Posts Tagged ‘Seth Rogen’
Episode 46 – An American Pickle
For this episode of the podcast, we review the new Seth Rogen HBO Max comedy, An American Pickle, in which Rogen plays opposite himself. We also discuss our favorite documentaries and we both suggest a modern recasting of Jaws. At the end of the show,…
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Film Review – An American Pickle
There has always been a sweetness to Seth Rogen that makes him easy to root for. That quality allows us to follow him through many different kinds of characters – there’s a down-to-earth, everyman sense about him that we can attach to. That works in…
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Film Review – Good Boys
Max, Thor and Lucas are indeed good boys, albeit good boys with filthy mouths. Best friends by default (same school, parents are friends, live within a two block radius of one another), they’re each facing their own struggles while trying to survive the sixth grade.…
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Film Review – The Lion King (2019)
Excited was an understatement when I saw the first poster and trailer for The Lion King (2019). The CGI looked amazing, and it brought back nostalgia from the original animated film in 1994 which released when I was in high school. With Disney seemingly given…
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Film Review – Long Shot
On the surface, Long Shot (2019) has similarities to a previous Seth Rogen starring vehicle, Knocked Up (2007). In both, Rogen’s character falls in love with a self-made woman who finds something endearing under his schlubby exterior. Of course, both are riddled with the same…
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Film Review – The Disaster Artist
As we exited the screening of The Disaster Artist, my friend asked “Would that movie make sense to anyone who hasn’t seen The Room?” Neither of us are qualified to answer this, having seen the so-perplexingly-bad-it’s-good opus countless times before, but it did stick with…
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Film Review – Sausage Party
Ever wondered how Toy Story 3 would have ended if instead of an emotional catharsis between friends we got an extended orgy scene between Woody and Bo Peep? Me neither. And yet here we are.
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Film Review – Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
I’m of two minds when it comes to Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016). For one, it does a good job at being about something – commenting on gender politics and the sickening rape culture that plague college campuses. On the other hand, it adheres so…
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