Est. 1998
John (Jason Lee) lives a relatively pleasant existence… Except that he hates his job, his girlfriend (Leslie Mann) can be pushy and bitchy and his father-in-law (Dennis Farina) is an overprotective madman! Oh, and he once promised the daughter of his slutty trailer-trash sister that he would pay for her college education, and now that she got into Harvard she expects him to foot the…
The 21st century’s answer to Cheech and Chong, John Cho and Kal Penn have not only become the new poster boys for stoner comedy, they’re also rare Hollywood leads that are neither white nor black but, respectively, Korean and Indian. More so, this distinction isn’t just skin-deep: the characters’ ethnicity plays a central part in the proceedings, especially in this here sequel. Mere hours after going on a hamburger…
Warning: I’m about to get all curmudgeon critic on you and deplore the current state of Hollywood filmmaking. I’m not gonna compare contemporary cinema with the studio era or the auteur driven 1970s, though. What I find myself feeling nostalgic about after seeing “Ultraviolet”, actually, is good old ’80s action flicks. I mean, do the kids today even like all these video-game/manga/sci-fi movies that clutter…
This hilariously balls-out comedy is heavily advertised as being “from the guys who brought you The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up” and indeed, it was produced by Judd Apatow and a few of the cast members of his films show up here (notably Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Bill Hader and, of course, writer-star Jason Segel). More importantly, it clearly shares a sensibility specific to those films. And I’m not just…
There are countless tales of men and women who come to Los Angeles with stars in their eyes and leave with their dreams crushed or, in the most spectacularly tragic cases, in a body bag. One of the most famous such stories is that of George Reeves, who thought he had it made when he landed his first film gig, as a supporting player…
Having recently revisited the first two episodes of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy about the Caped Crusader’s journey in and out of Gotham City over multiples decades and realized more than ever how each was about an overarching theme (overcoming fear in “Batman Begins”, maintaining hope in the midst of chaos in “The Dark Knight”), I went into “The Dark Knight Rises” looking for one… But…
Brooklyn, late seventies. Great time to be a teenager. Just ask Tony Manero. He’s got a comfy job working in a paint store. He lives with his parents, but he doesn’t have much responsibilities besides taking in their criticisms. He’s from an Italian family that strongly believes in religion and tradition, and Tony’s behavior doesn’t really cut it. His mom’s biggest pride is his brother…
Stanley Ipkiss is such a nice guy. A cartoon loving banker and an old fashioned romantic, Ipkiss just lacks self-confidence. Hence, he takes all the abuse without saying a word. This is all gonna change when Stanley finds a mysterious mask that has the power to turn him into a human cartoon, The Mask, an eccentric, loud and charismatic green-faced cat in a 40s zoot…
While the writing and direction in “Anger Management” are light years below PT Anderson’s work in Punch-Drunk Love, both films do share Adam Sandler doing a variation of the same performance. Dave Buznik didn’t grow up taunted by seven sisters but he did get bullied around a lot, and like Barry Egand he’s become an apparently nice and easygoing man but with a deep well…
Movie Infos Title: Coyote Ugly Rating: Year: 2000 Director: David McNally I had to succumb to an irresistible treat from the evil Jerry Bruckheimer, whose productions I’m still blindly attracted to even though when you think of it, he hardly ever made a great film. But still, I’ll be damned if he doesn’t put out the most “Whoa! I gotta see that!” trailers there is!…