10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
In an era full of sequels that few were clamoring for, 10 Cloverfield Lane ends up being one of the rare good ones. Part of the reason why is that it feels like an entirely different...
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How to Be Single (2016)
Dakota Johnson (Black Mass, Fifty Shades of Grey) gets the lead role as Alice, who decides that she and her long-term college boyfriend Josh (Braun, Poltergeist) should break up for a while in order to experience what...
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...
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 War of the Roses (1989)
Based on the William Adler novel, The War of the Roses, an allusion to the bloody Middle Ages battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York, is director (and co-star) Danny DeVito’s (Hoffa, Duplex) second theatrical directorial...
The Accidental Husband (2008)
Warning: The following review will contain some spoilers, especially the first paragraph. The film is so predictable, this caveat is somewhat debatable, but I still feel the need to offer a fair warning. Read...
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Master of melancholy moods and improvisational romantic dramas, Wong Kar Wai (Ashes of Time, In the Mood for Love), brings his trademark style to his first English-language feature to mixed results. His cinematography and...
The Break-Up (2006)
Brooke (Aniston) and Gary (Vaughn) are live-in lovers that get into a heated argument about Gary’s choice of slacking, rather than voluntarily assisting his insufferable girlfriend with the daily chores. Brooke gets so frustrated that she...
Held Up (1999)
If one were to condense the running time of Held Up to only those parts that are funny or essential to the story, one might have a hilarious 15-minute short, perhaps appropriate to be converted into...
Swingers (1996)
Jon Favreau stars as Mike, is a recently relocated New Yorker trying to make it big as a comedian/actor in Hollywood, but finding that the road to his dreams is filled with one detour...