Category: Three Sentence Movie Reviews

This suffered from comedy-sketch-gone-on-too-long syndrome, but was entertaining enough.  And the kitten was so cute!  Plus, you get to have George Michael songs stuck in your head for a goodly amount of time afterward.

Cost: $4.00
Where watched: Academy Theater with S. North.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/keanu_ver6.html

This was great!  Tense in all the right places with enough humor and outrage at needed intervals to release the pressure.  Clooney and Roberts were their usual solid selves, and I found myself wondering just what that Jack O’Connell had been up to prior to this.*

Cost: $4.00
Where watched: Laurelhurst Theater

*It turns out that he was in ’71 and Starred Up, both of which were reviewed on Flimspotting and O’Connell’s performance was enthusiastically recommended (possibly to a gushing level).

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/money_monster.html

Man, oh man do I love this show, despite not wanting to spend any moment in real life with any of these characters.*  I felt that this season was more logical in its character progressions and I particularly enjoyed the introduction of Mimi-Rose Howard into the Girls stew.  There were some awesome lines that I neglected to write down and some incredibly good scenes.**

Cost:  Free from library (after a long wait because I missed the appearance in the catalog by a week or so.)
Where watched:  at home. One episode per night at first and then probably the last four in one sitting.

*Even Shosh, my favorite and the most normal in her quasi-spectrum way, would massively annoy me after about 30 minutes.
**Just three: Ray telling off Dezi; someone trying to explain to Hannah about boundaries; the Mimi-Rose/Adam/Ace/Jess awkward dinner

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An excellent episodic film with solid performances by all.  I enjoyed Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to be something more complex than a kindly older lady.*  There was great reflection of life choices by women (and a few men) of all ages, which was interesting.

Cost: $2.75 from Videorama
Where watched: at home

*For most of the movie, she was the opposite of kindly.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2015/grandma.html

This was first in my post-mortem Yelchin catch-up viewing and I’m surprised I hadn’t ever gotten around to watching it given that I was a fan of Downey Jr, Davis and Dennings when the movie debuted.  I found that though the actors went all-in with their acting stuff, this movie did not really hang together.  For this I blame the script, which was random and sometimes dumb.

Cost: $2.00 from Videorama
Where watched:  At home.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2008/charlie_bartlett_ver3.html

Being a fan of both of the gentlemen on the poster, I was also a fan of this movie which I found amusing, even though some of the plot made no sense whatsoever.  I was quite surprised at the Rock’s portrayal of Bob Stone as a nerd in recovery, still shell-shocked from his high school experience.* There were some very good lines in this film.

Cost: $5.00
Where watched:  McMenamins St. John’s Pub with one other person who didn’t ever laugh, making me the crazy lady laughing alone in the room for a second day in a row.

*Like, he was acting.  Which I hadn’t realized he could do.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/central_intelligence.html

An excellent coming of age allegory with the incredible and aptly named Royalty Hightower as Toni, a girl who has put in her time training as a boxer.  But the dance/drill team calls to her, even after some of the older girls start having unexplained fits.  There’s not a lot of dialogue and not a lot of action, but there is a lot of of coming-of-age stuff I don’t usually see on film, and I could not get enough of this movie, or Hightower’s performance.

Cost: $5.00
Where watched:  Living Room Theater with Matt

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/fits_ver3.html

I found the original movie hilarious and this one was funny too. It had the added bonus of quasi-female empowerment (quasi- because it was written by five guys–nary a woman in sight).  It was ridiculous in its ridiculousness and I had a very good time watching it.

Cost: $5.00
Where watched: Jubitz Cinema.  All alone in the theater, laughing like a crazy person.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/neighbors_two_sorority_rising_ver3.html

Walt Stillman’s Damsels in Distress left me cold, so I was a little wary of this film.  But it turns out that he just needed the proper setting for the stodgy manners on display in Damsels.  This was a complex narrative carefully told and Lady Susan was delightful in her unabashed selfish villainy.

Cost: $10.85 (I know!  I just really wanted to see a movie, so I paid full price at Regal.  And bought popcorn.  And was reminded I don’t really like movie theater popcorn. Again.)
Where watched: Regal City Center Stadium 12.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/love_and_friendship.html