Posts Tagged ‘Jay Baruchel’
Film Review – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The How to Train Your Dragon series is not only one of the best animated series of the new century, but one of the best film franchises period. The journey of the young Viking named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his friend – the Night Fury…
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) succeeds by fulfilling the potential established by the first film, without succumbing to the trappings of being a sequel. Yes, it is a bigger story, with a grander scope and darker themes, but writer/director Dean DeBlois maintains the…
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Self-indulgent. That describes both the main character and the new film Don Peyote itself. Meant to be a comically surreal journey through one slacker’s drug addled head, instead this film is a meandering bout of navel gazing that tires out the viewer well before it…
READ MOREDVD Rundown 10-1-2013 – Video Podcast #278
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for October 1st, 2013. In this episode they discuss The Croods, The Wizard of Oz, Magnum P.I. and This Is The End.
READ MORESeth Rogen – Video Podcast #263
In honor of the release of This Is The End, Spencer and Greg discuss Seth Rogen.
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I have a lot of respect for actors that are willing to make fun of themselves. Acting is a job that cultivates insecurities (too young or too old, too thin or too fat, etc.), so it is often a challenge to get actors to willingly…
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In the world of literary author Don DeLillo practically everything is metaphor. His stories are filled with symbolic messages and societal commentary. Cosmopolis is perhaps DeLillo’s most distilled novel of societal and economic commentary. It is lean, concise, and full of the kind of technically…
READ MOREEpisode 153 – DVD Rundown 5-29-2012
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for May 29th, 2012. In this episode they discuss True Blood, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Goon.
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