MacGruber
The yearlong ’80s flashback that is 2010 continues with “MacGruber,” a comedy that summons up memories of mullets, “MacGyver” and Mike Myers.
A blood-spattered, hit-or-miss, “out there” character comedy of the “Wayne’s World”/”Austin Powers” school, it manages to be nostalgic and profane in equal measures, a movie that’s retro and yet retrofitted [...]
Movie Review: Just Wright Equals Just Perfect
Just Wright was the the perfect romance comedy featuring Queen Latifah and rapper Common. This is Common’s first leading role in a film. Common plays a professional basketball player for the New Jersey Nets named Scott McKnight. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist named Leslie Wright, who goes on [...]
Micmacs (2010) – Movie Review
Amazed by Amelie, yet underwhelmed by A Very Long Engagement, I really didn’t know quite what to expect with Micmacs, the third film I’ve seen from famed French director Jean Pierre Jeunet. Sadly, Micmacs falls a bit short of both other films. Micmacs follows the main character Bazil, who [...]
Greenberg
Fifteen years ago, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) refused to sign a major-label record deal and walked out on his bandmates moved to New York City. Ironically, now that he is back in Los Angeles dogsitting for his brother’s family while they are on a working vacation in Vietnam (one senses that there is no other [...]