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When it comes down to it, Dumplin’ doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before. It’s a tale of self-acceptance and growing up through the framework of competition and community. However, it still manages to ...
When it comes down to it, Dumplin’ doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before. It’s a tale of self-acceptance and growing up through the framework of competition and community. However, it still manages to ...
Hollywood holiday movies don’t come much more generic than ‘Office Christmas Party’. If the painfully impersonal title didn’t give the game away, this is cookie-cutter comedy filmmaking at its most frustrat...
Boy, there sure are a lot of talking animal cartoon movies these days, huh? Barely a month passes between these things anymore, and unless Pixar or Illumination is involved, they tend to run the gamut from mediocre to miserable wi...
At a certain point, the world needs to come together and ask why Garry Marshall is allowed to continue working. While there was a time when he provided pop culture enemas like ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Pretty Woman’...
Of all the great American directors of the 1970s, few have suffered a fall from grace as dramatically as Peter Bogdanovich. His latest effort, ‘She’s Funny That Way’, doesn’t do much to suggest that the fil...
The star system might not have the power it once did in Hollywood (one need only look at the number of Nicolas Cage movies that haven’t even hit theaters in recent years for proof of that), but it still has some pull when a ...
On Sunday night, January 11th, the 72nd Golden Globes will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Unlike many previous ceremonies, this year there are no clear-cut frontrunners in most of the major categories. Belo...
Sequels are hard to pull off in general, but comedy sequels seem to be the most difficult beast to master. Few things are less funny than a joke you’ve heard too many times. By necessity, most comedy sequels tend to run a go...
Over the years, quite a few filmmakers have taken cracks at nailing Elmore Leonard adaptations on the big screen, but very few have been successful (three to be exact: ‘Get Shorty’, ‘Jackie Brown’ and ̵...
This weekend gives us a variety of new movies. Pick your poison, but be warned: The most unlikely movie might be the only one that’s actually worthwhile.
From the director of ‘Role Models‘ comes another hilarious and unique collaboration with Paul Rudd. ‘Wanderlust’ isn’t going to be a huge comedy on the scale of ‘Bridesmaids‘ or ‘The...
Out of this weekend’s four nationwide openers, two were screened for press in my region and two were not. One of the titles I saw is so bad that it definitely should not have been, and it’s surprisingly the one receivi...