Friday, August 18, 2017

Your Weekend Movie Guide for August 2017

Fifty years ago this summer, "Barefoot in the Park" was the big summer attraction at Radio City Music Hall.  Light and breezy entertainment with no super heroes or explosions or F bombs.  Perfect for the whole family, although a lot of the double entendre jokes went over my head at the time.

Summer is the time to escape to the movies.  These days, you might want to escape from the theaters with all the super heroes and explosions and F bombs. You know the monthly routine, kids.  I'll sift through the LA Times movie pages and give you my knee-jerk reaction to what's polluting our cinemas in August 2017.

Trust me, it ain't going to be light and breezy.

Gook:   I can only imagine.

An Inconvenient Sequel - Truth to Power:   One campaign that Al Gore does always win?   The one for Oscar.

Detroit:   Reliving the riots of the 60s.   For those who find the riots of 2017 boring.

Atomic Blonde:   Blog reviewed the other day.   It's better on CD than DVD.  

The Dark Tower:   Something something by Stephen King.  Boo...and yawn.

Dunkirk:   Christopher Nolan ruined Batman and now he has messed up World War II.

The Big Sick:  Reviewed here several weeks ago.   Might be my favorite movie so far this year.

War for Planet of the Apes:   Compared to everything going on these days, monkeys would be an improvement.

The Emoji Movie:  😝

The Glass Castle:  A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who's.....oh, God, no.

The Nut Job 2:   There was such a thing as the Nut Job 1?

Annabelle - Creation:  A horror movie that involves orphans, dolls, and a nun. Sounds like the start of a great joke.

Kidnap:  Halle Berry is looking for her son who may have been abducted.   Along with her career.

Columbus:  John Cho as a scholar who finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana.   Yep, that's the plot.

Wind River:   The FBI investigates a murder on an Indian reservation.   Oh, wait,  Native American.   

Good Time:  A bank robbery gone wrong.   That's all I could find.

The Trip to Spain:  Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way.  Didn't I see this on the Travel Channel?

Step:  A documentary about a girls high school step team based in inner city Baltimore.   Let me guess....they win?

The Hitman's Bodyguard:   Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, and Samuel L. Jackson.   Okay, you lost me with the last guy.

Logan Lucky: Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as NASCAR drivers planning a heist.   Sounds interesting, but I refer you to my standing policy of never ever going to a movie that includes Channing Tatum.

Marjorie Prime:   A dying old lady conjures up a computerized version of her husband.   Control-alt-delete.

Planetarium:   Psychic sisters in pre-World War II France.   Predictable.

Lemon:   An actor considers his failing career.   His first name is not Jack.

Dave Made a Maze:   And I don't care.

The Ice Cream Truck:  Good Humor goes on a killing spree.   Seriously, that's the plot.

Patti Cakes:  A plus-sized white girl from New Jersey seeks a career as a rapper.  For those who wondered what Janice Soprano was up to.

Dinner last night:  Had a big lunch so just a small salad.


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