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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