The BFG (2016)
Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...
2010s / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published July 1, 2016 · Last modified July 9, 2018
Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...
Comedian Amy Schumer gets her chance to shine on the big screen with Trainwreck, playing, appropriately, Amy, working by day as a journalist at a men’s lifestyle and celebrity gossip publication, but who drinks hard,...
2010s / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 19, 2015 · Last modified September 25, 2018
Many Pixar fans, while loyal through superfluous and underwhelming sequels, have been anxiously awaiting their favorite animation studio to go back to the kind of ingenious and original films that have taken family animation...
A step down from the delightfulness of Monsters Inc., but still a delight nonetheless, Monsters University may lack for the more affecting aspects of its predecessor, but taken as a fun, cute, comic film for all ages,...
The big screen adaptation of the cult-y Bryan Lee O’Malley comic book is, like its print counterpart, a mash-up of teen pop culture obsessions infused into a young romance storyline. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World works...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 28, 2010 · Last modified August 26, 2019
It’s not easy to imagine Harold Ramis, the writer-director of Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, turning in a film this bad. I suppose one could see the diminishing returns in his last two films, The Ice Harvest and Analyze That, but Year...
Those who can’t get enough of the pop-culture literate comedies by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) that celebrate the geek culture in wickedly funny ways would do well to check out Superbad. Although he...
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