Among some of those who study the long stretch of Western history commonly known as classical antiquity, the period is bookended by two Greek names: Homer (not the yellow one) at the beginning and Hypatia at the end. The latter name is not a household one, which is regrettable for a number of reasons. Hypatia [...]
Read More adventure, Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, drama, DVD, History, Hypatia, Max Minghella, R, Rachel Weisz, romance, willYou might be surprised to learn that you’ve very likely already seen the work of Argentine director Juan José Campanella. Most of his career for the past several years has been directing numerous episodes of American television series, among them House, MD, 30 Rock, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has only directed [...]
Read More blu-ray, crime, Darin, drama, DVD, Guillermo Francella, Juan Jose Campanella, Mystery, R, Ricardo, romance, Soledad Villamil, The Secret In Their Eyes, willI love Queen Latifah movies. I would even go so far as to say I love all Queen Latifah movies, with the exception of Taxi, which falls sadly under the more immediate rule of hating all Jimmy Fallon movies. So of course I was excited to review Just Wright.
Read More comedy, Common, DVD, Just Wright, Paula Patton, PG-, queen latifah, romanceSolitary Man is Michael Douglas’s ode to the aging man who fails to recognize that he is no longer the man he once was. He plays Ben Kalmen, a man who’s clinging to the past. He’s now divorced (Susan Sarandon plays his ex-wife, and although her role is small, she adds a lot to the [...]
Read More Avy Kaufman, blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, joyce, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Douglas, R, romance, Solitary Man, Susan SarandonSteve Carell and Tina Fey are two of the best things about TV right now. If you’re not familiar with Carell’s signature antics from The Office, you should probably drop what you’re doing and go rent a few discs, if, like me, you’re a human who happens to enjoy laughing and being entertained. Writer and [...]
Read More Alex, blu-ray, comedy, crime, Date Night, DVD, Mark Wahlberg, PG-13, romance, Steve Carell, Tina FeyTry as she might, Jennifer Aniston is not a movie star. Yet she clings stubbornly to the dream, hoping to find Friends-size success on the big screen. She sure won’t achieve it with The Bounty Hunter, a lazy, tired and utterly charmless high-concept romantic comedy co-starring Gerard Butler.
Read More action, Andy Tennant, blu-ray, Christine Baranski, comedy, David, DVD, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Peter Greene, PG-13, romance, The Bounty HunterIt would be easy to believe that Judd Apatow was behind this raunchy-but-sweet comedy, with its abundant talk about sex and such, but the man actually had nothing to do with what ultimately feels like a lazy little brother to Knocked Up. In that film people were shocked when overweight schlub Seth Rogen not only [...]
Read More Alice Eve, comedy, David, DVD, Jay Baruchel, Lindsay Sloane, R, romance, She's Out of My LeagueYouth in Revolt is the story of boring high school student Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), his less than stellar parents, and his undying love for Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), whom he met on vacation. On the eve of returning to his lackluster life from this vacation, Nick invents an alter ego, Francois Dillinger, a true [...]
Read More blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Michael Cera, Noah, Portia Doubleday, R, romance, Youth In RevoltOnly in a movie would a woman with Kristen Bell’s looks need to inadvertently cast a spell to have men fall in love with her. Yet that’s what happens in When in Rome, a predictable but fitfully funny romantic comedy starring the blonde Bell and fellow fair-haired human Josh Duhamel.
Read More comedy, Danny de Vito, David, Dax Shepard, Don Johnson, DVD, Jon Heder, Josh Duhamel, Kristen Bell, romance, When In Rome, Will ArnettAs a guy, I’m pretty much the wrong gender to be reviewing any movie based on a book by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook), but here we are with Dear John, a particularly nasty piece of dude repellent starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried about a pair of pretty young people and their absurdly melodramatic romantic [...]
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