Posts Tagged ‘Leslie Mann’
Film Review – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Here’s a piece of advice: One’s life does not need to be set in stone by age 22. Where some people know exactly where their paths will take them once they step out of college, others spend their youth trying to figure out what they…
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Episode 103 – The Bubble
For this week’s podcast episode, we review Judd Apatow‘s star-studded COVID-era comedy, The Bubble. We also talk about overlooked mid-budget movies that were made in the last ten years. Lastly, for our streaming homework, we discuss Ken Russell‘s 1971 controversial cult masterpiece, The Devils, starring…
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Film Review – The Bubble
The Bubble (2022) is painfully unfunny. It’s meant to be a comedy about the making of a movie in the Covid era but plays as a series of cringe-inducing scenes all aiming for the lowest common denominator. It’s no secret that the last few years have…
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Film Review – Welcome to Marwen
Robert Zemeckis, a director responsible for some of the most beloved big budget film experiences in cinema. He started with fun and subversive comedies before moving into creating some of the most indelible movies ever. And over that time, he has created a reputation for…
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Film Review – Blockers
Blockers (2018) is the kind of sex comedy that does what many good sex comedies do. It’s starts off with a premise that adheres to lowbrow antics – high school kids discovering their blossoming sexuality – and then handles it in a mature, insightful manner.…
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Film Review – The Comedian
There has not been much promotion for The Comedian, at least through social media and movie news websites. That usually says something about its quality. However, The Comedian seems to have thwarted any bad juju Sony Pictures Classics has placed on it because this film…
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Film 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…
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Film Review – The Other Woman
What target audience was The Other Woman (2014) aimed for? The premise would have us believe it involves female bonding and camaraderie, and yet all the advertisements show supermodel Kate Upton – sporting a bikini – running down the beach in slow motion, her “assets” bouncing…
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