We’ve all experienced what it is like to work for an asshole boss. Nick (Jason Bateman) has to deal with an egomaniacal Kevin Spacey, Dale (Charlie Day) is getting sexually harassed by Jennifer Aniston and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) is plagued with an idiotic, non-pc Colin Farrell. As quitting isn’t a viable option, the trio hatch…
Emily Giffin’s Something Borrowed is quintessential “chick lit,” a highly marketable genre of fiction that prides itself in depicting modern womanhood in a (mostly) humorous manner. And because it was an international bestseller with a built in demographic, a film adaptation was inevitable (although I thought it would have arrived sooner). Something Borrowed, director Luke…
An adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi’s Italian horror comic series and a spinoff of Michele Soavi’s horror-romance Cemetery Man, Kevin Munroe’s Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is no stranger to obscure source material. Bringing former Man of Steel, Brandon Routh, back into a leading role, the film (penned by Thomas Dean Donnelley and Joshua Oppenheimer), is…
In Super Size Me, he risked his health to expose the fast food industry, then in Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, Morgan Spurlock upped the ante, deciding to travel to the war-torn Middle East (armed with just a camera-crew and some defense training). Now the director takes a less harmful approach to…
Although it inevitably will be lumped in with the films of the modern Grindhouse movement (Planet Terror, Death Proof, Machete), Hobo with a Shotgun really doesn’t have the aesthetic style of the films that it is mimicking. Outside of its high concept, the film owes more to Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse double feature (or many…
The concept of an Australian comedy featuring the once-in-a-lifetime pairing-up of Paul “Crocodile Dundee” Hogan and Shane “Kenny” Jacobson would appear foolproof. And while this movie doesn’t live up to all of its potential, Charlie & Boots (the sophomore effort of director Dean Murphy, who previously collaborated with Paul Hogan for 2004’s Strange Bedfellows) is…
The international trailer for the R-rated comedy What’s Your Number? has been made available by 20th Century Fox. In what looks like a funny, albeit a less than stellar premise, Anna Faris digs through her past boyfriends in search of Mr. Right. Her neighbor, a commitment-phobic playboy, played by Chris Evans, aids in her exploration…
