Movie Review: 21 Jump Street
The 80s have certainly been given primary treatment in 2012. Many movies have been resurrected from the past for a new generation of kids. There …
Comedy
Movie Review: God Bless America
God Bless America is a dark but effective satire: until the final 30 minutes. Director Bobcat Goldthwait finds some scathing, dark truths about the role …
Movie Review: The Campaign
The Campaign wants to be a movie with something to say. It also wants to appeal to the fan bases of Will Ferrell and Zach …
Movie Review: Ruby Sparks
Distributed by the same company that created (500) Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks contains many similarities to the 2009 hit. The leads are indie darlings. …
Movie Review: Ted
A movie like Ted has a low bar. Fortunately, Seth McFarlane is great at jumping over low bars. His shows like Family Guy and the …
Movie Review: Anger Management
Anger Management could have been a fascinating “pass the torch” movie. It takes one of the great comedians of today, Adam Sandler, and puts him …
Movie Review: The Intouchables
Mismatched buddy pairings don’t get much better than the Intouchables. I’ll admit, part of me went into this movie hoping to see some foreign version …
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
Robert Frost wrote “Two Roads Diverged in a narrow wood/ and I took the one less traveled by,” which pretty much describes the routes that …
Movie Review: Men In Black III
I don’t quite understand the trend of decade long trilogies. I suppose it is because the first is a proven moneymaker, and filmmakers want to stretch …
Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods
Cabin in the Woods owes a debt to Scream. Scream turned an entire genre of movies into a formula and used kids who understood the …