Thursday, March 31, 2016

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot

A bored TV news producer, Tina Fey, volunteers for a 3 month stint in Afghanistan as a news reporter. In this true story of how 3 months becomes 4 years, Fey is embbeded with a group of Marines as the fighting rages on but the TV interest in the US wanes. Amongst the many parties with other journalists, friendships are made and lost due to self interests. Fey gives a serious performance in this very good movie. 3 bananas

Thursday, March 24, 2016

DeadPool

Ryan Reynolds is hilarious in this spoof of the X-Men series from Marvel. Reynolds also known as Dead Pool becomes unkillable and disfigured due to an experiment that was suppose to cure his cancer. He now becomes a costumed anti-hero who kills worse people than himself. Many moments of fun comedy and some great one-liners as he tracks down the people responsible for his situation. 3 bananas

Thursday, March 17, 2016

10 Cloverleaf Lane

John Goodman builds a doomsday bunker, kidnaps two people to share it with, while trying to convince his hostages that the world has been destroyed by alien invaders or a nuclear war. Quirky plot has many twists and turns which keep you guessing. Bizare ending leaves room for a sequel. 2 1/2 bananas

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

London has Fallen

Action, action and more action. The Prime Minister of England dies apparently of a heart attack; as all the world leaders assemble in London to honor him, terrorists with a well planned attacked take out most of the world leaders and much of London's historic buildings. Gerrard Butler stars as a secret service agent in charge of keeping  the President of the U.S.alive. Butler is combination of James Bond and Jack Reacher so you know how this movie ends, but it sure is entertaining. 3 bananas