Daily Archives: November 17, 2015

The raunchy, dopey holiday farce “The Night Before” hits you “like a wrecking a ball,” to steal a lyric from one of its better cameos. A “Pineapple Express” flavored romp through substance abuse and the sacrireligous, it hoots off the … Continue reading →

“What’s that sound?” Angelina Jolie Pitt’s character says to Brad Pitt’s character in “By the Sea.” “The sea,” he says, leaving out the “duh.” They unpack  his typewriter in their posh boutique hotel in the south of late 1960s France … Continue reading →

You don’t have to be a Notre Dame football fan to fall for “Rudy,” and you didn’t have to have Indiana hoop dreams to get all sentimental over “Hoosiers.” But Angelo Pizzo, the guy who scripted those films and who … Continue reading →

“Miss You Already” may be the funniest, sunniest weeper in history. That, in spite of the fact that this runs counter to the goals of the genre, and in spite of the fact that it’s set in rarely-sunny Britain. It’s … Continue reading →