What a great movie month! You may notice that 3 out of the 7 movies I’ve seen this month have starred Tom Hardy. He is one talented guy!
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The Big Short, 2015 (Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Marissa Tomei) Grade B++
What Jason does – for dummies (like me ;))
Child 44, 2015 (Tom Hardy Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent Cassel) Grade B
Gripping 1950’s Russia character study.
Suspenseful Russian serial killer mystery (Michelle)
Mad Max Fury Road, 2015 (Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz) Grade B
Road trip on acid anyone?
Charlize Theron being super awesome. (Care)
Not as good as original. (Michelle)
The Revenant, 2014 (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter) Grade B
Not my thing but Oscar-worthy.
Amazing adventure. Leonardo was outstanding. (Michelle)
Get Hard, 2015 (Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Craig T Nelson, T.I., Alison Brie) Grade C
Not as bad as expected.
Kingsman:The Secret Service, 2014 (Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, Michael Caine) Grade C
Mr.Darcy leads dapper English spies.
Colin Firth – umbrella action hero! (Kay)
Kingsman was a huge disappointment. (Care)
Surprised it was so dirty. (Michelle)
Fun, except for that one over-the-top scene. (Carol)
The Theory of Everything, 2014 (Eddie Remayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, David Thewlis) Grade C-
Suffered from lots of boredom.
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The only one I’ve seen is Kingsman and we liked that one pretty well. It was good fun. Let’s see:
Colin Firth – umbrella action hero!
I liked it well enough, but I was bored. Seeing Colin with his umbrella was great fun 🙂
It has been so long since I’ve been to a movie theater. We had every intention of going over the Christmas break, but never made it. I do want to see a few of these though and I am sure it will be on Netflix.
The Big Short is really good and will help shed a new perspective on the housing collapse. Will probably make you mad all over again!
I haven’t seen any of those. Someone did recommend The Revenant to me but I know it’s not my thing either.
Yeah, it was good, but I wouldn’t have been sad if I missed it.
I didn’t know Child44 was made into a movie. I really must read that book. Kingsman is one I would like to see, but haven’t yet. We’ve been watching television shows more than movies of late.
I hadn’t read Child 44 but wanted to. After seeing the movie I put the second of the trilogy on my wishlist. An interesting character for sure. We don’t watch a lot of tv, especially when Survivor, The Voice and Project Runway are between seasons 🙂
I have only seen one of these and here are my 5 words: “Kingsman was a huge disappointment.”
Wait! I saw Mad Max, too! Charlize Theron being super awesome.
Child 44 – Suspenseful Russian serial killer mystery
Mad Max – Not as good as original
The Revenant – Amazing adventure. Leonardo was outstanding.
Kingsman – Surprised it was so dirty
The only one I’ve seen was Kingsman – fun, except for that one over-the-top scene.