Posts Tagged ‘Adam Sandler’
Top 15 Films of 2019 – Allen’s Picks
2019 was such an excellent year in film that I seriously debated pushing this list out to 25, maybe even 30 entries. There was such an abundance of quality work that whittling it down to a small grouping is about the equivalent of a parent…
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Episode 30 – Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and Uncut Gems
Welcome to the new decade! In this episode of the podcast, we talk at length about the final film in Disney‘s new Star Wars trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker. We also review the Adam Sandler crime drama Uncut Gems and we discuss the upcoming films…
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Film Review – Uncut Gems
Taking a breather from both his multi-million dollar Netflix deal and basketball shorts, Adam Sandler again reminds us how good he can be outside of his Happy Madison orbit as Howard Ratner, a charmingly idiotic gambler and star of the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time follow-up,…
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SIFF Film Review – Guidance
Ah, the idiot man-child: comedy staple or sad, overused trope? Both actually. I won’t deny I occasionally enjoy watching a dysfunctional dude implode before learning a valuable lesson; Happy Gilmore and School of Rock come to mind as very funny comedies about men who have…
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Film Review – Pixels
Nerd culture has come a long way from its humble roots. What was once considered niche is now mainstream; with all facets of popular culture making its way into the public consciousness. Interestingly enough, if this were twenty some odd years ago, Adam Sandler would…
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Film Review – Men, Women & Children
It’s high time we stage an intervention for Jason Reitman, guys. It won’t be pleasant but he needs to hear the truth about how his actions of late have affected us. You go ahead and take Labor Day and I’ll cover Men, Women & Children.…
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Film Review – Blended
Well, you can’t say he doesn’t know what he’s doing. The audience I saw Blended with broke into laughter and applause at the very appearance of the “Happy Madison Productions” title card. This was gonna be a long night.
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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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