Bored As Hell Cast

We fight about Patriot’s Day and whether it’s manipulative mediocrity bordering on propaganda or a gripping drama told too soon. Also, Ben Affleck gets no respect as writer, director and star of Live By Night and Martin Scorsese rips apart faith in Silence.

We review A Monster Calls and run down the worst movies of 2016.  A Monster Calls is amazing, heartfelt, and beautiful. . . and horribly marketed and rolled out to critics and audiences. Everyone loves it, but it’s buried in January and most critics didn’t get to see it until awards ballots were already sent … Continue reading 85 – A Monster Calls and The Worst of 2016 →

Well, that was a year. But to bring in 2017 on a positive note, here are our top 10 movies of the year and an hour-long dissection of what made them so great. Andy apologizes in advance for bringing out the soapbox. Our top 10’s and order of discussion: Andy: 10. [tie] La La Land … Continue reading 84 – The Best of 2016 →

FIVE movies this week. You’d think there was some sort of holiday weekend or something. Assassin’s Creed continues the streak of bad video game adaptations. Sing is bright, colorful, predictable and little else. Why Him? is side-stitchingly hilarious. Passengers has some problems but more good than bad. Fences will win so many Oscars. Soundtrack for … Continue reading 83 – Assassins Creed Sing Why Him Fences Passengers →

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the release of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life.  In a new (hopefully recurring) feature, we’re going to dive in to classic or important films and why we love them. It’s a Wonderful Life  comes in at #20 of AFI’s greatest American films, and #1 on their “Most … Continue reading 82 – Merry Christmas Moviehouse! →

One of the best and one of the worst of the year: Collateral Beauty and La La Land.

A very special episode. But no spoilers– we will save those for another time. A few minor plot points and character descriptions, but little more than what is in the trailer. It’s a war movie! But there’s a lot of Star Wars in that Star Wars movie. This is great. Go see it, minor problems … Continue reading 80 – We Rebel Against Rogue One →

One holiday movie, one Oscarbait ths week. Office Christmas Party throws a bunch of jokes and funny people together and hopes it works. It mostly does, and its saving grace is Kate McKinnon, but the plot sometimes gets in the way of the funny.  Manchester by the Sea is going to make you depressed and wow … Continue reading 79 – Office Christmas Party by the Sea →

We tackle Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie, and Hidden Figures, the untold stories of the African American women who helped put us in space.

Another big holiday movie weekend with Bad Santa 2, Rules Don’t Apply, and Moana. Bad Santa 2 is a pale imitation of the first, but at least we get more Thurman Merman. Rules Don’t Apply is overstuffed and too long, but it’s great seeing Warren Beatty play crazy Howard Hughes. The best of the week is Disney’s Moana. Adam has … Continue reading 77 – Bad Santa Rules Don’t Apply to Moana →

It’s boxing and magical beasts as we review real-life comeback boxing story Bleed for This and Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Did it have to be Miles Tellar? Aaron Eckhart is great, though. If you like Harry Potter and old silent films, you’ll really like this, otherwise. . .

What a week, and a movie to go with it. Arrival is one of those movies where the less you know, the better it is, so we keep spoilers and plot to a minimum. But aliens show up, we have to communicate with them, so we get Amy Adams to do it. We both loved it, with … Continue reading 75 – Arrival →

Marvel gives us its 14th movie, and it is spectacular. The visuals are like nothing you’ve seen before, and the performances are phenomenal. Go see this in IMAX 3D. The Asian whitewashing controversy.  We both like this a lot.

Happy Halloween! Eat your gross, nasty vegetables with boring Inferno and then stick around for the second half of Trolls because the first half is boring. If you need a last minute suggestion of what to watch on Halloween, try Blade II or Hellboy, both of which are directed by Guillermo Del Toro and star Ron Perlman and are perfectly … Continue reading 73 – Trolls Inferno →

We’re back with a couple of inexplicable sequels. Adam called “Ouija: Origin of Evil” the candy corn of movies. And we were both unimpressed with “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” but did like Cobie Smulders. Also, what horror movie stuck with you? The Ring and Paranormal Activity.

This week we saw Ben Affleck as The Accountant, which is kinda like Rain Man meets Jason Bourne. The Greasy Strangler also finally hit theaters, so we remember back to seeing it at Sundance and why it doesn’t deserve to be compared to John Waters movies. Also, our good friend Brooks Bird tells us about all of the releases … Continue reading 71 – The Greasy Strangler Accountant →

We only saw The Girl on the Train this week, but we’re also going into the confession booth to share Halloween-themed movies we’ve never seen that we should have,

Four movies this week and we talk more about our favorite Tim Burton movies– because it’s October and because we saw Miss Pergrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Also Deepwater Horizon, Masterminds, and Queen of Katwe.

Adam has a sad because he hasn’t seen The Magnificent Seven or Storks. Andy has a sad because he has. Nah, not really. Storks is mediocre and boring. Why would you see anything but Kubo? And Magnificent Seven seems to have nothing to say except “pew pew!” Andy has seen Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Queen of Katwe, and … Continue reading 68 – The Magnificent Storks →

Remember. . .  The Blair Witch? ‘Member. . . Bridget Jones? ‘Member. . . Oliver Stone? Yes, this week we’ve got Bridget Jones’s Baby, Blair Witch, and Snowden. If any of those movies sound interesting to you, you are probably going to like them. If you don’t like rom-coms, horror, or paranoid real-life techno-thrillers, respectively, you probably won’t. Bridget Jones’s … Continue reading 67 – The Blair Witch’s Baby Snowden Nostalgia Sequel →