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‘Our Idiot Brother’ Trailer

Director: Jesse Peretz Writer: David Schisgall Studio: The Weinstein Company Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel Release: November 25, 2011

April 27, 2011 | Published in Trailers,videos | Read More »

Safety first. “Dinner for Schmucks” clings to that mantra like a corporate lawyer with executive overlords deathly afraid of dishing out workers comp checks to injured employees. The production studio, Spyglass Entertainment, must have circulated a memo during pre-production forbidding experimentation of any kind, taking chances, sharpening the writing, casting out of type or any [...]

August 11, 2010 | Published in Comedy,Film Reviews | Read More »

TMA FilmCast #5 – Monsters vs. Aliens

Can Dreamworks’ “Monsters vs. Aliens,” reach the heights of Pixar? We discuss the flick along with some interesting movie news.

April 10, 2009 | Published in FilmCast | Read More »

I Love You, Man (2009) ★★★½

“I Love You, Man,” the latest offering from director John Hamburg (“Along Came Polly”), joins the recent string of male-oriented comedies that not only embrace love as a reality of heterosexual relationships but glorify it. Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is a likable, straight-laced, romantic momma’s boy so in touch with his sensitive side that he [...]

April 3, 2009 | Published in Comedy,Film Reviews,Romance | Read More »

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) ★★★

If Jeffrey Katzenburg is still wondering why Pixar Animation consistently outperforms his DreamWorks Animation critically and at the box-office, “Monsters vs. Aliens,” should give him a clue. While expertly animated, and laced with positive themes of self-image and female empowerment, a lack of literary fortitude ultimately vitiates what might have marked a major evolutionary step in [...]

April 2, 2009 | Published in Action/Adventure,Animated,Comedy,FCS,Film Reviews,Sci-Fi | Read More »

Harold Ramis Confirms “Ghostbusters” Reboot

Reboot is the new remake. It seems Hollywood is finally owning up to its sins and making contrition for all the refuse they’ve created over the years by redoing entire franchises, sometimes immediately after the release of the originals–think, “The Hulk” or “Fantastic Four.” That’s fine when they’re fixing movies that needed to be fixed, [...]

March 29, 2009 | Published in News | Read More »