The Professor (2018)
Johnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he...
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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...
Less Than Zero (1987)
Andrew McCarthy (Mannequin, Pretty in Pink) stars as Clay, the only one of three close childhood friends who leaves Beverly Hills in order to go to college. Left behind is his aspiring model girlfriend Blair...
Back to School (1986)
Stand-up comedian extraordinaire Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack, The Projectionist) stars as Thornton Melon, who has made millions with his own wildly successful Tall & Fat line of clothing stores. His ungrateful, philandering wife (Barbeau, The Cannonball Run) isn’t...
House Party 2 (1991)
The surprise hit House Party earned a sequel one year later, continuing the adventures of rappers Kid n Play after they’ve just graduated high school. Kid (Reid) is off to college, the same one as...
Campus Man (1987)
A wholly dated and forgettable 80s movie, Campus Man may have been inspired by the events of associate producer Todd Headlee’s experience at Arizona State University selling calendars, but that’s the only thing that is “inspired”...
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Here’s another review that will most likely get me in trouble with the film’s biggest fans, as Animal House is generally considered to be a comedy classic among many circles. I’ve seen it a few times...
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
The inspiration for Revenge of the Nerds came when aspiring screenwriters, story editor Tim Metcalfe and film executive Miguel Tejada-Flores. Tejada-Flores brought in elements of his nerdy father, a Bolivian immigrant who went to Cal...
First Daughter (2004)
Forest Whitaker returns with yet another film aimed at female audiences, this time going for a younger crowd with First Daughter, the latest in a series of seemingly never-ending tales about the repression of self-identity that...
Lovelife (1997)
Alternating between pithy and smarmy, Lovelife is first-time writer-director Jon Harmon Feldman’s attempt to marry the ensemble character appeal of TV’s “Friends” with an introspective look at relationships akin to Woody Allen. Although it never really...