“Like Crazy” an Unconventional Love Story
“Unconventional Love Story” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Like Crazy has a very simple plot: Girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl gets boy back. Or does she? You see, complicating this “simple” love...
View Article“Hit & Run” Has Gags That Just Keep On Coming
“Gags Just Keep On Coming” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Hit & Run is a comedy that is basically just one funny car chase after another, but it doesn’t get old, because each one keeps adding a new...
View Article“End of Watch” a Buddy-Cop Movie with a Twist
“Buddy-Cop Movie With a Twist” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! End of Watch is a powerful, almost traditional buddy-cop movie, but the language is raw, the action is violent, and it has an ending with an...
View Article“Seven Psychopaths” Is Gruesome Twisted Fun
“Gruesome Twisted Fun” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Seven Psychopaths is a very funny, very bloody, and very violent comedy that keeps you laughing, but you almost feel guilty about doing so. It...
View ArticleStop Saying “Take a Look”!
Here’s what gets me. Take a look at this. The three most overused and unnecessary words you ever hear on television are “Take a look.” Take a look at this. First of all, except for blind people who...
View ArticleThis is the End – Movie Trailer
The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin...
View Article“This Is the End” Weird and Ridiculous
“Weird and Ridiculous” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! This Is the End doesn’t have anything to do with the opening words to a famous song by The Doors, unless you change the reference to how they got...
View Article“A Better Life” A Wonderful Film
“A Wonderful Film” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! A Better Life is a terrific film that deserves as much publicity as it can get, because otherwise audiences will probably overlook it and not give it...
View Article“Friends with Benefits” Game, Set, and Match
Official Website “Game, Set, and Match” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Friends with Benefits is a romantic comedy that tries to be an unromantic comedy just because of the title. The title, of course,...
View ArticleThe Muppets – Movie Trailer
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman...
View ArticleDrive – Movie Trailer
Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help...
View ArticleRoute 66 – Part 21 – Arizona and California
Route 66 - Part 21 - Arizona & California - In this episode Jann and camera girl Janet continue a wacky and fun week on Route 66. Albuquerque, Dog House, Grants Pass, The Continental Divide NM,...
View ArticleNightcrawler “Good and Creepy”
NIGHTCRAWLER is a fascinating and dark movie that affects you the way passing an accident on the highway does: You want to look at it, but you feel a little bit guilty in doing so.
View ArticleNightcrawler – Movie Trailer
NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the...
View Article“The Lincoln Lawyer” Surprise Endings
THE LINCOLN LAWYER stars Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who works out of the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Lincoln town car.
View Article