Movie Review: Blue Jasmine
Yuck. The sum of Blue Jasmine’s parts – acting, character development, storytelling – are significantly greater than the whole of Woody Allen’s new film. The …
Comedy
Movie Review: In a World…
It will be hard to look at trailers the same again. Writer/Director/Star Lake Bell has created a fun little movie “in a world…where people…with great …
Movie Review: Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies revels in the silence between conversations. The love triangle between Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, and Jake Johnson is a well acted and keenly …
Movie Review: The World’s End
And the Cornetto Trilogy comes to a spectacular end. The World’s End is the third Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright collaboration that takes pieces of the first …
Movie Review: The To Do List
I wonder what John Hughes would think about Brandy Clark and the To Do List. Writer/Director Maggie Carey’s debut film contains pieces of an 80’s …
Movie Review: The Heat
Move over Judd Apatow: there are two new sheriffs in town. The Heat proves that Bridesmaids was not a fluke, and that the comedy troupe …
Movie Review: The Way Way Back
The Way Way Back is a reference to the trunk of the family station wagon used on family trips back in the day. The title …
Movie Review: Much Ado About Nothing
Modern romantic comedies have bled the opposites attract story to death. Joss Whedon (after the Avengers) puts a spin on the genre by going back …
Movie Review: This Is The End
The apocalypse has been the choice du jour for the movie world in the past couple years. Most of the ways to explore mankind’s destruction …
Movie Review: Mr. 3000
Mr. 3000 is correctly named. Exactly 3000 seconds into the movie (50 minutes), I could already predict where the story was headed, and how disinterested …