Sacha Baron Cohen isn't for everyone. If you find buffoonery dumb, slapstick idiotic and, especially, if you think that even the most satyrical representations of racism perpetuate actual racism, you should stop reading now. Because The Dictator made me laugh until tears seeped from my eyeballs.
If you're a film or story buff, Girl in Progress has all kinds of meta-goodies for you. If you aren't, it's just a mediocre drama that puts way too much emphasis on its leading woman's attractiveness and not nearly enough on the actual character.
As everybody and their pet chihuahua already knows, the Avengers smashed opening weekend box office records, to the tune of $200 million dollars. And every ha-penny of it was deserved.
If you're lucky enough to live in a city with theaters that regularly screen film festival fare, this movie should really be on your list. It was heartbreaking and hilarious, with more than a little bit of “dude, that's messed up” thrown in for good measure.
Why is it that white people can only find redemption among the (preferably impoverished) brown? Ah, so convenient, the non-whites, offering up chances for growth and personal development for the whites. It's colonialism in a watered-down, squishy 21st century way. It still causes the gag reflex to work overtime, but nobody is enslaved (at least not that we see on film), so it's all okay (?).
There are a ton of hilarious names for various body parts. I know and use all of them. But the humor tends to fall off in a big way when the word "cancer" comes along. This is an essential bit of knowledge missing from A Little Bit of Heaven.
Think about it: You can't come up with a funny name for leukemia, simply because blood doesn't have a dirty synonym. Similarly, referring to colorectal cancer as "ass cancer" doesn't make it inherently funny. It just doesn't.
I want to hug the producer who came up with the brilliant idea of casting Demi Moore and Miley Cyrus as an insufferable mother-daughter pair. I can only assume that he (or, less likely, she) has a well-developed ironic streak, in addition to being kind of an asshole. Like me!
I typically see kids' movies at 2 p.m. on a weekday. This is because mass amounts of children have been known to spread serious health conditions, such as high blood pressure and pink eye. However, I recently discovered something that the children and I have in common: The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
You know that one Jason Statham movie where he shoots things, drives really fast and rocks a receding hairline with a surprising amount of style? It's the one where he's kind of witty, in a taciturn sort of way. Yeah, that one!
If you don't think that murder can be funny, stop reading now. I'm not talking movie murder, bad-guy murder or even a slapstick-ish manslaughter. We're talking about the real cold-blooded murder of an octogenarian. That's what Bernie is about. And it is hilarious in its way.
Against all odds, it would seem that Hollywood has actually managed to produce a rom com that doesn't suck at dating advice. Does anyone else have chills? I think maybe hell froze over.
This movie is a lot of fun to watch, as long as you don't expect it to be well-written, reflect the actual life and personality of Edgar Allen Poe, or make any kind of sense at all. Also, the lead actress is really, really bad.
Isn't it such a bummer when your family won't support your dreams? Financially, I mean. People with steady jobs are such sell-outs, right? The least they could do is ensure the street performers of the world live in relative comfort.
This is the philosophy espoused by The Giant Mechanical Man, a movie made by and starring rich people who have access to hair stylists and dental care and probably own their own homes. Possibly several of them.
Like most romantic comedies, Think Like A Man is great fun to watch and laugh along with. Just don't think about it too hard, because the wider implications will make the rational, reasonable person inside you cry bitter tears. For two hours.
Red alert, everybody: Nicholas Sparks has written yet another gaggingly sweet romance about a dude creepily inserting himself into every aspect of a girl's life until she falls in love with him. But this time, there're dogs in it!
