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Review: THE CROODS: A NEW AGE, Prehistoric Family Delivers Adventure-Comedy Treats
Living through a seemingly never-ending pandemic and self-quarantining/sheltering-at-home (for some, if unfortunately, not most) puts a premium on escapist pleasures, like an animated Nicolas Cage-headlining a long-delayed sequel, The Croods: A New Age. The first film, a DreamWorks Animation family-oriented...
Review: THE COMEDIAN, Not Very Funny Despite Its Title
There is a very fine performance embedded in Taylor Hackford’s otherwise enervating, overlong, patience-trying, and not very funny film The Comedian. However, that performance is not delivered by the putative headliner, Robert De Niro. He plays Jackie Burke, a comic who once starred in a...
Review: THIS IS 40 Has Laughs, But No Substance
The very first joke in This Is 40 -- a movie made in 2012 by experienced comedy professionals -- is about Viagra. That lazy, hackneyed start is a bad sign because it suggests that writer-director Judd Apatow, the reigning champion...
This Christmas Jim Carey Is Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay.
Ladies and gentlemen, the makers of I Love You Phillip Morris would like to take this opportunity to burn into your retinas the sight of Jim Carrey having anal sex with another man. Are you ready? Here we go.I LOVE...
