Comedy Rated PG-13
“There is nothing holding this jumble of odd impulses and expensive makeup together.
“Black delivers a lightly comic performance that becomes an unsettling depiction of repression.
“…a courtship both innocent and precocious.
Comedy Rated NR
Before they made The Philadelphia Story, director George Cukor and stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn teamed up for this decidedly less flattering look at the life of the upper class. Grant is Johnny Case, a rising, if free-spirited, businessman who is about to marry the daughter of a financing tycoon. Then he meets his
Comedy Rated R
“…a fabric of amusing bits and pieces – something like a shaggy, hippie blanket that’s adorned with delightful little gems.
This debut from director David Wain has its moments, but considering the cast there should be far more of them. Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler, Janeane Garofalo, Bradley Cooper, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, Christopher Meloni (my personal favorite), Molly Shannon, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio – they’re all here as
Another wonderfully unclassifiable tragidramedy (or something like that) from the Duplass brothers, Jeff, Who Lives at Home is quiet, dreamy and full of possibility. In fact, the possibility of possibility is what the movie is all about. Jason Segel plays the title role, the 30-year-old denizen of his mother’s basement (we learn that Jeff’s dad
It’s a trip, alright, but not one that has much to do with Hunter S. Thompson. Adapting Thompson’s druggy fictionalization of his reporting adventures in Las Vegas, director Terry Gilliam and star Johnny Depp indulge in the surrealism and mania that lies at the surface of that landmark piece of gonzo writing. The emphasis here
“Rudd makes Ned such a comic force of calamitous geniality that you don’t mind the familiar narrative.
“The troubling thing isn’t that the rampant sexual humor is so crude, but that it’s so angry.
