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Now Streaming: Dumplin’

Deirdre Crimmins — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:00:38 +0000

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 be a solid coming-of-age story with a handful of relatable characters. Willowdean (Patti Cake$ star Danielle Macdonald) was practically raised by...

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‘Office Christmas Party’ Review: Skip It for Santa

Philip Brown — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:00:33 +0000

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 frustrating. Every joke is forced and every attempt at squeezing in emotion falls flat. This thing is a big corporate product that’s been overthought for...

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‘Storks’ Review: Missed Delivery

Philip Brown — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:00:25 +0000

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 with little variation. The new addition to this endless genre is ‘Storks’. It’s about those storks...

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‘Mother’s Day’ Review: Marshalling in the Crap

Philip Brown — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:00:57 +0000

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’ that distracted millions from the cold inevitability of death, those days have long since passed. Now all the...

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‘She’s Funny That Way’ Review: Not That Funny

Philip Brown — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:00:39 +0000

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 filmmaker has much left in the tank. To be fair, it has also clearly been reworked endlessly in editing. It’s...

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‘Cake’ Review: Bland and Stale

Philip Brown — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:00:41 +0000

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 project has awards potential. While someone like Jennifer Aniston might not...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Predictions – Movies

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:00:22 +0000

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. Below, I’ll take my best crack at guessing who I think will walk away with the major movie...

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‘Horrible Bosses 2’ Review: Horrible, Indeed

Philip Brown — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:00:13 +0000

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 good joke into the ground. The first ‘Horrible Bosses’ was hardly a classic...

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‘Life of Crime’ Review: Within Sight, Not Quite Out of It

Philip Brown — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:00:46 +0000

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 ‘Out of Sight’). ‘Life of Crime’ is the latest attempt to make a proper Leonard movie, and the good news is...

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Weekend Movies: Sequels, Spin-Offs, Sci-Fi and Pot

Luke Hickman — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:00:12 +0000

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. Since all four releases are debuting near or north of 3,000 screens, let’s list them from least satisfying to most satisfying. As you may have suspected, ‘Planes‘ comes...

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Now Playing: Another Paul Rudd Hippie Comedy

Luke Hickman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:00:51 +0000

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 Hangover‘, but it will definitely find a home amongst the great smaller lightweight comedies. Paul Rudd plays a young businessman in New York City who’s...

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Weekend Movies: Nothing Worth Missing the Oscars For

Luke Hickman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:00:26 +0000

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 receiving the widest release. Opening at 3,000 locations is ‘Act of Valor‘, an action movie...

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