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
The DUFF is a new high school/teen comedy out now in theaters. It’s a cute and chuckle-worthy teen romantic comedy about a girl who realizes she’s the less attractive, more “approachable” one in her friend group and she gets angry … Continue reading
Kingsman: The Secret Service is the spy action/comedy by Mathew Vaughn, the director of Layer Cake, Kick Ass, and X-Men: First Class. Up front, I love Vaughn as a director – he really gets what makes action scenes work, how … Continue reading
Caught (on streaming) the pitch black comedy / horror (thing) The Voices… starring Ryan Reynolds as a deranged bath tub packager who is so far off his meds he kind of accidentally starts killing people… ok… fine, sometimes his asshole … Continue reading
Since I’m a ten year old British child, I decided to check out the Paddington movie and it’s all right. It’s charming and cute and above all harmless… and not at all the pratfall bathroom humor from the original trailer. … Continue reading
Inexplicably, incomprehensibly, and almost impossibly, I went to see the new CG family film Strange Magic and I came away charmed. Based on reviews, I may be the only person who walked out of the movie with a smile. I … Continue reading
Checked out Mortdecai… Johnny Depp’s latest attempt to be a weirdo on screen. This time he’s a puffy British rich guy with a fancy mustache and that’s flippin’ HI-larious… or you better think his mustache is hilarious because they crack … Continue reading
Checked out this study of race relations between four or five different characters on a college campus. It’s interesting, passingly funny and is trying to make intelligent points. I kind of came away from it feeling a little cold though … Continue reading
Went to see the new comedy The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hart and Josh Gad (Olaf’s voice from Frozen). It’s premise is that Gad is getting married to Kalie Cuoco-Sweeting but doesn’t have a best man much less any friends … Continue reading