Review: Funny People

Judd Apatow is linked to just about every comedy in the past four years: Year One, Pineapple Express, Step Brothers, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Walk Hard, etc etc etc. The guy doesn’t stop producing or writing. But he’s only directed two movies – The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Virgin ranks as one of [...]

Review: Bruno

Borat was a one of a kind type movie, a truly hysterical but revealing movie. It was creative and borderline brilliant. Now, with Bruno in theaters, people are starting to wonder. Is Sacha Baron Cohen a one-trick pony? Can this possibly rival his last performance? Is it even that good? In order – yes, no, [...]

Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

There are so few, so very few movies that can be as good as the books they are based off of. I can’t emphasize the words “so very few” enough here, because the translation to film just doesn’t seem to work. Off the top of my head, one example where the movie exceeded the book [...]

Review: Away We Go

There are a lot, a lot, of romantic comedies puked out of Hollywood’s commercial success line, that all follow the same guidelines and come to the same happy conclusion. It was so damn refreshing if anything to watch Away We Go just to see a glimpse, if even for an hour and a half roughly, [...]

Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

This entire site is about the common man, the every day moviegoer. As noted many, many times, I don’t have any qualifications to review movies at all – none! But it really gets to me sometimes, in this case in particular, when I read what the “critics” have to say about a film. Transformers: Revenge [...]

Review: Public Enemies

It must have been interesting for the marketing team of Public Enemies to look at the 2009 calender a while back to try and find a date in the summer that worked. June 24 or 26? No no, that’s Transformers territory, it’d be annihilated. How about July 10? No, wait, that’s Bruno and that’s going [...]