Yearly Archives: 2013

“Joyful Noise,” sort of a “Glee!” meets gospel music choral competition comedy, makes a pleasant enough racket. A cheerful, not-quite-off-color crowd-pleasing film that rarely breaks from its formula, it’s the big screen equivalent of a sloppy smooch from your over-affectionate … Continue reading →

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 →