What To Look Forward To in … March 2010
There’s more to March than just the Oscars. Finally, March arrives and we can stop dwelling on 2009. In my opinion, March is usually a pretty decent movie month. This year’s crop looks especially...
View ArticleREVIEW: Hot Tub Time Machine
Walkmans and legwarmers and tracksuits, oh my! It’s a blast back to the ’80s in “Hot Tub Time Machine,” the raunchy romp that defies the laws of physics. A sort of irreverent “Back to the Future,” the...
View ArticleREVIEW: This Is The End
Now that I know the kind of deep analyses I can write on films, I’ve grown cautious of over-intellectualizing. It’s like learning to reign in a superpower; just because you can use it doesn’t mean...
View ArticleREVIEW: Get On Up
In any musical biopic, the key ingredient is channeling the persona of its subject. So in that regard, “Get On Up” succeeds behind Chadwick Boseman’s electric performance as the Godfather of Soul,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Morris from America
Sundance Film Festival Diversity. Representation. Inclusion. If you follow the conversation about what movies get made and who gets to make them, these buzzwords probably sound all too familiar. As the...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Chad Hartigan, writer/director of “Morris from America”
In case you haven’t noticed from talented actors committing major blunders or fouls in an interview, the press process is long and grueling. I’ve sat at many a roundtable where journalists ask the most...
View ArticleREVIEW: Sausage Party
“Sausage Party” may begin with an amusing ’90s Disney-esque opening ditty – with help from “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty & The Beast” composer Alan Menken, to boot – but Seth Rogen and Evan...
View ArticleREVIEW: Table 19
Even as it resorts to some familiar tropes about the forced cohesion created within a band of misfits, Jeffrey Blitz’s “Table 19” still manages to do enough within a familiar framework to create a...
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