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500 Days of Summer has gotten huge acclaim from both critics and filmgoers alike. The story is told going back and forth along the 500 calendar days that the relationship developed between Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel). It’s a quirky relationship comedy, very indie feeling, and tries to give us a [...]

Okay, so I could be hypercritical of Gigantic, but not today. It’s not gigantic, though. It’s a small, quiet, quirky, and somewhat campy indie movie with two wonderful stars. Here’s your “plot”: Paul Dano plays Brian Weathersby, a mattress salesman, and the youngest of three brothers. Zooey Deschanel is Harriet (Happy), daughter of Al Lolly [...]

Ask me if this new Jim Carrey comedy is basically a weak but fitfully funny rip-off of the guy’s own Liar Liar from a decade ago and I would say, well, yes. But should you watch it? That would be a firm but definite…maybe.
Carrey plays a divorced sad sack of a bank loan officer who [...]