Monthly Archives: January 2013

You know what’s funny? Seth “Family Guy” MacFarlane making fun of Adam Sandler movies. “Unwatchable.” That’s freaking hilarious, that is. I mean, dude’s made a movie where he plays a foul-mouthed talking Teddy Bear, where he does funny voices, riffs … Continue reading →

Nostalgia seems to kick in earlier and younger, at least to those of us of the “St. Elmo’s Fire” or “Big Chill” generations. Thus, the legion of 28 year-olds getting misty-eyed over high school in “10 Years,” a high school … Continue reading →

Vanilla Ice is back, back baby. And for that crime alone, Adam Sandler should get the chair. Alas, it’s a minor offense in “That’s My Boy,” a no-holds-barred raunch-fest that combines bits of “Saturday Night Live” skits and “The Hangover” … Continue reading →

A humorous self-help relationship book becomes an amusing and often biting take on the war between the sexes with “Think Like a Man,” based on comic polymath Steve Harvey’s “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.” Funny people in … Continue reading →

OK, who knew Tom Hardy, the new Batman villain and “Warrior” warrior, could be funny? Reese Witherspoon? Sure. Chris Pine? No surprise there. But Hardy?

Eddie Murphy finds inner piece — but precious few laughs in “A Thousand Words,” an ambitious new comedy from a guy whose ambition abandoned him sometime in the ’90s.

“The Odd Life of Timothy Green” is an achingly sweet parent-and-child tearjerker that’s every bit as precious as its title. But it’s an oddly emotion-free fantasy, a film that strains to find the magic, joy and heartbreak in a story … Continue reading →

“The Adventures of Tintin” is the “Raiders of the Lost Ark” sequel Steven Spielberg might have made if he hadn’t felt the need to keep Shia LaBeouf on the payroll. A rollicking, breezy motion-capture animated romp, Spielberg & Co. have … Continue reading →

“You can be blasé about some things, Rose,” Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) pretentiously sniffs in this famous movie you may have heard about. “But not about Titanic!’” And so it with the movie about that famous ship. Love it or … Continue reading →