American Sniper (2014)
Why show so much death
Dealt by this U.S. soldier,
But not his killing?
Category / Movies
Haiku movie reviews, September 2015
Two Days One Night (2014)
Co-workers are asked:
Vote for or against her job.
Is this a real thing?
John Wick (2014)
This guy is angry
He’ll mess you up very bad
Dressed in a sharp suit
Haiku movie reviews, August 2015
Locke (2013)
One man at the wheel
Wife, job, honor on the line
Such weight in his voice
Walk Hard (2007)
Silliness abounds
In this rocker’s storied life
Long live rock clichés!
The End of the Tour (2015)
Smart, talky guy flick
Drinking (or not), sex, suicide
— My wife hated it
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Thorin is a dick
Should anyone forgive him?
Bilbo needs a rest
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
Powerful singers
Risk it all in the spotlight
Very few shine on
Haiku movie reviews, July 2015
Jurassic World (2015)
The brothers bore me
Their aunt, though, and those high heels?
Dinosaurs watch out!
Vengeance (2009)
Gangsters sneak around
Gunfire erupts in Macau
A dad’s mind is lost
Inside Out (2015)
In internal realms
Feelings — not gods — vie to rule
This is mainstream fare?
Haiku movie reviews, June 2015
Love and Mercy (2015)
Living on the edge
Brian Wilson hears so much
Joy in creation
Brooklyn Castle (2012)
Junior high chess champs
Won’t be outplayed by budgets
These kids: They got game
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Big engines go roar
Lots of crazy stuff blows up
— Women rule the day
Gone Girl (2014)
He said or she said
It’s from someone’s point of view
— Unreliable
Spy (2015)
McCarthy goes Bond
Nobody does it better
Oh so much violence
Haiku movie reviews, April 2015
Big Hero 6 (2014)
A Disney-esque death
Of a heroic brother
Gives way to bedlam
Jersey Boys (2014)
Cops don’t kill these thugs
Valli’s sweet voice lifts them up
Tale worked best on stage
Haiku movie reviews, March 2015
Song of the Sea (2014)
Selkie seeks her voice
Her brother’s kind of a jerk
The spirits are saints?
Vanity Fair (2004)
Novel: No hero
On Film: Reese Witherspoon stars
Story? Doesn’t work
2 Guns (2013)
Rat-a-tat-tat — bang!
Two big stars come out shooting
The bodies pile up
Fury (2014)
I watched this tank flick
Riding on an Amtrak train
— steel machines roll on
Haiku movie reviews, February 2015
Frances Ha
I didn’t see as many movies as I’d like this past month. Just two:
The Interview (2014)
Randall Park steals it,
Though it isn’t that funny.
— Too much James Franco
Frances Ha (2012)
A Gen-Y woman
In New York and then Paris
Grows up — a little
Read January’s haiku movie reviews here.
