Movie Review: “This is the End”
Just when people were starting to think that the house Judd Apatow built ( TV’s Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared and the big screen’s Anchorman, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Neighbors’ (2014)
As much as the summer movie season brings a glutton of big-budget action films, so too come the raunchy comedies. After the summer successes of the Judd Apatow-produced Bridesmaids, Pineapple Express,...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Interview’
Much press has surrounded the controversial film The Interview, which Sony first canceled, and then later made available, to independent theaters and video-on-demand services. (Many major theater...
View ArticleSXSW Music Festival 2016: March 13-14
Moving Panoramas at SXSW 2016 (Photo credit: Tan The Man) This year’s South by Southwest celebrates the 30th anniversary of its music festival in Austin, Texas. Split into three main events, SXSW...
View ArticleSXSW Film Review: ‘Preacher’– Comic Book Hero Heads for AMC with Dominic...
Not being a comic book nerd, I was taken by surprise to learn that the SXSW world premiere of Preacher was based on a comic book. The fans in line at Austin’s Paramount Theater filled me in as we...
View ArticleSXSW Film Review: Seth Rogen Makes Food Talk Dirty in ‘Sausage Party’
At this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival Seth Rogen debuted, as a work-in-progress, his new animated feature Sausage Party. It is the first foray into the “R-rated world” for an animated...
View ArticleMovie Review: 50/50
When you set your sights on Hollywood, it’s probably hard to keep your independent filmmaking cred in tact. Using Will Reiser’s autobiographical debut screenplay and enlisting the likes of stars Joseph...
View ArticleTV Review: The League –“The Lockout”
FX’s sitcom The League has returned. In “The Lockout,” Ruxin (Nick Kroll) is still swaggering from his win, motivating the others to cheat when it comes to draft order. Only Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi)...
View ArticleDVD Review: 50/50
Being released to DVD this week is the critically acclaimed and Golden Globe-nominated, 50/50, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt ((500) Days of Summer) and Seth Rogen (Knocked Up). Inspired by actual life...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Watch (2012)
Some movies make you more hopeful than they should, given who’s in charge behind the camera. When a new R-rated comedy comes from director Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod, The Lonely Island), co-written by...
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