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I haven’t seen a decent road trip comedy since, well, ‘Road Trip’ back in 2000. With the poor performance of this year’s ‘The Guilt Trip’, I had some hope that ‘Identity Thief’ would...
I haven’t seen a decent road trip comedy since, well, ‘Road Trip’ back in 2000. With the poor performance of this year’s ‘The Guilt Trip’, I had some hope that ‘Identity Thief’ would...
This weekend’s two big releases appear to have some box office potential, but could just as potentially go nowhere. One is an R-rated comedy with a very familiar plot, the other a Steven Soderbergh thriller that has barely b...
In this week’s batch of trailers, devoted-dad Dwayne Johnson becomes a snitch, Matthew Fox builds a case against the emperor of Japan, and Bruce Willis comes out of retirement… again.
Out of all the movies I saw at Sundance this year, I felt the most let down by ‘The Lifeguard’. With its ensemble cast and talented director, I thought it would be a heartfelt story. Instead, it’s a lukewarm reha...
If someone had told me that director Michael Winterbottom would make the dullest movie Sundance had to offer this year, I would’ve laughed it off. Unfortunately, after seeing ‘The Look of Love’, I have to apologi...
I’ve been renovating the basement in my new house into a home theater for a couple months now, and the room has seen a remarkable transformation in that time. Even so, with as much work as I’ve put into this and as far...
With January in the bag, Aaron got to choose first in February’s Box Office Pick’em. I bet you can guess what his first pick was.
A good documentary should take a subject (usually an obscure or relatively unknown one) and make it engaging for a mainstream audience. ‘Manhunt’ takes a popular and exciting subject – the real-life hunt for Osama bin ...
Given the utterly bizarre way that the first season of ‘American Horror Story’ drew to a close, I had no idea what to expect from the Season 2 finale, but braced myself for something that might pull the rug out from un...
Aaron takes an early lead in Box Office Pick’em. Luke is left licking his ‘Broken’ wounds.
The moment it was announced that ‘Lovelace’ would play at Sundance, controversy mounted. Porn was everywhere at Sundance this year, but for some reason, the story of Linda Lovelace seemed to be the movie that took most...
Even with January in the rear view, we must still recognize the dead space ahead of us in February. This week’s videogame releases are headlined by EA’s newest legitimate franchise, plus a few lesser entities.