When We First Met

This movie is getting horrible reviews on metacritic, but my wife and I enjoyed it.  It's a mindless journey through time with an end result that is not conventional.  I had a few laughs and had no problem getting through it's much appreciated 97 minute runtime.   Recommend.

Chris Rock: Tamborine

It's an interesting introspective on what Chris Rock has been up to, turns out it's a lot of adulting.  I appreciated his personal journey through child raising, divorce and battling other personal demons.  It was indeed funny, but it goes deeper than the laughs.  Caution: 1000 F-Bombs.  Recommend.

Jurassic World

Jurassic Wold, another nostalgia play, delivers a movie that feels like it was written by a child recalling what his dad told him about the first Jurassic Park movie.  It’s just bad.  Pass.

Beauty and the Beast

This is the second live action remake of Disney animated classics, and much like The Jungle Book, it’s equally well done.  I’m all aboard the train that says Hollywood needs to quit banking on nostalgia, but at the same time, I’m a sucker for it.  The scenery (likely all CG) is beautiful, well acted and cast.  Recommend.

Concussion

Will Smith plays a Nigerian Doctor ... that's weird right?  I really didn't know much about this movie, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.  I've said it before but it's always nice to learn a little something when watching a movie.  As a football fan this film was quite informative, and if I take it all as gospel, then the NFL has a real problem on it's hands.  Of course there are two sides to every story, and I haven't done the research to see how far this film stretches to portray the NFL as the bad guy.  All that aside, it was an entertaining film with a love story mixed in for the ladies.  Recommend.

The Polka King

I scrolled past this on Netflix, then scrolled back up, then back down, and then back up, and then settled on it as the run-time seemed right for between night shifts.  This is another Netflix Original featuring a fairly big name in Jack Black who portrays Jan Lewan, the Polka King of Pennsylvania.  The film is based on a true story which kept things fairly grounded and I found it quite a fascinating tale.  I don't know the historical accuracy, but it kept me entertained throughout and my toes tapping.  Who knew I liked Polka so much.  It was a decent way to spend an afternoon and I always like when I learn something through film...no matter who stretched it might be.  Recommend.

Bright

Metacritic scores this at 29 at the time of this writing, that's awfully generous.  I can handle elves and orcs in a fantastical (that is a word) setting, but not in reality ... I just can't grip it.  So while I can handle Zelda more than fine, when it takes itself seriously (Lord of the Rings) I bow out.  I don't know why I even tried.  This movie sucks.  I guess I was just curious what a big budget Netflix film would look like.  Pass.