JONESING FOR FILMS

A blog dedicated to movies

Tag: In Theaters

  • Terminator Genisys (2015)

    Terminator Genisys (2015)

    Terminator Genisys tries desperately to update the franchise for a modern audience with a reboot that can’t come close to matching the first two films.

  • Love & Mercy (2015)

    Love & Mercy (2015)

    Love & Mercy falls into standards biopic fare at times, but Dano, Banks, and Giamatti are great and the film excels at showing the creation of the music.

  • Inside Out (2015)

    Inside Out (2015)

    Inside Out is another enjoyable, poignant, high-quality film from Pixar that deftly navigates the complicated world of emotions and memories.

  • Jurassic World (2015)

    Jurassic World (2015)

    Jurassic World relies heavily on the nostalgia factor, almost to its detriment, in creating a summer thrill ride that returns viewers to the island of dinosaurs.

  • San Andreas (2015)

    San Andreas (2015)

    San Andreas is firmly planted in “so bad it’s good” territory that you can enjoy the movie in spite of its noticeable shortcomings.

  • Aloha (2015)

    Aloha (2015)

    Aloha is an incoherent mess that shows a distressing decline in quality from earlier Crowe films.

  • Slow West (2015)

    Slow West (2015)

    Slow West shows the beauty but also the bleak brutality of the American West.

  • Tomorrowland (2015)

    Tomorrowland (2015)

    Tomorrowland features good performances and offers the promise of movie spectacle and awe, but doesn’t deliver on that promise in the end.

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    With thrilling action and great visual flair, Mad Max: Fury Road is a welcome return to this world by George Miller and the movie to beat this summer.