I’ve got my tickets. This looks pretty damn cool.

Watched “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” tonight on DVD because Netflix streaming was down (no Dillon Panthers for me). It’s a solid heist picture with some neat twists that were probably a lot neater in the 70’s. I was entertained by all of the analog tech. I love Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw so I was well sold on this from the opening credits. The soundtrack was pretty great, too. It’s better than 6 wolfs so I’ll go 7, but it just makes the 7-cut.

“I Love You, Man” – I like Paul Rudd and Jason Segel a lot and they came through for me in this one. It wasn’t jam-packed with jokes like The Hangover, but there were one or two that had me hitting pause to compose myself. I am also an unapologetic Jaime Pressly fan. It’s an easy six wolfs.

“Smart People” – This was not a good movie. It had people in it I generally like, but there just wasn’t anything here I would say I enjoyed. Two Wolfs.

“Nick And Nora’s Infinite Playlist” – I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. I am super-skeptical when it looks like a movie is engineered for my demographic but Michael Cera and Kat Dennings were so disarming that the engineering became invisible and I was able to just enjoy the movie. It’s light but it’s good and Bishop Allen showed up in the middle. Proper. Six solid wolfs.

As an unabashed Jack White fan and a late-in-life fan of Led Zeppelin, It Might Get Loud is right in my wheelhouse.

Mercy.

I bought “I Love You, Beth Cooper” last summer because of the Evan Dorkin cover. I like Evan Dorkin a lot and I figured that he wouldn’t draw a book cover for some jackass. Michelle read it first and said that it’s way more of a screenplay in prose form than a novel. Turns out we were both right. Larry Doyle wrote a funny “madcap teen romp” that was a quick, light read and now it’s a movie starring Hayden Panettiere.

I caught The Hangover a couple of weeks ago for a Father’s Day matinee. Lots of big laughs. Zack Galifinakis is really funny and Ed Helms just kills me. I’m not much of a Bradley Cooper guy but the other 2 more than made up for him. Also nice to see Heather Graham again. She’s still got it.

I give it 7 solid wolfs. Out of a possible 10.

Oh man, this is nice. I loved this movie as a kid.

Drew Millward is another one of my poster faves. This a movie poster he did for the Alamo Summer Kids Camp movie series.

We watched Goonies with our kids a couple of months back and I think it really holds up.

Vanishing Point boils down to a car chase across the American West. It’s weird in that 70’s cinema way but I thought it was cool. The Charger Kowalski drives is a bad, bad machine. I’d like to watch this again.

(out of 10 possible wolfs)

“Primer” got pretty far out there with the time bending and paradox dodging (embracing?). Between ‘Lost‘ and then ‘Star Trek‘ I should be time-traveled out. I liked Primer, but I need to read up on it because I think I might have missed something.

(out of 10 possible wolfs)

Caught “Young and Handsome: A Night With Jeff Garlin” last night. I like Jeff Garlin but this just wasn’t that funny.

(out of 10 possible wolfs)