22 Jump Street (2014)
Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are back, moving to the Vietnamese Church across the street as their new base of operations for their undercover narcotics unit. This time, they’re going to portray themselves as...
Category: Comedy
21 Jump Street (2012)
The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Set in the fictional town of Old Stump, Arizona in 1882, Seth MacFarlane stars as Albert Stark, a skittish sheep farmer who has been recently dumped by his beloved girlfriend Louise (Seyfried), who quickly...
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Joe Versus the Volcano ranks among a very select category of movies that miss the mark in terms of quality, but which has an unmistakably appealing nature that makes you like it despite it. While...
About Last Night (2014)
About Last Night is a remake of a quaint but mostly forgotten romantic comedy-drama from 1986, which itself is a loose interpretation of a David Mamet stage play from the 1970s, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” This...
The LEGO Movie (2014)
If I could get the featured earworm ditty, “Everything is Awesome” to stop cycling incessantly in my head, I’d be able to put my imaginative mind to better use at this moment. Reviews don’t...
That Awkward Moment (2014)
One can only wonder why this film, originally titled Are We Officially Dating?, didn’t go with the more appropriate title, This Awkward Movie, as this feeble rom-com by first-time writer-director Tom Gormican can never settle into anything...
Her (2013)
Set in Los Angeles in the near future, Her is Spike Jonze’s science fiction-comedy-romance-drama satire which follows a lonely, separated man named Theodore Twombly (Phoenix, The Master), who spends his days working as a writer of “heartfelt”...
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Shine A Light) directs the Terence Winter (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, “Boardwalk Empire”) adaptation of the best-selling memoir from multimillionaire stock broker Jordan Belfort, turning it into the closest thing...
Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Spanking the Monkey will probably be most notable for today’s viewers for being the first feature film to be written and directed by future Academy Award-winning auteur David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings). In...