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Kidding Pilot Recap: “Mister Pickles Is Fine”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:00:02 +0000

The new Showtime series Kidding has an almost irresistible sales pitch for film nerds. The show reunites Jim Carrey with his Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry for the surreal tale of a children’s TV host suffering a nervous breakdown. It seems almost inconceivable that such a premise could wind up so drearily dull in execution....

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TIFF Journal: ‘Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond’

Philip Brown — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:30 +0000

‘Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – With a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton’ is a portrait of two of the more intriguing comedy minds of the late 20th Century. Their last names are Carrey and Kaufman. One was arguably the biggest movie star of the 1990s and the other was one...

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‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Arty Mad Max

Philip Brown — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:00:46 +0000

A few years ago, Ana Lily Amirpour made quite a name for herself with the delightfully offbeat ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘. Billed as a “feminist Iranian vampire Western” and boasting a deadpan Jim Jarmusch influence, there was nothing else quite like the film on screens before or since. Now she’s back with...

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‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Pilot Recap: “It’s All About the Climb”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:00:23 +0000

For a TV show about comedians that’s executive produced by Jim Carrey, Showtime’s new series ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ takes a surprisingly dramatic bent, leaving the laughs only for the scenes of performers on stage. Does this look back at the L.A. stand-up scene of the 1970s kill, or does it bomb? At the moment,...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Bad Batch’

Philip Brown — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:00:42 +0000

Ana Lily Amirpour had a striking directorial debut with the black-and-white Iranian vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘. Clearly a filmmaker of great talent and imagination, she’s returned this year with a bitter dystopian tale filled with social commentary, grungy imagery, brutality and desperation, but little action. It’s a striking creation, especially...

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Weekend Roundtable: Slumming It

Josh Zyber — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:00:26 +0000

What is THAT actor doing in such an obviously stupid movie? Surely you’ve asked that question after watching a trailer for a dumb (often big-budget) movie featuring otherwise respectable actors slumming in a project beneath their talents. Perhaps it even came to mind when you noticed Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in this week’s fantasy...

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‘Dumb and Dumber To’ Review: Still Dumb, Still Fun

Philip Brown — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:00:00 +0000

‘Dumb and Dumber To’ is pretty much guaranteed to get bad reviews. So did the first one, even though it’s now considered a comedy classic. Why? Well, because it’s stupid, nonsensical, lowest common denominator, episodic, immature and meaningless. You can’t argue with those criticisms. That’s exactly what the sequel is supposed to be and it’s...

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The Trailer Park: Long-Awaited Sequels, The Sequel

M. Enois Duarte — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:00:21 +0000

Does Hollywood know how to make anything other than sequels anymore? This week’s collection of trailers is mostly for new installments in franchises that nobody actually expected to be continued. ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water’ Ten years is a long time to follow-up on the moderately successful animated movie about a sponge that...

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Now Playing: Still Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:00:28 +0000

Mark Millar’s ultra-violent superhero story is back in ‘Kick-Ass 2’. If you can believe it, this highly entertaining sequel amps everything up to eleven. From the characters to the story and especially the violence, everything gets revved up, bloodied, and kicked into high gear. While first film centered around Dave, a.k.a. Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), as...

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‘Burt Wonderstone’ Contest Results

Josh Zyber — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:00:42 +0000

Due to the Independence Day holiday, and (more importantly) due to my desire to take an extra-long weekend, the blog will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week. That means no Roundtable on Friday. We’ll try to return to a normal schedule next week. In the meantime, let’s give away that copy of ‘The...

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Alacazam! Win ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ on Blu-ray

Josh Zyber — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:00:12 +0000

Sad though it may seem (on multiple levels), the late James Gandolfini gave one of his final acting performances in this year’s dueling-magician screwball comedy ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’. In the absence of any other great or exciting titles to hit stores this week, let’s give away a copy in our new contest. ‘The Incredible...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 23rd, 2013 – Sorry, Wrong Number

Josh Zyber — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:00:18 +0000

I’ll be honest up front. This is not a very exciting week for new Blu-rays, unless you happen to be a big Beatles fan. This may be a good time to save some money for better releases to follow. New Releases You’ll be forgiven if you don’t remember ‘The Call‘. The Halle Berry suspense thriller...

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