Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Colin Trevorrow Quick Impressions: Saturday afternoon, my six-year-old spent just about the entire movie slouched way down into her seat, staring in wide-eyed horror up at the screen, occasionally making low sounds of alarm and leaning into her parents’ reassuring embrace. (My …
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Rating: PG Director: Brad Bird Quick Impressions: Since we suffered no extreme calamities venturing out into the big, scary world to see The Avengers last weekend, my husband, daughter, and I decided to repeat the experiment and take in this week’s new release Tomorrowland. We had a few …
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Joss Whedon Quick Impressions: I’m almost 32 weeks pregnant now. The baby is measuring quite large, and I also have extra amniotic fluid for some reason. So these days when I look in the mirror, I see the CGI hulk where I …
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Quick Impressions: I’m done! I’ve finally seen all the Oscar nominated performances and pictures! And now I’m free! Free! Hooray! After this, I may take a brief hiatus from this blog until my son is born. I still …
Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Quick Impressions: Hoping to cry for ninety minutes straight but not sure how to make that happen? Have I got the movie for you! Still Alice is definitely worth seeing for Oscar fans because it’s pretty clear at …
Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Ava DuVernay Quick (or not so Quick) Impressions: The American Civil Rights Movement has fascinated me ever since I first taught a course on the Rhetoric of Civil Disobedience as a graduate student at UT. I chose that topic because I’ve always …
Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutes Rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood Quick Impressions: Okay, so it only took me forty years to get back to the theater, but I finally managed to catch a screening of American Sniper, and now I’m the last person in the continental United States to see it. …
Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes Rating: R Director: Bennett Miller Quick Impressions: I didn’t realize it until yesterday (I’m slow), but I remember when this happened. I didn’t know anything about wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz, but John du Pont’s big standoff with the police was actually on the news …
Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Morten Tyldum Quick Impressions: This is a much better movie than The Theory of Everything. At least, it’s more to my taste. I suppose I’m comparing the two projects because they’re both British films about true life academics who make great discoveries. I’m …
Runtime: 2 hours, 24 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Peter Jackson Quick Impressions: This movie was way better than I expected. Of course, I went in with low expectations. I’ve liked all of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth movies so far, but I can’t deny that overall The Lord of the Rings is a …
