The craps-shooting, comedy caper, The House, is a bad gamble for former “Saturday Night Live” alums Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. The betting windows tell a tepid tale of strained, transparent chuckles in this limp-minded, suburban satire that rolls the so-called humor dice to no avail. The mixture of collegiate financial desperation, spoof-inspired small-time mobsters,…
Nostalgia and movie sequelitis are the two main ingredients that invite back the majority of films from yesteryear looking to make a big screen impact yet again. This, of course, applies to both cinematic gems and duds alike. Nowadays, the urge to tap into celebrated or soured fare from yesterday has proven to be a…
Besides the sophomoric sauciness to the title, Get Hard has both new phenom Kevin Hart and old pro Will Ferrell to bring in the crowds. Whether or not that is a recommendation or an indictment is difficult to tell. I prefer to let history decide. As for the former star, however, I like my Kevin…
Ron Burgundy is an idiot. You would know that even if you didn’t see 2004’s “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” because in the push to get people to watch the sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, he demonstrated his idiocy in Durango commercials and every late night talk show that would have him. Reporter,…
They’ve made a movie about every other toy in creation so why not everyone’s favorite building blocks, LEGO? Well today Warner Bros. put that to rest with their trailer for The LEGO Movie. Starring every superhero and lovable character imaginable, the family-friendly movie follows a typical smiley figure named Emmet (Chris Pratt) as he bumbles…
Today Paramount Pictures put out another full length trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues and I laughed. Out loud. And that is something that rarely happens. It continues the misguided adventures of Ron Burgandy and his gang as they make their way to the Big Apple and bigger audiences. Fittingly, along the way they’ll have…
Today, with a fresh trailer, Paramount Pictures has released another taste of what is to come in Anchorman: The Legend Continues. In it, Ron Burgundy and his team of the chauvinistic and racially insensitive (Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner) return, but this time they’ve left the local news circuit and are…
