Central Intelligence (2016)
Central Intelligence is the kind of film I find hard to grade, as it is one that is consummately watchable, and yet it also isn’t really what I would call a truly good movie. I...
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The Change-Up (2011)
Body-swap comedies are relatively predictable, and yet, if the comedians are gifted and the situations inspired, a winning comedy can still be made from the oft-used premise. The only thing that sets it apart...
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...
Dodgeball (2004)
Rawson Marshall Thurber may be a first-time big-screen writer-director, but he had already made a splash in sports comedy with a series of television commercials for Reebok called, “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker”. Thurber started...
Love Stinks (1999)
If it’s true that love stinks, then the makers of this film only needed to entitle this Love. The ineptitude of this motion picture is astonishing, never able to escape the sitcom situations to make...
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Starsky & Hutch is yet another big screen recreation of an old classic TV show, and like many others that have been made in recent years, it isn’t so much an homage or a...
Bates Motel (1987)
Bates Motel was announced in February 1987 as a two-hour pilot for a proposed new comedy-thriller series on NBC. It was the brainchild of screenwriter Richard Rothstein, creator of the HBO series, “The Hitchhiker”....