In the interest of full disclosure you should know that I’m a comic book nerd. I’ve been collecting for well over 20 years. I have over 70 long boxes of comics. I used to manage a comic book store. I didn’t date in high school and I lived in my mother’s basement until I was […]
Set in Brazil, Rio follows the adventures of Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), a rare blue macaw. Blu, smuggled out of Brazil as a baby, has spent the last 15 years of his life enjoying the friendly confined tranquility of Minnesota after falling off of a truck; his owner Linda (Leslie Mann) spoils him at every turn. […]
Sometimes I feel as if I’m the only person that doesn’t have a strong opinion one way or the other on Russell Brand. It’s kind of problematic considering that having strong opinions is, you know, kind of my gig. But I thought casting Brand as the titular role in Arthur was a potentially brilliant move. […]
The commercials scream, “From the makers of Despicable Me” and justifiably so. Despicable Me was the surprise hit of the summer – charming, funny and delightfully unexpected. Sadly, Hop is none of that. Russell Brand stars as the voice of E.B., Easter bunny in waiting. But what E.B. really wants is to be a drummer […]
Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) returns as our eponymous hero in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. This time out he and his best friend Rowley (Robert Capron) have moved up the food chain of middle school by entering the 7th grade. However the filmmakers have shifted their focus from Greg’s relationship with Rowley to […]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have created something of a cottage industry deconstructing American genre films. The two Brits first breakthrough film was 2004’s zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead. They followed that up with 2007’s action parody, Hot Fuzz. What made both films work so exceedingly well was a palpable affection for their source […]
Colin O’Donoghue stars as Michael Kovak, a seminary student having a crisis of faith in the new horror film The Rite. In order to help him overcome his doubt the seminary does what they normally do in situations like this – they ship him off to the Vatican and teach him to be an exorcist. […]
The Hollywood rom-com assembly line spits out this month’s entry with No Strings Attached. While Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman play characters that have names there’s little reason to relay them since no one discussing this movie will ever refer to the two as anything other than “Ashton Kutcher” and “Natalie Portman.” He’s an aspiring […]
To say that production on The Green Hornet has been “troubled” would be more than a bit of an understatement. The film has been in development since the Bush administration…the first Bush administration. It has had numerous “name actors” attached to play the titular hero (George Clooney, Greg Kinnear, Mark Wahlberg, Jake Gyllenhaal) and his […]
The scene, as I envision it, is a cold December night in 2009. Gwyneth Paltrow, having just put a fussy Apple down for the night, is curling up on the couch with an advance DVD of Crazy Heart; the sort of privilege provided by movie studios to the famous and entitled. Even then, Jeff Bridges’ […]
