Tagged: Jack Black

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2010s / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror

The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Gore-meister Eli Roth tones his usual style way, way down for The House with a Clock in Its Walls, a PG-rated, semi-Spielbergian big screen adaptation (no surprise, given Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is the production house)...

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1990s / Comedy / Science Fiction

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Tim Burton (Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands) takes on comic science fiction in Mars Attacks!, a big-screen narrative version of the cult Topps trading card series from the early 1960s, in which Martian in flying saucers are...

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2010s / Comedy / Musical

The Muppets (2011)

In this return after over a decade to the big screen by Jim Henson’s much-beloved creations, the long mothballed Muppets Studio in Hollywood becomes threatened with destruction at the avaricious hands of a greedy...

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2000s / Adventure / Comedy

Year One (2009)

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...

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1990s / Drama

Dead Man Walking (1995)

A magnificent effort all around by Tim Robbins (Bob Roberts, Cradle Will Rock), both as writer and director, very loosely adapting this book of the same name from real-life nun (and later an advocate...

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2000s / Action / Adventure

King Kong (2005)

It’s a tall order to have to remake a well-known classic, especially one that still is able to thrill audiences today.  Despite its popularity, King Kong is an example of a classic film that actually could...

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2000s / Comedy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Will Ferrell delivers again, with a little help from his friends, in this scattershot comedy that manages to hit just enough hilarious moments to look past the fact that there isn’t a well-developed, cohesive...

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2000s / Comedy / Musical

School of Rock (2003)

School of Rock becomes the third recent feel-good comedy to come out with a musical backbone, and when you have a formula that works, it seems unlikely to be the last.  So far so good,...

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2000s / Comedy / Drama

Orange County (2002)

Orange County stars Colin Hanks, son of Tom, as Shaun Brumder, an Orange County teen who always had excelled in his classes despite his lifestyle of surfing and parties.  When he is told he...