Mid-Year Movie Wrap-Up

June 16th, 2015 by Max Allan Collins

I haven’t written as much about movies this year as in previous ones. That’s in part because Barb and I haven’t been going quite as much, having been burned too many times. But some of you enjoy my opinions on film, which this time I have lazily reduced into this look at most of the films we’ve seen in the first half of 2015.

MOVIES WE WALKED OUT ON:
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
THE AGE OF ADALINE

MOVIES WE SHOULD HAVE WALKED OUT ON:
TAKEN 3
RUN ALL NIGHT

INTERESTING INDIES:
EX MACHINA
IT FOLLOWS

MOVIES THAT WERE BETTER THAN THEY HAD ANY RIGHT TO BE:
McFARLAND USA
FURIOUS 7
JURASSIC WORLD

MOVIES THAT WERE WORSE THAN THEY HAD ANY RIGHT TO BE:
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
JUPITER ASCENDING
(Nate disagrees on both of these)

MOVIES THAT SHOULD HAVE SUCKED BUT DIDN’T:
POLTERGEIST
SAN ANDREAS

MOVIES I HATE THAT I WILL NEVER SEE:
MORTDECAI
PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2
HOT PURSUIT
ALOHA

BEST ACTION MOVIE IN YEARS:
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

BEST COMEDY IN YEARS:
SPY

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Here’s an advance look (sans type) of the cover by Stephen Gardner for the upcoming Dover reprint of A KILLING IN COMICS. Nicely moody, I think. Very happy to have the first two Jack and Maggie Starr’s back out.

A Killing in Comics

Along those lines, here’s a short but sweet write-up on the reprint from Dover of STRIP FOR MURDER.

And check out this interesting piece on why the DICK TRACY movie didn’t get a sequel (yet), touching on my novelization and the two follow-up novels.

M.A.C.

4 Responses to “Mid-Year Movie Wrap-Up”

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    That’s a great cover for Strip for Murder. I love the three Jack Starr mysteries. And it’s a great article on Dick Tracy. I know they didn’t mention it in the article but the three volumes Checker did of your Dick Tracy Casefiles is amazing. I read your previous post about Run All Night and I just saw it yesterday. I agree with everything you said. I couldn’t believe how obviously they took from Road to Perdition the graphic novel and the movie. Even the cinematography of the last scene where Liam is looking out the window at his family from the lake house is identical to the movie version of Road to Perdition.

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