Running Time: 1 hour, 44 minutes Rating: R Director: John Madden Quick Impressions: As the opening credits rolled, I found it fascinating that Matthew Vaugn wrote the screenplay because I wasn’t aware that he wrote things he didn’t direct. When I got home, I checked to make sure it was …
Running Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Mike Cahill Quick Impressions: This movie would have been better as a music video. As interested as I am in genre theory, I rarely have revelations of this kind. I don’t think that I’ve ever once read a novel and lamented, …
Running Time: 2 hours and 9 minutes Rating: R Director: Marcus Nispel Quick Impressions: When I first started seeing Conan the Barbarian previews, I had absolutely no desire to see it. Then my husband realized that Conan was being played by Jason Momoa, who also played my soul-mate, Khal Drogo, …
Running Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes Rating: R Director: Craig Gillespie Quick Impressions: I’ve never seen the original Fright Night. I’m very surprised we didn’t think of showing an edited version to my stepson back when he was five and going through a monster movie phase, but somehow I managed …
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes Rating: PG Director: Robert Rodriguez Random Trivia: What preview would you expect to see before Spy Kids in 4D? If you answered The Iron Lady, the biopic of Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep, then you’d be much more psychic than I am. Now I …
Running Time: 1 hr, 34 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Woody Allen Quick Impressions: Now that I’ve seen this, I understand what people mean when they say it’s a “return to form” for Woody Allen. I knew almost nothing about Midnight in Paris going in—just that it had a lot of …
Running Time: 1 hr, 28 minutes Rating: R Director: Joe Cornish Quick Impressions: My husband and I have been dying to see this movie all summer. Suddenly, it showed up out of nowhere on a small screen of a multiplex near us, just in time for our viewing to coincide …
Running Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Tate Taylor Quick Impressions: I don’t think the theater anticipated how many people would come to this movie on opening night. If it wasn’t sold out, I’d be shocked. I’m almost positive that every seat was filled by the time the …
Running Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Rupert Wyatt Quick Impressions: I thought this was the saddest summer blockbuster ever, but that’s probably because early on, the chimp Caesar started to remind me of my two-year-old daughter, and I was never able to shake the association. If I’d …
Running Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Quick Impressions: I knew next to nothing about this movie, just that the preview had been funny and that I liked the cast. Oh, and by the time I saw it, I also knew that it was …
