Tagged: Stephen Root

0

2010s / Comedy / Horror

Get Out (2017)

Funnyman Jordan Peele’s (of TV’s “Key and Peele”) feature-film directorial debut proves he has quite an eye for filmmaking, crafting a comedy with horror-movie leanings, along with elements of science fiction and thrillers to success,...

0

2010s / Comedy / Romance

Hello, My Name is Doris (2015)

Sally Field (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Lincoln) reminds us why she’s earned two Oscars (other than because we really, really like her) with her sublime performance in Hello My Name is Doris, a comedy with surprising emotional...

0

2010s / Comedy

Cedar Rapids (2011)

Ed Helms plays Tim Lippe, an insurance salesperson who lived a highly sheltered life in a small town in Wisconsin. The insurance company’s top salesman (Lennon) suffers a fatal accident that showcases him as a...

0

2000s / Comedy

Idiocracy (2006)

Idiocracy is a sometimes dead-on satire built around writer-director Mike Judge’s perceived dumbing down of America due to current trends in education, entertainment, and politics.  In some ways, I think it effectively states what a...

0

2000s / Action / Comedy / Sports

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...

0

2000s / Comedy / Drama

Jersey Girl (2004)

Jersey Girl sees a new, more mature Kevin Smith, both as a writer and director, but as he makes the transition from funny to a serious filmmaker, there appear to be some growing pains involved...