Movie and TV Reviews.
Fresh off of the Academy Awards, I thought I would go in the opposite direction for a little bit and review one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, the 1986 George Lucas travesty Howard the Duck.
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I can’t remember the last time I sat through a major comedy featuring prominent stars without at least a few good laughs finding their way out. To my complete surprise, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg have unsuccessfully lampooned the buddy-cop action flick with The Other Guys. This latest Adam McKay–Will Ferrell collaboration hit with a […]
What a wonder it is to find Sandra Bullock having the two biggest movies of her career (one sure to get her an Oscar nomination) and the most critically reviled film of her career all in the same year. After the enormous financial success of this summer’s rom-com “The Proposal” and the stink that “All […]
I’ve written before about the distinction that must be drawn between a documentary and a piece of entertainment, and how some purported documentaries fall much more in the category of the latter than the former. A good documentary should investigate, educate, explore, expose, and along the way, entertain. But it should not put entertainment above […]
