soho: Hungry Ghost – alternative throw-back
Sleepmakeswaves: …And So We Destroyed Everything EP – epic instrumentals
MOVIES
Dallas Buyers Club – heart wrenching
Gymkata – awful awesomeness
Finding The Funk – funky fun
Cloud Atlas – interestingly confused
The Darkest Hour – crappy aliens
The Raid: Redemption – insane action
A Good Day to Die Hard – limp addition
Divergent – faithful adaptation
Now You See Me – ridiculous ride
BOOKS
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – biting satire
MUSIC
The Cure: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me – wild swings
Violent Soho: Hungry Ghost – alternative throw-back
Sleepmakeswaves: …And So We Destroyed Everything EP – epic instrumentals
MOVIES
Dallas Buyers Club – heart wrenching
Gymkata – awful awesomeness
Finding The Funk – funky fun
Cloud Atlas – interestingly confused
The Darkest Hour – crappy aliens
The Raid: Redemption – insane action
A Good Day to Die Hard – limp addition
Divergent – faithful adaptation
Now You See Me – ridiculous ride
BOOKS
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – biting satire
Two Word Reviews, Spring 2014
Movie and music from the Spring of 2014, with patent-pending two-word reviews:
MOVIES
Captain America: The Winter Solider – headier follow-up
Draft Day – satisfying fantasy
Man of Steel – surprisingly tame
The Heat – more please
Neighbors – premise delivers
White House Down – suspect motivations
For A Good Time Call… – mostly fun
Godzilla – worthy reboot
X-Men: Days of Future Past – series highlight
Edge of Tomorrow – repeatedly entertaining
Pacific Rim – big fun
2 Guns – too stupid
The Purge – moronic premise
Tomorrow, When The War Began – redo dawn
Runner Runner – dumber dumber
The World’s End – fun decline
MUSIC
Jack White: Lazaretto – familiar ground
Fu Manchu: Gigantoid – gigantic success
M83: Oblivion soundtrack – exceeds movie
MOVIES
Captain America: The Winter Solider – headier follow-up
Draft Day – satisfying fantasy
Man of Steel – surprisingly tame
The Heat – more please
Neighbors – premise delivers
White House Down – suspect motivations
For A Good Time Call… – mostly fun
Godzilla – worthy reboot
X-Men: Days of Future Past – series highlight
Edge of Tomorrow – repeatedly entertaining
Pacific Rim – big fun
2 Guns – too stupid
The Purge – moronic premise
Tomorrow, When The War Began – redo dawn
Runner Runner – dumber dumber
The World’s End – fun decline
MUSIC
Jack White: Lazaretto – familiar ground
Fu Manchu: Gigantoid – gigantic success
M83: Oblivion soundtrack – exceeds movie
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