Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
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Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
This is the End would be more appropriately titled, This is the Movie My Friends and I Would Make if We had a Lot of Money. This is not to say that This is the End is a bad movie. It’s funny. It has its moments of sentiment, and the cast is redoubtable – or, as much […]
Every time you sit down for a movie, whether it’s in the theater or your home, you have a preconception about what’s going to run on that screen for the next two hours. The previews certainly influence this. So do the cast and their filmography. Perhaps the writer has a trope that just won’t die. Or, a […]
The Watch: Tower Heist has made me wary of Ben Stiller movies, but the recent New Yorker article about his attention to script detail and his desire to make more movies like Greenberg and The Cable Guy make me want to see this. Sure, it’s another alien-invasion film, but at least it wasn’t released during the Great […]
In one sense, 21 Jump Street is retelling of The Prince and the Pauper wherein economic disparities are replaced by the gulf between the socially admired and the socially anemic. Truthfully, I was expecting little from the large-screen adaptation of the 1980’s television series about undercover police officers who infiltrate reprobate-filled highschools. However, this film is less longer […]
The eighties are alive in 2012, or at least, the memory of the eighties is. If you’re not up for a comedic imagining of police officers infiltrating inner city schools, check out Jason Segal’s latest or Adrien Brody’s turn as a widget educator, momentarily changing lives in an interchangeable occupation. If you’re up for an adventure, or […]
As the 2011 baseball season approaches its 162nd game, most eyes will be on the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays. The former has blown the nine game lead they held in the Wild Card race on September 9th when they were a half-game back of the New York Yankees and on pace to win […]
Early in the second act of Get Him to the Greek, intern Aaron Green (played by Jonah Hill) is hungover and squirming nervously as the limo carrying him and Aldous Snow (played by Russell Brand) inches through the morning rush in London. Green meekly asks the driver to drive faster or take another route. The driver answers […]
