If you liked The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, there’s more of the same for you here. Indeed, The Second Best Exotic Marigold is the very definition of an unnecessary sequel, and its title tells you the truth straight up. It’s the second best.
DetailsHey kids! We’re back for the Oscars this year, and what a crazy year it is for the golden statue, right? All the talk of snubs and whatnot, it all seems like one of the years the Academy took the brown acid or something. You aren’t supposed to take the brown stuff! Didn’t you hear…
DetailsThere’s a lot of spitfire razzle-dazzle but barely any wit, panache or charm in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman The Secret Service, a huge bloated misfire of a movie that sits like a spew stain on the impeccable jacket of Colin Firth’s body of work. While the bounteous fight sequences have verve and style, the rest…
DetailsOkay, so here’s the deal–I’m a fan of Fifty Shades of Grey. I get the haters, and there’s a lot to target. I’m educated. I have an English degree. I know good writing and I love great literature. I understand that the books are terribly written. I mean I could barely…
DetailsI love superhero movies and TV shows, but it’s become a bit too much. Did you know that you can buy adult Underoos at Target? I don’t think I’ve seen a movie, in the theater, in the last couple years that was NOT superhero related. I count Chef. At least…
DetailsAh, the turbulent film-making endeavors of the Wachowski’s. After the ground-breaking first Matrix film, they made two over-blown sequels, then wrote a good screenplay for V For Vendetta, Oh dear, then a mixed bag with Speed Racer. After that they followed up with Cloud Atlas, which some didn’t like, and some of us did. Yeah,…
DetailsIf I had a time machine I would go back to the Comedy Film Nerds podcast episode 253 and stop Chris Mancini from bullying me into seeing this film. He needs to be stopped. This kind of evil will bring us all down, someone must take a stand. For without him I never would have…
DetailsI love being surprised by films in the early part of the year. January and February, as we know, is where films get dumped when the companies think they’ve got a stinker and maybe it’ll make a small splash, where any other time of year, it would die a horrible death. But then, every once…
DetailsA submarine thriller in the midst of Oscar season? All the Academy contenders in the theater and you want me to think about seeing a little movie in the weirdly specific submarine niche? Um, ok. In fact, that’s kind of what drew me to it. It NOT an Oscar movie. And hey, it’s got Jude…
DetailsI really loved the trailer to this film. The person that cut the trailer really did their job well, because it made the film look really funny and have a lot of character. It’s not that the trailer lied to us or anything, because it didn’t. Inherent Vice is full of really great characters, and…
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