There’s a part in The Switch where Wally (Jason Bateman) has to procure a head lice situation with his artificially/illegitimately inseminated son Sebastian (Thomas Robinson).
It’s probably the best part of the entire movie – that and the tormented cuteness of Robinson’s portrayal of Sebastian.
But let’s rewind just a little bit to paint a picture [...]
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The moral of The Other Guys can be summed up by a line said by Captain Gene Mauch (played by the movie’s comedic dark horse, Michael Keaton):
You can stop shaking your dicks, this pissing war is over.
I may have misquoted, but the “memorable quotes” seciton on this movie’s IMDB page is not accessible. Nonethless, [...]
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Upon walking out of the screening of Dinner For Schmucks, I was asked what I thought. I answered, “It was stupid enough.”
That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this bromantic comedy with an Odd Couple twist. “It’s stupid enough.” It’s cut from the same cloth as Dumb and Dumber but with a little more [...]
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If you’ve seen Angelina Jolie in Wanted, Mr. & Mrs Smith, Gone in 60 Seconds and even Kung Fu Panda, then you probably already know Evelyn Salt, the title character of Jolie’s latest film, Salt where she continues to use her skills as a sexy run-as-fast-as-you-can femme fatale to manhandle men and fire a gun [...]
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Movies like Donnie Darko, Primer and even The Matrix trilogy have challenged my intellect (or lack thereof). Inception falls into that category of mind-bending cinema that may or may not make a “WTF” hover above your head.
Lucky for me, I only felt kind of stupid after watching this movie.
As the auteur of indie darling, Memento [...]
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It’s 9 p.m. June 29th. It’s a Tuesday night. I just came out of a screening for The Last Airbender and as soon as I walked to Mission and 4th street, I saw a huge line snaking around the Metreon. It was almost one entire block of people waiting for the midnight screening of Eclipse, [...]
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I really don’t want to write a review on Toy Story 3. I’d rather be shopping watching J.J. Abrams’s Mission Impossible III (which is playing on my TV right now) and shopping on Gilt Groupe (I am seriously thinking of purchasing a Costume National Homme black belted hidden button jacket. Thoughts?) I also just had [...]
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That Dren thing has some nice legs, right?
The movie: Splice
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Who wrote it: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, and Doug Taylor
Famous people you would recognize: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley…and that’s about it.
Random Polley flashback: I could not stop thinking of Polley’s role in Go. That was one helluva rave in the late ‘90s.
The story: [...]
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The movie: Iron Man 2
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Based on the character created by: Stan Lee
Screenplay by: Justin Theroux
Famous people you should recognize: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson
Random people in smaller roles that you might recognize: Kate Mara (happythankyoumoreplease), John Slattery (Mad Men), Paul Bettany [...]
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Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) needs a manicure.
The movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Directed by: Samuel Bayer
Written by: Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer
The O.G. who created the movie: Wes Craven
Famous people you will recognize: Jackie Earle Haley and Emmett Cullen –er – I mean Kellan Lutz
People who are kind of famous and probably don’t recognize: [...]
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