Lately, there has been a lot of hype about Russell Brand in the News and particularly in social media. Brand seems to be cloaking himself as a political robin-hood character against capitalism and corruption. According to Deadline, the South By Southwest 2015 film festival will open with the film BRAND: A Second Coming. This feature-length …
Despicable Me 2 Directed by Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin Written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio USA, 2013 Watching Despicable Me 2 is akin to eating cupcakes for 100 straight minutes. Eating one cupcake, depending on the flavor, is heaven in sugary form. Eating two cupcakes is tempting fate and your health, but still …
*Disclaimer: the following is based on and an expansion of an article written by Peter Howell, the Toronto Star Movie Critic. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a film of the lowest common denominator adds nothing to the institution of cinema. But as profiteers like Adam Sandler have already understood, when money speaks, truth is …
Rock of Ages Written by Justin Theroux, Chris D’Arienzo and Allan Loeb Directed by Adam Shankman USA, 2012 Generally a provider of terrible studio product (Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and The Pacifier among others), Adam Shankman did direct 2007’s surprisingly good Hairspray, the big-screen version of the Broadway hit that was itself based on …
NBC has announced that the British stand-up comic and actor Russell Brand will host Saturday Night Live for his first time on February 12th. The actor is best known as a fast-talking, hedonistic comic anarchist who appeared in such films as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and it’s spin-off movie, Get Him To The Greek. Russell who …
With pickings as slim as they are at local multiplexes for anything approaching a good time, Greek is a perfectly fine midsummer trifle. Get Him to the Greek Directed by Nicholas Stoller Now that The Hangover has officially ended the Judd Apatow monopoly on raunchy bro-comedy, it makes sense that we’d get an Apatow production …