Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

I'm still on the insane quest to watch every single movie Sam Rockwell has made and, among all those I haven't seen yet (I'm planning on watching some I've already seen, The Green Mile to made one, that I haven't reviewed), I picked Confessions of a Dangerous Mind because this is George Clooney's directorial debut and Charlie Kaufman wrote it. Most important though, I liked the title.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind depicts the life of popular game show host and producer Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) who, at the height of his career, was recruited by the CIA as a contract killer. Well, at least that's what he said.

The Emoji Movie (2017)

Sometimes I just feel like watching shitty movies so that I can have fun writing a review late on. Today was one of those days and, having heard and read so many awful things about The Emoji Movie over the past year, I made it my mission to sit through it. It was not easy, I'll tell you that as this is one of the most dreadful animated films I've seen. And I've seen a lot of dreadful animated films. 

Set inside a smartphone, the film follows Gene (voiced by T.J. Miller), a meh emoji with a problem, he doesn't feel meh and always has another expression on his face. Determined to become a normal emoji, Gene enlists the help of his new friend Hi-5 (voiced by James Corden) and a notorious Emoji hacker, Jailbreaker (voiced by Anna Faris), and they embark on a journey through the apps on the phone.

Lolita (1962)

I finally read Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita in February so I thought I'd watch this film too. I had really high hopes for this, not only because I loved the novel, but because Stanley Kubrick directed it and Nabokov himself worked on the screenplay. What could possibly go wrong? Many things, as it turned out.

Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a middle-aged, divorced European professor of French literature who moves to the US for a job at Beardsley College, Ohio. Before he begins his post, he decides to spend the summer in Ramsdale, New Hampshire and rents a room in the house of a widowed woman, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), after he meets and falls for her teen daughter, Dolores "Lolita" Haze (Sue Lyon).

Ready Player One (2018)

I almost used my free birthday ticket to see Ready Player One but then I saw A Quiet Place was on and went with it instead. I'm glad I made that choice because Spielberg's latest film was quite a disappointment. 

In the year 2045, much of humanity escape the harsh reality and desolation of the real world in the OASIS, an immersive virtual world where anyone can go anywhere, do anything and be anyone. When its creator, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all the users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder the full ownership of the OASIS. An orphaned teenager, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), finds the first clue and, with the help of some virtual friends, he tries to complete the game before a large company of virtual reality hardware run by Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) do so.