When checking e-mail and playing Words with Friends (in the back row so as to not bother anyone) is far more entertaining than the movie you’re watching, you know that Hangover Part 3 is a big dud. And it is. … Continue reading
Saw Pain and Gain – the Mark Whalberg/Dwayne Johnson dumb-criminals-do-dumb-crimes movie… directed by Michael (Transformers) Bay… and it’s actually quite watchable and funny. Based on a true story – three muscle-bound, roided (and Jesus’ed) up weightlifters decide to be criminals… … Continue reading
Forgot to broadcast to the world (or the few random Facebook friends I have) that I completely ran out of movies to see this weekend and went to see The Croods (it was that or Scary Movie 5 or the … Continue reading
Also saw Admission – the new Tina Fey… comedy? I guess it’s a comedy though it’s not very funny… I was really bored through a lot of it but then I kind of got weirdly fascinated by its depiction of … Continue reading
With a major dearth of new theatrical releases (I didn’t see Best Man Holiday since it’s a sequel to a 15 year old movie I’d never heard of), I gritted my teeth and went to see the turkey film Free … Continue reading
Comedy is subjective… and maybe Identity Thief is a great comedy and I’m just a glum, cynical sourpuss. Maybe I just used the word sourpuss. But, yeah, all the funny bits and pieces in this movie were in the trailer … Continue reading
Saw Warm Bodies – a rom-zom-com that is pretty amusing bit of fluff that is pretty forgettable but mildly fun. Kind of a send-up of zombie apocalypse movies, kind of a send-up of Twilight, kind of a Romeo & Juliet … Continue reading
So I saw the raunchy (read in: fart jokes, boob jokes, etc.) skit comedy Movie 42 today (think Kentucky Fried Movie). It’s billing itself as wrong and offensive and it took about 2 minutes after Hugh Jackman shows up on … Continue reading
Also so the historically accurate Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. Yes, this is a real thing. Hansel and Gretel get kidnapped, kill the witch, grow up, arm themselves with rapid-fire stake throwers, Gatling guns, phonographs (?), and hunt witches throughout… … Continue reading
Saw the flick Silver Linings Playbook – with Bradley Cooper, sexy, sexy Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert DeNiro today… and it’s a great, very very quirky little… romance? comedy? romantic comedy? Dramady? I dunno – but since it was so damn … Continue reading