Is The Watch a movie about America’s immigration policies and the way that we perceive and treat immigrants, legal or not? Is The Watch a movie about what our friends and neighbors are really like on the inside? Is it about general prejudice in America? Is it at least funny? No? So…what is it? Continue reading
Phil Lord’s and Chris Miller’s genius-level TV-to-movie adaptation, 21 Jump Street, has no right being as good as it is, but it’s easily the best comedy released so far this year and it could well be counted among the top five by the time we’re talking about year-end business. Hill’s in top form here, but Channing … Continue reading
This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled the entries for each of their twenty four categories in anticipation of this year’s 84th Academy Awards show. As is always the case, response among critics and film writers has been mixed, characterized by raised eyebrows, occasional high praise and pleasant surprise, and most … Continue reading
Can we really associate mumblecore to indie filmmaking any longer and remain completely honest after 2010’s Cyrus? While the movement-essential Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, don’t relinquish the personality and character of the cinema that they champion, they do work with a cast that strikes a watermark far, far above what past entries in their … Continue reading
Dreamworks’ 2010 resembles something of a roller coaster, climbing to the peak of ascension in March with the outstanding How to Train Your Dragon before racing back down the rails with May’s Shrek Forever After. This November, the studio has risen back up to the middle with their original (if one can call it that … Continue reading
Sex, drugs, rock and roll; that’s Get Him to the Greek in a nutshell, though those little words simply can’t convey the heights of insanity to which Nick Stoller’s spin-off of 2007’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall (or follow-up to, depending on your perspective) ascends. Stoller, this time around handling writing duties in addition to the tasks … Continue reading
If another studio plans on taking home the 2010 Oscar for Best Animated Picture, well, their film had better be packing some serious muscle: Dreamworks has really and truly found a winner with How to Train Your Dragon, a film that starts small and ends up thinking big as it builds and expands on the … Continue reading
To say that Funny People represents Judd Apatow’s first career stumble would be a lie. He’s been writing and producing since the mid-90’s, and stuffed in between the rousing success of his directorial debut and follow-up, The 40-Year-Old-Virgin and Knocked Up, respectively, as well as his numerous producing and writing credits (Forgetting Sarah Marshal and Pineapple … Continue reading
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