Spy is Melissa McCarthey’s new comedy where she plays an office worker turned 007-style super spy. And it’s a consistently, and occasionally gut-bustingly, funny flick. My favorite part of this R rated comedy is that it gets its humor from … Continue reading
Checked out the new limited release/digital distribution action teen comedy Barely Lethal. This is a flick about teenage super spy assassins and how one sees too many John Houghes movies while on assignment and realizes she wants to be a … Continue reading
So Pitch Perfect 2 is the sequel to Pitch Perfect in a way that sequels used to be sequels to earlier movies that were surprise hits. This sounds like doublespeak and nonsense, I know… but what I’m saying is that … Continue reading
Checked out the weirdo mockumentary indie comedy What We Do in the Shadows… a movie in limited release and on digital streaming. It’s a fake documentary that follows four vampire roomates just trying to live their undead lives in New … Continue reading
Hot Pursuit is the new female buddy road trip movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara and boy is it a bad movie. Basic premise is that Witherspoon is a by-the-books cop who has to escort Vergara’s mob wife to … Continue reading
Also checked out (mostly blind) the new Ben Stiller dramady While We’re Young. Stiller and Naomi Watts are a married, childless Gen X couple who meet and start hanging out with a millennials played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. … Continue reading
Get Hard is the new Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy about prison rape! Rather, Will Ferrell plays a wealthy stock market guy who is being sent to prison (San Quentin!) for 10 years so he hires the first black guy he … Continue reading
Unfinished Business may be the most confused and unfocused movie comedy I’ve seen in a long time. How so? Well, it’s about business men trying to land a deal selling industrial remnants, it’s a raunchy R rated comedy about leatherboys … Continue reading
April Apocalypse is an attempt to make a high school teen romantic zombie comedy that fails. First off, every actor is clearly 10 years too old for their parts, the writing is just not good, and there’s no surprises, no … Continue reading
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is such an irrelevant, unfunny experience which didn’t make me laugh even once but wasn’t awful or boring enough to generate any scorn. It’s crude so if you like your comedy dumb and blue, you … Continue reading