Just saw the latest in yet another “Apatow-like” string of movies— Zack And Miri Make A Porno. It again has nothing to do with Judd Apatow, but has the many of the same actors whom seem to be forming their “Rat Pack”-like group of late. This one stars Seth Rogen (a major force in these […]
This week I’ve been a bit busy (plus the Phillies won the World Series) so I forgot about having seen Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. That comment alone is not one that suggests lots of upcoming positive praise. This is another in a growing list of movies trying to be like all the other Judd […]
The second movie this week is the new western Appaloosa starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. This was quite an interesting experience from the very start. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a film quite like this. The dialogue is entirely unique and the repartee between Harris and Mortensen is something you have to see […]
The first movie of the week is Rachel Getting Married. The film stars Anne Hathaway as Kim, a troubled young woman returning home from some sort of incarceration just in time to experience the chaos of planning and preparation going on there for her sister Rachel’s wedding the following day. Rachel is played wonderfully by Rosemarie […]
Wow, that title reads great. Thankfully it’s not the way it sounds. I saw a movie called A Girl Cut in Two. The oddest part about it is that the only time that happens is at the end of the film in a sequence that makes absolutely no sense to the rest of the film. […]
The second movie of the week is Bill Maher‘s Religulous. Maher has made a career out of questioning religion in all forms and Religulous is his attempt to bring that question to the masses. This one is pretty much as I expected. I’m a big fan of Maher but he tends to rant on some subjects and […]
This past week I saw another two movies and for the first time in a long time I felt like there were a lot of choices for a change. The first movie is Flash of Genius. This is the true story of the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper. Unfortunately the movie is almost as […]
The other movie of the week is a bit different. It’s Slacker Uprising—the latest film from documentary luminary Michael Moore. This one is available now, for free, to watch online. Moore released this to everyone as a 20th anniversary present for his first movie, Roger and Me. It’s probably all the same that he did it […]
On Saturday the family went to see Ghost Town, the new movie starring English actor Ricky Gervais with Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni. Most people under 30 know Gervais as he’s often a guest on shows like The Daily Show. His biggest claim-to-fame is that he created the hit TV show, The Office, for English […]
This week I dragged my son to see Burn After Reading which is, to be frank, what I wish the producers did to the script before moving on with their lives. The latest movie from the famed Coen Brothers is a total snore. There are some blatant jokes along the way and the story itself has a […]
I nearly forgot to mention one of the better movies I’ve seen this year. It’s been a busy week so I didn’t have time to write that my son and I saw Man on Wire last week. This is a documentary that you really need to want to see to find it. It was only playing […]
On Labor Day I saw Mamma Mia again. This time for a sing-along version. The hilarious part of this was that it seemed quite evident that no one else in the theater was aware that this was a special sing-along version. The fact that all the words to the songs were at the bottom of the screen […]