Rarely have I rolled my eyes, or wanted to gag, more than while watching New Year’s Eve, director Garry Marshall’s nigh unbearable Valentine’s Day follow-up, a movie seemingly constructed to be the Gone with the Wind of soft-serve rom-com mash-ups, and run nearly as long.
Read More Abigail Breslin, Ashton Kutcher, blu-ray, comedy, David, DVD, Garry Marshall, Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, New Year's Eve, Robert De Niro, romance, Sarah Jessica ParkerFor those of you out there who fear that the end of the world is nigh, take heart–Armageddon will no doubt have its own little pleasures. Case in point: Zombieland, the latest entry in the celebrated zombie comedy sub-genre, bringing the joy back to zombie plague survival. Set about 2 months after a particularly virulent [...]
Read More Abigail Breslin, action, blu-ray, comedy, DVD, Emma Stone, horror, Jesse Eisenberg, R, Woody Harrelson, ZombielandThough this latest surefire sobfest from director Nick Cassavetes (John Q., The Notebook) basically amounts to watching a kid die from cancer for two hours, it somehow doesn’t feel quite as melodramatic as it could have been. That doesn’t make it a good film. It just makes it easier to tolerate.
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