The new Amy Schumer written and starring movie Trainwreck (directed by Judd Apatow) is a raunchy but funny but overly long romantic comedy. Schumer trades off her comic and tv persona here to tell a story of a rather mean … Continue reading
Aloha is Cameron Crow’s new inexplicably muddled and terrible romantic comedy set in Hawaii. It’s a genuinely confusing and perplexing mess of a movie by a guy who can make actually good films as evidenced by Jerry Maguire and Almost … Continue reading
Rented the 2014 indie romantic comedy Laggies starring the adorable Keira Knightly, the adorable Sam Rockwell, the adorable Chloe Grace Moretz, and an adorable anorexic tortoise. Knightly is having a quarter life crisis after her fiance proposes to her, her … 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
I caught the indie romantic comedy Obvious Child on iTunes streaming (it had a limited theatrical release early this year) and I kind of loved it. It stars Jenny Slate (who? she was on SNL for one season but dropped … Continue reading
Saw the remake of About Last Night… a romantic comedy with no hooks or gimmicks… just a relationship movie with ups and downs. It’s not a bad movie and these are fairly mature adults with adult issues (and adult language). … Continue reading
That Awkward Moment is an unfunny, crass dude-bro romantic comedy about three good actors playing 20somethings on the prowl (and sleeping with a confounding number of women) in NYC. They have made a commitment with each other to have no … Continue reading
Caught two romantic movies this Sunday… first was Julia Louis Dreyfuss / James Gandolfini’s new mature romantic comedy (with a generic title) Enough Said. A smart, intelligent, and adult (as in, for adults, not “adult”) comedy with a slightly sitcommy … Continue reading
So Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote and directed a movie (Don Jon – out this weekend) starring a buffed-up version of himself as a goddamn sexual tyranasaur (Predator reference) who makes out with (and dry humps) Scarlett Johansen. But it wasn’t just … 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