Movie Preview: September 2011
While the summer season may have completely fizzled out as far as box office returns go, there was still plenty of good films thrown our way this August. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fright Night,...
View ArticleSeth Rogan in 50/50
If you know Seth Rogen, as I do (if not in the “Biblical” sense, then at least in the “I’ve seen a few movies he’s been in” kind of way), then you know the guy’s a bit of a potty mouth. He grabs an...
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 ArticleMovie Review: 50/50
My Sister’s Keeper may be the movie for any Jodi Picoult or tear-fest fans out there, but 50/50 is the movie for anyone who has ever actually interacted with cancer (or someone with cancer) and not...
View ArticleMovie Review: 50/50
Cancer and comedy. Two words that you don’t hear together very often. And rightly so. It’s a serious illness that affects millions of people around the world and should not be treated lightly at the...
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 ArticleBlu-ray Review: 50/50
Nominated for two recent Golden Globe awards (“Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy”, and “Best Actor: Musical or Comedy”), 50/50 is the story of a young man who learns he has a rare form of cancer...
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...
View ArticleMovie 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 Preview: September 2011
While the summer season may have completely fizzled out as far as box office returns go, there was still plenty of good films thrown our way this August. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fright Night,...
View ArticleSeth Rogan in 50/50
If you know Seth Rogen, as I do (if not in the “Biblical” sense, then at least in the “I’ve seen a few movies he’s been in” kind of way), then you know the guy’s a bit of a potty mouth. He grabs an...
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 ArticleMovie Review: 50/50
My Sister’s Keeper may be the movie for any Jodi Picoult or tear-fest fans out there, but 50/50 is the movie for anyone who has ever actually interacted with cancer (or someone with cancer) and not...
View ArticleMovie Review: 50/50
Cancer and comedy. Two words that you don’t hear together very often. And rightly so. It’s a serious illness that affects millions of people around the world and should not be treated lightly at the...
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 ArticleBlu-ray Review: 50/50
Nominated for two recent Golden Globe awards (“Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy”, and “Best Actor: Musical or Comedy”), 50/50 is the story of a young man who learns he has a rare form of cancer...
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...
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,...
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