It’s been 10 full years since Men in Black 2, and these days when we see a popular franchise get dusted off for a late sequel, we can be forgiven for expecting the worst. I certainly did. As much fun as the first MIB was 15 years ago, the second installment made Ghostbusters 2 seem [...]
Read More action, Bill Hader, blu-ray, comedy, DVD, Josh Brolin, Men In Black 3, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sci-Fi, Tommy Lee Jones, will smith
The last time a movie kid could see the dead was in The Sixth Sense, a film not meant for actual kids to watch. Well, now kids more or less have their own version of it in ParaNorman, a largely enjoyable and well-cast stop-motion animation horror comedy a la The Corpse Bride and Coraline that [...]
Read More adventure, animation, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Chris Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, comedy, David, John Goodman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, ParaNorman, Sam Fell
Turns out The Watch has nothing at all to do with time pieces. Which is really too bad, because a movie about watches would be far preferable to the lazy, crude and largely humorless Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn sci-fi comedy mess we get instead. Shortened from Neighborhood Watch after the fatal February shooting of Florida teenager [...]
Read More Ben Stiller, Billy Crudup, blu-ray, David, DVD, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Sci-Fi, The WatchD, Vince Vaughn
The Campaign is your typical Will Ferrell comedy in which Will Ferrell does what Will Ferrell normally does, only it swaps sports for politics and allows co-star Zach Galifianakis to steal just about every scene he’s in and ultimately reaps diminishing comic returns. Instead of racing cars or ice skating, Ferrell plays a lazy North [...]
Read More blu-ray, comedy, Dan Aykroyd, David, DVD, Dylan McDermott, George Bush, Jason Sudeikis, John Lithgow, The Campaign, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis
WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED. Coming close on the heels of that other romantic-comedy-with-a-sci-fi-twist-in-which-the-title-comes-from-a-classified-ad, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, we [...]
Read More Aubrey Plaza, blu-ray, comedy, DVD, Jake Johnson, Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed, will
Ruby Sparks stars Paul Dano as Calvin, an author who wrote his masterpiece at 19, and has been struggling to write a new book. His personal life is at the same standstill, until he writes about a woman he sees in a dream. A wonderful writing exercise becomes a slightly more complicated situation when his [...]
Read More comedy, DVD, Fantasy, Noah, Paul Dano, romance, Ruby Sparks, Zoe Kazan
Margot (Michelle Williams) is on a writing assignment when she first meets Daniel (Luke Kirby). From the beginning we see there is an immediate attraction between the two of them. And as the universe usually works in the movies, they are in the same place at the same time. Daniel happens to be seated next [...]
Read More blu-ray, camilla, comedy, drama, DVD, Luke Kirby, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Take This Waltz
It’s a stripper movie. Magic Mike, it’s about strippers, male strippers. Oiled-up dudes in leather vests. Chaps. I just thought I’d get that out of the way. And stripper though he may be, this is a story about Mike (Channing Tatum, whose own experience as a stripper was the inspiration for the story), an entrepreneur [...]
Read More Alex Pettyfer, biography, Channing Tatum, comedy, drama, DVD, Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey, Noah, Steven Soderbergh
You’d be hard pressed to find a director who better personifies auteur theory than Wes Anderson. Even if one were to watch just a few minutes of one of his films with the sound turned off and the image set to black and white to eliminate all his trademark hypersaturated oranges and greens, I’d reckon they could [...]
Read More Bill Murray, blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Moonrise Kingdom, romance, Wes Anderson, will
Where do I begin? I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in Longmont, which then was the unwanted stepsister to Boulder. Boulder was more coffee shops & scooters, while Longmont was all Main Street Friday night, jean jackets, and Marlboro Reds. As I think about it now I can remember those nights [...]
Read More Alex Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, camilla, Catherine Zeta-Jones, comedy, Diego Boneta, drama, DVD, Julianne Hough, Musical, Paul Giamatti, Rock of Ages, Russell Brand, Tom Cruise