Review Roundup: 'Chef'
Written by, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, it's easy to see parallels between his character -- a chef forced to churn out bland, boring cuisine until it drives him to career-ending madness --...
View ArticleReview Roundup: 'Neighbors'
Winning the box office last week, Neighbors is one of those rare pleasures where the movie is actually better, stronger and smarter than the good, strong, smart stuff it's shown us in previews. As I...
View ArticleInterview: Lake Bell of 'Million Dollar Arm'
As neighbor-turned-love-interest Brenda in Million Dollar Arm opposite Jon Hamm's driven would-be superagent JB Bernstein, Lake Bell gracefully, good-naturally puts style, charm and sharp acting...
View ArticleReview Roundup for 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' ...
Taking aim at the Box Office this week, Fox's X-Men: Days of Future Past is the fifth film in the comic-book franchise -- and a surprisingly good one that manages to be both mercenary and entertaining...
View ArticleParts 1 and 2 of Our Summer Movie Preview
With X-Men: Days of Future Past and Blended both opening with super-heroes and big-screen stars competing for your dollar, this summer is heating up at the movies ... and that means you need to catch...
View ArticleReview Roundup: 'The Grand Seduction'
The very funny and startlingly smooth The Grand Seduction opens this week in NY and LA, coming soon to a theater near you; it's a near-perfect comedy, one well worth finding. As I note in my review, A...
View ArticlePart 3 of Our Summer 2014 Movie Roundup
In Part 3 of our Summer 2014 Movie Preview, we talk about everything from the B-movie thriler sequel The Purge: Anarchy to The Rock in Hercules, as well as the comedy of Tammy and Sex Tape and the...
View ArticleReview Roundup: 'Blended'
Adam Sandler's Blended is not nearly as bad as it could have been -- and while that's hardly the kind of thing that studios like to put on posters, it's also the facts. Watching Blended, the new...
View ArticlePart 4 of Our Summer 2014 Movie Roundup
In the final installment of our Summer Movie Preview -- and you can find Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 at their respective links -- we look at the clean-up batters for the Summer, including potential...
View ArticleReview Roundup: 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'
Following up his well-received Ted, writer-director-actor-producer Seth MacFarlane can't quite make his new comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West work -- and considering the constellation of stars...
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