Category Archives: Comedy

  • Review: “Man of Steel” flies with a broken wing
  • New to DVD/Blu-ray: “Snitch” neither hard-hitting nor fun enough
  • Review: “This Is the End” shaggy, foul-mouthed — and very, very funny
  • Review: “The Internship”
  • Inside the Cutting Room: Where the Editors are the Stars
  • Week in Review: 6/3 – 6/9
  • Review: “The Purge”
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What a disappointing year it has been for movie comedies—Movie 43, Identity Thief, and The Hangover Part III were a few of the fatalities—but finally, a release that’s never lazy, spotty or desperate. Hollywood loves seeing the world go up in flames, so it … Continue reading

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For whatever reason, it took Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson eight years after 2005′s uproariously funny and cheerfully sleazy Wedding Crashers to team up again. The comedic duo’s latest vehicle, The Internship, has a weak-tea, more commercial and much safer PG-13 rating … Continue reading

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Dated by 25 years, Die Hard is still a first-rate action yarn that found a perfect fit for Bruce Willis’ physicality and quippy sense of humor. It also coined the catchphrase “Yippee ki-yay!” The next two ’90s-released sequels (Die Hard … Continue reading

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Once a week or so, I’ll be looking back at films that have garnered negative reviews and will try to find some redeemable quality about them. The key to all of this being that I have to enjoy that quality … Continue reading

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Frances Ha is what would logically happen to Lena Dunham’s Hannah Horvath of the HBO series Girls in her looming years as a drifting twenty-something gal in New York City. Restless youth is such a familiar theme that it almost seems like … Continue reading

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Because we were all wondering what the “Wolfpack” and Mr. Chow were doing in the interim, “The Hangover Part III” is meant to send the gang out in style. Box-office success was enough incentive, apparently, to turn 2009′s “The Hangover”—a … Continue reading

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It’s rare that a film shows us true, enduring love. We’ve seen plenty of romantic movies in which love endures the obstacles of distance or time, and they almost always end with the couple finally getting together and presumably living … Continue reading

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Fervent readers of author Lee Child’s popular series may have trouble with the discrepancy of title character Jack Reacher being 6’5″ and built like a 250-pound brick shithouse and the casting of the 5’7″ Tom Cruise. But so what if … Continue reading

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There must be some unwritten rule in Hollywood that the summer tentpole season begins the first weekend in May. The third and allegedly final Big Event in the man-and-machine franchise, Iron Man 3 officially kicks off the summer. Looking back, 2008′s Iron … Continue reading

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The following article contains a MAJOR SPOILER regarding Iron Man 3. It is strongly recommended that you do not read this until after you’ve viewed the film. If you saw Iron Man 3 last week (given the $175 million opening … Continue reading

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