Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Hobbs & Shaw is a spinoff to the Fast & Furious series, putting together two of the more popular characters in the later stages of the series, mostly playing for laughs off of their competitive...
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Life (2017)
An Alien clone, but effective enough to provide a couple of hours of effective jolts, Daniel Espinosa’s (Child 44, Safe House) attempt at delivering the monster-on-the-spaceship premise gets dusted off for one more go-around in Life. Zombieland and Deadpool writing partners Rhett...
Criminal (2016)
It’s perhaps fitting that the generically titled Criminal‘s plot centers around a man who is, literally, conflicted about who he is supposed to be when the film itself suffers from the same conflict. Directed by...
Deadpool (2016)
Interesting how fresh it all feels when there isn’t much about Deadpool that is truly unique. We’ve already had a vulgar R-rated superhero film in Kick-Ass. We’ve had the snarky, irreverent attitude in Guardians of the Galaxy. We’ve...
Woman in Gold (2015)
“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is a painting by renown Viennese painter Gustav Klimt from 1907, reportedly taking over three years to complete. Klimt was hired for the portrait by Adele’s wealthy husband, Ferdinand,...
Safe House (2012)
Ryan Reynolds plays rookie CIA agent Matt Weston, reluctantly stuck in a dreary, boring assignment looking after an empty safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. When his locale is used as the interrogation...
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...
Van Wilder (2002)
For the purposes of this review, I chose to watch the unrated version of National Lampoon’s Van Wilder because it’s probably the version most people will opt to watch now that it’s on video. Boy,...
The In-Laws (2003)
Screenwriter Andrew Bergman wrote the original 1979 classic comedy, The In-Laws, to success, and has crafted a handful of quality comedies since then, blending comedy and crime in films like Fletch, The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Striptease. ...
Buying the Cow (2002)
While both films are somewhat lowbrow sex comedies, there is just no justice in this world that a horrible film like Tomcats could get a theatrical release, when a surprisingly funny take on the fear of...