Posts Tagged ‘Ed Helms’
Film Review – Tag
The idea seems preposterous: a group of friends, all grown men, have been playing the same game of tag for thirty years. From the school yard, through college, jobs, marriages, and into middle age, they each converge one month out of the year to see…
READ MOREFilm Review – Father Figures
In the 21st Century there is probably no more influential figure in mainstream Hollywood film comedy than Judd Apatow. While he didn’t invent character based comedy, he definitely proved that it could be popular and make money. For a long time big screen comedy was…
READ MORESIFF Interview – David Soren – Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Spencer Fornaciari interviews director David Soren from the animated adventure Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie at SIFF 2017.
READ MOREFilm Review – Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
It has taken 20 years, but Dreamworks Animation has finally brought Captain Underpants to the cinematic world. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is based on immensely popular novel series by Dav Pilkey. Thanks to the rise of Pixar, animated movies have become a Trojan horse at…
READ MOREFilm Review – Vacation
The Vacation series is a strange beast. The original National Lampoon’s Vacation is a bonafide comedic classic and I look forward to re-visiting Christmas Vacation each year like only a former Jehovah’s Witness could. European Vacation has its moments and Vegas Vacation, well..it’s gotta be…
READ MOREFilm Review – We’re The Millers
The new film We’re The Millers fulfills the most important rule of comedy: it’s funny. It may be a bit overlong, the story beats might be predictable, but you will laugh. The cast boasts a roster of genuinely funny people and at times there is a hint…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Hangover Part III
The Hangover shouldn’t have worked as well as it did, but it did mostly because of the chemistry and magnetism of its stars. And it should have been left alone, but the filmmakers, suspecting they’d stumbled upon a winning formula, cooked up The Hangover Part…
READ MOREMacGuffin Audio Podcast #150
Spencer is joined by Carollani Sandberg (All Things Hidden, Koinonia). Topics include: the challenges in becoming an actor, discovering the Seattle film scene, sequel madness, morality in movies, imagining The Shining without Jack Torrance, and speculation about the possible The Avengers TV series. Links: All…
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