Were ‘Get Out’ and ‘Lady Bird’ necessarily “comedies,” exactly? Why didn’t ‘The Big Sick’ get recognized for anything? Did Christopher Plummer really just get an award nomination for playing Kevin Spacey? It’s Golden Globe nominat...
Last year’s ‘Bad Moms’ felt like a joke pitch that went too far and somehow became a movie. Yet, thanks to a perfectly assembled cast and a script that had enough laughs to overcome a parade of clichés, the comedy was somehow a ma...
Of all the old TV shows to get a sudden Hollywood reboot, ‘CHiPs’ had to be pretty low on the list of viable contenders. Does anyone care about ‘CHiPs’ anymore? Does anyone still watch it?
Based purely on the title, it would be easy to assume that ‘Bad Moms’ is a lazily conceived comedy about some mothers getting up to no good with swears and possibly drinking. Well, those assumptions are entirely correct. The surpr...
Melissa McCarthy is one of the most successful comedic performers in Hollywood today, and good for her. Given some of the laugh factories that she’s headlined, she deserves it. However, based on the unfortunate ‘Tammy’ and her lat...
Celebrities may seem so unapproachable when you see them all glammed up in their fancy dresses and tuxedos on the Oscar red carpet, but they’re ultimately real people and have lives to live like any of us. You may have even run in...
The new ‘Veronica Mars’ feature film probably ought to be called ‘Fan Service: The Movie’. The film was produced with significant financial backing (via Kickstarter) directly from fans of the short-lived but beloved TV series that...
Ready. Set. Go! This weekend’s most noticeable movie releases belong to three franchises – that is, if you consider Tyler Perry’s schtick a franchise. Which I do. Along with Perry’s latest, cruising towards you is a videogame adap...
For some reason, Disney has tried to disguise its princess fairy tale musicals in recent years. After ‘The Princess and the Frog‘ failed to match the success of the blockbuster princess flicks of the 1990s, it feels as if the stud...
When the widest movie release of the week is a boy band concert documentary, you just know that the weekend’s going to blow.
In a development that may have huge ramifications for countless TV shows that were canceled before their time, the creator of the short-lived but beloved series ‘Veronica Mars’ is currently raising funds to bring his spunky young ...
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 rehash of dramas past....
