Magic in the Moonlight
I adore both Colin Firth and Emma Stone. Just not together - in this particular movie. Perhaps writer/director Woody Allen didn’t see anything wrong with the obvious age difference (he's…
And So It Goes
And So It Goes… without saying… that this movie is about as memorable as its title, which I couldn’t remember five minutes after leaving the theater. Sure, it’s interesting –…
Land Ho
Land Ho is a road movie, in which a couple of 60ish ex-brothers-in-law named Colin and Mitch head to Iceland to, as Mitch puts it, "Get their groove back." That…
Tammy
Tammy is just okay, which translates into disappointing. I generally like Melissa McCarthy, but her shtick is getting old. I felt like I was watching the same (disappointing) character she…
22 Jump Street
There’s a running joke in 22 Jump Street that unabashedly acknowledges that the sequel is basically the exact same movie as 21 Jump Street, except with a bigger budget. No…
Chef
Written, directed and starring Jon Favreau, Chef is the feel good foodie flick du jour. Favreau stars as Carl Casper, a formerly hot young chef who's lost his mojo, but…
Blended
Adam Sandler movies tend to be hit or miss for me - with the misses far outweighing the hits in recent years. But he’s definitely found a winning formula with…
Million Dollar Arm
Slumdog Millionaire meets Jerry Maguire? That’s a major-league oversimplification, but Million Dollar Arm works for a lot of the same reasons that those flicks did: good writing, good story, great…
The Lunchbox
In this lovely little Indian chick flick, two lonely strangers meet through an accidental food delivery mix-up. Saajan is an accountant, a month away from early retirement when he starts…
Neighbors
Neighbors is, well, exactly what you might expect from an R-rated comedy about a feud between neighbors. Here's the premise: Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne) are a…
The Other Woman
The Other Woman is a bit weak, but it does fill a void in the chick flick comedy department. It’s got sort of a Bridesmaids meets Nine to Five meets…
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In his latest fabulously outrageous film The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson introduces us to Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), the concierge to end all concierges who takes enterprising lobby boy…
Gloria
Paulina García plays the title character in this unusual Chilean romdramedy. Gloria is a fifty-something divorcee. She frequents bars where people her age mingle and dance. And she frequently comes…
Bad Words
“The end justifies the mean.” That’s one of the tag lines for Bad Words. And that pretty well sums it up, because you spend the majority of the movie waiting…
Veronica Mars
Full disclosure #1: I own a piece of this movie. Well, me and a gazillion other ‘kickstarter contributors’ who coughed up x-number of dollars for a slew of ‘insider’ emails…