lately:
LEGO Batman Movie--my son and his friends loved it. Made me laugh a few times. Not as good as the
LEGO Movie, but still worth the price of a ticket.
Allegiant--checked this one out of the library. I liked it, as I liked the first two in the series (I might be one of the only people in existence who liked them--lol. I think they were collectively better than the Hunger Games movies, actually.) These three movies work best when seen back to back. The director did a good job of telling a single story without lumped on twists or silly cliffhangers at the end of the first two. And the female lead is actually effective! She doesn't sit around as a foil for the male lead! Hooray!
The Revenant--The book was much, much better than the movie. I giggled through the last 1/4-1/3 of the movie. My son put it well: "This is the kind of movie you admire more than you like." Inarritu is a wonderful director, the movie was beautiful (light is truly another character in all of his movies), the performances were sterling (though Hardy deserved an Oscar more than Dicaprio)...and the story was flat. Why he chose to take a straight ahead adventure story and muck it up with hokey mysticism, ham-handed symbolism, and silly backstory I will never understand. READ THE BOOK. Tremendously better story than this hoo-ha.
Isle of the Dead--the Karloff movie. It's pricey on Amazon, but I found a secondhand copy at the comics shop for a couple of bucks. The DVD actually has
Isle of the Dead and
Bedlam (I've never seen that one), so it was good value! I remembered watching this one on Nightmare Theater when I was a kid; it's not one of Lewiston's best, but his use of light is also tremendously good and the sequence with the premature burial is still creepy and effective.
Next up:
Victor Frankenstein. I've heard terrible things about this one, but I like both Daniel Radcliffe and James Mc Avoy, so I'm willing to give it a go
EDIT: I almost forgot! I also watched a documentary called
Minimalism. Eh. It was okay.