Big Fan
Paul Aufiero loves the New York Giants. Without his football team, he doesn’t amount to much. He’s portly and middle-aged, and he lives at home with his mother. She yells at Paul for calling his...
View ArticleA Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
What happened in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, the latest pot-smoking misadventure for the titular pals played by John Cho and Kal Penn? Then again, what happened in Harold & Kumar Go to...
View ArticleYoung Adult
When watching Young Adult, there’s a sense that the screenplay by Diablo Cody is autobiographical, or at the very least inspired by and then exaggerated from Cody’s real-life experiences—in the same...
View ArticleSeeking a Friend for the End of the World
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World begins with the news that humanity’s last hope of survival—an Armageddon-style effort to stop a 70-mile wide asteroid from crashing into Earth—has failed....
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ben Stiller directs and stars in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, an adaptation of James Thurber’s original two-and-a-half-page short story first published in The New Yorker in 1939. Thurber’s story...
View ArticleOdd Thomas
Director Stephen Sommers subscribes to the notion that Hollywood entertainment consists of hammering the senses until the viewer has lost any semblance of intelligent thought, and until recently, he’s...
View ArticleThe Circle
In the eighteenth century, English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed a prison called the Panopticon. Designed in a circular structure with a single inspection tower at the center, the prison’s guards...
View ArticleThe Sparks Brothers
Director Edgar Wright asks how can Sparks, an unclassifiable music duo created by Ron and Russell Mael, which has been around for 50 years, “be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and...
View ArticleGhostbusters: Frozen Empire
The Ghostbusters franchise has a problem with telling new stories. Since the original debuted in 1984 and became an unexpected sensation, the three sequels, a disappointing 2016 reboot, cartoon series,...
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