SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED: Worth A Ticket – Time Is Of Its Essence Nothing in SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED happens the way you’d expect. The film was inspired by a real-life classified ad run by someone looking for ...
It’s been 23 years since the pre-Christopher Nolan version of the Batman franchise launched into the boxoffice stratosphere, and a lot has changed in the movie landscape. (1989 is so long ago that it was a topica...
CONTRABAND: Worth A Ticket – Working-Class Thriller CONTRABAND is a B movie, but oddly enough, that’s one thing in short supply these days. Action movies in modern Hollywood usually c...
21 JUMP STREET: Watch It At Home – High School Meta-Bromance The meta-ization of contemporary comedy marches on: Community, of course, is a virtual meta-kingdom, but Happy Endings makes Friends jokes, th...
THE DICTATOR: Watch It At Home – Little Shock, No Awe With Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen made one of the noisiest splashes into movie stardom of the past decade, daring and distinctive. The question was wheth...
James Ponsoldt’s SMASHED (not to be confused with NBC’s Smash), which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, is a new spin on a fairly old story. The concept goes back (at least) to 1962’s...
THAT’S MY BOY: Not Even For Free – Low-Rent Even For Sandler THAT’S MY BOY is 116 minutes long. I mention that up front because, for those of us who consider time spent watching Adam Sandler movies ...